Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1846-07-28
the high constitutional duties Of the exec

- ffe.emlnentIy the settlement OF the.
Oregon question belongs to this admins.
tEation. In all its phases heretofore it
had failed of an adjustment. Twice un-
der the administration Of President Mon
roe, in 1918 and 1924, negotiations up.
on the principle of compromise had utter
| ~ failed, and the result had been the O.
riginaI adoption and subsequent renewal
of the treaty of joint occupancy of the
whole territory, which gave England the
advantage ofa constantly increasing en-
croachment of possession and ofpretext of
claim to rightful tide.
Again, a compromise was attempted
under President Adams in 1896, by the
renewal of the offer ofthe 10th degree as
the line of boundary, with the important
concession 90 England ofthe free naviga-
ton ofthe Columbia river. without limit of
time,. which offer was rejected, and the
treaty ofjoint occupancy renewed.
The irritations growing out ofihese re-
iations have been increasing from that pc
riod, until a settlement of the question or
war sooner or later, from the conflicts
that must arise between the respective oc-I
tONp"uS1SS5OJ INC wv COutttitcoI were tue
only alternatives.
Under General Jackson's most vigor-.
Gus administration the absorbing impor-
lance of other great questions KEEP. this in
comparative re serve, and the public mind
was not prepared to meet it or appreciate
its Influence upon our foreign relations
Under President Tyler, while the eastern
boundary was adjusted, the north west.
err, for reasons that have never fully trans
PRED, wss passed over, and thus, in fact,
an additional difficulty was raised in its
adjustment, by leaving England with on
ly this question on her hands, and with
every inducement to parry further nego-
tiations while she extended Ter power and
possessions under the right of joint Occur
pancy, that in practical results gave her
all she wanted. The whole amount of
the negotiations during that administration
was renewal of the offer Of 40 degrees
with the entire navigation of the Columbia
river, and its peremptory rejection by
Great Britain.
President Polk found tho question in
this position when he came into the pres.
idency, and we propose, in future arti-
Gle to examine the course of the negotia-
tionto its final happy adjustment, both with
reference to the consistency of Mr.. Polk
as a man and constitutional president,
and the honorable and manly course pur-.
sued bythose ofhis own friends, especial.
ly In the senate, who have earnestly con-
tended for different result.
While tho c0,Infrv a. xryhoIa ,x,;ll no
joice in this adjustment, even if for no 9TH
er cause but because it removes from COM
merce and trade all apprehensons of war,
there must be no essential difference suf-
fered TO grow out oft between any por-
tons ofthe democratic party. What we
have gained for our country must not be
lost TO our party, nor will it be, for the
destinies and the triumphs of both arc in
separately connected in the future prog
ress of this mighty empire of states.
A candid review of the whole matter
cannot fail to reconcile the whole demo-
cratic partyt the course pursued by the
President, who has eninently shown him
SELF in this difficult crisis, the constitu.
.tional chief magistrate of the whole peo-
Pile. And at the same time, while the ad-
ministration will achieve imperishable
honor and general applause by this peace
fiil contamination of a most perplexed and
imminent negotiation, the country will
owe large debt to the patriotic men who
have stood for our whole right at all haz-
ards, and whose indomitable spirit and no.
BILE jealousy of the national honor, have
essentially contributed, and perhaps been
indispensable, to bring about that dcci-
sire change ofpolicy and opinion in Eng
land which has led to result the most
remarkable in the modern history of Brit
ish diplomacy, viz: that naughty nation,
after taoenty eight gears infexible persis.
lance in rejecting the terms of comprem-
Use four times offered by the United States
finally presenting herself before James
4. Polk with an offer of terms of settle
ment less favorable 10 herself than those
thrice rejected under former administra-
5tions, and substantially the same as those
her minister at Washington had abruptly
refused. when rendered by the President
not six months before!
LosF TREASURES FoUND.-The Baki.
more American says: The brig Francis
Amy arrived at this port yesterday, from
her second voyage of exploration and
search after the treasure ofthe ship Of war
'.San Pedro. which was sunk off the
Spanish Main in the year 1915. We un.
derstand that she has recovered, this voy-
age, about thirty FIVE thousand Spanish
dollars. This money was found at the
bottom of The sea, about three feet under
the sand and beneath coral formation,
in sixty feet water. The whole amount
recovered fromshe wreck thus far,is some.
thing more than sixty thousand dollars
Nobody has been injured in the expedition
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