Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-01-31
order 10 soothe the North and East. With respect
TO Oregon itself the Examiner says:

Wth respect TO the Oregon, whoever will take the rou
BILE of opening map will how very diminutive
portion of territory lies between the offers of each country
The Americans offer the forty ninth parallel The British
propose the line of the Columbia from where meets that
parallel Offering in addition, the large peninsula contained
between the Pacific and Admiralty nle OF the whole dis
pued tract between the Columbia and the forty ninth para
lei this forms the one-ourh in extent and certainly three
fourths in Importance. Il FORMS with the exception of the
free navigation Of the Columbia the only point of the dspu
ed territory worth having worth caviing about When
two great nations have very near to agreement
and left such very little space between their proposals. aouM
be quite absurd and prepostous 10 suppose that they could
quarrel Whatever may be thought our caims--and
have been disposed TO hold them beyond all doubtyet
considering the point TO which negotiations have proceeded
the future object TO conclude them with honor and after
the full disclosure by President Polk of the offers made the
British Government in 1926 and in 1914, the point Of honor
ought to be difficult adjust than the line Of frontier
Of what the Message says concerning Texas, the
Examiner has little to say. His remarks on the
position of Mexico are burlesqued, and it is said
that there never was, nor will be, any passage in
the autobiography of nations so monstrously, so
udicrously, or SO successfully impudent as this :"
OF the remarks Of the Message on the balance of
power, the Examiner says
'Scarcey less amusing the TRADE, in which the Pres
dent INDUCES, the subject Of the balance of power He
win have Of it. in theory. 1t is heresy, and
invention Of the foul fend and is untenabe and unpadon
able the idea Of European Power having ahly
interest the New World President Polk almost arraigns
England for having colony America, which,
cordng his doctrines she should have done He holds
his presidential fist in his parents face, and asks how burst he
have enacted parent fine child The accident Of
holding Canada does not at all enter into Mr. Folks consider
aton The possibility of having wish right to keep
defend it. The idea that France, England, Russia,
should be at all interested in the independence Of Mexico for
example, and anxious that the Spanish should alto
gether give way the Anglo-Americanhe possibility of
very natural thought excites the Presidents bile He does
his utmost by violence Of language, excite fear and mis-
of the performance of the United States in the other
maritime Powers Of the world and he foas with resentment
at finding such fear and must entertained and expressed
The principle of the balance of power is but feeling for ones
Independence and security We cannot but feel when
contemplating the strides Of Russia towards the mastery Of
southern and northern We cannot but feel when the
Power stretches along the Pacific, and the Atlantic and
the Gulf of Mexico How far right act upon this fear
question But President Folks forbiddng to
it, he prescribe thought and prudence and
common all the world he enforce such
| hyper-autocratic commands"
| The Manchester Guardian of December "a,
which has always had high reputation COM
mercia paper in speaking of the Message, says that
it recommends measures likely to bring the two
countries into immediate speedy collision. Even
though all its recommendations should be carried
out by Congress, the Guardian says there is g no
serious issue to be apprehended' The recommen-
dation to extend American jurisdiction over Ameri-
can citizens in Oregon is said to be one to which
no reasonable objection be made by the British
Government Upon the subject Of terminating the
joint occupancy, the Guardian says:
With respect the for terminating the joint
patton of Oregon, that President Polk may
not recere from the English Government before he
possibly be in condition 10 gire IL himself But, whether
given by the side the other do not conceive that IL
win add materially ata the chance Of hostile collision
has been obvious enough for time past that unless the
question be amicaby settled in very short PERIOD
twelve months the latest hardly any thing prevent
and therefore, decisive step like that of giving notice for
putting end TO the subng agreement is rather favorable
than otherwise When both Governments know that the al
tentative arrangement year. war; they will
that there time be lost in useless discussions and will
probably hit upon compromise to which both
cede We that this opinion rather at variance
with the views of large portion Of the press both in England
and the United States by whom the proposal give notice
terminate the joint occupation regarded decidedly una
vorable the preservation Of peace but nothing in
their arguments to change own opinions the subject
In many respects the tone Of the Message is con-
ceded to be ofensive but these not regarded as
especially important. The omission of the Mes
sage to refer to the fact that Great Britain offered
arbitration to the United States Government, which
was rejected, is severely censured, and the asser-
ton that the United States have exhibited spirit
of liberal concession" is very pointedly denied.
The Guardian concludes its article thus:
But whatever faults the Message may have in reference
to the Oregon dispute there part Of which will be read
in this country with unmixed satisfaction We alude TO the
recommendation place the tariff upon footing
sonant with the principles Of freetrade The President in
the strongest and most explicit terms, condemns all duties inn
than OF
and suggests the popety Of aboshng all specific duties and
forced valuations and evyng only upon actual and
moderate ad vaoem II he should be able carry
his views this subject and the English Government should
succeed in efectng satisfactory adjustment of the laws
that the feelings Of hostility and dstrus which
prevail both sides Of the Atlantic will be much diminished
and that the settlement of disputed boundaries will be very
greatly facilitated Neither to England TO the United
States Oregon worth the profits of six months unrestricted
traffic between them and that this is truth which
both will discover and act upon within the twelve months
which remain for the settlement of the question"
The Leeds Mercury, published in the heart of
the wooen manufactures, says that il is exactly
Of the character which had been anticipated" Ii
thus goes on:
Sin regard the tariff il is satisfactory but in regard
promising and recommends policy peremptory, that
less Congress should decline adopt the policy pro-
babe that will be the result
fThe President, since his accession to power in
March last has manifested a spirit that incompatible
with honorable compromise Of the disputed question He
rejected the proposition made by the British Government for
compromise the very day that it made though it
favorable the United States than any previous offer
Though renewing form the offer made by his predecessors
to take the 49h parallel of latitude the boundary, he with
drew concession which had always accompanied that offer
namely admitting the navigation Of the Columbia to be free
TO both countries On the rejection of these with
preston Of surprise the part of the British Minister Mr.
Polk discontinued all negotiation and he declares that
compromise which the United States ought to accept
be effected In the history which he gives the negotiations
he wholly oms mention that England had offered to refer
the dispute the decision of neutral Power He then