Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-03-13
From the Washington Union.
THE WINGS AND GREAT BRITAIN.

The whig journals, with the National In
teIigencer loudest among them, are playing
Just now rery foolish game. A child NAV
see through it. Ever since the 4th Of March
last, the wings have rallied almost exclusive
y on the cry that democratic policy in this
country must eventuate iE war with England.
Against British interference the democra 5
brought Texas into the Union. The wings
stood up for the right of England to interfere,
and urged English hostility as one reason a.
gainst annexation.
Against the British theory, the President
repeated Mr.. Monroe's anti colonization doc
trine, applied to North America. The wing
journals, forgetful of everything that Ameri-
cans should remember, upbraided and secuted
the doctrine as rabd Anglophobia.
Against British violence, tramping upon
all law and comfy on the shores of the La
Plata, the democratic press spoke out in pro-
test. The wing journals had no word to say
against the British deed, but poured out all
their wrath upon the democratic denunciation
of it.
Against some portions of the Washington
treaty-in itself an abstract and epitome OF
whig policy towards England-a treaty alike
extraordinary and Objectionable III some of its
stipulatons, and in the manner in which 1t
was egociated-against some portions of this
treaty, inf1cting deep wounds on our national
sensibiity-wounds the scars of which are
not yet effaced-the democratic journals have
from time to time objected, and for every OBJ
lection however measured and moderate, the
whig press has held ever ready its frowning
and indignant reproof. The treaty, in its
view, dissipated for the time, at least, the ter
ror Of British arms and so it, mattered little
that it surrendered American rights, STAYED off
the most material issues between the two ma
/ tons, gave England all the military facilities
she asked for, and stipulated, by most ques-
tionable exercise of the treaty-making power,
that squadron of eighty guns should be al
ways kept up on the coast Of Africa, while
the right-of-search question was put in obey
ance as nest"egg for future difficulties. Eng
land was we'll satisfied with it; and the Intel
ligencer & Co. covered it with panegyric.
And then, when the Oregon question, dodg-
ed in that treaty at the very moment when
English policy had reused France, when Eng
land had her handful of business on the con-
tinent, inherited from the doings of Lord Pal
merston in the foreign office, while as yet the
''cordial understanding" was not-while the
French government and nation Were with us
then, even as the French nation is with us
UotO-W oICSOA 4uCStiOu Cdn0 up
having been so lodged by wing misdemeano
at the moment when it should have been set
tied, and when Mr.. Polk, proclaiming at ono.
that the days of wing policy towards England
were now numbered and finished, took hi.
firm stand for Oregon, and called on the coun
try to sustain him-then, in a moment, tn,
Anglo-mania of the whig press reused itsel
up to roar and lash its sides, and shake it
''brinded mane." "Our claim is humbug,'
cries one journal. s'The claim of England
above 490 is better than our claim,' smooth,
insinuates another. '.The administration i
mad for war with England t.
the rescue" was the general whig chorus; an,
then came the wall and lamentation-the Jer
emiah of unmanIy fear and blind faction, AM
|, luke love of country-"EEgIand is S.
strong!' ''Look at her steam navy ~
"What multitude of guns she has at Wool
wich" "Do keep the peace! Hold on t
the country if you can; but if not. why eve
let England have her way ia the matter, an
J so, at all events, keep the peace till Englan
shall choose to covet something else that i
not hers!''
= We put il to the candor of men of all pal
= ties, that this has been the tone for month
, past, of large portion of the wing press. 1t
D comments upon the arbitration CORRESPONDENCE