New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-12-11
Pence or War.

Tho Nornfng Neaes having first foundeI'ed through
,.bs, would like 10 be demonstration that Great
Britain sctA not dare not go 10 war with us for Ore
qop-tba. the whole thing is an absurdity, pro-
ceeds:
1.-The English Ministry has in its power to strike one
of its sudden piraca blows in violation OF treaties and
of which il has given the world many notable examples
but IL is 10 account the people and from the known
feeling of the people, both IN france and England war
poicv against this country for the almost avowed pur
pose Of checking republican VIII be fatal to the MFRS
try IT, The duty OF the United States 10
10 stand firm and she will have IN synpathes Of the peo
nj, in all countries i is not impossible but that the next
news will be the occupation Of California by Brt.h
force The pretext Will De tha. England has mortgage
on the !and-that Mexico is in state Of dissolution anc
has already lost one of her colonies and that therefore
England viii hold California una! she gets her money.
The taken by the English party mere encouia.
the Ministry TO hope tina, this may be done with ipun
and therefore is 70 be sppcehended but VIII not DC
sustained in England
We assure The News that if War should break
GU, between this Country and England-she oher-
ing TO divide Oregon with US and bctnends' ahd our
Government insisting that 1t VIII have Inc "hoie OF
feht-,he Public Opinion of Great Britain 'eo"Id
snstaiD her Ministry, while Public Opinion here
would not sustain ours II Is easy to get up noisy
b,rrab nm streetcorner or in a bar-roorn bat the
paonle of this Country never will sustain needless
and un lust War-a War for territory that we never
had foothold upon and which lies far North Of the
parallel Of Montreal or Quebec. If Mr.. Polk will
adhere TO his offer of the 10th degree, and be in
haste TO fight about the matter, he will be sustained
by public sentiment but even then it would not sus
tain him in resorting to offensive, much less warke
measures in defiance OF offer by Great Britain TO
submit the whole matter in difference 10 Arbitration
The real dispute concerns only the strip between
Inf, 400 and the Columbia River, and this dispute
can be settled without War If it shall not be, the
narty originating hostilitics will be guilty before
Heaven and Earth OF hundred thousand murders
As to California, we cannot imagine how The
News makes the alleged desi gns Of Great Britain
upon it cause of offence our part, in view OF the
doctrines laid down and practlced on by our Govern
mcnt respecting Texas. Ii Great Britain 'annexcs
California without the consent of Mexico, she will
do grea, wrong; but what have zoe 10 do with it
What are we 10 do about it? Shall we declare
War; Probably mol. And # not why indulge in
imno,cnt cla,nor7 Before we colonized, revolution
lied and annexed Texas, we might have protested
with great cogency and proprety. Now our mouth
is stopped We have chosen our part with the self
argrandizers. and must no, quarrel with their max
inns praciices.
That British capitalists who have lent Mexico mo-
ney have sort Of mortgage on California, we have
long understood, and that England will consequently
resist any projected appropriation of that region by
another power. Yet we do not think she is on the
point of clutching it for herself.
We apprehend however, that lS46 will not pass
without witnessing the presence OF an efficient force
in Oregon strong British fortress commanding the
uassagc of the Columbia from the North side, and
a sizcable fleet off the mouth of that river Bull is
not given TO loud believing when he has a job OF
this sort on band and VIC expect TO hear he is IN
Oregon before he tells us ne thinks of going there
This game of extending jurisdiction, protecting set
tiers, &c. is a nice one-very easy when one plays
it alone, but apt to get exciting when two go at it
However, we shall know more if we live long