Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-05-06
OUR NATIONAL AFFAIRS.

nor quality. VI were compelled 10 use It,
but probably shall not be again.
OUR NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
Our readers will find the news we give
them this week. Of our foreign relations, OF
more ,haa ordinary. interest We occupy a
large space of the inside of our sheet with
extracts relating to our aiIlirs with Great
Biitain and Mexico, to the exclusion Of 9th
er matter, considering them TO possess by
far the greatest degree Of interest.
The protest Of the Mexican government
with the circular to France and England will
be fonnd If our GoYernmen. could be
swayed from the course she is pursuing by
either pity Or fear. the mixed whine and
! bFavado of the Mexican Minister might eff
feet something, but we know that we are
pursuing the strict line Of right and justice,
and are therefore TO be neither swayed nor
inundated in that way. Let the Minister
talk OF violated faith, national dishonor and
all that kind Of thing; they know and so do
we, that there is nothing OF the kind How
ridiculous are the assumptions Of Mexico
Ii !s some 8 or 10 years since she has made
against Texas, Texas all this time acting
and recognized by other powers as an indie
pendent nation; yet Mexico talks Of being
now despoiled Of her territory. Ifthere is
really amy spointion about it, it was done at
the battle of San Jacnto, not now. This
Mexican demonstration, in our opinion, will
be all talk. 1t had It's origin in the fac,
t'ous spirit Of the wings and abol;tionists OF
our own country, whose hatred Of the de
mocracy, oyereaps all other considerations,
and in connection with this home influence
the MeXlcans doubtless expected TO accom-
plish something. But let Wings, Abolition
ISIS, Mcx;cans and English combine; if they
succeed by the Simultaneous howl they utter
in moving Young Hickory one iot Or title
iIon the path OF national right and national
| honor, we miss our guess.
The debate in Parliament on the Oregon
question, and an article Of the leading Lon
don press Oh the subject, will be found
This British movement is of precisely the
same character with the Mexican demons,ra-
ton: they appear TO be concerted, with the
intention OF lntiuidating us fpossjblo. John
Ball views with an exceedingly jealous eye,
our peaceful acquisition of Texas, and our
design 10 claim or territory of Oregon; he
has no Just grounds upon which to nierpose
10 prevent it. but he can b!us.or and threa-
ten. and this he VIII DO. We want nothing
bul steadIHess Of nerve TO carry Us through
in triumph, without blow. We ask moth
ing bat what is right, and we will submit TO
nothing wrong.
We take the following from ;he Washing
ton correspondence of the Eve. Post:
"As an attempt fraudulentIy TO fix upon
us the st gina OF lust for territorial aggran-
element" and to blind the English people
with the pretext hat we are guilty of aggres-
sion upon English rights, thus toreslaIling
the moral force Of her own people, while
she shall engage in as an unholy q war of
aggression upon American rights, and in
as lmpudent an Interference with American
policy as has ever yet stained the history
Of her bloody rapaci'y.
"A rumor is very current in the streets
today, that in consequence Of the attitude
now assumed by England, there will be an
extra session Of Congress; bu: whether the
story has had its origin in any intima'ion
derived from the residents in the White
House, am unable to say.
'However, it is not at ali an improbable
event; as the appropriation at the last ses-
sion were on the prime pies Of the most
stringent economy, AMI are barely sufficient
10 carry US through year Of undisturbed
harmony. More extended preparations for
a hostile collision with some Of oar Jealous
competitors, than was contemplated by he
last Congress, would certainly be no more
than prudent"
As apparently connected with this " ru-
NOR" is archer, at Philadelphia. which
we cut from The Public Ledger, of Satur
day last, the 2Gih inst 1t follows.
at was reported in the city yesterday.
that the Vice-Presden,, the Hon. George
NJ. Dallas, had been summoned to Wash
ing'on by a express, in consequence o: the
news by the Caledonia"