Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1846-04-24

comparatively unimportant. The Oregon CUES
ton has been farther discussed it is true both
Parliament aud In the English Journals, but without
shedding any additional or clearer light upon the
ultimate purpose Of the British Government, than
we had previously been enabled to infer from the
language of her leading politicians. The pro-
; verbal caution and moderation of the statesmen
Who shape the policy and control the action of the
British Government, when treating Of their rea- |
4 tons with foreign Powers, until they are them
selves prepared to strike blow, until they soc |
that their adversary about to "let slip the dogs
Of war" do not justify, think, the assump-
ton, so confidently based upon the pacific temper
Of Lord Aberdeen's remarks, that there is rea-
son to apprehend hostile collision between Great
Britain and the United States. Especially do wo
regard this assumption unfounded, when We
trecur to the editorial columns of the London
Times, the acknowledged organ of Lord Aber.
deem, and frequently much fairer exponent of
his real sentiments, than his speeches-and
see in them language if not entirely irreconcie-
able with the mild temper exhibited by the Sec
Rotary for the Foreign Department in the House
of Peers, certainly by means in accordance
with il.
We have already called the attention of our
readers to the decisive position assumed by the
Times of the 18th and 18th of March, received
by the Unicorn. But an article in that paper
of the 23d Of that month, is perhaps even more
worthy of attention. Referring to the great chan
ges proposed in the commercial systems of the
two countries, and to the supposed tendency of
those changes to render peace more desirable to
the people and to the governments of both, the
Times, in aborcd article, shows, as we'll by his
bxya tha Ila
iousness of all expectations based upon that pre-
sumption and it remarks, with peculiar signifi-
canoe and emphasis, that while it will be happy to
meet Mr.. Polk more than half way in what il is
pleased to call his commercial reforms" (and
so advantageous these "reforms," to British
interests, that do not for moment question its
sncerity,) they constitute reason for the aban-
donment by Great Britain of her title 'fo the
banks Of The Columbia" and no nducement suf-
ficiently persuasive to lead to an abatement of
her moderate and just claims to part of The Ore
gon Territory ichich hare been constantly upheld
by the British Government" 1t declares that
''there is not man in most crowded markets,
or our busiest ports, who would consent to give
in exchange for these advantages, title Of Bri-
fish honor, or one acre of the rightfrd dominionS
of the British CroiDn." In these declarations
Of an English paper, which, as we above remark
ed, is (no doubt correctly regarded as the organ
OF the Foreign Secretary, and the editorial arti-
cles of which it is shrewdly surmised not unfre.
quently originate at the Foreign Office, we think
see the manifestation of an nhexible purpose to
refuse any terms of compromise that may be Of
fered upon the Oregon question, less liberal than
those heretofore rendered by the predecessors of
Mr. Polk, and uniformly rejected by the British
Government.
If we have not overrated the influence of the
London Times, and do not misapprehend its rela-
tons to the British Ministry, and if our inference
from its language be legitimate and fair, we
fess we cannot, for one, participate in the conf
dence so generally felt of pacific adjustment of
this controversy. We shall, of course, be graft
fed, IT, in the result, shall Fl nd ourselves mis-
taken-since we have infinitely less desire to &C
quire reputation a prophet-and particularly
as prophet Of evil-than to see the peace of the
world preserved, and all its benefits and blessings
secured to our country-so deeply dependent, as it
is, upon its preservation for the rapid development
ofs resources and vitality interested in ayertng
war-that prolific source of evils to all cOun-
tries, but especially TO a confederated Re.
public.
The splendid triumph Of the British arms in In
dia, whence our previous accounts had led us to
look for disastrous reverses, is the most interest
ing portion Of the intelligence brought by the
Caledonia. We refer the reader to another column
for brief detail OF the results Of the bloody bat
ties by which the power Of the native Princes has
been eilectualy crushed, and the authority Of the
British empire almost indefinitely extended.
"AHnerdfioH," indeed, appears to be the order Of
the day on the other side of the Atlantic, well
as upon our own-wth the marked difference
however,, that, while here it is Peaceably effected
and by the mutual cOSenr u the paftles iie4e :.
is achieved by the butchery of brave but barba- h
Tous and undisciplinod troops. The British pa "a
pers may taunt as a nation Of robbers and chide
ms for the spirit OF selEaggrandizement evinced 4
by the incorporation Of neighborng State into :.
our Union but what shall be said Of the spolia. If
tors Of lndIa whose path is every where marked
by the blood of the iDnumerable victims OF their A
avarice and ambition Even if the American
people deserved the reproaches so lavshy bestow-
ed upon them, in connection with the annexation
Of Texas, no Briion has right, stained as he il 4
with the blood, and laden with the spols Of India ?
10 unite in the chorus Of defamation.
The Rarnburners and Old Hunkers. $
These the euphonOus appellatons by which an
agonst factions Of the Locofooo party in New York
tween which RACES fierce that Of the Guelphs
nd the Gsibbenes. respectively designate each other.
The Albany Argus heads one Of hem--the Albany Atlas
the other. Recently. at county meeting called for the
purpose Of nominating eanddsies for the State Convention
they proceeded from words bows-and the Argus fac
ton, who badly beaten snd bruised, charged their
antagonists with having bro 'gbt the meeting for the
purpose Of making the assault organized band Of ruff
fans snd rovdossuoh in days gone by, they were in
the habit d mastering the polls for the purpose Of
tmidadog Wing What has given consequence to
this rupture, tho feet that John Vsn Buren, whom the Ar
gus nov styles She degraded Of usous sire" the
Attorney General Of the slate charged with being one
Of the chief instgatofs II the THIS he denies bot
Argus perssts in affirming IT, The Grand Jury has ia
Ren cognIanoe Of the Outrage, and has found true bills
against fifteen tweniy Of the "smsI Fry" engaged
10 IT, snd rco or four Of the 'bg 6sh !" for assault with in