Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-06-28
NATIONAL INTELLIGENT Err.
MIsGIvINGs IN "THE DEMOCRACY"

The New York Evening Post, leading organ
Of " the Democracy" in the North, copies from the
Charleston Mercury, an equally leading organ of
the same party in the South, communication of
which the following is the main part:
'We dreamed that, under the circumstances which
placed Mr. Calhoun in the State Departmentcaed by the
voice OF all parties to its high dueshe could be removed by
Mr. Polk much less that he could be displaced in the midst
Of the Oregon negotiation, and with the tender of
clal treaty from England to US
But the blindness that led TO this result
have haunted Mr. Polk in regard foreign relations them
selves His inaugural declaration that title To Oregon
was "clear and UNREASONABLE, terrible mistake.
Construed every plain would construe il, put
end TO negotiation Clear and unquestionabe rights
not be put into the compromising crucibe Of negotiation with
out dishonor
Great Britain very naturally, Think took the declaration
assertion of complete right to the whole territory
dispute, and determination TO maintain it. She accord
ngy prepares for But did the President the
announcement Of war Certainly not for he goes on ncgo
tating Does he wish war believe him to be good
and therefore he cannot desire the desoaons of such
conflict suppose the truth be, that the President
only thinking very nnocenty OF winning additional POPULAR
~ IN the West and that occurred him that he
erecting almost nsupeabe barrier the peaceful
ment peaceful attempt to settle the question, unless
by arbitration II ndisputabe that before this declaration
Great Britain would have accepted Of compromise that
might well be considered satisfactory this country Nation
pride and jealousy fully aroused and the unanimous
pledges OF all parties TO sustain the British Minister, may
in opposition to any concession of the extreme claims of
England.
Mr Calhoun, is understood declined last winter the
proposal of Great Britain refer the arbitration
II he had been retained in the State Department may be
that all chance of settlement by negotiation would
thus have been impaired by the needless boast Of the nau
gura.
Sand now Mr. Editor, if we in South Carolina shall be
dragged into for of the worthless countries in
the world in proportion its extent and of earthly pre-
sent use but drain from the United States
Treasury into the West what glorious consmmation will
1t be TO our patriotic efforts in President making 1T does
pers among boys" heads win tails you lose !" am
- - "A HUMBUGGED MAN.
After this denunciation, by the Calhounites-
since hearing from England, too-of !" the needless
boast of the Inaugural about Oregon, that terri
BILE mistake and the solemn protest against being
:. dragged into for one of the most worthless
countries in the world in proportion to its extent"
the government paper will doubtless rank the Mer-
curry high on the list of those who, imbued with
. English feeling" looked at Mr.. PoLK's Inaugural
;. through British spectacles.'
In copying the above communication, the Post
does it is true object TO " the inference drawn in
the concluding paragraph" But, in doing so, hits
a harder blow upon another bantling Of its party
than that which the Mercury has dealt upon the
Oregon war project. For, saith the Post:
Suppose we were to alter the phraseology and
: make it read thus-we would then, perhaps, re-
mind this much-to-bc-pitied humbugged man that
: there is North pole as well South pole:
II in New York shall be dragged into for one
Of the most Ito us) worthless countries the wordcan-
ing Texss-whst glorious consummaiion will be the
Tyler Calhoun Administration"
blow well planted, is this.
The following extract from the United States
Journal {nnoher organ Of the Democracy and the
ADMINISTRATOR justly and strongly rebukes the
war-hawks and agitators North as well as South
SUPERLATIvELY REPREHENsIBLE.-For several
years past we have looked upon the different at
tempts TO get up war panic betweenthis nation
and England or Mexico, with painful amazement
and regret. We consider that those who have
been concerned in this base and contemplate con-
spiracy deserve the unqualified reprobation of
every friend Of his country's good we look upon
: them as either among the most ignorant of men |
or the basest of political demagogues. There has
not been the remotest possibility of any such |
event for the last ten years and yet how frequent
ly has the whole nation been thr own into pa
roxysm of excitement by the nefarious machina-
lions of stultifed re-pullers-and all for what 2!