Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-01-17

she DO this tin she should first have failed in
war, not iOI conquest hat for e2is.cnCc.--
Permanently To surrender Canada after doing
hcg best 10 keep IL. would o. an admission Oi
inirnority; aud she who had longassunued the
naughty port OF the mistress OF the world.
could not make such an admission without
exposing aud endangcring her empire every
where. Never, I'LL we should have tracked
the British lion by his blood oil around the
world; till the noise of the strife. filling every
land and ovety sea. had startled distant ma tious
hy the appearance of this new power Contcs-
ting the empire OF the mistress of the ocean:
never till we should have chased her from Avon
To the loni0n Islands. while she marked her
retiring footsteps with one long unbrokcn
trail OF British blood, No. not Till we should
have buried be- fleets IN the briny wave.
thrown down her towers of strength. and de-
spoiled hergrlcns Of pleasure; never. till we
had done all this, and mcrc, would the ancient
pride of tia, naughty kingdom reconcile her tn
the admission ct settled inieriority. aud to
the surrender OF territory indiSputably her
own.
! lie did not say that I'VE should do all This
\ laugh. Bot. surprising we could. what
would b. the consequence to ourselves What
the effect ON TIE genius ot our people; what
on the spirit of Qua Institution Woad not
a contest like this involve Us in the lowest
depths oi the paper system, aud postpone al
most Indefinitely those glorious democratic
reforms for whlt't we had 50 long been srug-
glingl Was tlFre no danger that long pro-
tmctcd war liz. this would give military
| turn TO our institutions, itnot oblitcrate their
republican features altogether What could
be better calculated To break down that broad
and sacred distinction which the Constitution
had established between the General and State
Governments.
/ Mr.. H. wo,Gd not 20 50 far as TO say that
I the structure ot our free government rendered
us unfit for war, bacause our history proved
that we could conduct a war with efficiency
and end II with success; but il would obhge
Us now, as ii had iopcd us before to so deep
/ " into the paper system system from
which we had suffered az much or more than
I from the British arms.
/ There was auothcIrcaSon against engaging
IN contest like this The genius Of our in
sutuuons was cmipnt peaceful: they were
not oTgani1cl With view To- foreign wars.
but for the better md the noblcr purpose OF
: sell-protection. FIR this purpose the form of
2 the American Govmmeut was the hest the
world had yet seer There il was efficient
and mpregnablc; bit, for the conducting OF a
/ foreign war, il was he worS, and the weakest
D =
7 hope, that we had ben planted on these shores
by tn hand OF mighty and iar-sccing Prov
idencc, To the end tat we might conduct and
exhibit great mOrl reform. 10 cultivate the
arts OF peace, anC 20 civilizc and bless the
world: purpose AZ more glorious than ii,
. like Tdmcrlauc wecould mark our track over
the SCARED surlaceof the world bv pyramids
OF skulls; a career ar, far more glorious than
that ut Atlla or Aldic, whose just but terrible
, titles were The swod of God and the scourgc
I of III, earth. Wa not the triumph of our
thousand, OF milesC railroad in hayin94hrown
down the barriers q nations. worth ill the
victories inscribelln the column Of -Trajan.
or commcmordtel ~ the stately walls of
Blcnheml
But We must nov come back Ia the consid-
erNuon OF the consequences ot giving or of
! Withholding This noiCr To the British Govern
! meni. and hc agan asked the gentlemen
wheihe, the Glanced getting Oregon few
wears sooner or istcr would compensate for
disadvantages ord shtyis,..S, AMI political and
>.,.,.-i injuries such "a thoS, to which lac had
ssmudfF Would the homHsabIe chairman,
ed friend of Oregon go for cncountchpIoicaa-
sequences like these. il hc were Ear more
certain oil obtaining the whole province
u'iouSn 'ic continuance of peace With
such a convection IN has conscience, could he
JUSTLY himself ~ an honorable, aChns,ian.
and a l'hlauthTopic man i'm pursuing Tho
course which pointed To war Didbc beErvc
mat b' The most costly. obstinate. bloody
ana prolonged war, should be able To conoucr
England utterly aud pcrmanenti,2 Or was
IL not more probable that two such nations
conitsscdiy ihc greatest and the strongest IN
TIE world must al length tire of the contest
and resolved To end it by rsor,ing to the hon.
orable mode Of settling il by arbitration. II
men, we were To have long war first and an
arbltntlon afterwards, would il not be- better
iho' we should have the arbitration without
the war
Bui gentlemen were strongly opposed 10 any
afh,imiIon, aud he was not here 10 advocate
~ ue wished 20 avoid it, and therefore he
wished 10 avoid precipitating the country into
a contest which must end I'm arbitration n,
last. u notice must bc given, then he was i'm
hNor oi cho>ingan arbitrator. But he would
press ihe question upon gentlemen whether
we might not avoid both. and adopt such a
course a. must eventually put MS in the peace
Iul possession Oi all we demandl His pInn
was, TO refuse the notice, to let the ncp6tis.
lions stand Just where they were. Qor i'm ne
goilaiion IL believed wc had done all ,hnt he
came Us To do and TO rely on our own supcrior
chances oi getting possession of this territory
rom or greatly superior means TO colonzc
aud settle IT,
To do this would avoid the chance Of even.
iudlly losing Oregon entirely At this he
knew uiai some gentlemen would smile. hut
ne would remind such gentlemen that i'm com
padng ourselves with Great Britain. we must
remember that there we've theatres whore ,yc
were conlesscdly aud beyond question her s,.
perior; there were other theatres where ~
were her equal; bat there were also Others
where peculiar and transient Circumstance.
gave To her the superiority. IN this strug,lr
iof Oregon she possessed tha advantage of her
ancient long -es'abiis she'd, aud scdulously cal
u'atcd influence over The Indian tribes and
III" possession at thc forces az hand Of IN.
Hudson Bay Company, and Of all hos. otbe,
forces witch tlwt powerful association wa,s,bI,
lp BRING from ITS various stations ON the
facilic. But wait few years and tho iuInpcc
would chang" circuusian,cswo cast ~ on,
way as they now east ~ her. md ina cou,cs,
u contest there must b.. for ,hc session ol
Oregon, We should be- found tine .tronr mart,