Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1846-01-29

/ zens ofoverpeopied countries are entitled
to seek FOR and take possession OF new and
unoccupied lands. They are entitled &c
} transplant the institutions which habit
. has made second nature TO them TO iheli
, new homes.
The European colonist has the same
. right to plant monarchcal and aris;ocrat-
, zeal institutions in the territories 10 whlet
Russia and Great Britain have eslsbiished
their preferable right Determination, al
1.-THE United States colonist has 10 plant
, democratic institutions IN the territory on
} which his government has laid its hands,
4 In point Of equity, The claims Of the Euro
pean eolonisis are the stronger; for tier
overpeopled countries leave them no OPP
/ tion but TO em,grste, while within the SCI.
Elements Of the United States the popula.
lion is insufficient 10 occupy the SOIL
Tho Polk and Monroe policy is the dog.
n-ihe-manger policy, Of excluding Eu,
, ropeaas from regions which thsIr own
coun,rymen will be unable 10 occupy for
, centuries to come.
Ii has It's original 10 bigote1 political
sectarianism which can see nothing good
except in its owe political institutions, and
r would compel all settlers in America TO
r adopt them. 1t betfays on the part Of the
Americans a want OF faith in the good.
ness Of their own institutions; if sincere
and consistent IN their belief Of their ex-
cellence, they would leave lhem to be
+ voluntarily adopted by the newcomers,
, instead of trying to make submission to
them condition Of settlement. The aim
of this attempt TO prevent Earopean
colonization, to extend the political influ-
ence Of tho American Government, MT to
promote the individual prosperity 81
American citizens.
The pride Of professional politicians
may be graulied, and their empluments
increased, by widening the sphere within
which the authority OF the central govern
meut at Washington and the local ma
, chinery Of government throughout the
I. Union is paramount; but private citizens
can only be benefited by removing every
obstacle to the speedy settlement and cul-
tivation Of the waste. The imposition
of republican institutions is an obstacle 10
European colonization. The American
citizen who sacrifices real individual in.
teres.s to crafty the vanity Of this govern
ment, is as simple as the European sub
r jec, who does SO to pamper the pride Of a
monarch.
The London Sun Of the 23d ult. says :
"Tbe Message of the President OF the
United States, which has been made
public this morning, has been the subject
of general conversation in circles. II is on
the whole considered less warlike than
was anticipated; and the Funds have in
consequence advanced about half per cent.
A saving clause exists in the Polk speech
to the effect, that should Congress origi-
nate any step for the settlement Of the
Oregon question, he would be most ready
to acouiesce 10 i. As for the talk OF
maintaining the honor Of the Republic in
this matter, or after the twelve months
notice expires, actual and menacing steps
will be taken to assert a right to The whole
of Oregon, it is treated with something ap
preaching ridicule in the City,"
The Paris correspondent Of Wilmer
& Smiths European Times says
On Tuesday evening Presiden! Folks
Message arrived in this city. Most Ger.
iainly Il has not created anything like so
much sensation as was expected. With
the exception of the Moniteur and the
Lurnal Des Debates, none OF the news.
E papers have given It entire, the Preslden-
tial veIboseness being too much for their
: scanty dimensions. All, however, have
made comments upon il, but, strangely to
say they have been marvellously lnsignih-
cant. Rarely was Message expected
with greater interest, and rarely has one
fallen more fatty"
From the London Times Of Jan. 8.
We think it must be toIerably clear 10
the generality ofunprejudiced minds that,
on grounds of positive right, the Amerl-
can Republic cannot claim the Oregon
territory; and we think it equally clear
that the matter cannot be determined at
all on grounds OF abstract right. In this
r respect the United States are nearly in
the predicament as Spain was in the year
1889. Span asserted proud and un.
limited cleim to the whole north west
coast of America. In the belief, or assn
, med behei, oil just tile 10 tnls vast EN-
pre-, seized on the ships, The cargoes, and
the persons oil British sailors, and destroy
ed, the huts and factories Of British set
tiers. The Spanish Minister, Florida
Blanca, supported the violence Of Don
Estevan in a memorial which justified the
pretensions urged by the former in favor
Of his country TO district extending as
far as the 62d parallel Of north latitude. -
But when the matter was silted, II came
out that these gigantic pretensons rested
f on vague expression in the 9Th article
of the treaty of Utrecht that no insignia
Of Spanish sovereignty had been exclu.
sively displayed, no Spanish settlements
exclusively founded on that coast That
there had been Spanish settlers was true.
That Spanish vessels had been n the hab-
it of touching there was also true. True,
TOO, that those seas had 10 that and the
preceding century been secured by Span.
lsh buccaneers. But it was afterwards
implied by the concessions, as II had been
before admitted 10 the words, ofthe Span
ish Court, that its rights to that coast
/, and these ports were "StiN mol quite Ger.