The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-02-14
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From the so.toa Morning Post
THE CORRESPONDENCE BRITIsH VALUE OF ORE
ooN-THE WIG OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The srlicle we copied from the Union, presenting
forcioy the arguments against submitting again our
territorial nights 10 arbltrauon--whieh every patrl.
otto and candid mind will approye--sunereede the
necessity OF further remark on this head. Beyond
all question President Polk will be sustained by
vast majority OF the people in the inipregnable POI
siton he has taken, He is FIRM, YET courtsous--
still maintaining the integrity of our claim and yet
sul reiterauns assurances OF peace. Pakenham,
also far bending than he was in his last re.
ply TO Buchanan. On the 18th of July, ls45
the British minister hoped that the secretary would
offer proposal "mOre consistent with fairness and
equity and with the reasonable expectations of the
British government than the liberal offer that had
been niade-the very offer, if rumor be true, that
the same fupcllonsry Is ready now TO accept. There
is nothing Of this ia his last letters. The mingled
courtesy and frmness Of the American document
has not been lost upon The representative of St.
James. In his late communications, with evident
yielding as to title, there ID evident improvement in
the tone of his dispatches. Such signs are auspi-
eous.
On the point of the value of Oregon, the language
Of the dplomatists is worthy Of notice. Paken-
hams is decidedly nconsistent-Buchsnsn's ID d.
rect and admirably expressed. In the note dated
December 81 the ambassador remarks "upon ichai
small raius 10 either ia the portion Of territory ,0Aieh
IN reality forms the subject Of the eoniropsrsy In
this way some Of the whigs-Winthrop among
them, who, however, included the whole Of Ore
gon--talked In Congress. Pakenham and the
British government very well know that in fact
the stake is small one with thom-in6nitessi-
NAL almost, when compared with our cotton sup
ply and our eommercs generally. Knowing this,
yet the ambassador In the same note talks about
SHE rsadinsss erhs British government 10 inepr hs
,tsk nj a aafytffs DFss n
&c. Pray, what saerifcel A part of her aeknwl-
edged terhtoryl One Other colonies, Her nation
al honor A single good hsrbor 10 oregonl That
which she regards ofgreat valuel No, according To
Pskenham's own admission, simply "a portion cf
territory Of mail vaits" to herr This is the great
sacrifice
Buehsnans reply 10 noble and right. He thus Of.
oquenlly denies tho assertion Of the ambassador,
Neither il the territory IN dispute Of equal or
nearly equal value 10 the two powers. Whilst IL
It is Invaluable to the United States 10 Of compsr-
atiyely small Importance TO Great Britain. To her
Oregon would DO but distant colonial possession
Of doubtful value; and which, from The nntursl
progress Of human events, she would not probably
long enough enjoy 70 derive from Il essential bsne-
hts whilst to the United States il would become an
integral and essential portion Of The republic. The
gain TO Great Britain she would never sensbly feel;
whilst the loss 10 the United States would be ire
parable"
Yet with this admirable before them
the partisan wings are denouneing the administra-
ZION. The Journal Of this city pretends to turn up
its head in "holy" horror at the Presidents war
spirit, and the whig Washington correspondents are
venting their sma-beer wrath in the same way
As usual, here, too, our country is wrong and
Great Britain is right; the former is filed with
foul ambition, the latter with a "holy" purpose
of peace. Out upon such an insult, alike to the
patriotism and intelligence of the nation Great
Britain's purpose as to Oregon, from the first,
has been the same she has manifested in India
China, the world over; il has been to get as much
territory as possible by any and every means; and
were the craven partisan spirit that makes these
charges against the administration to have the set
Element Of this question: our American right TO this
noble country would not be worth a rush, and pos
terity forever would reproach this generation with
unfaithfulness 10 their race.
Meantime it is really amusing TO note the twists
and turns Of the partisan wings on this Oregon
question. Their denunciations are in admirable in
consistency; now they blow hot, now cold. IL we
may credit them, one day the President is sick of
the business anxious TO conciiae, ready to sacrifice
all Oregon to the "pecuar institutions" or sacrifice
the tariff to Oregon, and could not be kicked into
war the next day he becomes pugnacious, and bent
on hostilities; then he is dashing on, Ia Phaton,
when he got command Of the chariot of the sum- and
ready to drive his horses the ruins of his
country. Just now with this battalion of patriots,
the President is in the latter vein; and hence be-
gin to hear some of the old party slang heaped on
Polk that the same sort Of gentry were wont to APP
ply to Madison. Such opposition is the surest to
plague its inventors; it is so imbece as hardly to
need answering.
In one respect the correspondence is suspicious.
II indicates returning Of justice the part
of Grea, Britain Surely it is the extreme of folly
for her to say in breath that the territory in dis
pute is Of "suall value" to her. and in the next to
talk Of the ''grsat sacrifice" she makes in giving it
up. We venture to predict that finding demo-
cratic administration is composed of such stern stuff
as she really likes to deal with she will ere long
manfully yield the point, settle this controversy, and
admire the mingled courtesy, faithfulness, frmness,
and Amercansm Of the democratic President.