Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-06-16
From the Washington Union.


The intelligence just received by the Hi.
bernla-only melgre summary of which
we can this evening, we regret TO say lay
before our reaiers--must carry home 10 the
minds Of intelligent men throughout this
country the conviction that The cours pro-
posed and pursued by the administration
upon The Oregon question has been emf.
nsntly well Judged In The hands of the
present Executive, the Oregon question has
been made, for the first tine in It's history,
question Expressing practical importance.
The termination of the Joint occupancy,
and the earnest recommendation Of suitable
laws for the protection of our citizens in
Oregon, have made the prompt adjustment
Otthe controversy matter ofhigh concern.
ineHt To bo,h>counlries.
In ibis view, we doubt not the Oregon
policy The administration was adopted
In This view, certainly-as policy calcula'
ted to close the controversy by making IFS
termination ml;ter Of real importance-n
this view, we say, we at least have always
aud s;eldlastly advocated the measures rec
commended by the President. Already the
result Of them is appearing. |: any reIi'
ance may be placed upon the spirit of the
collective British press, and The tone, we
may add, of conversation in Parliament up.
ON the subject, we sec even now the begin
ming Of the end. Scarcely has the news of
the notice, as voted by Congress, reached
Eng land, before the reply comes buck TO us
from The London journals, that we shall
hear by return mail Ike ultimdtum Of the
British government We sabmt that no
imaginable policy on the question of Ore
gon could accomplish more thin this for the
pence Of the worId.' If, as VIC do not for
the moment believe, England is resolved to
adhere 10 demands which this country can
never submit 10, nor even cntc lis for
consideration, then indeed, the peace of
the two nations is in imminent danger -
Danger growing out of such a cause-if
such cause oxlst---could indeed, by no
possibility, be avoided. But the true pom:
in the case, is, that the policy adopted by
the administration Las disposed the STATES
men of England to treat upon the question
trM q drS re 10 SeHie ito approach il
earnestly and in a spirit of cancellations
For ourselves we entertain a good hope
that the same cause may induce the British
government TO enter upon further consid.
Grafton ofthe question in spirit of jus.
tice; and if this shall be so, we have no fears
for the result
We refer in this conncxion 10 tho strong
and decisive terms in which the London
Times announces that il will hail with salts
faction the arrival of the "notice" in En-.
gland, as leading to prompt settlement Of
the question, and TO he still stronger Ian.
guage in which the Economist proclaims
that il regards the conlrt versy as, in sub
stance, already settled. The expressions,
Lord John Russell in Parliament, show
that these pacific purposes and intentions
are by no means confined TO the press
The journals which reach us by this arri'
val bring up, with some Prominence, anolh'
er.impouant point in our relations with the
European continent. The suggestion is
made, and quoted somewhat extensively in
the British and Continental press, that The
French minister still holds to his baIanceof
power doctrine as applicable on this contl'
neni, and that he thinks of applying it, by
interference between our government aud
Mexico. We regard all tins, at present, as
10 better than all idle rumor. AS 4 rumor,
however. il is not wholly without sgnji
canoe. The effect, in this country, of the
merest suggestion no man in Ameri'
ca can hear with patience. The very first
and 81 ghtest steps VIII oh should be taken
by the French government, or by any gov
eminent, to cary 1t into effect in any de-
gree whatsoever, would rouse the mind
1nd the heart of our whole nation
There would be no minority among US on
such question OF European interference.
However some politicians and some pres
ses may now stut.iy themselves bv at
temp 10 put their own country in the
wrong in this Mexican var. we firmly be.
lieve that would be no one dissenrient voice
IN our country upon the quesio Of the
reception which any such attempt; by any
European power, should meet at our hands