State journal & flag., 1846-03-20


 The following extract of an article, in a late number of the Mobile Register, pre- sents, in very comprehensive terms. the views of that journal on the Oregon ques- ton.
 We understand the Register as net objecting to R compromise of the ques. ton, provided that no concessions" be made "6elow tho strict line of 49o, either of territory, ports or privileges" In this opinion we coincide fully with the Register: up to the 497 our title is "clear and uhqes- tionable." and this embraces the :swhoe" of old Oregon. Beyond that our title is dis puted by power which has been in pos. session for forty years and whatever may be the foundation of it's original rights, 10 the territory, it now has claim, which na- tional pride, at least, will prompt it to de. fend by all the means within its power. But, perhaps, for ulterior national purposes, it is of but little consequence, 10 US, whether England retains possession of lhe entire ter rllory north of 49o or not. Our popula- ton is ad vancng along the whole length of our frontier at the rate of thirty miles year-and by the process of emigration they will ultimately occupy the whole ter- ritory up 10 the Russian line.
 From the Register
 We belive it doubtful whether public opinion, enlightened as it has been as 10 the title of the United States, would be in favor now of agree ing to the whole 49th parallel as the boundary. The great mass of the people aie thoroughly convinced that their title Is the best in the world up to 54,4O. They are satisfied beyond per adventure, that Great Britain has no color of title, even under her own shewngs, 10 foot of ground below the parallel of Nootka Sound, say 49,30-and that any compromise or arbi- tration ought not to have been permitted to be entertained in regard to any portion of the ter rtory not included between 49,30 end 54,4O. On the naked principle of partition of the ter ritory Tn dispute, the true lne ought to be about the parallel of g. and tEis would involve the waiver on our part 1.-the superior title in favor of a division of the territory disputed. In pro- posing therefore to compromise on the 49l parallel, the United States have not only con. ceded all that is in dispute, but have conceded something to which they ought not to permit their title to be disputed at ail--territory which is as absolutely theirs as Iowa or Missouri. We confess we have extreme repugnance to any such compromise ourselves. and believe that it would be extremely dstasteful to the great body of the people, although under the circumstances it which it might be complicated, it might per, haps be acquiesced in afier IL was made. But to any concession 6elo,0 the strict line of 49. either of territory, ports or privileges, as part of the Oregon settlement, we are very sure that the administration would not be party, and the people. without dissenting voice, would cry out against it. To qualified navigation of the Columbia by the British for series of years, we do not know that there should be any very grave objections, while the absolute right ofjursdiction and soil were acknowledged to be in the United States, and the privilege were grant from us subject to our control. But this grant ought to bc no concession to any British right or claim for Oregon or any part of it, but concession of an un6eubted national right for commercial object, important to Great Britain, to be exchanged for some equivalent, commercial or otherwise, elsewhere. Tha. would be an unobjec!ionable mode of treating