Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1846-02-27
Arrival of the Cambria.

Though the news by the Cambria may have
met the eye of most of our readers by this lime,
we have deemed it proper to give a full and salts
factory abstract of the most observation-disclosures
On the prospect of an overthrow of the restrictive
policy of England, through her odious and oppres-
sive Corn Laws, there is much to gladden. the
heart of our own agriculturalist, and to the poor
and oppressed of England, it will be severing the
chord which has so long bound them to the earth.
On the subject Of Oregon, the news is pacific, and
there is every prospect that the matter can be
settled honorably to both nations, without a resort
to war. The Union" thus refers TO the news
by the Cambria, as respects the Oregon question
"The tone of the British press and some of the
leading men in Parliament in relation to the Ore
gon question, seems TO be pacific. The tenor oil
the journals by the last arrival led US to expect that
it would be so. England has been made 10 feel,
by the stand taken by the President on that ques-
ton, and so triumphantly sustained by Congress,
that we are fully in earnest. This is the great
point. This has nerer been fell in the Oregon ne
COLLATION. before. Conscious that we are fully in
the right, and that we have demonstrated ourselves
to be SO, and that the country is coming to feel as
one man on the subject, the tone of England may
well be pacific. 1t may seem to some men a rash
prediction; yet we venture to say that when it is
known in England that our government declines
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is fully and cordially sustained by the country and
by Congress in that decision, the tone of the press
and of public men in England will not be less pa
cific than it now is. If this effect shall fail to be
produced by that intelligence, we have no hcsita-
ton in saying that the failure will be wholly at
tributable to the efforts made by the more reckless
portion of the wing press, to create the impression
on the English mind that the public sentiment of
this country is divided on the rejection Of the Of
fer of arbitration. If we stand firm and united on
this point-and there is no reasonable doubt that
we shall do so-we shallhearlittle more of threats
ofwar from England. The statesmen of England
will be the first to perceive that the offer of arbi-
tration could not with any ~propriety be accepted
by this government. They will not fail 10 per-
ceive that this fact may easily be made apparent
to the world. The firm stand Of the administered
ton on this point will be in the eyes of England
the test question Of lis frmneSS IN The achole contro-
uerSy. And the doubt which has heretofore pre-
vailed in England doubt growing out of the
whole history ofthe Oregon question. and nightly
enhanced blythe negotiations of l842-this doubt
of England as to the frmneSS of this government
in the maintenance of its rights in Oregon is the
true reason why the question is still unsettled
How could it be otherwise, when a government
like that of England, saw administration after adj
ministration put away the evil day os awakening
the question, and Congress after Congress sit and
rise in vain efforts TO give our citizens in Oregon
a government? What was there in all this to
cause England to take a pacific tone? But now
the whole face of things has changed. We have
already begun to see the result of the change in
the tidings that come to us over the sea. Wait a
little, and that result will be yet more apparent
This intelligence only confirms the policy of car
rying out the measures of the message. Let us
carry out The notice firmly and promptly. We
urge this because of our anxiety to retain all con-
ciliatory relations with Great Britain, and to pre-
serve an honorable peace