The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-06-13

the Mcxicnns to do It with impnBity, Every
goaa and true wing will phrsne thiscourse--and
he who will not, can scarcely expect to be call.
ed patriotic.
From he Nep York Complcrrial Advertiser.
L~ondonjsamalist SPECULATION on the Oregon
question has been grave enough even for a con-
siderable time pasti BY way Of a change we
copy an article from the News in which the sub
ject is reated rather loosely aud not withouta
considerable spice Of humorlA
Polk is like Peel, The party which bore the
American to the Presidency, and that which
raised Sir Robert to Office, have both split and
severed; and for either to continue his careef
with a foot OIL each fraction Of d party, has beA
come dangerous and impossible. Our Premier
has made choice or the more rational potion
of the Tories, and has flung the rsins 10 The
other to pursue Its wi course Mr. PoIkisi nl
clined TO DO the same, He hashot indeed open4
ly parted from them; but he has commissioned
a friend to got upih the Senate and informthem
that they IRE a sci Of fools, and that he cdnnot
consistently with the welfare Of the state, or
with his own political character, act up to their
extrayagafcci
The Western Americans, thus set aside, ara
as angry as our ptotectiohists; and their bell
lowing agaius: Polk will far out ring the more
genllemanly clamor Of English Conservatives.
They warn their President, that il he deserts
tnem and the whole Of the Oregon, she must
sink to depth Of damnation at which the last
trump cannot rench him. We beg pardon fot
repeating the phrase, but it is d historical onB
now, and will live. The pfotectionists pay 4
compliment altogether similar to Sir Robert;
though they express il in more polite language.
There is the same emphasis in the wish, ultho'
the spirited curse of Washington be watered
down at Westminster to mere wordy inSiYua4
ton of future hostility.
The Western democrat reminds the Amerit
can President that he was elected to the place
Of first rank and influence in the state BY 4
examination Of parties, which sacrificed all thB
points upon which they differed In order to put
forward merely those best calculated to win
the popular ear in the elections, and 10 win
those elections for the Democratic Partyin ges
neral. the Tories pour asiniilar reminder into
the ear of Peel; and, with the Americans to
their chief, exclaim-sWe made you, and WE
gave you a strong and united party; was itfot
you to employ oneshali in beating and outwit4
ting the other2' The Westerns remind Polk
that the 'oregon' was the chief cry which rails.
ed him to the chair. The Tories have no need
of roaring londly that protection was the bat4
tie cry Of the last election, and that now half
the victors have abandoned it for the very con-
trary cry, which they then pnt down.
Mr.. Polk, however, sas plausible as his pros
totype. He declares that he sincerely accepted
all the conditions Of tho Baltimore conventions
THAT assembly in which all the Democratic par
ties united;) that he accepted the condition to
go for both Texas and the Oregon; that he won
the former, and has won all that is altOinaBle
Of the latter; but that he will not run the abb
surd length Of wal to please the wild West, no
more than Sir Robert Peel will brave the ex-
tremeo Of popular famine to crafty the rampant
squires,
All the moderate and rational men Of the
Democratic party, with all the statesmen there's
Of, support Mr.. Polk's resolve to pause short Of
war, and compromise the frontier quarrel. Mr..
CalhounyM Mr.. Buchanan and Mr.. Van Buren, are
for this. The Southern p%lantets and a large pora
ton Of the Democrats support him, and insist
that he should negotiate on the basis Of the doth
degree. The Westerns stick out for ga 10
They adore the extreme, and hug the impracti4
cable, and had Polk but stood by them; no
doubt they would have gludly kindled a war,
the burden Of which would have fallen upon
all.
But Polk has wisdom. lie bounced it as
long as he could. He stood like adamaDi, and
looked defiance itself. Peel never Knocked al
Catholic emancipation or secuted free trade
more energeticaIly than Polk secuted the Idea
Of giving up one square acre Of The Oregon
short Of 50 40. But when ihefe Is no longer
necessity of carrying on the Discrimination,
Polk declares that he never promised to hold
out for "a 40; that he did his best fot bis party
as long as he could; that, like an advocate, he
fought TIL the last argument was stricken from
under him, and the last tenable motive blotted
from his conscience. But that done bis duty
was performed, and there remained but 10 Yield
with a good grace.
We must say that all this has most agteeabiy
surprised us. We had not 90 good al 6pinion
Of MIR. Polk. We did not think that he at alt
approached the perfection Of our states
man in fexibility, in the science Of striking
ont boldly and then unsaying Plausibly. But
the Americans are our rivals IN craftsmanship
as in every thing else. And America will OBJ
tain the blessing Of peace az the hands Of 4
war President, while We are promised fFe etfads
NJ the hands ~ inc chief Of the nroleetiohisths