Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-05-16

= The national honor to buy peace by an
r unworthy concession. Now an uncondlcl
+. ed statement, claiming to be official, ha
3 the double mischief Of decelving the on
r party and of endangering suspicious in tn
/ other. Let the people Of England believ
THAT the Columbia isso be abandoned, AM
they are OF once divided into two parie
: those whose acquiescence encourages
the Government towards what is staiI
upon the honor of the country, and thos'
whose opposition embarrasses it in an as
sertion offs just rights.
Surely IN the present stage of the ne
gotiations something more definite thar
the very general saIvo Of the national hon
or might have been hazarded We might
at least have been told that the policy oil
our previous statesmen should be adhered
to, and that the present posture and ges
lures Of America were not TO be mistaken
for claims We might too, at least, have
been assured that the question was to be
determination its own proper merits, and
t hat the respective titles were in the same
condition 1918, in 1897, and in 1916.
THE OREGON QUESTION.
Nothing new respecting the Oregon
question had transpired since the sailing
OF the Unicorn. The editors of the Bos.
ton Journal have been favored with CO
Ply OF the London News of the 4th insant,
which winds up long article in the fol-
lowing terms:
"We hear now of an offer to be made by
Great Britain to accept Mr.. GaIatin's pro
PoSal of the doth deg. to the sea, the line
to be continued through the midst of Fu
cas- straits, If the United States refuse
such an offer, which would leave them the
best ports on Fuca's straits, we can only
say that they are determined to provoke
war and deserve its worst consequences"
"Nol do we think that they would or
could refuse, if the national interest and
desire were consulted on The matter of the |
Columbia river. Some have proposed to
offer the free navigation of the ST. Law
renee to The Americans in return for that
IF the Columbia. If there be insupe rabIe
objections to this, the free navigation of
he Columbia might be stipulated, as we
before mentioned, for period of years
say to the end of the century.
"Should the American Government re-
use such an offer, we might presume that
would refuse any offer, and was prepared
} bully and to fight. But no party in the
'nted States would be long tolerated 10
lie maintenance aud pursuit of such a
'eling, the consequences of which are
efficiently formidable to deter any except
lie peryerse aud the mad.
"The sooner this uitimatum is proffer- I
|, and the result known, the better
he present state of Mexican affairs rem !.
'rs our position, with respect TO the Gov
nment OF Washington. more critical. !
sredes and Almonte are both pledged to
sist the Anglo American dcalon. -
nd II is all we'll, that, if there is TO be
against the resolve of the Uni
d States to bully both European and A .
erlcan Governments, that struggle Y
oud be a simultaneous and combined S
Ie.
"The real state ofthc case is, probably, 7
at the American Government is merely
eklng TO get the best terms, and acting
e braggadocia with our not very adrolt
spirited Government, in order to do so. 0
r. Polk has private as we'll as patriotic "
olives TO win the most from us. His re- II
action TO second term of Presidency, a
de ed his whole character as a politician, !
men at present rests on nothing, will be II
or made by his success in the 9
esent negotiation. No wonder that he o.
'alns his efforts and his impudence to the u
ry verge of war. But we doubt his =,
adlness 10 stop beyond" "