The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-02-26
THE ARBITRATION SCHEME.


ing has broken ground in favor of arbitration.
Due notice will be tnken of its article at a
more convenient season. We were not sur
prised at the system of tactics which it is
pursuing, because we could not mistake the
manguvers fsome of the wings. We found
the signs and warnings of this design in the
letters of ]. w. Webb, of the New York
Courier, who has recently visited this city,
and, who, with a ridiculous vanity, which
would not permit him to withhold from the
public what he had seen behind the curtain,
retails some Of the movements and the
schemes ofthe whig leaders in Washington,
According to his own boastng story, he
came here to put the wings to rights, and
assist in recognizing the erring and distActed
party. As the result of the caucusessSnd
consultations which was brought about among
them, the arbitration principle was adopted
as the whig proposition to settle amicably
the disputes between the two countries; and,
in consequence ofthis plan, the resolutions
Of Mr.. King, of Georgia, and Mr.. Mangum,
Of North Carolina, were proposed to their
respective houses about the 25th of January.
1t was ten days after Mr. Pakenham had ad-
dressed his last letter on arbitration to Mr..
Buchanan.
Col. Webb retails the whig movement in
a letter of the 25th January from this city.
The purpose then evidently was to rally upon
arbitration as to the wing measure; and we,
are indebted to the discretion of Mr.. ]. w.
Webb for the revelation of some of the par
ticulars. Mr. Buchanan's letter however,
has defeated the proposition so completely,
that Mr.. King yesterday withdrew his reso-
lutin from the Honse, and Mr.. Manglm de-
clined pressing his proposition upon the
Senate to-day. But the scheme, as part
of the tactics of the party, is not yet aban-
dondoned The whig press mean to make
whatever capital they can derive from the
proposition and its rejection. We hear the
National Intelligencer uttering its lamenta-
tons to-day; and to morrow we shall proba-
bly, hear the groans of the New York Courier
and Enquirer over the fate of its still-born
bantlipg.
five were intent only upon party tri-
umph, we would desire the wings to rally
upon this British proposition as the whig
measure. twill sink themto still slower
abyss" But as we are Americans, and pre-
fer our country to any party victory; and as
we are anxious to present bold and united
front 10 Great Britain on the question of Ore
gon, we regret the course which they are
following, although Col. Webb himself
should prove to be their leader Teucro duce
ct auspice Iuecrc.
In much better tase are the following re-
marks of Washington correspondent of the
"Boston Courier" "a whigj Journal Of the Sd
instant:
"The idea of arbtration--for the origin OF
which much credit has been claimed by a
certain gentleman of the press not entitled
to it, and who, entitled, would have been
foolish to claim it's not absurd; it is only
useless. Neither England nor this country
would in sincerity submit to it with the inten-
ton to abide by it. Nations so sensitive
must regulate their own conditons--will not
abide the decision of a third, whose ignor-
ance or whose fidelity were so to be suspec-
ted by one party Or both. Arbitration is no
alternative, though it may be brought for
ward as an emollient, or even diversion.