The Somerset herald and farmers' and mechanics' register. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 183?-1852, 1846-03-10
oregon and the rarifr.

oregon and the TaEt1f.
The following REMARKS of the "North
Amcrinan" on the intelligence by the
Cambria. are worthy of serious consider
ation:--
"The revolution in England-for the
radical change of the foreign and domes-
TIC policy of the Government is revolu-
ton more important than any mere substi-
tuition of one set of rulers for another
mustbe attended with results pregnant of
good or i'll to this country. Indeed, it
must strike the most casual observer that
the thread Of our destinies has, by some
mysterious agency, been woven into the
woofof English policy, and that changes
there are supposed to be the twin of cham
ges of like character here. How this
union of decrepit age with vigorous youth,
this espousal of January and May, has
been effected, remains to be explained;
but, arrange SIS it may seem, the inheri-
tors of the independence of scventy-six
have again been taught TO read their fate
in the DEGREES Of an English Minister"
"Those who, for many months, have
invcighed against the sel6shness and ava
rice of England. lay the settled and pros
porous policy of the country at her feet.
They viii now declaim of mutual conf
dence, esteem, and happiness; as if Eng
land ever yielded except 10 acquire ten
fold what she lost
The Queen recommends an amicable
settlement of the Oregon Question, and
Peei's commercial policy. Sir Robert
Peel brings the Two subjects, as kindred
points Of policy, before Parliament
Lord John Russell not only sustains the
peaceful policy Of the Administration, but
assails MIR, Pakenham for having rejected
the proposed compromise; and Mr.. Peel,
in responding, while he compliments her
Maiesty's Minister at Washington, adj
mils that he erred in this respect.
"Thus these two leaders, who but 4
short time since agreed in pointing all
their thunders against his country, and
insisted that national honor and dignity
demanded that England's claim to Oregon
should be maintained, if necessary, by all
the force Of the empire, suddenly smooth
the wrinkled front of war, and smile you
as willing and winning an assent as ever
was breathed by an enamored maiden to
her wooer. Now, al this must mean
something more than has been Egiven TO
the American people. 1t may be remark
ed also that these developments in Eng
land are in singular consonance with oc-
currences this side the Atlantic. Wise
men have been at loss to conjecture
what the Administration really intended.
lis policy was bristling and warlike, It's
tone clustering and rash; yet no measures
of preparation were recommended. It's
course led apparently to the cannon's
mouth; yet those in the secrets assured
us that there was no danger Of war. =
at wasythought that the administration
must be insanely reckless thus to rush
upon assured diraster, for no one dared
TO presume that, beneath this display of
enraged patriotism, the Administration
was secretly bargaining with England for
Oregon, and sacrificing the independence
Of American industry to the very power
which, through its organ. is daily vitu-
Peratcd. The American people have
heretofore demanded franlness and fair
dealing from the Government, and if, in |
the present instance, while the Admins |
tration has been accusing those who rebu-
ked Its violence as Anglo-Amcricans, it |
has itself been plotting the betrayal Of
the tariff 10 purchase a peace, the con-
trast between its profession and its acts
will not be lost upon the American peo-
pie. While the voice of Sempronius |
was still for war; he was engaged in
plot to betray Cato and his
little Senate to Caesar.