The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-15
THE OREGON NEGOTIATION, AND MR.
McLANE.

"Rspubliean and Argus Of yesterday evening. Ills
full refu'aton Of the hlSe impression which The
"Nsronal IntelIigeGcer" had attempted to produce
the public mind ia regard to the conduct of the
administration in the Oregon negotiation. Upor
this article IN the lntelligsneer, the Argus says:
"The object If the intelligence 10 very obvious
That journal lab0rs To create impression that the
President, in his public messages, held anguag
Of extreme sRd imp,actirable demands while he had
secret understanding with his minister Ia Lpnd
that he was IA negotiate tor what has actually bee
Obtained. Now, nothing Is more false than ihf
view Of The question. The whole commentary o.
the lntellgeOcer proceeds upon a ptryersion Of Nj
MrLsns's language, together with suppression a
Official documents, already published under the
authority Of the Senate, which, Of course, appeared
IN the columns of the lntelligencer We haze rsasOs
10 knoIo thai one tl indignant at such
Hii,nPt 10 make disAonsst partisan Of his Ian
gUogs, than our MINISTER TO whom the Intelligence
refers"
The administration, in that whole negotiation
from the time Il came into power, until it was term
nated-pursued but one course and that was
straightforward, undisguistd one; and this fact al
the candid men Of all parties know and ought to &C
knowledge. The President held the same language
and expressed the same opinions to the Congress
ofthe United Sla'es and 10 the country, that he ex
pressed through the Secretary Of State to Mr.. Nc
Lane; and none other. This language and thes'
opinions are contained in the official documents
which have been made public, and now befor
the whole country. And although II is NANTES
that Mr.. .ueLans, when he said in reply to the ad
dress Of the chamber Of commerce Of New York
that, minister to England, he represented Ih,
policy Of his own government "and promoted "the In
tentions and wishes oftbe President meant only tina
he did IN pursuance of his Instructions, which art
now made public, yet the false and nsidious H.
ference is coyerty attempted to be drawn, in order
TO cast doubt upon the Presidents sincerity that
he held one. language to Congress and the country
and another to Mr. yHeLans. Nothing can be more
false than this insinuation Its this perversion OF
the meaning of Mr.. McLane's language which is
Indignantly repealed by the article in the Baltimore
Argus"
The Presidents opinion, it is well known, was,
that the American title to $40 40 was a valid one;
yet 10 difference to what had been done by his pre-
decessors," and the concessions and offers which
had been made by them in July, lS45, he offered TO
adjust the question ON the parallel Of 49o In Mr..
.MeLans', instructions Of the 18th Of July, ls45,
which before the world, and from which the
baltimore Argus" makes an extract, he was in
formed of this fact and Of the Presidents position
on the question: being precisely the same fact which
he stated, and the position which he occupied,
in his annual message to Congress. And it was to
these ms rucions and the other Official correspon
dence, also now embraced among the published
documents, that Mr. yMeLane alluded in the para
graph of The late address, which has been so reck.
lessy attempted TO be perverted.
We repeat, thasthe Presidents whole course has
been a frank and consistent one. When the propo
siiion for an adjustment on the parallel Of age,
which he authorized to be made, was rejected, he
Withdrew it. When that proposition was returned
to him, with slight notifications, by the British
government, he did not accept il; but adopted the
policy Of Washington, in the early days of the re-
public, and submitted it to the Senate, his consti,-
toual advisers, for their advice; reerating at the
same time, the opinions which he had expressed in
his annual message; and distinctly informing thai
body that If the constitutional orty required fol
the ratification of treaties, did not advise its accept.
ance, he would reject the Offer The Senate did adj
wise its acceptance, and the treaty was made accord
ingy. .'. -4 (
From the Baltimore Argus and Republican. '
We have had our attention called to the repeated
efforts Of the wing press TO dissatisfy The country
with the adjustment Of the Oregon question, as set.
tied by The late Oregon convention. Open attack
from the opponents of the administration can do lit
tie harm, bat when one branch of the democratic
family Can he arrayed against another on this cues
ton, the wing presses hope not only to create dis
satisfaction, but rely upon the seeds of dscord they
may SOW 20 weaken the administration before III,
country, and with the democratic party We sub
init some reflections furnishsd US on this head, call
ed forth by the effort of the National lneilgencer
place the President before the country in attllud
different from that in which he is placed by the pub
lished Oregon correspondence. ... ...
The National Intelligencer Of Friday last publish
es Mr.. McLanes reply to the address of the New
York chamber Of commerce, and adds, in the shap
Of IN EDITORIAL the following remarks .'.
.sIHE OREooN NEGOTIATION. comply win
our engagement to our readers to-day, by spreadp,
before them the address to Mr. McLane, (our lat
minister to Epgland) by the chamber of commcrc
OF New York, together with his reply, which W
trust that none of them will fail to peruse with clos
ntteDion. 'f @
aWhen they have done so, we ask them to d
us tho Justice TO recur TO the early days Of the lat
session of Congress. and 10 the quarrel raised witt
this paper by the official editor, because we ven
tured to give credit to the limitations of the Bait
more "Constitutionn as TO Mr.. McLane's bein
fully possessed Of the views Of the Executive, an
as TO the probability Of his being authorized to TAX
part, il occasion offered, in a compromise upo
the latitude Of 400 an the basis OF an adjustment
the boundary dispute. The government editor fairl
boiled with rage at our suggestion that the view
Of the President might in reality, be not far wide
that mark; charged us with mputing doubie-deain
10 the President, and, with an air Of offended (oh
cia dignity, resenting the insult offered to the Pre-
ident told that whatever be the ethics of the d
ponatic school to which il THE National ntelliger
cerl belongs, The present administration USES N
FoRKep TONGUE Y
"we have now the evidence ofo our minister tia
in favoring the very adjustment Of this matt
which we approved, and the government paper rid
culed and fouted, he~wss but representing he use,
ofhis own government, and FAITHFULLY PRomofIN
THs NrssrroNs AND WISHES OF THE PREsIDEsr y
The portion Of Mr.. McLane's reply, TO whic
these remarks apply, are as follows ar
.'Ii would have been unreasonable to expect, aft,
such Acknowledgements Of the rights Of joint occl
pancy, that either party would be permitted who'll
TO dspossess the other, without some regard % n
terests which had grown up during their mutu