The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1845-07-08
THE MISSION TO ENGLAND.

The Hon. Louis McLane, Of Maryland, has
been offered and has accepted the mission to Eng
land. The appointment is not well received by
the emocracy, butts highly gratifying to the edit
or of the N Y Tribune, the strongest advocate, ma
i've or foreigner of English interests in the Union,
to the wings, and to some loose Democrats in the
South. newhig journal which asserts that" our
claim Ito Oregon) is not clear and indisputa-
ble," as it 6 is not all ours," very confidently
anticipates, that if Mr.. McLane sis appointed
with Liberal DISCRETION, an early settlement OF
the Oregon contro versy'' will be the re suit Not
a doubt of it; such settlement as would increase
and render indeble the disgrace of the surrender
of the territory of Maine. disappointment which
could have been made, would prove more OBJ
jectionable, excepting indeed that of Daniel
Webster. In the language of the N. Y. Ne~s
g we cannot but regret that it was deemed nee es-
sary to seek out for such post man known to
have been ad Verse TO the strongest feelings of the
Democratic party at two such momentous crises
as Gen. Jackson's contest with the Bank of the
United States, and the hard cider compaign of
l840" We may have some doubts as to the pro-
priety of prescribing men in office wholly for OPT
MONS sake, but the appointment to the first dip
lomatc station in the gift of the government, of
one of whom the best that can be said is, that he
has long been vibrating between Democracy and
Federalism, without definite tendency to either,
was not an act expected from the administration
by the majority of those who bestowed their suf-
frages for Mr. Polk. To take man who deserted
the Democracy during the miserable fanaticism
of the campaign of 1910 is worse than to select
known and consistent whig. 1t is an act of
most corruptng tendency; calculated to impress
upon the pablic mind that the basest political
treachery will be no barrier to future honor and
station; that they who desert our principles in
the hour of difficulty can make merit of returning
honesty preferable to those who support democracy
in shade as well as sunshine 1t is stated that
Mr.. McLane was in favor of the annexation of
Texas and the election of Mr.. Polk-something
more than this we think wasneeded to have proved
any claim to Democracy. In the excited period
of 1910 honest young men might have been led a.
stray, but old men never. The present position of
our Minister to England in regard to the great
questions at issue between the Democracy and
the Wings is that meretricious conservatism in
which Rives and Tallmadge remained as long as
they could deceive. The only redeeming circum-
stance which We have learned in connection with
this most unexpected appointment is, that the
negotiations in respect to Oregon are not to be
transferred to England, and that it is probable Mr.
McLane's residence abroad will be short, as the
Baltimore Ohio Railroad Company, of which he
was President, have only elected officer pro ten
in his place. On this latter circumstance the NJ
Y Euening Post queries as follows:
"And in the selection of minister abroad,
must we borrow one from joint stock COM
pany for the occasion? Is America so poor
in purse, so poor in public men, as to be OBJ
liged to ask the loan of railroad company's
president for the most important mission in
her gift, and at perhaps the most important
crisis in her affairs which has happened since
the establishment of her independence"