Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-01-03

North Pole: !. 9. 10 latitude 80 degrees and
ffty-6ve minutes--or within Ave minutes oil
ISymmes' tiole--where Cap. Syinmss, an
American, incon,eslbly sunk Theoretical
shaft, years ago. That is our true northern
boundary. We like wha, follows on the sub.
ject of Oregon, from the pen of the Hon. Ca
leb Gushing:
"Now, the British governments be-
coming uneasy, because, witnessing
the influx. Of emigrants into Oregon
from the United States, it sees that iii
events be left to themselves) they will
speedily overrun the whole country
And the American government is un-
easy, because it cannot permit the
Hudson's Bay Company to continue to
usurp the jurisdiction aud military
possession of Oregon. This uneasi-
ness, on both sides, induces, of course,
much solicitude in the minds Of those,
whether English or American, who
ldeprecate the calamities of war at all
times, and especially of war between
the kindred nations Of England and
America. And the question arises
what then shall be done?
Many well meaning persons are in
favor of submitting the question to
some friendly power as arbitrator,
am not of this opinion, for two rea-
sons.
In the first place, there is no way to
enforce an award between Independent,
States. Arbitration between individ-
uals in society is very well, for those
who like it, because the courts stand
ready to compel performance, if the
award be valid in form. But it is 9TH
erwise in the case of Governments; as
to which, as experience proves, arbi-
traton only creates new difficulties, by
adding to the pre-existing controver-
sy another in relation to the validity OF
the award.
In the second place, do not know
any power in Europe which has not
monarchal biases against the Ameri-
can democracy; and if aking could be
found who is perfectly impartial, we
should have no safety in submitting to
his arbitration, because the European
kings do not transact the public bust
ness themselves; il is done by their
ministers; and to submit question to
European sovereigns is to leave it to
some secretary, or chef dc bureau, or
clerk in the departments, whom you
do notknow, and who, however upright
his sovereign is,may be subject to class
bases or to pecuniary influence, fatal
to the integrity Of his decision. In
private aifaire. we can always find i'm
partial arbitrators, and zoe knoD the
men; which is impossible in an arbi-
tration by government.
What remains then, for the United
States in this important question: !
answer,
/. Time, the great regulator of all
things, in this world. If nothing else
occur to dispose Of the Oregon ques-
ton, in time, the backwoodsmen of the
west will do it with their axes, cattle,
and ploughs, and if need be their ri
fes. Emigrants from the United
States have land journey to Oregon,
which is. comparatively spesking,ea
for their horses and cattle feed them
selves on the road, carry or furnish
provisions for the emigrants, and carry
H. ,,&on..Ia .,I canot.f,tfa tho can't IA 4
with which the settlers are to begin
life in Oregon. Emigrants from Great
Britain have a much larger land jour
ney to make, besides sea voyage OF
three thousand miles; or, in the whole,
sea voyage Of enormous length and
expenses, if they go by the Cape Of
Good Hope or Cape Horn. Besides
which, ali British emigrants in Amer
lea have a great tendency to cease to be
Britons and to become Americans.
2. Negotiation. And it is deeply
regretted that in the whole course OF
this affair the British government has
manifested so little Of the spirit either
equity or Cancellation. The continu-
ance of this root Of bitterness between
the two nations, is no fault, | repeat, Of
the United States. We have sire ched
cancellation and compromise TO the ut
mos, verge of honor, in an effort of
arrangement. and in so long suffering
the divided occupancy of territory be-
lieved to be wholly our own. Or shall
we, the United States, tamely place
ourselves in the attitude Of the degra-
ded nations Of Asia and Africa, and
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