Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-05-16

: the party in power in America. Thei
demand and their expectations have risen
because we scarcely condescend to Civ
an answer 10 them. or TO put in counte
plea. IncreduIous Of their extravagan
J passion for this territory of Oregon, con
. vinced OF our own right, and unable to be
ieye in propensity TO war, we have beef
supposed 10 act as if we intended to sur
sender the question or to shun the contest
J This excessive moderation of language
has deceived the Americans more eflec
tually than if we had employed all .he
arts of diplomacy. OF the members o.
the convention, large proportion are
convinced that England viii not only &c
cept the terms she rejected before, bul
that she will accept terms even less ia.
vorable, and they have taken up their
position in consequence.
They are grossly and dangerously mis-.
taken. Whatever reserve may be impos-
ed upon Peers of Parliament by cour esy
or by official prudence, we are confident
that not one of the English statesman,
who spoke last night upon this subject,
contemplates the abandonment Of terri
tory in which our rights are equal to those
Of any Power. The time and the place
might not be fitted to more precise and
emphatic declaration Of the views and in
lentions of England, but it would not be
absurd to suppose that they are whit be-
low the level which the interests and the
dignity of the country prescribe. Ill
would be foolish to overstate our just pre-
tensions, but it is dangerous and unwise
TO allow them to be thought less than they
are. We have offered to submit them to
any fair arbitration; we are ready to as
sent TO terms Of etiquitable partition, on
a principle Of equality. But arbitration
has been rejected, and partition itself is
scarcely compatible with the claims ad-
vanced on The other side, since they are
absolute and paramount. Nothing in fact
remains for us to concede, since di
'lded right is all we are contending for,
md the very principle of division is not
et admitted by the American Govern
1ent.
The declaration which it now becomes
S emphatically to repeat is, that we have :
rights in Oregon terrltorywhich we are
esoIved and prepared to maintain" {
That expression oil Sir Robert Peel and i
ord Aberdeen was certainly not intern I,
crate and ill-tlmed; and we have no doubt [
at subsequent events have not in the Il
ghtest degree diminished their resou. f
IN TO adhere to it, and to all that it was 81
derstood TO imply. We see nothing in Il
e present posture Of affairs which calls
:, or can Justify, more subdued laa- ec
Iage On .he part of tho EnGI;eh Co~orn IT
ent; and care persuaded that the false de
Instruction which has been put upon the ell
ry guarded circumstances most calcula P
] to misead public opinion in the Uni re
! States. and possibly to enhance the a
warrantable presumption Of the Amer a
IN Government. tie
ON the London Morning Chronicle, March IS. -
What will be the course of her Males or
S MINISTRY in case the Senate of the
lited States give notice of the abroga- tn
N ofthe convention? This is what the Sc
untry requires to be informed upon, and tn
is is what statesmanlike Lord CIaren- OF
n has not thought it either imprudent NJ
unbecoming TO ask, Neither he nor m
y man in England has to learn that the ell
esident is equally unreasonable in the in
Ibinent and on the hustings, or that his w
cretary has obtruded the offensive ex- an
avagance Of an after dinner speech as pr
ntrast to the decorous courtesies of an 81
fetal correspondence. As a general We
70, disclosures on the Executive are mis-. re
evous in the exact proportion as they
Q either unnecessary or premature.
hey are, however, unnecessary or pre-
AZURE according to the circumstances
lder which they are made, and the coun-
y to which they refer. In the particular
se of America, publicity is the rule, Sc III
ecy the exception. The nation thinks n
oud, and exhibits in the full light of ,yl
~ all the processes of its reasoning, all
e springs Of its action, and all the ele.
enis Of its determinations. Were this
|. the gain would be wholly OH our side.
I'd we should have the advantage of the an
'oI, calculating, silent man over the gar St
lous and improvident child. But such alb
not the case. Our reserve is misiner III
eted, and our understatements mscon- CO
rued; whilst our apparent supneness TT
Institutes an important item in every ha
lculatlon Of plausible and unscrupu- lisa
is opponent. Where moderation is per. ale
rIed into fear, and silence into consent.
IS policy to be explicit, and when it may ~
rashness to volunteer an absolute e n
e Of conduct, it may be prudence to WI
claim an imputed one. We cannot ser
p thinking that there we're certain Poi
gative points upon which Lord Alb. wit
leen owed it to his country to be expIi- Te