Mobile register and journal., 1845-05-13

The British ministry and presses ol loz4 and iozo were not so skilled m the art oi ens'lng advocates
 n this sIde of the water as their successors oi ths l,v are Now. inc annuncmtion by tle President of
 'clear and unquestionable" right to the territory fOregon, has only be pronounced m the British Parliament, with threat of war. to be an unheard of declaration, when nearly the whole body ot the opposition press ol tine country turn sa'agelY upon Mr. Polk for o9ending Great Britain and are full of reg,et that he should be so weak, stu ,,d and ignorant as to make it. Dull themselves uotiI thu, pr,mped m discovering the mischieyous clnse uuences of direct assertion oi the rlghts of the country, by their own Executive, they are very | quick to apprehend when the hint comes back from England, that it may be perilous to firmly American rights which treat Britain is prepared 10 "Iuestun"
 Twenty years ago this mode of rousng party here, against the President, was not SD well under stood in Eng land. President MONROE. m Decem- her, r 2I, m an annual message to Congress, oil- ciay communicated. submitted to Congress "the propiey ot establishing Hilary post at the mouth ot Coiu0,bia riuer, other oint in that quarter withm acknowledged hmits," Jno. Quincy Adams in his frst annuul message, December lS2o, speaks of the of Oregon and the river ''ours,'' il tine following language:
 ''OH coasts, along many degrees of latitude upo, te Shore Of He Pacttc Ocean, though much frequent ed hy our spirited cOmnel cal mavgaiors, hays been barely visited by public ships. The tiver oi tht West, first fully discovered and nayIsated by conn uyman of own, still bcdrs the name of the shil in which he ascended Ills waters, and claims tte pro lection of our armed natonai flag at as mouth' | Monroe thus, in message to Congress- claim ed the Columbia rIver within the "acknow | ledged" limts and Adams proposed to take posses : | sion of il al once as ''ours.'
 Now this was as plain talk as Mir. PoLK's IS, th assertion of an acknowledged title, and the recon mendalion tlIal possession should be taken. Ever body knows that in 1924 the tw gover nmenls wer negotiating with each other, and il during lh pending ofnegotiations that these two President thus asserted the American title.
 The American press silent, al least in.censur' None thought of arraignng Monroe or Adams. d ignorant, stupid or wicked; and what accounts fc this in part the British Ministry and press failed | gve them the There was. indeed, some dfe, ence between the degree ofparIy spirit in 1924 al in lS45 1t is probably the bitterness of opposiio iactiousness now, winch ives such scand nlous cu Tehcy III the WlS presses, to atucks upon tne AWt ican Executive, which originate in sudden impul' of the British authorities to resent that whie they allowed to pass without reply twenty years ae' The fact should be lesson the violence of dome
 tic quarrels. In times when are united at hom when party questions have been permitted 10 di away, or have not assumed the aspect of butter coI troversy, American rights are earlessly asserte with the approving concurrence of the whole people and our foreign oponents hear without excitement buster. It IS only when we are divided at hom' and the resenments of defeated party rankin
 strongly against the men who have de,eated them
 the struggle for the control of public aairs that Il
 public assertion of unqueslioned national rights,
 met from abroad with unreasonable and insultil buster, re-echoed at home. by carping and hosti pa, t'zan reproaches. Moderate men will be warn, by the spectacle of these extraordinary results in Ia'viotic dstiust of the party connexions. where
 these evil impulses ave their origin and food.