Mobile register and journal., 1845-04-19
From the Philadelphia Lede CT.

WESTERN RErUBIIcs-The New York Mirror says that ihe Rocky Mouaians and the immense wastes al heir base will be San unimprovable rdl boundary between the Oregonians and the U. States that the former " i'll manage their affairs the western side of ths boundary, "yasiy better" than we can munage them at Washington; and that 'lhe idea IS prepusiel ous that a peuile who have crossed connert through love n adventure and in- dependence, III order 10 m7ke lhem' elves home, should send back again across that continent for somebody to rule them" This quotation from the Mirror is borrowed lrum Thnnas Palne's "Com- mon Sense,' tlie celebrated pamphlet written al he commencement, of the Revoluiinr, to demonstrate le necessity of our indel enCence ot Britain; and We are hule surprised in finding the Mir TOT apply il in manner 20 inconsistent with statesmanshlp Indeed the whole hypothesis of ihe Mirror about an independent naiinn across he Rocky Mountains, indicates blindness To American policy. blindness to he superiority Of that I.pocv over the blood stained policy of Europe.
 "The settlers will manage their own affairs vastly better than we could manage them at Washington. And wha, are ihem own affairs? We answer, iheir domestic affairs an tbtir re laons with other na- | lions And IS th T separation fium necessary to the regulation of te first! If so. Maine, Georgia, Michigan and Lousiana the eXtremites of the Unon are prevented from managing their domestic affairs hy Ihe Federal unDn. Yet the grand feature of our system. conederainn Is the very means by which all the paits cltsely united, while each part man ages iis domestic affairs us wei as 1T no union ex- | isIeu Under this system lhe Oregonans could | govern themselves a home under the Federal Goy- ernment well as hey could without 1t. But they will have relu ions vh the rest oi the woild Tor we cannnl suppose thatihe Ang glo-Saxon race, settled in country bounded by inc Ocean, will cease to he commercial As well might we expect fishes to live l on la d.
 Nor can we expeo that they will abstain from co ommerce with ever, reg ion accessible bv water - How, then, shiii the reach Europe! Not over land and across the Aanc, for another nation, ourselves ! into ShHl Ily CADesi ] will impose ihemthe same burden now pressing on ns Ne want shorter route to the Pacific, and | they will wan, a shorter one To the Atlantic; ana thai shorter rrnie this continent. But will each uf these two mtons i've this r"ute to the o'b- CT! No The raOusies and rivalships of Europe wunI lake luoi on this continent, and separate them as they .eparaie French and Germans, Russans and Prussians, Danes and Sweeds. But if buih are unl- led in cpnledcr,cy, this route IS common 10 both. The me, icans will want the produce of India "nd | China and the Ore:unians will want the manuiac- 1 lures of Ewupe and they can supply each other over this short and safe route. Then common sense vii! >how hem the utility of unlon, if II present no cuuniervailns ohjec'ions. And what objections can existl The Mirror says that ihe Oregunlans cannot
 manage their ON n affairs al Washington, bul must depend on us. Wereply that they cannot manage their foreign affairs Coumba without gong round the capes, bat manage them al Washington with | their own heads and hands without surrendering | them To us Who manage the foreign affairs oi | Michigan at Waslii g,on? The people of Michigan,
 and mol tle people of Massachusetts: And so, m. der our coniederacy. lhe people of Oregon could | manage their foreign afians at Washington win their own heads, precisely like all he States of our confedrrac,. Saying that the Federal system op- poses any obstacle To such mana -enieni, indicates no very profound knowledge of it's structure and op- | erallon. .
 The idea borrowed from 'Paine's Common Sense" " | was the idea ot statesman, for the government ot | the British over the American colonies was Prepos- terons. Under that government the Americans did send across the ocean 10 inquire by what laws a foreign people would condescend to govern them But this idea is out of place when applied to d'her en, communities of kindred people on this coni- nent, united in partnership. Under such partner ship. the Oregonians would not send to Washington for laws made by other people for their government, but would go to Washington to aid the partners in making laws to govern themselves The eases are not parallel. But the different States of this cont- nent must be united or separate Urder "nion' they co-opera,e for mutual benefit; under separation. they must have all the curses of European jeaouses, standing armies and wars.