Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-03-05
THE NEWS-HOW VIEWED.

"VERIrAs," the intelligent Washington Cor
respondent of the Boston Atlas" in an able
review of the news by the ''CAMBRiA," which
he considers favorable to a pacific arrangement
of the difficulties about Oregon, thus discour-
ses:-
Herein consists the whole secret, upon which
is to rest the settlement of the Oregon dispute.
An american Secretary of the Treasury has
adopted the Tariff policy of the Nation to suit
BRITISH interests-and, by this means, al
forded MIR. Polk the means of clustering to ac-
comodate the Western palate, up To the point
OF Uar, in appearance, whilst he had the as
suranee, that the sacrifice of the industrial pol
icy of the country would induce Great Britain
to compromise, upon terms which would pre-
vent IFS occurrence.
Ifever the propriety of a National measure,
about to be enacted, should become the object
of the strictest scrutiny and question, it is,
when Foreign Government, through its re
eogniZed authorities, approves OF ii with one
universal voice. ! say, ii renders 1t liable to
suspicion at home. England is our great rival,
in commerce and manufactures; not only
abroad, but here at our 0,cn doors--and nothing,
but the beneficial restrictions of the existing
system, has prevented the results of her pauper
labor from flooding our cities with productions,
to the utter ruin of our home industry. 1t is
now proposed to pass bill, which will throw
the gates upon, and compel the manufacturing
and producing interests Of this country either to
abandon the occupations in which their capital
and enterprise is invested, or to reduce the price
oflabor to the English standard, if they desire
to compete with this protectedrival. Wellmay
Sir Robert Peel eulogize, and the British Press
expend fulsome admiration upon MIR. Walker.
They can well afford it, who are so much to
be benefited by the system which he recon-
mends; for the result Of his policy ito remove
,ohaterer protection is afforded to american in
dusrty, and besto,c it upon British labor. That
will be the working Of the system and Sir
Robert Peel knows it, Hence, the extraor-
binary compliment of the Government, in or
dering reprint of MIR. Walkers Report. 1t
will save British speeches and British argu-
ments for in no form could they be more sue
cessfully presented, than in the document
which has commanded such unanimous British
applause.
That the tariff is to be bartered away and
sold out, for Oregon, is too apparent to be dis
puted The terms of the contract are written,
and it remains only for the forms to be fulfilled
This is the end of the braggadocio of this mon
gre administration in which the tariff portion
of the Cabinet, if any such there be, has been
kicked into obedience-and Mr.. Walker, its
Warwick and master, has sold out the good
faith and best interests of the nation. Let
Pennsylvania no,c contemplate Mr. Buchanan,
who pledged his personal honor. only a year
ago, that "Mr. Polk was better tariff man
than Mr.. Clay" Let her look at him, intrigu-
ing with the free traders to bay compromise
on the most dishonorabe terms; and abandon
ing that system, to which he was pledged by a
long life Of obligation, as the peace offering to
the demands fGreat Britain. There he stands,
to be pointed at by the scorn Of his constituents
and the contempt of the nation. For the Of
fee of Secretary to free trade President, he
sold out the little principle which he ever pos
sessed. 1t is now TO be hoped that Walker, in
the plenitude of his power, will spare him
and suffer him, at least, for little while. to en-
JOY the fruits of his treachey.