The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-01-08
BOLTS ON OREGON.

Some days since, head him or-die" Bolts
came out in letter against Oregon, which filled
three of the wide, long and closely printed col
umns of the Richmond Wing The letter itself
could not appear in our paper. and as Bolts ia
dead. we hardly thought it worth while to com
mcnt upon it. But we have fallen in with
comparative criticism, made by the editor Of the
Fredericksburg Recorder, which will give our
readers very fair idea of his arguments, and we
therefore copy them. Having looked at the letter
of Bolts, through previous column, the Recorder
says
We think that one column ofcomments is quite
as much as this production is entitled TO. But,
upon a second perusal of some parts of it, we
were SO forcbly struck with lis similarity in ex
preston and sentiment with something we had
seen before, that we were induced To bestow
lttle more attention upon the subject. We are
brought TO this conclusion: It we owned the
copyright OF the sayings of the Hartford Con
ventiouiss, we would forthwith enter suit against
Mr.. Butts for an infringement thereof. If war
grows out ofthe Oregon dispute, Mr. Botls thinks
il will be unnecessary, unjust, cruel, wicked, and
all that and that Mr.. Polk is solely responsible
He is not NJ all economical Of abusive epithets ;
tut not To quote them, (for we have not room.
we merely give one paragraph 10 show that his
opinions tally quite nicely with those expressed
by DAVIS. SLunstall ST., in 1912 He says:
." IL war should he the consequence, the re-
sponsihiIny will rest solely and exclusively on
the head of Mr.. Polk, and those uf our public
men, to whom the subject is now turned over,
who may sustain him in his idle and arrogant
claim"
Now hear the Hartford Conven,oniss:
Mr. SalIonslall said:
&" The measure of our iniquity is now filled up
by the declaration of war against Great Britain
u war impolitic, unnecessary and uliust'
Josiah Quincy said:
f." In war like the present, Gagged cithout
justifiablc cause, il is not becoming moral and
religious people" rcjpice at the victories of our
arms"
Another Hartford Convenionst said:
50 The was commenced in ,uickedness
prosecuted with weakness, and closed with dis
grace"
John Davis" honest john" said:
4" We have uniformly entered our Solemn pro
test against This desulating war, which original
Ell in The oicked, malignant passions of cor
rnpt and mbecile government" Again " This
obstinate infatuated man" Madison plunges us
into wanton, wicked war"
Mr. Bolts asks if we are to encounter the
expense of milIinns' Mr. Russell said, The
:" monthly expenses of the six millions -
So it seems the standard Of national Justice is to
| Oe regulated ny uoiIarS anu cents! now as Then
| 1t would be very easy matter To follow Mr.
Bolts through. sentence by sentence, and draw a
parallel for every idea from the records of the
Hartford Convention He is no less hitter against
MIR. Polk than some IF his {" llusirious predeces-
sors" againt Mr. Madison. In relation 10
the cause, justice and necessity Of war, he labors
with +" horrd arts and execrable zeal,' as they
did, to place our government IN tha wrong. In
fact. The only difference between The ultra oppo-
nens of then and now is-ihen they were
afraid it would shacke commerce ; nO,o, that
very thing relieves it of half its horrors.