The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-04-09


hls nomination. and he seems 70 think ina
he B4liim0He GonErhiiOa % he Demo
cratic parry had resolved this matter oul
&rhe general rule and made il ! new ous
% tais Administration. Strange PROPOSE
ton, Passing strange 0flhe Ballimors
Convention shall SPEAK hereafter. And
nDw - 10 Mr. Polls opinion upon ouI
nIe. hOweHsr elearan EhensOerer en-,
esIlained ~ expressed. lsl me sas that Mr..
Polk's opinion. nor The opinions Ofihe BAL
arn0ge Convention. nOrihose Of the Psepas
themselves. upon The tile ID Oregon. touch
his question. Al that, has Just nothing
q al 10 do with Il. h the character, and
sincerity, and faith. and honor Of the Ma
non. were committed TO compromise be.
bEe Mr.. Polk was slecled, Ihsy remained
%, Notwithstanding his election. and not,
wiIhslandiRg his opinion. or anybody 4
opinion, upon our tile.
fhe men woo become Presidents sI
Che Republic are always changing; thew
live and die. but the Republic i The same
~ all times Ind once committed by the
public faith and honor 10 DO or not 10 DO.
even The People cannot release the Obliga-
tonby anything short Of revolution, iflhey
could BY such IN extreme measure a. that.
The question: then. Is not, and was not a
new one 10 This Administrations" The
sovereignty Of naliOn-lhe People them.
selves. have not right to do, much less 10
command anolherio doa dishonorable act
~ mean an act dishonorAble TO the Nation
IN her intercourse with other nations. All
power rests with the sovereign authority;
but In Constitutional government like
eurs, even The People NAV bind them
selves against doing wreng. Ifihey would
Get about taking of that shackle, they
must reyoluiionize and strike al the Con-
stiiution. Alter that, il they choose; but
even the People have no right 70 do wrong
10 other nations, and leave the Constini-
ZION as il is. ] honor that statesman who
can 60 whittier The honor of his country
carries him, fofgeifll Of himself and his
personal convenience, or the consistency
Of his meEe opinion. Had Mr.. Polk re-
peated his opinion Of our clear and IN.
questionable" title for an Amen 10 his dali
ly prayers for years and years together, it
would still have been The duty Of the Pre-
sident 10 60 to the line of 49' as a COM
promise, il he believed, as he says he did,
that his country was committed" and
The honor aud faith ofihe nation babe him
20 there. Il is still bis duty to do il, if he
sincerely believes what he saws. Talk
what YOU may of,he People-fa,ter them
a. YOU please-yei in spite Of all the one
sided arguments upon our title to Oregon,
and the unfsirness Of precluding debate
upon il here by the Glamour of " British"
against every one that doubts il Tor an inch,
only let this question 90 to the People |
Of the United States, whether the honor
Of the nation is not desrer than "erery
inch" of Oregon on the other side of 40
Jet the people hear and understand the !
motives and the policy and the honorable
necessity under which the President ha:
acted, and fIom the mountain valleys of
the West to the shores OF the Atlantic,
they will respond that the President has
done right-the honor Of our country be-
fore everything else! Ifhonesty and pa
triotism did not sustain the President, pru.
dence and peace would lend their aid: and
all the world would see that war for the .
whole of Oregon, when we are ourselves
divided in opinion upon the question of
right to the whole Of it, and the Chief
Magistrate himself believed that it was not
honorable TO go for our extreme right,
would be madness. How could we pray
God TO bless US and TO aid our arms in such
q conflict
But Senators, who are relying upon the
Presidents Message TO Congress as de-
claration Of hostility 10 further negotiation
and the pledge of determination on his
part not TO settle this controversy at all by
pacific compromise, even it his own OF
fer should be returned upon him, may find
themselves disappointed. | warn them
that they have been deceiying themselves
by their own rnisintcrpretation. Even if
there could be found in the record" las
the Senator from Ohio has called his Mes
sage line or sentence to stimulate the
hopes of some Senators or to excite the
suspicious of others, ! hope to dissipate
them all by review Of bis acts and omis-
sions, and of the words OF that Presidential
-" record" For undertake to say, that if
there be truth in logic, faith in the integri.
ty and virtue of public agents, and mean
ing in English words, it can be demonstrate
ed from the course of the Administration,
from its acts Of commission and acts of
and the language of this ere
cord" that the President will not, as he
ought not TO repel and refuse to entertain
nm offer from the British Minister for a
substantially the same that he
himself has heretofore proposed: and that
whilst the Senate are in session, he could
not think Of such a thing without their adj
rice. For he must know--we do know
hat constitutional majority Of that body
would prefer compromise at the line of
49, to an " inevitable war" for the line of