New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-11-25
Oregon md Wnr.

To the Editor Of the Tribune:
SIR: am in the habit of reading your paper viii
interest for It's generous Independence and The san
city generally displayed In relation to this orcge
question its seems 10 me that you have fallen into,
snare and are doing the work of Messrs Polk L Co
Lee, US see how the case stands. The South is en-
gagged in the production of Cotton. Tobacco and
Rice which articles are principally exported. The
North and West are engaged in Agriculture and
Manufactures, and however injurious a war nigh,
prove in National point Of view, itwould not pros
,rae business generally, except on the sea-coas On
the contrary, manufacturers OF every kind would
fon-isb and the South would have TO sell and buya,
the North exclusively, which would not tally well
with the spiri, Of Free Trade.
I, cannot be then that Polk administration which
is exclusively Southern IN lis policy and preudiccs
seriously contemplates embarklng IN war, that viii
prove most disastrous TO their commercial inierests
and might end in the destruction o: the peculiar In
's;itution.' Ii n war was seriously contemplated
with nation so formidable would there 10, be some
active preparations
Ii is well known that strong prejudice exists il
the minds OF many ofour People against the British
which has been handed down from father TO son
since the Revolution. The celebration OF our Ma.
tiona Anniversary, the history OF every contest with
the British b. land or sea- serves to keep the feeling
alive.
VIVA, then is the object of this great anxiety TO
have the wholeof Oregon Simply this: TO offers
issue 10 the Wings that they will regard as grossly
wrong and oppose Of course, They thus gam The
reputation of patriotism and OF being great siick!e.s
for the rights OF the country among the rank and se
brand the Wings as the British party and are &C.
tered from goin by the unpatriotic diyisocs
in our own country, &c.
Now NV suggestion is, that the Wing press shout
eyposc the objects OF this humbug. land not conba.
as a serious and threatened evil tor depend uponE
as soon as they find that they cannot make partye
pilal out of this contemplate luSSIe, they VIII gin
Il up and invent new point
When This subject was brought before the BIRTHS
Parliament, by Folks famous inaugural, neither S.
Rober, Peel nor Lord John Russell permitted Their
parties 10 be caught III the trap but both stood side
by side in mock gravity, asserting that Brishrisha
must be maintained.
Let the Wings keep theireyes open to these gull
traps aud when any absurd PROJECT Is concoctsd is
marty objects leave Them TO work at II alone Instead
of giving it importance by opposition Let the mer
chants be at case for Polk Co. neither intend nc
dare 10 engage in a war which would be most dsas
trous AT the South and ifthere Is TO be wordy wa
in Congress about Oregon the w higs should leave
the Administration party TO fight the battle alone snd
then they will have just title to all the glory.
Respectfully yours, I.
~ We cannot stop to think of party policy
when such question as War or Peace is at hazard
We never supposed that Polk & Co. really desired
War, but they have evinced a disposition to sail ii
near the wind as possible in the hope OF concentat
ing their party and creating popular hurrah in the,
favor This has been game OF weak and unprncpled
rulers for centuries, often punging nations in host;
li,ies when neither of,hem really desired or had any
cause for War We shall take care that no part ofths
guilt and horror of awar shall ever rest on our shcu
ders We shall endeavor TO make the public realize
how depraved and revolving this game of threaten.
ing to make War, or to do what is certain to pro.
duce War, really is. He is criminal against God
and man who talks of War as any thing else than
one of the most horrible ofevils and calamities.-Ei
I'rib.