The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-12-23

such paper IRON q chief magistrate VI NV S''u."
Laying down and enforcing, with rare ability, me
doctrines and measures of the republican party, ne
has claim upon the gratitude Of every freeman,
and Of every man, of whatever country, who De-
spises the monarehic, olgarcc, and hierarch'c sys
TENS which have alternately desoated Europe, ana
now prevail over the eastern hemisphere. The
laborer is worthy of his hire; and will not disre-
gard the injunctions of righteous maxim towards
men in high estate, lest the envious man and the
quefulous shall upbraid me. Nor would hatter
the President for all his power to do good-;he only
purpose for which good man could desire il. A
patriot statesman lives only for his country, and his
only reward is in the fame he derives from the BEN
efactons he has conferred. His elevation should
not deny him the justice which is awarded TO the
honest aborer of the field Justice belongs to men,
not TO stations.
Turning from the domestic aspect OF the Presi-
dents message, in which have so much to adj
mlre, hnd him equally able in defence of our rights
and our policy in regard to our foreign relations
lie has placed our intercourse and correspondence
with Great Britain in relation TO Oregon on firm
and the only true basis; while he has reminded
France OF the ndecency OF her conduct in the affair
of Texas, Believing sour title to Oregon to be
clear and unquestionable" he, nevertheless has fol-
lowed The course of preceding administrations, and
has proposed to abandon, in the Christian spirit of
the age for the blessings Of peace, large portion
law, Ia our own. Having rendered our desire for
peace and friendship with England, by the offer Of
terms more generous 10 her than just to ourselves
as "cear and unquestionable' our title TO Oregon
on their rejection, he has planted himself upon the
rock of justice and national honor where we now
stand So far, the President has placed the govern
ment and country, at home and abroad, upon their
just and appropriate foundations. More than this
! he could not do.
There remains but one thing to complete the cir
Gle Of his present duties The country should be
speedily placed in defensive attitude England
desires war; and the activity Of her preparations
warrant the belief that she has already decided on
| 1t. Arm your forts without a moments loss; call
upon the States to have 200 900 men ready to march
| at the tap OF the drum; digest system of national
defence; for when England strikes, ii will be with
the suddenness Of the falcon from his eyre. The
war will be general, fierce, and terrible. The Brit.
Ish government is not one of temporary expedients
or transient policy, but of systems and permanent
| results; and having secured the appreciation of her
people, she will not stop 10 weigh in the balance the
loss OF our trade great it Isl but will strike at the
vitas of our prosperity, the source Of present. past
and future competition with her. war against
domestic slavery and the slave States, from whence
spring our hundred millions Of cotton, tobacco, SUI
gar and rice, the fountains which supply the rich
arteries of our commerce, navigation and manufsc-
lures, s what she mediates As these interests are
crippled here, they will rise in Egypt, her depen-
denotes in Asia, IN Italy, on the Black sea- in the
low countries Of Germany, and her West India pos.
sessions; and in proportion to the force of the blow
towards Wasting competition with in their future
products 1t 10 not alone by the power other that
she thinks to njure us; miscaculang the strength of
the cement Of our Union, she will withhold the
mortal stroke for the last. She will throw fire.
brand amongst u.s. by demanding, in the settlement
OF peace, the abolition Of slavery. This is the NOV
ing principle with that INSCRIPTIONS government;
andit Is TO enable her to propose and maintain
these terms that she will 60 to war, and adhere TO
u IN her experiment on slavery and the Union fails
OF lis object, or is successful. Within fifteen days
from the moment when England determines to wage
war, she will have power to capture every town
on the seaboard; and by the contributions she will
exact from them, and the plumber Of her soldiers
will have paid all expenses, unless we betake our
selves to the duty of preparing to meet her. Gene
raj Cass has pointed ont, with profound sagacity,
the course for us. Looking calmly upon the field
on which England and America are now arrayed,
he sees, with senatorial forecast the weak point Of
British power--the citadel OF our strength and
growing consequence--where we are vulnerable
and she may be foed and defeated Let us adopt
his suggestions, and put ourselves in an attitude 10
meet any foe who may venture 10 assaiI us. In
proportion TO our means of defence, is the tardi-
ness Of nations TO quarrel with us.
VIRGINIA, Goth December, ls45.
For the Union.
oHIO--SHALL 1T BE OURS
correspondent, AN OHlO DcmOCrdt,' asks
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS it be ours'n beg
leave to parody it.
When the sword of Washington was first drawn
in defence of American liberty the great question
was, 'the territory northwest Of the Ohio river
shall il be oursi" The British king by his famous
proclamation, had forbidden the colonists to settle
and extend their jurisdiction beyond the Ohio
But the men of other days, and the heroes Of 9TH
er times dared to claim their right to the Ohio
country an inheritance for their children, and
hey boldly maintained their rights, not by arb.
traton, but by the sword This know for my father
and my uncle, and my grandfather, all assisted in
the battlefield and at the council-board to protect
the Ohioterritory from the powerful grasp Of Britain
and leave that fair country free to be governed by
the free will of its inhabitants. They and their fei-
low compatrots fought without any hope of re ward,
but the freedom Of their country, but with the pros
pect OF punishment as rebels and traitors to British
rule If they were unsuccessful.
These men were not afraid Of Britain, although
they had been taught from their youth to look upon
that government as almost the mistress ofthe world
They conquered, and we are free. The spirits of
these men now ask Of the people of Ohio, for whons
they fought and conquered, 10 go and do likewise
to claim and demand the whole Of Oregon as the
rghfu inheritance ofthe generations that Shall como
AFTER ne.
The people the territory northwest Of the Ohio
can only pay the debt they owo to the heroes Of the
revolution, by maintaining our right to the whole Of
Oregon-ay, and fighting for it too il need be.
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