Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-01-19


purchase Oregon, tell YOU tbdt oil the mines
oi ftru Won't furnish enough, II Oregon Vac
az barren ss the sands of Arabia.
n gentleman from Alabama YESTERDAY AIR
lanCey) seemed 10 think dat II a few oi "a an
the Yves, only had bayonets we should soon
b. scie 10 take IT. Now, / em nothing but
plain simple Quaker, much laughi,r;l belong
iu That ancient waT-haung. peace glowing pvo.
pie, and am the last udu iu tie world to
tight; bat ] am Yet To learn ,hat can sacrifice
my pd;rimony left M ny The toll OF my fathers
TO every insolen, who NAV choose 20 demand
Il, without dishouor; aud, much a. hate
hshiing, | will not do that. But ask gentle
men, II tliis Is a local question, il IL belongs 10
us. then allow US 20 be the Judges as to the
cuuise ~ Is proper ior Us TO pursue about IL.
Formerly th"re wdsa question here, Mheth-
cT we should admit another free people into
this free Union; aud recollcct very well that
II any Que ui us qucsiisued Tor moment the
PTupreN OF the course OF those who led of
on That occasion, he was marked al once. and
told that hc was unfalthiu. Ii was aid to
us al that time, NOW i the golden moments
~ We don't take her now We never shalt got her
at all. rCcoilect The language well. thought
~ harsh then therefore viii notapply IL now
70 those who used il. but ask them Ia let us
know how II - that our way of getting Oregon
won't get n. They talk tou, about ihe nation
al honor and the point OF honor IN individual
Nar ani there hos been a comparison here
between the honor OF on iudn idual who goes
out TO hight his fellow man In prlve combat
and the honor ola nation engaged ia war But
what j. IL that JUstihrs war The Nindication
of our rights But what is the motive i'm
ducH lhe obtaining OF lIitlc. poor, carnal
revenge. hive in a country where we never
hight dupls nor Weld up "a hts
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This joint occupation continue hide longer.
Don't give any notice, Oh, no. But DO you
Western men 10 OF there rith your rifles
slip into Ougon-stcdl into your own terrific
~, and then iorliiy yourself there under
the Preiencc Of peace Now, don't pretend
10 know what national honor i. bat do know
that that Is national dIshonur. (SCnsduuu.
and marks of appreciation in the House,
know that Britain has 100 rights there. and
am rcad5 To tell them so; butuut Co steal into
the possession OF NY own. This language
may appear To some gentlemen rather strong.
perhaps II u too strong; but ~ the thing app
pear, TO my optics. Asd | 80. no more in
The glorious inactivity whiChis recommended
TO us IN certain quarter; II II only an en-
courdgcmcnt 10 Us 10 slip ia under the guise
oi peace, and some sunny morning TO catch
British subject or two, aud ii we can't turn
that II we give this notice we shall expose
our frontier men ont in Oregon to certain
death. Now IL 80 happens that there j. at
ihls time IN Oregon an individual in whose
veins runs the same blood with that which
flows nm mine who has warmed ms feet round
he same hearth-hrc and who has learned
what little be knows I'm the same school
hous'. may therefore b. excused II have
some feeling ON this question Bat tell
you that those men lu Oregon never will ask
.uu TO protect them los falling io assert the
tights YOU ar ST Io Cuard. They went there
with 'h'ir eyes open, they knew what they
had TO expect. aud II YOU Will only unite their
han 5, that j, all they ask OF YOU. II they
shall then SINK 10 ,hc conflict that NAV cnsuc
hey will sink covered with blood and scars
What great difference does IL make suppose
var does come, and suppose one halt of M
should die upon the bloody field: where would
YOU die What better p. Il ,lo yuu gssk ,bon
hr bed OF honor, aud had yoa not rather
when the essunection morn SHALT dawn, that
Gabriel shall see yoBr faces blooming with
ihe blood cash than pale and shruuk and
shrivcled up with 0gel For my part see
nothing So vrrv terrible i'm dying a death oi
glory aud boot Aud those out there ON the
frontiers do not. they have not such thought
And what are they To you' They are your
pioneers They have OF cncd for Won The wide
waste wilderness; they have cut their way
through IL and left The way open Tor YOU
Advance as YOU may, they are always one
hundred and fifty miles teiore you. ] tell
YOU they are the best citizens Un the continent
Do not attack or abuse them and they arc a
peaceful aud loving people. They 10 before
MS pillar Of cloud, and roll back thc hostile
Indian tribes as smoke j. rolled away bcfurr
the rising breeze. But | say Go my friends
here, il YOU let England got Oregon aud ioriiiy
the mountain passes which lead your into the
terTl', =, and throw ,h, s. men hack on YOU.
you'll ind they will soon make "a fuss. Laugh
ter They don't know your WAYS nor DO
they care for them. They will protect Ore
gon for you, but they never do IL trraChcr-
ousy 10y taking advantage OF peace 10 forliiy
themselves ior war
J said that our title 10 Oregon j. clear You
have told me so, your diplomdtists have satsh
ed me on that point; and here let me- ten YOU
that our people out In the West read these
things with great care. ard ii they cannot read
they get Others 10 do u for them We have
a strdight course before as or executive
made the English an offer, forWhioh do not
ccnsure him. Tor u was done for the sake at
Teacs, the oilcr has been rejected. aud n has
been forthwith withdrawn. Now DO not snv
what nego-ltions there may hereafter b. about
a boundary bat this say that ihc man no
sh1il accept IS boundary for Oregon amy line
below 80 dels. mouth may prepare himself Tor
the indignation Oi thc American peoplc. aud
they will brand th' mark Of Gaia up6n him.
J cay further that u this question bad not been
Incumbrrd bS previous propositions and
ans public mon had offered 90 Great BIitain a
boundary line which our n8lipnai night, would
mot Justify, Doe could never have stund beiort
,hc peoples indignation. Atulleycnts. shat
was our ulimatun. The British rejected no..
and dpnot know that wc ore bound to accept
Oft uow. u BE- should b. offered bu, do not
grodgo any man hi- fam, who shall offer that
hueu again.
The President has recommended as to give
notice of DO, termination of the Joint occu-
p0ucy Now, suppose, we do not ito d. will
81 not b. an Acknowledgements 20 ihe world
that we believe the British claims ,o b. such
thBt we are airaid 10 Investigate ;hrm after
the joint occupancy is Overt 10 b. sure 10
viii. II Observation-Disclosures i1 subsistence.