The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-12-24

WASHINGTON, Dec. Ito, lS4o.
Tht Interest excited by the Oregon correspondence
has in no wise abated Thousands have read i, with
avdity; and members of Congress state that the de-
mand for copies by their constituents is without
parallel. doubt whether any similar state papers
have ever before commanded the same widespread
and absorbing attention, met with the same cor
dial reception. Whilst the republicans are in
transport of joy, the poor wings, committed as they
were to the 49th parallel, are struck dumb with
amazement. They were unable to discover soli-
tary peg upon which to hang an objection; and,
like 81. Paul in his bondage, must content them
fuh
The concluding letter of Mr.. Buchanan is espe-
cally admired and will win for him bright halo Of
reputation. Powerful as he had proved himself on
previous occasions, this last effort towers immcas-
urably above all the rest Ii is decidedly his mas
terpiece, the chef deurre Of his superior statesman
ship. He has rhoWn,to the world, what the world
has hitherto been 10th to believe that successful
diplomacy is not necessarily the associate of low
craft and specious cunning, but, on the contrary, Is
only compatible with the strictest Justice and the
purest virtue. He has shown in word that, to
be skiliul negotator one must not necessarily be
Sir Giles Overreach. Hitherto Mr.. Diplomatic
Morality has been more than suspected Il mere vul-
gar mpostor but with such credentials in his pocket
as the American secretary has just furnished him,
he may hold his head erect.
Mr.. Buchanan has not only produced the clearest
and most comprehensive, sand most unanswerable
argument extant that our claim to the whole Of Ore
gon is "clcar and unquestionable,' he has not only
driven John Bull from his famous Nootka sound
refuge, and knocked the sound out of his vnunted
| ambassador, but he has accomplished much more.
He has convinced the upstart nobility Of the Old
World that, opposed TO the practical common sense
virtues of an untitled American, their fne.spun and
transcendental sophistcations, their
"Quips and quirks, and lawyers wiles,
Mods and becks, and wreathed smiles"
h,,ta d,,st in With a eipUlo brt,s
of his pen the clear-headed and far-seeng Pennsy-
vanian will demosh all the cobweb castles which
my Lord Pakenham can weave in twelvemonth;
and the latter would act wisely if he would follow
the example of the sagacious coon who, seeing that
Captain Scott was after him, coplly offered to come
dorn.
The rumor of to-day is, however, that Mr. Pa
kenham having received fresh instructions from his
government has declared his willingness to reopen
the negotiation on terms favorable to the Uni
ted States than Great Britain has hitherto been will
ing to accede.
This may be true, but as there are no "eaky YES
sells" in the service of this administration, the runor,
at best, can be based upon mere conjecture. But,
true or FALSE of this the world may rest assured,
that neither the President, the cabinet, Congress,
the PRESS nor the people, will demand aught from
England that is 'not clearly right but it is equally
certain, also, that they will submit to nothing that
is wrong" Whilst we, one and al, prefer the con-
tinuance of peace, must be attended with no
rifce of our national rights and honor. San honor
able war rather than an inglorious peace" is our
watchwotd, and the petty usurpers Of the Old
World may as well be taught to know first DIS last,
that they have to deal, not with trucking and inn
poverished nation but with one that is both great
and mighty, and growing more 30 every day-one
that is acting out her destiny, not In the hurry OF
new and evanescen enthusiasm, but in the calm and
dignifed consciousness that she "knows the right,
and, knowing, CAN and WILL manainit."