Weekly national intelligencer., 1845-11-22
WAR OR PEACE !

WAX Uh fEACEf -
One of the very few Democratic papers North
Of us, which is conducted in spirit somewhat elevas
ted above the merely bad and headlong purposes
of that most fatal Of all things in free Common.
wealth-party, corrupted only into the subtle means
Of managing the public for the benefit Of body Of
demagogues--we mean the New York Morning
Ne,cs, gave u.s. the other day, in tone and temper
that dses il honor, and should command the public
sgeem, an article on the Oregon dispute, about to
he volunteered for us by the Executive; and this
article begins in the words following:
g CAN THERE BE War; war between this
"a country and England is spoken Of with much fa-
miliarity, by some Of our public journals and many
Of citizens, as All event quite likely TO occur.
For our own part, we cannot force our mind to
"A entertain such an apprehension for an instant''
Al the very head Of the public journals spo-
ken of by The Ncws as, with this shocking fami-
liarity, dealing forth whatever can n1ame the bad
or foolish, on this side the Atlantic or beyond it, to
what the Editorof The News regards as too mon
srous 70 be possible, stands, he of course per-
fcciy knows, but shuns TO say, the newspaper con-
tessedly the mouthpece Of the President and his
Cahinet-a journal avowedly the organ of the Ad-
mlnistration--the expounder, on all grave political
qafstions, of his wishes or wil--the instrument as
mach of all that he means or wishes to PROFOUND
or 70 command to the people, or to party, or 10
the press at large, as is his Private Secretary the
bearer and messenger of whatever he desires regu-
lariy and in public form to communicate to the Le-
gsaative branch Of the Government In word,
though The Ne,os does not designate THE Onion,
and nf rA
saE whose purposes the !" Union speaks or is silent,
The { News" knows full well, and means full clear
y ny that some of our public journals" ,oho and
a'k will at once occur to every body's mind I:
natiely, the Court paper here, and all that part Of
s.s press which replies to its clamor and resounds
20 is lamentations The incredible fact that would
ssrde, nay, astound the Neacs, but that il holds
innpossible. is utterly without excuse or OBJ
Ject; Which scar those following the lead of Jour
nal. for all ,chose deliberate course on ary great
putic matter THE ExEcUTIvE is STRICTLY ACCOUNT
ABLE, are laboring by every art to kndle up. This
fse, which the party position OF the News did
MOI allow II directly to mention, being now brought
plainly to public view, as IT deserves, we proceed
with our citation:
4 The thing (says the News') would be SO su-
sperlatvely monstrous, SO indescribably wicked,
that must lose all our strong faith in the pro-
sgressye state Of humanity before we can believe
that such event is even possible Convince us
that the human mind is again plunged in the deep
est darkness that covered it, that reason truth
Justice, and mercy have fed from the earth, and
that the age of brutality and violence, when man
i again to become the humble imitalor of savage
beasts, and the follower of their Instincts has re.
turned, and you may convince us that the two
!. most powerful and most Christian nations on the
globe are about to engage in war"
Such is the language of the Editor who publishes
and directs in common the News" and that still
higher and more authoritative organ of party, and
not OF mere official person, The Democratic Re-
Uie,o. In abilities and whatever they almost inevi-
tably confer OF manliness and sincerity; in infor-
mation political and literary, and all that it can give
Of breadth and liberality TO the views in personal
temper and manners, and whatever is calculated to
inspire better confidence than that of mere ca
bal; but, above all, in position not Of direct per-
sonal dependence upon the smile OF frown of one
in power, the Editor of The News and ReUie,c
stands, among journals, justly high among Demo-
cratic authorities. Yet such is the manner in which
this journal, The Ncws, really trusted by its party
and really by its general character deserving to be
looked to as safe, sincere, and highly intelligent
counsellor to its own sidc talks Of all that the off,
clal editors herc--the " distinguished Democrats
who have taken Office under this Administration
ana write ior the Onion," arc struggling to bring
bout and denounce us as atraitors :, as /. IN ,be
Dn'lsh interest,", for resisting! What have ,ce Ut
tered but persuasves far less strong tban these n
peace, and to the calm pursuit Of thai rcsor, Of
gofiation which alone, sooner or later. can ad;ns
pur claim !-of negotiation, which The poI;cv .n
'ense Of duty Of every Administration since Mr.
IEFFERsoN's has recognised as the only means n
We employed: for, if there has been am that did
eot itself directly negotiate, there has been non,
that did not sanction past negotiations and their re-
suits, by continuing the existing convention, sohich
ARRAYS required but gears notice for lis abroga-
fson For urging negotiation rather than hecorinp,
nc are denounced as disloyal by an Administration
which is itself, all the while, really negotiating
ana Il denounces land, as far as il can, siigmatizes
hnu ouiics) us through an organ which has al last
eeen 'self compelled TO admit that our claim, what
yer may be TO Oregon is such as is proper
ns"ee Oh negotiation with the adverse claimant /;
when y. IN effect admitting that il is moi inds-
pdaable = NAT there may be serious rights on the
oihcr side; tlia we may have more or less lille
saad 70 GH or but part Of what is in dispute.
Now, Of the niofiUe, whether in him who ,,srol,,
clamors against foreign people, or in him I've,
more to be exccraed) who s,irs up hate apa;ns, bs