Wisconsin herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1846-1849, 1846-07-04
England and u. States.

caused lively Satisfaction III Gnsidhu
amongst the mercantile classes; but this
has not been the case among the poll
tician.. The sort of tack which has
taken place in the movement of pnblic
opinion in America on the subject of
theOregon is a sign which well-practic-
ed ewes cannot mistake. Mr.. Polk at
tanned the Presidency for the purpose
of accomplishing the last wish ofGen-
eral Jackson, whose dying exhortatlon
was:-"Get possession OF the Oregon
at any price,
The ardor Of Mr. Polk has, howev-
err, suddenly cooled; his political friends
only offered, at the close of the debate
a purely formal resistance to the con-
ciliatiory resolution of the Senate, and
that resolution has been adopted by
the House of Representatives with a
modification ofterms which does not IN
any way alter its pacific sense. 1t is
evident, therefore, that the statesmen
OF the Union perceived that the Oregon
Question was no longer good battle
field, and they have carried elsewhere
the spirit of struggling against Great
Britain.
If the partition of the Oregon is
made ia a manner disadvantageous to
England-if, for example, instead OF
stopping at the 40th degree, as Mr..
Gallatin demanded, the Americans
were to extend their claim to the 54th,
as Gen. Cass demands, England's a.
n,our-aropre would be wounded much
more than her interests, for as long as
she is allowed the free use of the port
situate between the main land and
Vancouver's Island, her vessels will
derive, from the frequenting OF those
coasts all the advantages that they can
obtain.
The Treaty Of Joint Occupation
supposes, if it does not formally re-
cognize in favor of England, rights
which the United States would deny
with a very bad grace, and Europe
would not behold without deep dissat-
isfac,ion a great maritime war kindled
for mere question Of vanity. The
contest will be viewed in quite diff
fcrent light if its objects, on the part of
England, be to hinder, not conquests,
in ,he ancient sense of that word, but
annexations resulting from the free
will of nations, and fraught with no
farther Inconvenience to the two hem
spheres than that Of lessening the DOM
ination that Great Britain arrogates to
herself in the Pacific Ocean and in the
Chinese seas.
II is everything, in the times in
which we live, TO have in ones favor
the general assent Of nations, and the
Americans will obtain it by showing
themselves conciliatory on the side of
Oregon, and firm as regards the princi-
pie of spontaneous annexation. The
idea of an European Intervention to
protect the distinction Of races in A.
merica will not bear Investigation. -
MEXICO would certainly have right
20 invoke Europe If the United States,
abusing their power, wished to con-
auer that State; but Europe has no
right, under the pretext of preserving
the political equilibrium, to oppose the
resolves Of Mexico, unable in her pres
ent state to defend or to govern her.
self, to seek her salty in the same
course, as that in which Texas has
found hers.
France, which neither undermincs,
nor wishes to undermine, any one,
should leave to England the opplica-
ton of the old principle divide a i'm
pera,-divide in order TO reign. We
seek our strength in the opposite prin-
ciple, and il France were listened TO,
Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland
would form great national unities. NJ.
Guizot has accused the Opposition of
adopting a policy too French, and not
sufficiently European. We reproach
him, in return, for adopting policy
which is neither the one nor the other,
neither European nor French"
IRELAND.
The linen trade of Ulster is said to
be in very depressed state.
The Government has summoned
Lord Heytesbury to London, to sup.
port the Corn bin in the Lords Com
mittee.
In Ulster. the laboring classes are
suffering as severely from the want Of
potatoes rs in the South and West.
The accounts of the new potato
crop in Ireland are, upon the whole,
encouraging.