New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-06-13
THE TRIBUNE.
FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 10. is45.


While our Federal Government IL engrossed with
the business OF pursuing personal quares and glu'
ting party rapsci,y by the reward Of petty clerks
and messengers in the Departments a, Wsshington.
there are dark clouds gathering our horizon.
which may speedily result in War. A Mexican
army s reported to be On the Rio del Norte prepar-
ing to advance to the Nueces and maintain that Riv
er a. the ancient and proper boundary between
Texas and Coahuils in case Texas l. absorbed D.
tho United States In this case il j. thought ilsi
President Polk will promptly send Military force
across the Sabine through Texas TO drive back ihe
Mexicans across the del Nortc. in which case W.
may be involved in hos,ites even before the meeting
Of Congress-
But this il not all We kH0r mt me Terms
are determined not 10 be content eren tcth ne H'D
del Norte az her Uestern bonndary They mean to
strike at once for the uh0ie Of santa Re Ia province
always distinct from and far older than Texas and
in short, the uhoie region dratned Dy the IL" of'
Norte az wey on the West a. the East. They urge
that a river il not proper boundary Though It haF
been ;us, the thing hitberio,) and that we must
reach 10 the Sierra Msdre beyond AT this moment
California has expelled her Mexican officers, and
il expected to be the next candidate for Annexa'
ton Even now the Administration journals tab
of il a. our property and treat any interference with
our designs upon il by others asa fragrant offence
axainst us-s cause Of war 1t is needless 10 say
that the existence of Mexico as an independent
power il vitality threatened. If the designs OF our
leading Annexa,ionisis are prospered. Mexico must
soon be blotted from the family OF Naiions-So the
world understands il. Hence the anxiety OF Eng
land and France to prevent Annexation They see
in II reproduction Of that gigantic crime the faf
tition of Poland which England and France ougm
TO have prevented. All nations not concerned ~
such ap act of robbery have common interest ~
redsting H. and it is their duty to use all moral and
peaceful means to avert the mediiated wrong
eocb il the state of our Foreign Relations IN which
Our Government has seen iii TO assert claim 10 the
,cAole of Oregon as clear and unquestionabe,' al
tor having twice offered to divide it and take half
A bill TO take Military possession OF the whole !.
likely to pass this winter whercupon Great Britain
will doubtless be found by our troops TO have taken
similar possession of part What will folio"
doubtless dependsin good degree ON the progress OF
events in Texas, Mexico, SC
Such being the prospect before us, ought not the
People to be fully apprscd OF ii Ought they not
10 consider well the grounds on which they are
threatened with War, and study the Subjects OF dir
pute not merely az the demagogucs Of the day may
choose to present them but as impartial men and i'm
partial History must view thcmi we certainly
think they should. and, 80 thinking, act.
On the other hand the Morning Ne'es says
THE paper. in the yforei9a interest now say they
xt.lt .l.o nd he AZ IN
cW have the river and the only harbor on the coast why
lei her have for the sake peace Fortunately no
American responds TO this insidous counsel
Here The Tribune is aimed at, and a gross false
hood il manufactured to defame us. We say ii
Great Britain will not the line through on lat.
<9o--where We think il should be-let us drb'tra'c
the question II we cannot agree on Government
10 which to refer il, and we have heard that Eng
land offers us wide range for secction) LET us each
designate one power which two shall choose third
We have long believed that National disputes may
thus be settled without bloodshcd if the cH but cx
isl. And we hold it the blacklist Of crimes to resort
10 War until all hope OF peaceful redress has dis
appeared
- Now hear the Erca,Hg P0st-ihat once digni
Aed and honorable journal, which but recently de
elned noticing our answer TO lis attack upon IA bc
cause il could not stoop to personal controversy
with the exception Of the Tribune Papcr fed on
vegetable diet and therefore drerse 10 War at any saVo
there IL not press IN the Union which does not FAY
OnxooN Is OURS, aud must be maintained
The meanness Of this fling is only cqualed by its
falsehood. We defy the Post to name three Wing
papers in the Union which insist that we shall asser,
and maintain at all events claim to all Oregon
On the other hand, many of the most influential
journals which supported Folks election palpabs
the idea of going to war with Eng
land il need be- to carry our boundary North of LAT
90 We may name the Charleston Mercury for
one ; and we believe every paper in South Carolina
with nearly every one in the South, arrays itself
either by open speech or lin their case equally sic
niicani silence, the side OF Cancellation and peace
So Of many elsewhere