The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-02-07
THE NOTICE.

| The pubic prints are teemlnS WIN essays upon
the question Of giving the notice. We are sorry
that the erowdedstate Of our columns has prevented
us from laying many Of these productions before
our readers. II is certain, that it is gaining cause
that the more it is Investigated the more friends II
makes; and, as we understand, Il is extending the
number Of its converts even among the wing mer-
chants Of the north. Two Of these newspaper srti-
cres are now before us, and we must take leave
TO make extracts from them, for the edifcation Of
our own readers. The one is from the New Or
leans Delta" Of the 9th January the other is from
letter Of "a Moun,aineer" in the last New York
Evening POST
From the New Orleans Delta
"THs SorIoE-We see by the proceedings in
Congress that the debate in the House Of Represen-
tatyes upon the ProPIety OF passing the joint reso-
luton, requesting the President TO give notice to the
government OF Great Britain that this country wish
es TO terminate the convention Of 1927 in relation to
| Oregon-still continues, SC, &c.
The question whether we shall terminate the con-
vention or not, is really unimportant in itself Ii Is
not a war measure and cannot lead TO war. IL WILL
il passed. be merely placing the country in the same
position in which il in 1918, before the first
vention was formed, when certainly the United
States were at peace with Great Britain. The pas
sage Of the resolution then, does nothing but put
end to a bargain which either party terminate
when il pleases. Il is only when considered in re-
laon to other measures, that the adoption Of this
resolution becomes more than a matter Of indIfer-
ence.
"But whether any other propositions are to follow
il or not cannot conceive the slightest objection
10 the notice which is proposed to be given. IL has
been recommended by the Executive, as useful in
the present state Of the negoation-it is necessary
as preliminary to any steps which the United
States may hereafter find II expedient TO take-Wth
out il we can neither negotiate with prospect OF
success take possession OF the territory without
the certainty Of dishonor. Give the notice by all
means-free ourselves from the obligations which
| we have voluntarily assumsd-and then take such
further measures as our rights, and strict adhe-
renee to the principles Of impartial justice, may
der imperative. Give the notice, and will be free
| TO act-to settle the question amcably by peaceful
negotiation, if it be thought expedient or by the
strong arm the resort to II becomes inevitable Let
the republic be freed from its bonds and then-do
From the N. Y. Evening Post.
| OUR RELATIONS WITH ENGLAND. .r
One of our most able and sagacous writers has
sent us the following discussion Of the interesting
| subject now before the public mind His remarks
| we think, deserve attention:
"Mr EDITOR: Living, as / do, in the country
and reading attenively several Of the best of the
daily papers, confess myself surprised at the very
| general manner in which the main obstacle to
| peaceful settlement Of the Oregon question is over
looked. For myself, am Of opinion that England
does not care straw for the navigation Of the Co
lumbia river; that she does not enough TO
make it sine qua non in her treaty. Whdt England
obviously icanis is the possession Of the straits Of
Fuca and Of Ppgei's sound. All the rest is merely
playing her braggers.
| "My own attention first drawn to this mate
rial point by reading what Captain Wilkes has told
| us Of the character Of these waters. He says he
| does not think the earth has their equal! Now any
| one who will sit down with Wilkes's map before
him, may at perceive that the possessor of the
straits of Fuca and Of Pugets sound, will inevta-
bly, command the whole Of the northwest coast.
| England, in the occupancy Of these waters, would
have quite as great all advantage, in a maritime
| point of view, over America without them, as Eng
| land now enjoys over France and Holland by
cupying an island short distance to leeward Of
| her neighbors.
81 had just made up my mind, from examine
Ovens clear and manly speech came to confirm it.
But the map will speak for itself.
"Puget's sound has a longer and a far better
navigation than the Columbia. 1t must be near
or quite two hundred miles from the entrance to the
straits to the head of the sound-bay would be the
better name--and much Of that distance directly in
land. In the present state of the world when rail-
roads are beginning to be thought indispensable,
nothing would be easier than to connect Nasquely,
on Pugets sound, with the river thus avoiding all
|
tanning all the advantages Of the stream.
GAN the English propositions have eye to the
command OF the northwest coast, and through it to
that of the Pacific Give England Pugets
sound and the straits Of Fuca, and she will do it,,
even admitting that We might obtain the ports of
| California. Ship timber would be wanting in the
latter country, in addition to the fact that those ports
! lie eight hundred miles south Of the most important
points on the coast The waters around the straits
Of Fuca would make sailors of themselves whereas
San Francisco and Monterey would he ports for lit
tie more than distant voyages
"The forty ninth parallel gives US not only Pu.
gets sound and the straits Of Fuca, but it gives
US ioothold ,heisand Vancouver, with all-im-
portant port at the entrance of the straits II we
have good right to these waters nothing but force
| should induce us to abandon them.
| "a very exaggerated notion exists in this country
touching the willingness Of England to 80 to war.
Il is the last thing she wishes in her present cond-
ton; the taxes rendered necessary by her former
wars having put her in situation to be met in COM
petition by many nations now as manufacturers.
| Her own statesmen attribute her power to two great
causes; her insular situation, which has protected
her people from being in the seat Of war, and her
! riches in coal and iron. America ia no more ex-
posed to invasion than England, and she has a
| thousand times more coal and iron. If we have the
negroes of the South, England has Ireland to fear
II il far easier to send to Ireland and to raise
revolt in that country, than it would be for Eng
| land TO do any Thing among the blacks. The Eng
Iish steamers are intended far more for defence at
home, than for operations here. Wellington has
characterized steamers justly; they are merely the
cavalry OF heets but battles gained by the in
fantry. II ia my opinion England is at this moment
aiming at two objects in her Experimentation
against steamers at home, and wish TO influence
her neighbors by demonstration.
al write this not with any desire to raise war
feeling against England; that is only too easily done
at the present day. Whenever this government
chooses to go to war with England, il will have no
difficulty in finding supporters. Three men in four,
throughout the country, would support II. For one,
wish for peace on general principles, and from per-
/ sonal interests; but know England and her states
men too WELL from long and near observation ofboth,
not to feel persuaded that undecided course rs just
the way to bring about rupture with that country.
| As for England's declaring war in consequence Of
our giving the notice, no man in HE senses can be-
lieve it, Should we conceive we had right to de-
clare war, because England gave Us noticei Amer.
lea is twice as likely to declare war England, and
the altered and moderate tone Of the English papers
Just received is owing to their conviction Of that
fact than waa received had been