The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-02-03
LATEST MfELLIGENCB By THE AAILs.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 1886.

The Oregon Qsiesfion-Dectnre of the War Fever
n Peace Tune upon the Crgan-Postion of the
Senafe-Mr. Calhoun aud Nr. B',.toa-1 The Salt
Question-TAe Line of Forty Nine-Msriean
Afnrs-BaLance of Potoer-POrtertous Condi-
ton of Things in the South an Iacitsmsnt to Paci
fcatiom on the Hesf.
Show are the mighty fallen" How are the
glories Of war become dim! How are the war men
writing to keep up the panic, with the cry Of the
whole none $50 40-every inch at all hazards,
and with the alleged necessity Of an immediate
belgerent array Of
Bombs, guns, drums and batteries"
Gen. Cass, with his reverberated war speech
to-day, is sensibly affected with fear Of loss of
the war capital. Allen has founA that he over
stepped the Presidents message in embracing in
his resolutions against foreign intermeddling, the
souabbling pe-bald republics south OF the pass oil
Panama! How are the war-makers chop-fallen at
the manly, argumentative, temperate tone Of ne
English press War war Even tae DISCIPLES hnp;n o.
ashamed Of war. The "inevitable war ex-
planned away in an apology OF 0Aain OF incontin-
gent contingencies. -, -
The Senate are up with the spirit OF the aee-wi.n
the temper of the British press and, what ID more,
with the disposition of the administration BUS
ter, bravado, braggadocia, and carbonic acid gas
cannon and small arms-Gods how the other enc
the chimes of Orlando and Bombastes Furioso
Sir John Fastaff, where walks of nights thy two
beed appartion, but in the hall of the House
Where is thy valiant regiment Of hungry warriors
But the gas is nearly expended-the effervescence
Is subsiding, and the sediment is settling to the
bottom. "The sober second thought"'-Sage OF
our prime little Wizard Of the North,-we thank
thee for the sober second thought" II is coming,
the infection Of sobriety is difusing itselfi and
even Father Richie, the ardent old apostle to the
we love SO well yes, yes, God bless the venerable
editor of the organ-though, like the hinges OF the
gates OF perdton, 1t CRATES harsh thunder at times
the instrument Is in tune to-day, and Father hitcno
delciousy paintive, how plalntively delicious, this
delicate trilling upon the minor key! Softly, plea
sanity, oh how pleasantly the overture OF peace
falls upon the tympanum! 1t comes IKE the ecnoeS
of buge, far of in the mountains, when the nun
ter is returning from the chase Il Is good to hear
the old man talk so When Half Day, the Potta-
wattamie orator, in Of the visits OF his delega-
Great Father that the rights OF the tribe should be
protected and that he wished the white man and
the red man shake hands, and be friends forever,
the brave Indian exclaimed, in the honesty Of ms
Father Ritchie's editorial to-day. Il Is good
yery GOOD; the talk sounds like the organic Ian
guage Of the Great Father in the big white house OF
the people.
we understand Mr.. flanagan. He Is patriot-he
is honest-he looks only to the rights and the honor
OF his country, and he rightly considers the exhun-
ing the Ratchet Of preferable to the surrender
Of the peoples rights or the nations honor. We
shall not surrender them, sir but the tree Of peace
which tor thirty years has been dropping It's luscious
fruits into the lap OF the nation, ana OF which we
have partaken ungraefully, Is uot yet to be cut
down. Messrs. Calhoun, Benton, Bagby, Chalmers,
Haywood, Colquitt, Lewis. McDufie, Speight,
Yue, Westcou all of the democratic phalanx OF the
se say Do you as
thing to do with II for twenty-five years past Do
you know the ground, the whole ground, As well a.
the little French Corporal knew the Island OF Corsl:
ca, who knew It well, that bllnd.olded ne could
point out every cottage upon every hill! We are ga
tisfied that you do. In the last war, Col, Benton,
they say that you fought like Trojan. Are you
afraid Of another that You peace, I peace When
your indignant reply, c9nfidentslly; but we are are
the benefit of the second grade of politicians, who
top the /. commanding officers Of the party But we
shall put them down, sir; we shall put them down
we shall preserve the peace, and the second and
third-raters must blde their time"
"Are you there, old Truepenny" Can you COM
mand, like Canute, the proud waves TO be stayed
They have expended themselves. 1T was false
alarm, sir; it was false alarm. The war steamers
are not wanted, sir. Pennsylvania may want to
build them; but the country will have no use for
them as a war measure. We must repeal the
duty on salt !; and war win put il under EN-.
barge, sir War or no wa n;s SIR We i %nit
you incline to the line OF forty-nine" He mods sig
nfcanty, and Mr. Buchanan mods, and the Presl-
dent mods, and Walker mods, and Cave Johnson
mods, and Pakenham says we must PICK the dipo-
matte flint and try 1t again
When Sam Patch proposed to Jump the Falls q
Niagara he roundy asserted that "some things could
be done as well as others" We concur in the doc
trine OF Sam. We can jump, like Sam, the chasm
Of war. The idea that the great march OF progress.
is to be stopped tor the hazardous pastlme OF miu
in the ring is absurd We assume our lndlsputable
title to the whole OF Oregon, does Great Britain
bs. have
offered line of partition, and trlce has 1t been re-
fused. But now we we are I'd earnest, and com
promise will be had. Mr.. Calhoun says %, Mr.
Richie says SO, the London Times says So and the
Presidents heart echoes to the wind compromise
The fact is that, as Mr. Calhoun says, war tor the
whole Of Oregon would cost it all. Fifty thousand
remen might poured INTO the county, ana q S S
mouth OF the Columbia, the army would be starved
out The mongrel dogs Of the Flat-head Indians
would scarcely afford a mess Of pottage for aGnge
meal The conflicting settlcrs-the connecting
claims the vexed condition Of the Oregon contro-
versy-the hazards OF war-the advantages o. peece
the offers heretofore made-all combine to the
conclusion that speedy settlement BY compromise
will be effected.
But there is another and collateral element in
the controversy which will perhaps accelerate the
settlement OF the northwestern boundary; and that
is the curious state of things existing in and about
Mexico at this present writing. Let u declare war
for the whole Of Oregon, and with the Mexico
European trumvirate Of France, England and Spain
we may lose Texas in single coup de main; ana
Spanish Bourbon on the throne Of Mexico
up to the boundary Of the Sabine and the
Stats of Arkansas, how shall we correct tho
balance of power" on this continent, even with the
conquest OF Canada3 The only correction that will
be made will be the transfer Of the balance OF power
from the slave States to the free; and the South
must then bow to the immediate emanc,paton OF
the abotIonsts, or withdraw from the federal COM
nact There can be no controversy ~ to the course
Inc South would adopt In such REVOLUTION OF the
balance Of power, and such demand under II. In
one brief and awful word, which ought to 90 WINS
word-the Union would be dissolved.
The fact IL, our more special attention - required