Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1846-07-18

Mr.. Polk A $40 MANA late mum.
Der of the Richmond Enquirer claimed for
Mr.. Polk the credit of having settled our
difficulties with England, by the formation
of the Oregon Treaty, recently ratified by
the Senate. Other papers had commenced
singing the same song, and while i, made
the ffty-four fortes, who knew better, feel
very bad, the sycophantic parasites of the
President cared not SO that benefit enured
10 them from it. But the National Inteli-
gencer has set this matter right, in the dis.
closures which are made in the following
paragraphs:
let US, if we can, ascertain the real part which
Mr.. Polk has acted in the conclusion Of this
compromise; compromise which these fifty. four
(orties pronounced US traitors for desiring, and
which they now discover to be so happy, so
right, so grateful to the land at large, that they
insist upon attributing to the President Of their
choice the entire credit OF it.
We consider ourselves as having ascerained,
distinctly, the terms upon which the now accepted
proposition Of Great Britain, her wise and good
tempered utimatum, was referred 10 the Senate.
The matter being now concluded, the particulars,
though they aIe not formally revealed, are yet
generally understood. We can venture to say,
then, that when the documents come TO be pub.
lished, it will be found that the President, in his
message submitting to the Senate the project Of
the treaty, informed them that his DUN uie,cs, er.
! pressed in his precious messages remained I'M.
changed, which views it will be recolected,
were, that our title to the whole OF Oregon was
"clear and unquestonable, "not 10 be abandon.
ed without sacrifice OF the national honor and
interest,"" and should be "frmly maintained"
He will be found, we are confident after thus
signifying his own entire dissent from the terms
Of the proposed treaty, to have added, that, if the
Senate shall not counsel him to accept the offered
terms, or if they shall decline advising him, he
wiu reject the proposition.
! 1t will, then, We have no doubt, prove,to be the
fact that the President entirely disapproved the
treaty, and in effect transferred to the Senate the
responsibility OF concluding it. Are not, then,
the responsibility and the praise to 90 together?
We oplne that they must and they will, maugre
all the efforts Of the flty-four (ores, and though
even Senator flanagan himself should come
orlh, with The rest Of them, to chant the praises
oil the arrangement, and celebrate the President
as its sole author, the most matchless of all vim.
uea'oie VI uh4uesuonaole rights, the most in
genuous oil negotiators, and entirely worthy
could any addition to his titles be allowed) to re-
ceIve the Spanish one Of the prince OF Peace"
Should The sub treasury be strangled, as it now
probably may, will his hatters not extol the Pres.
ldent for that event? Or should the tariff be-
saved from destruction, will they not, at least in
Pennsylvania. gori(y the fact, as altogether his
grea, deed, and both facts as amazing triumphs
over the Wings?
Judge ALLEN, Of the Fourteenth Judicial Dis.
trct Of this State, has resigned his seat on tho
bench; being nearly 65 years old.
BRINKERaorF, Mcdowell and the other Lo.
coioco members OF Ohio, and Ralhbun OF New
York, who opposed the: tariff bill up to the last
DAY oil the debate, finally voted for the bll-the
lashings Of the Union. or, i. may be-. the promise
oil office, having been ellecual in producing an
entire revolution in their opinions