Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-07-09
COURSE OF THE ADMINISTRA.
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TON.
Fifteen months of Mr.. Polk's admin
istratIon have elapsed; let US briefly re-
view them, beginning with our foreign
relations.
He came to the chief magistracy of
this republic, with Great Britain and
Mexico threatening war on the United
States, with France, the ally oe those
two nations, almost offensive and de-
fensive, and not power in the world
our ally, if even our well. wisher.
He had combined and formidable
party to contend against his measures
at home, and the greatest powers, mari
time and territorial, of the globe, his
foreign antagonists.
universal belief of what, to be sure,
is as yet only kno ION to few, be reli-
able evidence, our difficulties with Eng.
land are amicably and honorably settl-
ed. In all controversies, and on all oc-
caslons, to end the dispute without loss
or discredit, is great consummatian.
Mr.. Madson's administration closed
the war flS12 gloriously, by treaty
which did not exactly secure us against
recurrence of the causes of the con-
filct. SO it will soon become the pre-
vaiing opinion that Mr.. Polk has secur-
ed more than any preceding administra-
ton could obtain; and what he was, in
view Of all the circumstances, DO ind to
accept, in the recentpreventlon of a rup-
ture with England. Oregon from the
Columbia to 49o will be found to be
most desirable acquisition; an acquisi-
ton it is, because, however the right
.5ul title may have stood, the possession
under the convention has been from the
first against US. The mouth of Fra
zer's river will be found near to, if not
at ago. The consistency of the Presi-
dent, the honor ofthe country, and an
other thirty years ofpeace and prosperi-
ty, will soon appear as the result ofthe
settlement of the Oregon controversy.
So much, in their exterior relations,
for the United States and Great Britain.
AS to France: those only can appre-
ciate the influence of Mr.. Folks admin.
istration on that wonderful people, las
Washington once called the French,
who are best acquainted with them.
The Presidents annual message last
December was an experiment which o.
pens new American era. The Texas
fooleries of the British minister there,
(Elliott,) and the French minister
there, (Allaye de Cuyprey,( were re-
buked In tone, temper, and fact, by
such language and measures as more
than crushed European interference in
American quarrels-more than crushed
it, rendered it contemplate and ridicu-
lous. In the last debates, 28th of
May, of the French parliament, the OPP
position leader (Theirs) and the prime
minister ( Guizot) vie with each other
which shall treat the power ofthe great
country, as they never fail to call it,
with most respect. Since the Polk adj
ministration began, France, in spite of
her government, and more than ever,
has become the ally of the United
States.
{ Mexico lies at our mercy. No Eng
y fish, French, Spanish, or other arm will
Z be raised to ward off the blows which
we must deal. The thorough going
course ofthe Polk administration with
Mexico-frst, in the earnest and a.
most humble solicitation of peace, and
then in the vigorous infection Of war
this course ENSURES speedy and salts
factory, long-lasting, prosperous, and
profitable peace, with Mexico. No
wise man will complain ofthe expense,
for the expense will be a hundred-fold
repaid to us in the first ten years after
the war; and no benevolent man will
depIore hostillties which were the for
tunate breaking Of an imposthume of
virtulent matter, incurable but by the
very method that Providence ordained
as cure. Instead Of peace like war,