The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-02-26
From he Mep York Nsu..
MORE! MOREi MORE.

"the Wnoie DOundless continent Is ours"
Texas, Oregon, California, Canada, yes, all, all,
afe sooner or later 10 be embraced within the
widening eircle--not OF our dominion, fol
is not d~ominion-but Of our peaceful union of
free and independent States, bound togetherin
the beautiful sisterhood Of a common %constitu-
ion, q com mon nationality, a common sentiment
of patriotism, a common pursuit of the great
american idea of the free development of hui
manity to the best aud highest results il may be
capable of working ont for itself. For this
great destiny, purpose and necessity, we want
or we shall vanity ard blythe whole, and moth
ing short of the whole; and wanting it, we shall
have il, we must haze it, We will have it. 1t is
"a dim y%earning instinct of hishigh fate, ih;s sub
lime tendency, which disposes the Democratic
or the Moocmcat party of this country towards
the constant extension of territory; for it is the
party which alone represents--imperfectly III
deed, yet still partially--thc true genius and spi-
nit Of America and the American destiny.
The other party, ON the other hand-the party
of the old IDEAS, the old things, and nothing but
the old ideas and the old th;ngs-the party of
tinid, stationary conservatism and perpetual re-
weren't retrospection TO the past-just as natural
" opposes itself TO this tendency, on every &C.
casion arising, where it has to make one of the
practical steps forward in the march of IFS move
ment. The Louisiana case afforded one i'll
stance of it. The Texas and the Oregon cases
afford another. So will it be hereafter on the
future California question. So will it be when
the independent republics of the Canadas desire
10 enter the Union.
To illustrate this truth look at the following
list of the yeas and nays in the House of Rep
resentatives on the passage Of the Oregon Bill.
The former are ali Democrats, excepting the
few in italics, while the latter are I'LL Wings, sub
ject to the same exception. Only ID Wings vote
in the affirmative, and only five Democrats in
the negative:
1.-THE News here inserts the yeas and nays,
which were heretofore published in the SENT
nell
And the following article from the ErpresS
gives a natural and consistent expression to this
instructive Wing aversion to the extension oil
territory. We quote it only for the illustration
it affords of the print above stated. Such an
article could never have appeared in Il Demo
cratic paper, nor could one conceived in a differ.
ent spirit have been looked for in . Wing pa
per:
TuE OREGON TERRIToRY.-It would seem as
if our country would never have done with the
settlement of questions of boundary and inter.
national dispute. The Northeastern Bounda.
:y perplcxed US for years, and no sooner have
we got lid of this than upon the Nolih-W Western
and South Western borders we find questions
of territory in dispute, threatening TO involve US
in a war with two powerful nations. The i'm
partial historian will no doubt record of us, as
we often make record Of others, that among The
nations of the earth there has not been one more
aspiring than our own. Our country common.
ced its existence in being cut up into Provinces
Of foreign powers, These foreign powers frs
quarrclled among themselves for mastery, anC
when the stronger had overcome the weaker
and all things seemed settled for all time upon
our portion Of The American continent, then
commenced a war for independence, which was
successfully persevered in, and in the end OBJ
tanned by our fathers. We have lived to see
the borders of the old Union already so enlar
ged, that they hardly bear the impress of thei
original character The thirteen States have
become twenty-six, and our official functionariet
at the seat of Government are carving out Al
many more as we already have. Texas we mus
and will have, says a great party at the South
The Oregon is ours, aud we will have that now
summarily at once, is the cry Of a large party a
tho West. Memorials, too, are now pouring in
to Cnngres5 for the annexation of Canadi
to the Union The Atlantic and the Pacific arr
claimed for our present boundaries, and mel
are bold enough to declare that we should no
stop short of the whole Oregon. Amidst sue
wild fancies as these" il becomes us 10 pause
In our ideas of "enlarging the area of free
DOM if we do not stop where we are, the EN-
may be that the "area Of freedom" will becomr
SO contracted, that we ourselves shall be drive
into a corner of the earth.
The House, moi satisfied with the annexation
of Texas, and the consequences Of thai measure
have, as we are bound to believe, Just consum
mated another extreme measure by the passag
of a bill to extend the jurisdiction of the Unite,
States over the Oregon Territory. We give
summary Of this bill to-day. Our objections t
it are several, and first, that II has been brough
about in the manner it has; secondly, that it ha
been introduced while negotiations are pending
thirdly, that it is a question eminenIly belongin
to the new administration, and especially SC
when there are less than four weeks to ~interven
before The present administration will be out {
power. Finally, and most important of all, tn
bill which has pissed the House with all IFS mot
iications, is a fragrant violation of existing treI
Az stipnlations, and IFS effect is 10 weaken tt
strong claim we have to the Oregon I'erritor