The Arkansas banner., 1846-03-25
Tor liz R0nncr.
UT TIVI 11 'I'tFTNF LITTLE RocK, March, 1916

LITTLE RocK, Aurch, 1916.
 Oregon question seems 10 be the
 ping theme at present, 1t Is not con
 speak or write on any other sub
 Enough we have not as yet heard
 seat of action, what course the
 Ill take, we are confident that the
 he House will be amply sustained.
 sufficiently informed on the subject,
 hat praticable effect the notice would
 fbe parties mutually claiming right
 y Oregon.
 kome suppose, the English will re- notice as declaration of Hdr, Mf may find a quick passage in Her s fleet of storming and blockading, fermitted to land amidst shower of But the question is, how tIle no- be construed declaration of war. efd grow out of subsequent measures. EY no two nations would sit down gn treaty 10 lay a 'car-egg, that either |lld hatch by treaty stipulations. l. De an mfraelion of any treaty or lon, to give notice that we wish a for vision under treaty to cease, when the 5 provided for in said treaty. The Government will so consider this If she fights it will not be for the but something else in extending laws EIl, she will not fight at all. For what then fight. Not merely for Oregon, knows fighting will never gain that Will she fight for national honor?-. pws well, but little of that article is lined in contest with her old antago- he tried us twice, and what did she Nothing but the honor, (il indeed 1t
 honor), Of teaching the civilized i hat there was people who dared to ilh the British Lion; and instead of | ills and. Oppressive terms of peace i'm oa us, she was freighled back with ans of her shattered troops, and with |. her most gallant officers boxed up! an she expect to gain now; If she eased her stores and munitions of , have we-wilh this d.aerence-we
 use for gun or a boat, but for her
 beRaG'. Not so with England.- 5 her old neighbor within hearing,-' 1ohcy and fgH. But it Is Ma' .Nortt- |
 r that England most dreads-and !. , may. This stupendons body pol has sprung up as by magic, unless event, is destined to crush the great of Europe and Asia, within the next years. Nicholas, who is one of the men now living, seems to en formed by Heaven for some grand ze Forty-fve years of age at this 5oolly in person and powerful ia ln- possessed of the most towering am tempered and cooled by the most phic caution; calculating in all his ents, and as unwayering as the Sun course. When he ascended the Im- hrone of Russia, he cast his eye Vest nd Southward; he grasped with one le Pole, and with the other the Cri- i'd on the prominent SevastapooI, he Is l, as a proud Eagle, looking still East, to bounce upon his prey, He is not ly for his desceut on Constantinople, pye is there, and still in the distance
 narrow gap westward, into the tlantc Ocean. This he wants and Ill seee the Russian flag floating from hts of Gibraltar. His onward course wary General penetrating the enc fortifes as he goes.-
 thousand men have been at work IS on the fortifications at Sevastapool. on the Black Sea, more than thirty battle ships, with a force of more ,000 men, armed and equipped for
 Many thousands of men have been ; fitting out new ships for the service. mind to plan and an arm to execute, enthroned amidst 70,000,000 of hu- ngs. With standingarmy of l,O0O,- men, and l8,000,000 of we'll trained
 Ills cavalry amounts to 200,00O nd Is the best trained and most efii- rps in Europe. His navy is not less
 ships of the line, with other efficient
 defences. The imperial revenue IS
 than S5o,000,000 per annum. The cabinet is the most powerful in the selected from every nation on the nt for known ability, and not for T party policy.
 nld England hazard contest with so l rival as the United States is, while enemy as Russia, is looking in at 'r' only awaiting the maturity of his enter upon the spells of the East:-' Ire doubtless many of Victofia's sub