New-York daily tribune., 1845-04-25
The Game OF Butchery.

There can be no need now OF rccapteiatng tne
considerations which induced MIR. Calhoun, some
two years ago. to declare that nothing but a wise
and mastery inactivity" was needed to secure TO
this Country the whole Oregon Territory, or so
much Of il as any Of our people can be indncso 10
take as gift on condition of living on It. BY our
subsistng Treaty with Great Britain, which Is sub
stantiallya copy Of the Convention OF l79O between
England and Spain, each Nation is at perfect liberty
10 occupy and settle so much as 1t pleases oil the
Oregon Country taking care only not TO trench upon
the rights previously acquired by the other. This
cor,pact operates entirely in our favor. When 1t
WAS made. Great Britain had hundred times the
people and thousand times the power West OF the
Rocky Mountains that we had. But this arrange
men, rendered that power Of no moment, and our
end has steadily drawn ahead ever since, until our
power in the basin Of the Oregon is this year equal
to that of Great Britain for the first, and next year
will be double what il now is. Nature, Fortune,
eyery thing but the reckless fstuity OF our dema-
gcgues, operate in our favor The British IN that
region are there as trappers and traders, and must
diminish in numbers as the game grows scarce =
But our people have gone there as Husbandmen and
Artisans, and every year strengthens their hold on
the Country apart from the successive and almost
annual nupfcdtlolS Oh lntlr uuHOtIo ny
from this side of the Rocky Mountains.
In this state Of things, while the hold OF Great
Britain on Oregon is daily relaxing and that of this
Country steadily Strengthening from causes the most
palpabie and enduring, and under an arrangement
which neither party atliberty to terminate without
giving twelve months notice TO the oher 1t Is pro
posed on onr part to make grab at the whole, ana
so throw every thing at the mercy of the power
which can assemble the greater Naval force at the
mouth of the Coumbia Was ever the natural
affinity of Crime with Madness more palpable than
hsre2
But hearken to some more of the broad I'M
truths by which our people are TO be lied into an
utterly wanton War.-Says the Ne,c- York Snn
"ou exclusive rights to the ro Of Oregon are defined
by treaties Of the great powers OF the
earth-Rnssia the United States France Spain ae Eng
andand by actual possession prior to that coavendcn
with England which gave her people the right to trade In
the tauitory. Our rights are plain and undoueted.
Now there is not one syllable in any existing
Treaty which purports to give us exclusive rights
to the whole Of Oregon or any thing like it. We
have treaties with Spain and Mexico fixing the
Northern line of Mexico at lat. 42o, and we have,
az has England, similar Treaty with Russia, fix.
ing the Southern line of that Empire at lat $40 4O.
Between these lattudes lies Oregon, the region OF
the Columbia and Fraser's Rivers, wherein we are
joint occupants with Great Britain, under two sue
cessive Treaties, leaving the question Of ultimate
sovereignty entirely open for future adjustment
and 80 far from our claim to the whole being estab
lished by actual possession, the earliest nominal
possession that of the British subject Meares al
Noo;ka Sound i'll 1850, while the earliest actual,
enduring possession that Of the British at Fra
ser's settlement in 1905 sir gears prior to Asor's
settlement at the mouth of the Columbia, which
was our first "actual possession" And William
Sturgis of Boston, who was Yankee Captain on
the North West coast forty to fifty years ago, and
who is perfectly familiar with all the discoveries
and doings OF both parties, unites with nearly all
candid, intelligent men among US in the conviction
that, while our rights in Oregon are superior Great
Britain has some rights there, and that we should
not be justified in attempting to cut her of from the
Pacific, even were we able to do ii.
Now Great Britain is willing to compromise or TO
arbitrate, for she does not regard the territory as
Of srest practical value, though she will not stand
tamely by and see her people, who have been set
tied these thirty and even forty years, driven out as
ysgrsnts and lsnd-sieaers All that is really in dis
puic between the two Nations isnot worththe sac
rifice Of hundred lives. Great Britain does not
claim the Southern half of the territory, while the
Northern is dreary wilderness Of cras and snow,
which would be utterly valueless to us. For wha,
do we want to turn the flank of Canada and cut
the British off from the Pacific? Is the motive
jealousy, or malice, or blind rapacity1 Who can
ascribe rational one : And yet, says the Sun:
Har is alrays to Be oroided rhea can be done rth
honor"
Certainly; every human butcher, every daelis
from Nimrod to Napoleon, and so down TO Du-
jarier, has said the same thing. Honor Imperative
~ demanded the expedition to Moscow. Homo,
has for forty centuries been busily defacing the
earth with untimely graves, and drenching it with
the blood Of victims, the tears of widows and or
phans. Honor is the demon disguised as an angel
oflight who ever mocks at the sentiment of Hu-
man Brotherhood and the Divine precepts of Christ
Not till this base 6end is scourged from among us
by the power Of Light and Truth will Man fulfil
the destiny or enjoy the happiness for which be-
nign Creator designed him.
But hear the Suns closing exhortaton to make
ready for engaging In general murders
'swe shall suffer greatly but those Of our countr,ucn
who have IN this invited foreign interference are
~ 70 be the greatest sufferers We have confidence the
rnness OF the that the people
with thcncondence In the issue. Let preparations
be made forthwith 10 place the country In of
fencc, aud let the DO sustained by those
nave pteu xEu hrS now UcnCS 10 10 the
indepcndeaee security and good faith of tho country In
every exiscncy."
And this is in the Nineteenth Century Of Chris
.ian faith and teaching! Where are the appointed
ministers OF Religion that such sentiments are pro-
claimed unbushingly and without fear of rebuke
Post Onice Reform.
We learn with pleasure that the Postmaster Gene
raj has ordered the Offices of the ten travelling
Agents OF the Department and five deputies to be
abolished, and by this movement alone some S25,-
600 will be saved This is a very good step, pro
videa twhichwe hope is the case) the Head Of the
Department has devised and pu, in train the means
Of detecting Mail Depredatious, delnquencies, Nc
,sishous the aid of these Agents.
That Mr. Johnson Is bent on saving money, we
believe; that he can and viii reduce The cos; of
Mail Transportation under the Cheap Postage Law
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