New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1846-03-25

Shade OF Calico on the Capital Punishment ques uo
in defence Of the famous 'Sy'logsm Ihough ABOUT 'e
same length with all three together OF the articles therlo
Published on the subject Cnciuding Ju sces On ~
pvp side we trust IT'S ability will secure for II genera
erusa When an army forms very strong rear guard '
aturn conclusion Is that 1t is on retreat Win pretty
strong presumption that It has been roughly M Gae
should they deem any farther remark necessary 10 suo
brcvity. We cannot print Supplement every gay
The Oregon Question.
The diplomatic sky, so recently suspicious 10 cen
cilis,ion and peace is again overloaded All the
latest Indications concur in assuring US that Mr. POLK
alarmed by the denunciations and violence OF the
SO 40, men, and cajoled by hopes, destined never
to be realized, of reelection, has fallen back from
the ground of Compromise and settlement taken by
Messrs Calhoun Colquitt, Haywood x Co. and has
resolved to leave matters 10 take their course with
out farther effort for adjustment He knows thai
the Senate will defeat any bill which the House may
pass extending our jurisdiction over all oregon OF
otherwise provoking a collision with regard to that
territory he is led 10 believe that the cry for The
achoe of Oregon will be irresistible with the Peo-
ple and potential in making the next President and
he hopes to profit by the chapter OF accidents So
no new attempt at settlement is 10 be made, and II
Great Britain rests las she probably will on the I'M
qualified rejection here of her laat offer OF arbitra-
ton in any form which our Government might pre-
fer, the negotiation is at stand Such is the pre-
sent aspect of the matter.
Meantime new feeling-a feeling OF wrong and
insult-of kindly regard outraged and forbearance
mistaken for weakness-is taking possession OF the
public mind in Great Britain Our apparent deter
mination to grasp whatever we may choose to de-
SIRE and TO drive her by force from regions which
she has quietly possessed for twenty years, on the
assumption that our claim 10 them is so ndisputabe
that we will not permit its adjudication, is exciting
general and deep resolution to resist. Since the
reception of the news that our Government utterly
refuses to arbitrate any terms on the broad
ground that there was nothing to arbtrate about
that the very region which Messrs. Polk and Bu-
chanan offered to concede TO England few months
SINCE is indisputa6ly oursit is no longer possible
for the Ministry to offer us a compromise based on
the 4sh parallel II must be borne in mind that the
Patrick Henry which arrived out on the 3D. did not
take the Correspondence of Messrs. Buchanan and
Pakenham respecting Arbitration, but the Romer,
we know, did, and she is said by two different let
tiers to have arrived Liverpool during the night OF
the 3D. That rrespondence-especaily Mr.. Blu
chanans last letter-will create deeper and more
indignant sensation in England than any thing
which has yet ranspred. The debates in Parlia-
ment and the comments of the British journals
thereon will be read here with profound interest
md the news by The Romer, or packet OF the sih
inst should either arrive before the next steamship
will DO scanned with the deepest solictude.
We do not apprehend any immediate or inten.
tional collision between the two nations, yet
think every days delay to settle ncrea ses the chan
ces Of War. The period for mastery inactivity
has confessedly passed. With thousands of ritish
subjects in Oregon, half military in their training
and habits, animated by an undoubting conviction
that they the rightfu possessors and settlers
are intruders-wth equal number of our own
people, hardy, adventurous, fred with traditional
hatred OF British power and British law, and in
s,inctvely appealing TO their rifles in any emergency
with large American and larger British fleet
cruising in the North Paci6c- is manifest that the
peace OF the two nations is in imminent jeopardy.
We fear the present year will bring tidings of
collision that British fleet has anchored off the
mouth of the Columbia instructed to oct as circum
stances shall dictate Every hours delay in passing
the Notice and taking prompt and eAectua steps TO
render tina, act the basis Of settlement. creases
the hszar Of War.
An article in the Morning Neps of yesterday
Is fair sample of the spirit in which War is appa.
renhy courtcd by the Polk organs--viz:
But 1t is said England threatens War. To this all
have to remark Is that the such appeal urged
the American temper likely 10 yield il, Address us in
this tone and this ground, and only stand nil
the insxby on our rights and our resolve but
do II in more defying and Irritating manner"
Now England has never threatened War and
al, ho, 1,a :, n,,
is vast, mainly unoccupied territory on the West
side of this Continent, which she claims, and so do
we. Each of as has offered TO give up large par.
Of It to the other in order settle our respective
claims No settlement has yet been Effected
Great Britain. through her subjects, is the party in
possession of all that is really in dispute. She does
not propose to disturb oar people; we do propose
70 subject aers to our laws. We propose TO extend
our sway over even the large area which we have
tnfice offered 70 concede TO her She says Let Us
Aroitrate Please say what impartial tribunal shall
decide between u.s.. No. say our SO 40 men !
we VIII not arbitrate--we viii not compromae-
we VIII not even conoede you what we have thrice |
offered you we viii take the whole, and you las
BRITISH shall clear out of it, Now this is no, Eng
ldHd threatening War; it is our side which threat
ems it, and is proposing TO wage j, w;,bor, ,ho ,,r
nality of declaration.
The News speaks of eHecsing a settlement.
without any mu,iatlon Of that slorio,, p..,s. T..
plre the Western wing OF our IAen truly .ymm.:ris
Union," &c. s''''''
Now a single glance at the map of North Amer.
lea must convince any that to extend Our North
Western limit up to SO 4o is to destroy the sym.
metry of our Union completely. Lat. 40 is the |
line for symmetry and California is the acquisition
needed 70 perfect it When our Western limit is