Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-04-09
A Burning Rebuke from the Right
Quarter.

We copy the following article from the Albany, n.
Y. Evening Journal, the Official organ of the Wing
Party in the State OF New York. 1t is a severe but
well-deseryed rebuke to the Wing Senators of the u.
s., whose treacherous course is truly, though briefly
described. 1t is beyond dispute. as the Journal says,
that If we lose Oregon, and have war with all Its
horrors, the ''Peace Party in and out of the Senate,
will be responsible for the whole of the evil. The
Journal sneers at Cass, Allen and flanagan, while
lashing its own men. Allowance for this will of
course be made by our readers.
The Oregon Question.
Tie moral conviction that the Oregon controversy
cannot involve America in a War with England, is
still strong. And yet some of the friends of Peace,
by their lack of wisdom and courage, continue to en-
barross and complicate the question. The Sun never
irradiated a armament with a clearer light than that
which common sense sheds upon the Oregon contro-
.versy. Had COngress-or rather had its Wing Men,
bers, acted in the outset upon Senator Mangum's
suggestion of con6ding the whole matter to the Ad-
ministration, the danger would have been over, and
probably, ere this, a Treaty concluded. The minority
of the Committee on Foreign Relations took true
ground IN saying that the management Of the ques-
tion belonged to the Treaty making Power; and then
most strangely assumed. in their speeches, that Con-
gress, without the knowledge required to guide its
own action, should embarrass and clog that of the
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feature which is presented to the public eye. Voices
were heard in the American Senate arguing the Brit.
ish side of the question. The country should have al
least been spared this humiliation. England is en-
tirely equal to the defence of its claim and whether
that claim I've good or bad. while she stands in a bel
'ligerent attitude, with Fleets and Armies preparing
TO enforce it, an American tongue should "blister" in
the utterance of the first word calculated to invalidate
our title or weaken our position.
We are constrained to reiterate the expression OF
our amazement that great and distinguished states
men, devoted TO their country's welfare-who desire
above all things TO preserve the blessings of Peace
should pursue the only course that can by possibility
defeat their object. War can only come by n delay
which, after mutual irritation, may lead to collision
Neither country can fight about Oregon, as they nov
stand. The question is so plain-the interests if no
the rights of both nations are so apparent, that nei
Their can or dare outrage the moral sense of the world
by a war. But procrastination may, and doubtless
will, beget new issues and engender new strifes. In
deed, after what has passed, a protracted joint-occu
pancy would he sure to produce embodiment.
And vet after the House Resolution for Motto,
went to the Senate with ''signs' and tokens tina
should have satisfied men of less learning and expert
ence that all was right, four weeks have been lost II
making speeches worthy of Timothy Pickering ant
George Cabot in the blindest days of Federalism
Would to Heaven that Wing Statesmen, in reference
to this question, could have been imbued with TIL
foresight and sagacity of Senator Clayton. We SHOULD
not then have been panied to see them talking them
SelueS out of their seats, and their States into minori
ties. When Messrs. Calhoun, Colquit, Benton, Hay
wood, McDuffie, and other Administrator Senator:
sought and assumed the responsibility of Peace, why
in the name of reason and common sense, woul
Wings thrust themselves in to thwart the surest effort
and mar the best prospects of the country ! WheI
Administration Senators held the laboring oar, it re
quired but little wisdom to see that the haven woul
be reached. And yet that little was denied
Reckless and p~rofigate as is the course and de
signs of Senators Allen, Cass, Hannegan, &C., their
is not half the danger to be apprehended from them
that the teachings of the "Peace Party men ar
fraught with. If evil comes, it will be owing NOR
to the errors of good and pure men, than to the wick
edness of bad and designing ones. We say it wit
the highest appreciation of the integrity and patriot
ism of Messrs. Winthrop, Evans, Berrien, &C., an,
the utmost detestation of Allen. Cass. &C., that, shoul
the Oregon controversy bring War, with its horrors
upon US, it will be owing, more to the mistaken poll
cy of the former, than to the base designs of the lat
ter.