Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-04-08

Or The following article, from the New
Orleans Delta, IS replete with sound sense
and manly patriotism, and will meet with
a response from the bosom Of every true
American -
The OREGON NoTIcE,--Y Yesterday, BY
speciaI grace, we received mail from The
north which fortunately brought four days
Of the seven that were due. We conf.
IDENTITY expected that news would be receig.
ed Of the passage Of the Oregon notice by
the Senate, but We were doomed 10 disap
pointmeDt Nothing has been done, All
is talk, talk, talk. The thrice told tale
with which every man in the Union is ia.
miliar, continues to afford a subject for
grave Senators to declaim upon, and they
use il most efIectualy, not because they
believe anything that can be said will
change or convince solitary individual Of
twenty millions which they represent, but
for tho apparent purpose oil delaying any
decisive action on the question before
them, For two months and more this dis.
cussion has continued and what is il
aboul2 Why, simply whether we should
dissolve contract which all consent can
10 longer be continued without danger 10
the public peace, and an abandonment of
the protection which the government is
bound to afford to portion Of our citizens
settled in Oregon. And this question,
plain in itself, American Senators hesitate
10 answer, though The answer which should
be given is dictated by every consideration
Of justice, patriotism and policy. And
whyf No reason has been attempted TO
be given except that such action would be
offensive to Engand! What pity it was
the congress which declared the indcpen-
dence Of the States was not governed by
such prudential motives.
Had they but possessed the peaee.lovng
and dollar calculating spirit OF those who
nowTule the councils Of the nation, what
an inGnity of trouble and expense would
have been saved Instead of looking anx-
iously 10 every arrival from England, and
shaping our course by articles IN her scur-,
rillous press, or the ambiguous and cunning
phrases of her parliamentary orators, we
might have been relieved Of all labor and
uncertainty, by listening to, and implicit
" obeying her decreesi II English opin-
ion and English policy is to direct the nc.
ton Of this country-if ourstatesmen are 10
consult English feeling instead Of what is
right and just---if we are to abandon all
feeling OF self-respect, because we may be
threatened by English power-il, in short,
we are TO take into consideration what
Eng land will say Or think at all when the
honor and interests of our own country are
concerned--iI would be better to lay down
our pretensinns TO independence, and once
more quietly assume the bonds Of colonial
vassalage. Ii is enough to disgust every
right feeling American to hear this constant
appeal to foreign opinion and probable To-
reign action. What is it all to US? We
have only to do right, and if other govern
ments take offence, why let them. There
is a want Of dgnity--a want Of manliness
IA want of patriotism in the course we
are now pursuing. What other govern
ment under heaven would have debated
two months whether it should dissolve a
partnership which had become intolerable?
And in what deIiberatiye assembly ont of
the U. S. would we ever heard it publicly
urged as an argument against the dissolu.
tion, that il might, iorsooIh, be unpleasant
to the other party.
This prolonged debate-all argument
having been long exhausled--is a public
disgrace-it will make US the laughing
stock Of the world, and gain for US uni
yersal contempt. A nation that dare moi
act when no wrong will be inflicted upon
any oAe--whlch hesitates to exercise
right guaranteed by treaty from dread Of
giving oiience--wlE hardly be able to per.
suade mankind that il will not submit to a
any usurpation backed by power.