New-York daily tribune., 1846-01-16
The Notice re.pee,lns oreson-The whls'.

The Notice respecting Oresoh-i
To the Editor Of The Tribnns:
Your remarks of to day certainly give diherent
,snec, 70 vour position from that which elected
r,v comments. bat they effect this, if my visual or
gans are no, too bad, by still farther modification
If the views which you have held until within ie"
davs in respect TO The tendency of the measure 10
I question. l may be wrong, but have Germany
read your paper 10 little purpose 1t has no' n't
erto earnestly opposed the measure as Ienoins u,
rectly TO war. And in your article o' - 90,
which your modified views are nfst Stl oIstu5 - ~
forth, the support OF y ~as sure in itself if re.
oai,.c, rebtlv but az being less dangerous lnan an
oonosi,ion liable to be perverted to their own oas
~. Nv the adversares Of Peace II you oeheve 'ne
Notice to be safe and peaceful measure ~
@ can find fault with you for advocating IL and II De
snch In fact no moral objection can be made 70 us pas,
sage But beve few any of your readers unaefsl3o
vou 70 recede your whole former gfouno on luiS
point upon which you have made so many humane ano
patriotic appeals TO the conscience Of the nation and
its rulers.
Whs, shall we make of oil the alarm which this meas
ure has excited in the minds of nearly ali our Southern
and other Statement who desire peace and OF the war
like srdor with which il is urged on by tnoae VINO ev
IDENTITY would ike either to crush the South ano S
Slavery or 70 forward their schemes OF personal ao
ton g..
There are vet certainly sides of this question Tor
the friends Of peace look and shall need to see
good assigned for the conviction Tor al eas
general prevalence In Congress OF the consicLIouI
the measure is what nearly all the nation congress
included have all along supposed il to De- oeiofe ~" ~
acquit its supporters OF blame. ~, o,.i
doubt the prudence of trusting altogether 70 ,ue
denty pacific intentions of the Administration hele o
once the Administration and the party are no' one
dare not incur the risk Of all that tue ioiihei y %
driven by its own necessities ano lne of the
mand of the entire Northern and western secuon OF t
latter when backed by formidable show si " nle nanos
in favor Of doubtful measure "oicn eau ~
made 10 bear a warlike construction Inc only saJe
10 be that seadfast resistance TO every
needless measure which looks toward contention.
Thursday JAM 10
~ Our correspondent might as we'll have Pror-
ed that we have erer regarded the giving Notice to
Great Britain necessarily and per Sc belligerent
measure We think it would have bothered him to
do so In leading article OF the Goth OF Novem-
ber NEARLY t,co months ago. and even before the pa
cifc developments of the Message,l we said:
there is great deal yet TO be done this side Of War
Congress may resolve that all Oregon is ours and we
will have IT, but that is net War Parianent VIII Coun
terresolve that part of it is theirs and they W" kGep
it-still there is no War. Congress may establish
Mailroute the Rocky Mountains, extend the Ju
risdicon of Iowa Nebraska over our People IN Ofe
gon and there is yet nothing like War Our Government
NAV give formal notice of intention to close the Joint Oc
cupa,ion the end of the specified twelve months what
a Unwse this surely would be but IN strict a1cord
nth The Treaty: Great Britain is as likely to DO II as
likely to take the lead in it. We may fool away any
amount of money in establishing posts on the route TO
the Columbia, send out dragons by the regiment and
even march army into Oregon there is no war IN all
this Great Britain may send another army there If she
chooses But the moment resolve to extend our Ju-
rsdction all Oregon, and seriously undertake to
subject the British subjects therein to our aunoty m
we are on the brink of War and the chances ten to
one that it will follow But we do not yet believe that
Congress will so provoke needless War"
We think we need add nothing 10 this The
safe course for the Wings, while opposing all mea
sures which look to butchery and boodshed, is to
exhibit just and patriotic regard for the National
rights and interests and anxiety to stand by the
Government of their Country SO far as they may
righteously do SO. If we wish TO be heard when
we care to protest against War measures, we must
desire not to thwart the Government in those which
are pacific and unexceptionable. Isnot this so?
Ed