The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-03-19
THE SENTINEL !.
Cadiz, March 10, Is45.
TRAITORS!

ctdlcs' DIldinS Will IejOlce, Wneh lney learn
how faithfully American (?) Senators advocated
their nlamy, land-piracy and plunder in Oregon
Sir Robert Peel will clap his hands and shout
with very joy; and the whole tribe of effeminate
worshippers of monarchy and petticoat govern
ment, will almost die with fits of ecstacy!
! Which is the AMERICAN PARrY-the Demo
Gratis or the Federal Wings? Let FACTS an
swer! Every Democratic Senator boldly and
manfully stood up for Oregon; while every Wing,
Arnold-like, abandoned his own country, and
unblushingIy, villainously and tratorously went
over to the British side! Where is there an hon
est Wing, in whose heart there is one spark of
American Liberty, who will longer act with the
knglo-Federal party of this country?
We like the following sensible remarks of the
Philadelphia Ledger "a neutral paper,) and we
hope they will be carefully read by Wing trail
tors and their apologsts:
From Tie Philadelphia Leger.
MORAL TREAsoN.-With those Americans un-
worthy Of the name, who deny our right TO Ore
DIlllSll CLdllll. we Sudl use
no ceremony. We regard such advocacy of
foreign government, and denuncaton Of our
own, in a case where all the evidence of right
is on one side, as moral treason. If such advo-
Gates have examined the case, they sin in spite
OF knowledge. If not, they exhibit traitorous
hearts in blindly and ignorantly taking for gran
ted that their country is wrong and its enemy
right. And when they urge the power of the
enemy as reason for yielding to his unjust
claims, they are quite as much entitled to con-
tempt for their cowardce, as to execration for
their treason. This language may seem harsh.
But it is uttered considerably, as we make no
compromise of duty TO our country, no terms
with its domestic enemies.
The lecturer exhibits his profound ignorance
of the law and the facts, in charging our Gov
eminent with ignorance or something worse'
in the Oregon question, says that no man in his
sober senses can believe that Britain will tamely
permit lis to establish our laws over all Oregon.
lie says that Britain "has repeatedly claimed
and maintained rights in this territory before the
whole civilized world, has exercised undsturbed
authority in it for more than fifty years" What
elevated patriotism What profound knowledge
OF the subject! We admit that Britain has re-
peotedIy claimed and maintained 'rights'' in this
territory, if right and aggression are synonomous
1t claimed, by virtue ofdiscovery by Drake, who
never saw the territory, and being pirate,
whose life was due to the gibbet of any civilized
nation, could have conferred no right if he had.
1t claimed by convention with Spain, which
expressly reserved all territorial jurisdiction, and
subsequently ceded all such right 10 us. And it
now claims by similar convention with us, a
convention which expressly denies to it any such
jurisdiction. And Britain has "maintained"
rights in this territory. How? 1t maintained
the convention with Spain, by encouraging its
subjects 10 settle Ihere and by force of arms in
its war with Spain, which began in 1903, and
continued till 1909; and by an alliance with
lSpan against Napoleon from 1909 till 1915, du-
ring which period, Spain, contenGng for exist
ence at home, had no leisure to examine and re-
sist the encroachmcnts of IFS ally in a distant
colony; and by force OF arms against us in the
war of 1912; and by the convention of 1918;
which merely allowed settlement TO its sub
jecs, has violated by a military occupation and
legal Jurisdiction; and by our careless, short
sighted, uns'atesmanlike, uniustifable ndiher-
ence 10 the Characteristic perfidy and rapacity of
the British government. In Short these British
rights in the territory, which are rather wrongs,
have been maintained by British force and fraud g,
and permitted by American blindness. And
now, when our eyes are at last opened, domestic
traitors set up these British aggressions as rights
against us!
And no man in his sober senses will believe
| that Britain will tamey permit us to resume our
} rights! The lecturer says that Britain, having
expended more than fifty millions of dollars,
fifty years ago, in preparing TO redress an alle-
gcd wrong to one Of its subjects in this very ter
rtory, would not, at this day, with pride and pow
er apparently undmnished, permit the whole
territory to be taken away, and its subjects to
be consigned to foreign jurisdiction, or forci-
/, bly, expelled from their homes. This means
S that as Britain would not submit 10 right we
: must submit to wrong; for British pride must
c not be wounded, and British power must not be
de6ed. We admit that Britain did spend large
sums in quarrel with Spain about Oregon
!, But the protection of British subject was the
;, pretence, the ultimate acquisition Of the coun.
try tile secret motive. No careful and onlgh
. tened reader of history can doubt the prompts
ude with which British rapacity pursues the
weak. But arc WE weak? Must WE tamel,
If submit TO wrong because Britain is proud, rapa
y cions and powerful3 Having beaten this ruffiar
and robber among nations, once in childhood ant
it again in youth, VIC have little 10 fear in manhood
especially when our adversary, like gouty ole
London banker is boated and feeble with dis
!, !, ease, and cannot walk fast without danger o
4 falling,
q We cannot overlook The attempt of the Icctu
n rer to invest his subject with his British preiud
y ces, and to excite odium against our side Of tn
question, by presenting 10 the British settlers tn
-. alternative Of submission 10 foreign iutisdic
% ton, or expulsion from the territory. Who :"
ii his sober Senses" can believe that single Br
tish settler would depart from our territorial GOV
enmentf Or would not even prefer il TO hi
own? The laws of both nations being the same
as they have q common orgn no British settle