The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-05-12

'y received by Monsieur Guizot and the other
members Of the cabinet. and his mission doubtless
will terminate successfully. His sentiments with
regard tn France will hereafter be entirely pacific,
because his continuance in oftics would be- IF but
short duration were they TO become otherwise
hut have awful forebodings that our country is
To mud in him an nveierate deadly enemy In
his new burn zeal for The welfare Of France, he
viii at once seize upon Guizoi's balance of pow-
or doctrine in North America, and nse his posi-
ton and his talents to consummate the most des
perate purposes at any time contemplated by Eng
land or france tn check our growth or diminish
the influence which our institutions are exercising
over The other nations of the earth
' most sincerely regret that there should be 90
slighta prospect for adjusting tho Oregon ques-
ton befTe Pee's administration is at an end
Such event could have been contaminated. if
there had been even q moderate degree of good
management in Congress. Had tho notice., So
sincerely. and may add. so palrotcally urged
ny the PRESIDENT heen promptly authorized to be
given, with the elevated ground upon which our
title was placed by the correspondence which ac-
companied the message, there is not the shadow
OF doubt but that every thing could have been.
before this. amcably arranged. and TO the general
satisfaction Of the people of the United States
But distinctly toresee that such result Is no
longer ohiainable by negotiation. Starlle not.
when state to you. as my candid belief, that
even should the nniice arrive by the 25ih inst,
under the House resolution, nothing like the clear
line of the 49th parallel can he secured! Peel
could not be prevailed upon To settle at that lust
as he is going out, if the notice was now before
| him; and If we were disposed To compromise ON
that boundary, Russell will hesitate long, in my
opinion, before he will offer H.
"Thus have we been carried, by the timiditv
OF the Senate. 10 the brink of precipice, where
war with all its horrors-iis demoralizing influ-
ences-s beheld in the distance. The arguments
against our claim in that body. aud the various
propositions made there to adjust the question de-
initely, regardless of the opinions of the Execu-
tive. have rendered diplomacy upon the subject
mere inockery. Added To these difficulties.
which the administration has to encounter, ia the
press OF the opposition, which seems to have no
holer object than to invaIidale our ownership of
the territory, and to impugn the motives of the
President for insisting on our rights. Nur do
they stop here; for they are vastly augmented by
the pens of such restless and mischievuus spiri,s
as and = Under sucb adj
verse circumstances, frankly confess to you that
| cannot discover solitary ray of hope for main
tanning our rights in Oregon, except by the las,
resort-the ultima ratio of nations. 1t is mel
| anchoy reflection To me, one which, bows me down
with load of grief, but one which cannot dis.
| miss from my mind siace
How differently did view this matter before left
our country! then imagined that Peel was Sc
cure in his place. and that England would yield
all that she could, consistently with honor. before
she could have the temerity to strike. now
perceive, however, that she regards the executive
power of my country. far as it is welded in this
controversy. utterly paralyzed by the action of the
Senate; and. intoxicated almost to insanity with
the recent success of her arms in the East, the
pacific sentiments which prevailed in the public
mind. as relates TO the United States, are rapidly
giving way TO those Of hostile and belligerent