Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1847-05-29


D,d they never dsnaunee ~ laF ,skiar soumd some
thing short ~ tlsr.. itsm which lhsy sArrwarsls
reoedcd uaal slry had erme almost - Gar short ~
ours did ~ thr,rs D,d IAsy ns, hold a.
up " our couatFyncn marnl traitors !" Coo tai.
ing the very ground which u,sy themselves aaer.
wards gladly fell bark spcn Lsi as see. Win.
oui searching very lar. ~ ara aide 10 present IL
the Editor IL ihs : Union" fran bic eva columns.
the following evidence % what SORT ~ reserve =
he and the Cabine, whom Ne implicaies IN his
editorial conrsel dcemcd Il III 20 msintam' pend
ing the Oregon negotiation
III rWt tsles 80 ~, tsia
Il Ths Gr-s proposition ~ puf OsseFneui 9Th regard h.
the iph paraI u llue Va made IN lsls wh.a asahsr
party claimed Substitute pos-eaa0. distinctly asclar
only IN the dscusa. bu rhs onaysn1ian whish ended
Grea, Britain might ,hen have made ssay wah spain
curing 10 herself the rights ahch ssg1issl By s
Florida treaty. aud thu. materially dirani.ing sarpRgh
Of our tle against hst@c, and such probably the IL
tcnton Of her Governmen, tr tms when conracd
the convention u ISIS Agains tr consequence sach
an arrangement ppss 70 provide and lhr ssh paral
lei proposed by The ns Coz dss
naiing the portions which zach might thus acqae II was
rejected, aud the United States hound ~ the Os
when they made their treaty with spain. sRce. When
this offer renewed n ls2i and In 1885 when the i9h
parallel proposed deaiiye ne separation between
the possessions Of The too pafsat nshsr thcue periods
the question by any well understood pre-
sent The most important historical proofs Of the claims 81
the United States then Wantns may be e,ay en
by examining the reports Of both those negotiations and h
United STATES might then HARE yed ,rL0ai hss ~ Loaoy
at least, MUCH WHICH MUST NOW BE RETAINED
AT ALL HAZARDS"
az OCTOBER -, lsA5.
"Englsh policy in relation 10 Texas to Oregon 10 Cab
orna has all along staggered under the burden q this dead
conviction palsies the Of British power this cont
nent. To hold inch Of ground here Cor single year.
England rely and she does rely wholly on her army
and her feet. Let i, 10 understood tina, Il is on the
clear and qesiionab right have the country that
we rest our claim, and aRE rRErAaEn ASSERT m"
UNION OCTOBER 81, ls45.
"The Democratic Congress about to assemble will
have great duty do relation to Oregon and we believe
that, coming Washington fresh from conference with their
constituents, they will together resolved do H. With
the strong resolutions Of the Baltimore Convention, and the
manly and patriotic inaugural words Of the President yet vivid
in memory cannot doub, that the Administration is
fully prepared perform with rmness constitutional duty
of recommending Congress all such measures may be
deemed essential to the full and efficient protection Of oil
rights orer EVERY non the shore
RiGHrFUL PROPERTY rHE UsIrEn STATES. This terri
tory lying between the Rocky mountains and the Pacific
ocesndrained mainly by the Columbia nver--bounded on
the NORTH the east and the south by mountain chains and
the west by the ocean-extends from latitude 42o a
tuds $40 40 north 1t contains than 400 600 square
miles that is Is than large France and
about hnf large all the States subject Fede
raj Constitution. The american people claim, against al
other nations, this choh domain part Of SOIL
The last piece of evidence we shall offer on this
subject from the columns of " the Union" is the |
rarest and the best:
IL the National Intelligencer were the arbiter |
we should have the boundary line of Texas con- |
fined to the Nueces, instead of being extended to
the Rio del Norte; and we should probably see |
the British line of the Oregon run the forty
ninth parallel to the Columbia river, and the navi-
CATION of the river, and perhaps the territory 10
/. the north Of it, awarded to Great Britain We
might indeed, have our just title 10 Oregon con-
: verted into perfect humbug," DC.
Union, December s, ls45.
The line which the Government Editor here sup
poses have proposed, he, with that consderate
reserve" which he says that he observed con.
corning the proper line pending the negotiation,
represents, in not exactly diplomatic phrase, as con-
vertng claim of title to Oregon into !" perfect
humbug." We do not know what more decisive con-
domination he could have passed upon our supposed
conception of proper line, than that the adoption
of it would convert his and the Executives claim
to "the whole of Oregon into "perfect hum
bug" in which opinion, by the way, cannot
say that we substantially differed from them. The
cream of the joke is, however, that the line con-
corning which this declaration was made by the
Union,'' was the identical line which was, with
in few months afterwards, actually proposed by
the British Government, entertained by the Ex-
eculive, and Thanks to the wisdom of the Senate y
finally established by Treaty between the two
countries in the appreciation of which Treaty the
Union and all its coadjutors have neffaceably
stamped its true character their braggadoco cry
of I" the whole of Oregon or none," and on their
accusation of moral treason " directed against all
who did not choose TO make themselves ridiculous
by braying the same note.
The Union" however, further says, in its lead
er Of Wednesday night:
"The National Intelligencer totally misrepre-
: sents what we said about SANTA ANNA We (.
scarcely need repeat what said but the other
day which is, in fact, the same that we formerly
said, and which is now so grossly misrepresened
by the National Intelligencer.'"
To enable the reader to Judge for himself how far
we have misrepresented the course of the Union, it
Is enough to say, that, although we now know Of
fcially, from the President himself that lin conse-