The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-02-10
LATEST NTgLLIGEsCg By rHg NAILS.
Highly Important froza Washington.
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS.
THE OREGON QUESTION.

TdE UhE9UN QUG0IAUN.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 1876.
The announcements in the Herald-7he Oregon Cor
spondenes-Fortifcation and Defemcss OF the
Country-FSiends of the President in the Senate
The message of the President, which was COM
municated to the House of Representatives yester-
day, conveying the late correspondence between
MIR. Pakenham and the Secretary of State, SOS
tains, most fully, the character OF the Herald, tor
the accuracy of all the information which 1t has, tor
the last six weeks, land befor the public, upon the
Oregon question, and which was disbelieved almost
every where Indeed, sir, it did not appear strange
to me, that so much ignorance and incredibly, with
regard to the Herafds information, should prevail
all around, and that the party press, on both sides,
should be at fault on such matters; but confess
was somewhat chagrned at the doubts which you
were induced express at the time, OF the correct
ness Of the information transmitted to you then
Yours was the only journal in the whole country
that received the news OF the renewal Of the cores
pondeAce between the British Minister and Mr. Bu-
chanan, the day after il commenced and yours il
the only paper that has, since then-six weeks ago,
had a regular and correct run Of every important
point connected with the Oregon and Mexican ques-
tons These facts will put to rest from henceiorth,
and in all quarters the doubts which jealous con-
temporares are ever willing to raise about the Her
AIDS information.
In my letter of the 9Th instant, l informed you
of Lord Aberdeen's construction of the passage
OF the notice, in connection with Mr.. McLane.-
Yet, although he there expressed nothing more
than what every sensible man in the country
had previously thought on the same subject, except
the "chivalry" of the South, it may happen that a
crisis is not far off, in which both England and
America may beinvoved, leading directly to a con.
test for national superiority il not OF national exis
tence.
The answers of Lord Aberdeen to Mr. McLane,
relating TO the vast military and naval preparations
going on in England are evasive, and of diploma
TIC character altogether, and should be received
generally by the country as such, as ! know they
are by thi government What, then, Is to be done
by US under these circumstances 7 We ought to
prepare for the worst in the shortest possible time
and show to England that we are as determined a.
she to maintain our rights at any and every cost to
what we know to be ours.
Although the President has not sent into Congress,
with the copies of the late correspondence between
Mr. Pakenham and Mr.. Buchanan, any recommen-
dation to fortify our sea boards and increase the
army and navy, yet 1t is his intention to do 30 in
few days, when message from him may be ex-
pected, calling upon Congress to make the fullest
and most efficient preparations for the worst contin
gency that may happen. This will be wise, and the
country will approve of the measure. must posi-
lively demur to the charges 80 gratutousy made
against the friends Of the President In the Senate,
viz: Messrs. Cass, Allen, flanagan, &c, Of having
raised war panic with view to Interior personal
and political interests. The reverse, sir, assure
YOU, is the case for if either OF those gentlemen
were silly enough to do such tn ing for such pur-
pose would not only not subserve that OBJECT but
entirely and ultimately defeat It,
With regard to Gen. Cass' course In the Senate.
he has done nothing more than make motion OF
enquiry into the state OF our national defences and
this was done, presume, while cognizant OF the ex.
that any sane person should look upon simple
matter, as a desire to blow the fame of war upon
the country. | have watched with some attention
the conduct of the Senators thus arraigned by GER
tain writers as panic makers, and confess l have
nothing in their line of policy at all calculated
to impress with such an idea. On the contrary,
have considered them to be the Presidents organs
in the Senate chamber, and the refectors of his
will upon almost all occasions; and, conse-
quently, whatever views they may have express-
ed upon important public affairs, have In
ecutive. 1t is admitted by every member Of the
Senate, that the honorable Senators above named,
are in the confidence of the President, and that
whatever they do or say IN relation TO great national
TO it, that within that chamber they are listened to
by all parties with the greatest attention.
The correspondence Just communicated to Con-
gress cannot be considered in the light OF neg0tia-
tons, though they partake in some slight degree of
that character and, therefore, we must conclude
that all negotiations are now at an end, until re-
sumed again by the British Government. belieue,
indeed, Inay say, that k,low, Mr.. PGkeNhGm has
received po,cers from his Government, to propose
the fortyninth parallel the boundary line betceew
the t,co countries Nth the privilege Of navigating
m. nh. hat he sc,H moi
make any overture to this Government, Of such
character, until he first assure himself that 1t Is
likeiv to be acceded to. To this proposition, ne
NAV rest satisfied this Government will never con-
sent so that unless England recede from the posi-
ton in which her minister has placed her, by his
refusal Of the Presidents offer OF the forty-ninth
parallel, war must consequently ensue, for which
England alone will have to bear all the blame. so
far them up to this time, except what this last cor
respondence has shown 10 have taken place upon
the subject of the Oregon dispute-nof a lime has
jesty's Ministers in Engiamd, ~ relation to II:
Everything remains just as II did IN August last
have been informed that Elliott was sent out some
time since to San Louis Potosl, by Mr.. Pakenham,
with instructions set the revolution on foot which
has brought Paroles into power, and TO pledge the
faith of the British Government for whatever ex-
penses might be incurred in the prosecution OF the
same | have been Of this opinion all along, and
have 30 expressed myself Of 1t to you more than
once in my letters. England, no doubt Is anxious
to create diversion against us, and IN her favor
that quarter should she come to blows win tne
Hated States ARUL.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, 1885