The North-Carolina standard., 1846-02-18
THE ARBITRATION PLOT.

especially in all matters touching our foreign re-
Iations we are nevertheless forced to believe that
a foul plot has recently been laid the object of
which was to rally factious opposition 10 our own
government, and to put it in the wrong in the pend
ing controversy with Great Britain upon the Ore
gon question. Are we correct in this beief2 We
beg our readers to follow US in our statement of
the facts. ~ a.e1is H. s.4a#11 lar
First Last, December certain Federal leaders
in Burke county, in this State, held Meeting, in
which they. denounced the course of the democra-
tic party IN regard 10 our Foreign affairs, and
congratulated the country on the " clean back out"
ofthe President on the Oregon question. Second.
On the ta0entyJijh ofthe same month the Wings
of Red Mountain, in this State, (near the residence
Of Senator Mamgum) proposed in Public Meet
ing TO submit our rights in Oregon to arbitration
and on the ta0enty-seventh of December the propo-
sition was made by the British Minister to Mr..
Buchanan. Third On the Goth of last month
Mr.. Mangum proposed arbitration in the Senate,
and about the same time MIR. King, of Georgia,
proposed it in the House; and this was preceded
by an announcement from Washington by James
Watson Webb, (the father of the present Whig par
ty) that arbitration was the plan, and the only plan
by which the evils of war could be averled
Fourth. On the 4th instant we denounced Mr..
Mangum's proposition, and this called out the
Editor of the Raleigh Register, who, on the 9th
instant, came forward TO endorse it. This he did
in the strongest and ampIest terms. Fifth On
the ninth instant the correspondence between the
two governments was first made public, and then
it was that Mr.. King, the mover of the PROPOSE
tion in the House, pronounced the President
bully and demagogue, for having rejected ar
bitration. SirM. Mr.. Mangum subsequently
took the same course in the Senate, though in
more digni6ed style; and at this moment the
National tntelIigencer, leading off for English
Interests, and the Wing papers of this State are
banded together to condemn the action of the
President in this matter and attempting to put our
government in the wrong in its present controver-
sy with Great Britain. ,-.
Now what does all this mean? Is there no.
thing in it2 Is not Mr.. Mangum on very good
terms with the British Minister, and do not cards
and visits pass between lhem2 How did il hap
pen, notwithstanding his democratic speech about
the first of December, that his neighbors at Red
Mountain, on the 25th of the same month, came
out for arbitration two days before Mr. Pakcn.
hams letter was written-and how did he happen
10 broach the same doctrine in the Senate before
hat letter met the public eye2 England wanted
but she asked for it seeretlv; Mr..
Mangum wanted it, not for England, of course,
but for his own country-and he asked for it in
he face Of the world England lores the United
States, and out of this pure affection came the
offer to arbitra!e; MIR. Mangum loves the United
States, and he offered also just what England Of
ercd. For no consideration would England put
is IN the wrong, for she remembers with gratitude
he lesson in manners and good sense we gave
Ter in lT76; Mr.. Mangum and certain Federal
caders would meet her at the halfway house,
md surrender the question at issue into the hands
# our good friends, :he Kings and Emperors of T.
europe. And why not2 Shall we, poor /" rag
ed republicans as we are, presume to think
nd decide for ourselves? Why should we? 1t b
$ too troublesome Sir Robert Peel thinks for c.
Prince Albert and the Queen, and are zee any "
etter than they2 The rulers Of Europe are in ii
he best possible humour with US ALL they arc al st
ays ready to do US justice; and indeed we ought m
feel ourselves ho"ored in being bound by their pc
ecsions." Consider, if you please, how the ne
ing of the Netherlands bound us " by his on
decision how he left the highlands, (beins ar
t gentleman, and unable to travel rough roads, ar
I'd look a0ater for our especial benefit To all ty
is, and to much more that might be written, az
.nator Mangum and the Editor of the Register MT
e by no means insensblc and we pray the to
people of North Carolina TO take ST
led to what these patriotic gentlemen say and do ar
But seriously we leave the above facts with TO
# readers, without further comment Let them
nder them we'll; and let them determine, if they
n, how it is possible for those politicians to be
re and patriotic, who always sympathze with
ngand and against their own country w
There is one thing, however, which we must ar
ing to the attention of our readers before we ri!
'se this article 1t is an extract from a speech W
Iivered in the House of Representatives on the ov
/ instant, by Mr. Charles J. Ingersoll, the we
hartman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. thi
r. Ingersoll is gentleman of unquestionable III
racity, and his remarks were made in the hear nt
: of the leaders of the Federal party, They EI
We not been met, nor can they be- Mr.. Inger. wi
| said: - g - p. .retsa..,5 ss...., - ..al no
The oregon controversy, as il now existed Fe
! if war sbo,id ,aas1 Poncy or ihe wing party the
duced by Mr.. Polk, but il would he inhpr;,ed Z