The New York herald., 1845-07-15

These important questions must soon De an
swered.
The Oregon QuestIon-The Feelings and Inn
pulses OF the West.
Our posltion upon the Oregon question Is the
only one consistent with the tone of popular opinion
consistent with the "unquestionable title OF the
inaugural of last March-consistent with the spirit
of the age, and the onward march of the Anglo
Saxon dominion. No compromise can be had upon
the northwestern boundary as was ratified upon our
northeastern frontier. That arrangement OF terri
tory for the sake of peace, though II secured the
great and desirable object between the two parties,
is yet regarded by many as precedent rather to be
atoned for by future inexbility to our rghtful soil,
than as a warrant authorizing any further conces-
sion under any conceivable contingency or tor any
conceivable reasons of present expediency.
The tide of emigration now flowing to Oregon,
affords an example Of that hereditary restless enter
prise of the people of the west-that fearless spirit
of adventure-that ambition to extend the national
domain, and the national glory, most profitable to
contemplate in connection with the proposed COM
promise on the 10Th parallel Does any man of even
common observation think, that the thousands OF
emigranis to Oregon, descendants of the primitive
hackwoodsmen of the west, will brook the idea o.
the proposed concession They cannot-they never
will We know something OF the bold enthusias-
tlc restless yet firm and decisive spirit Of national
pride which characerzes the mea of the great west
They prompted TO the hazardous and exhausting
Journey OF the American Desert, and Of that waste
and wilderness OF the Rocky mountains, and TO the
uncertainties OF the prospect in the faro land Of
Oregon, not wholly from antlcipatlons of pecuniary
speculation, or from desire TO possess themselves
OF lands for their posterity; but with strong nhe
rent ever present resolution of securing our t;e o
the North West territory by right. and II necessary
by strength of settlement, wfcw consulting the ac
ton OF the Government to their protection; vet re-
lying upon IT. and confident Of it, in any emergency
nwhich 1t may be demanded
The split OF the friends of these emgrants in all
the great States OF the West, a spirit of sympathy
participated in by the body of the population young
ana old, and of both partes is as strong and resist
less at home, with the emigrants to Oregon The
ties OF consangunity, of citizenship, of old asso-
Citations and sectional and national svmpathies. be.
tween the emlgrants in Oregon, or on their way
here, with the people of the Western States, make
compromise to England of any portion of our soil
IN Oregon, virtually alienation of aportion of our
citizens withdrawal of the equal protection of the
Government from them, and consequently an act
unwise, unsafe, impolitc and impossible 1t cannot
be done with safety to the administration or to the
party sanctonlng sucha compromise. But it would
not meet the sanction of the party electing the ad-
mlnstration and 1t wii be deserted by the cabinet
1t will have to be. There is no contingency of es-
cape in the receding to the 49th degree.
The sagacity of Mr.. Calhoun is here most strong
ly exhibted-that sagacIty, deduced from an ha-
bltual contemplation of the analogy of cause and
effect A wise nactivty-a continuance of the COM
pact Of 1877 and 1927 the course he had de-
signed to pursue, for it safer than arbitration
and less disastrous than war; With or without the
formal occupation, our people would in time occupy
The soil-withou the extension at once, and exclu-
slvely,of our laws over Oregon, she would take care
OF herset-and knock when it was expedient, for
annexation. But the day of a wise inactivity is
past, and the question resolves itself into compro-
mise or no compromise. And there can not be
compromise at this stage of the NATTER and with the
prospect before us OF soon spreading authority
and laws over Texas, California and Mexico Is
the Union, the official organ of the government,
ready to reract the position of the administration as
defined in that song published in the first number of
the new organ a of which song, referring to
President Polk, reads.
He will protect each mothers SON.
In the farof land of Oregon
Nor yefd an tnch OF OTegon," &c.
1t was that song, or the sentiment of that song.
which more than any other sentiment carried In
diana for Col. Polk, and gave him those overwhel-
ming maorites in the States west of the Hoosiers
But upon this question, we have this moment been
favored with letter addressed TO an influential
member of the last House of Representatives, from
a gentleman in Indiana. The writer was soldier
in the last war; and fought CALAMITY by the side OF
Gen. McCalla, at the River Raisin until taken
prisoner by the enemy. His views are the views of
the whole West. But we give, without further COM
ment, the extract of his letter, dated
GREEswooD johnson county, Ia, July ., lsa,
We are in the midst Of most bounteous wheat
harvest and take this moment Of recreation talk 10
you. O state matters know il is useless saw apy.
hing to youthrough your papers you have all the reI
ble news oil the day We shall forth victorious
hope and verify believe. But what is TO be done
with the Oregon question: Can IL be that tho co. |
vernment will yield up any Of the territory to the Brit
ish hope not yet fear see something souining .,
IT. epen in the Union extracts from which find occasion
ally in my Lexington Ky) Gaseue not the count,
to the oath degree Has not this fact been asserte
md reasserted and again, by Senators Conuress
men, Presidents, editors and authors Is not the ev
dence before the people everywhere in form of re-
ports from committees Of the House of the senate
in books and papers having official force And have
not the people made up their united verdict and
uttered IN every possible shape and form their fixed
firm and unalterable determination to yield even
the first square inch Of it, And who will undertake 10
this verdict to thwar this resolution What
apology, ! pray you, Will be made-what apology