Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-10-07
GREAT BRITAIN AND THE UNITED STATES.
FROM THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE.

The following article from the London Times contains
some truths with regard to the andgpng propensies of
our people, blended with more quite wrong in
tue assumption that the stability of institutions depend
ant on tne continued extension Of territory aud diffusion
OF people We should be more quiet more stable more
truly republican, II our limits fixed and unchapgeabe
Our national appetite for more is vice. but one for which
Great Britain has little right to reproach u.s.
We no wish 10 acquire another foot of territory hut
we are DESTROYS that what sconesedy SHALL as soon as
possible be entirely ours without partnership or adverse pos
session. II was necessary admit and guaranty the posses
sorry rights of the Hudsons Bay Company in Oregon in franz
ing the treaty. and concele the navigation Of the
Columbia but this is to be submitted only until il can be
peacefully obvaed TO perpetuae the present arrangement
is to expose the two countries ncessant collisions heart
bunngs, and the peril of The distance Oregon alike
from Europe and this country great that the wild border
ers there will he restrained from mutual uds by no sauav
Tears OF law or penalty II is very important that the line
should be run and Marked and all side Of be ours at
the earliest possible period Let the rights Of the Hudsons
Bay Company In Oregon be exlinpushed as soon as
practicable, and the British claim to navigate the Columbia
goes with it, Such is the opinion of our ables jus Let
them navigate if they need to- suerance but not as
their right by treaty. and other laws are 10 he
really extended over that region.
AS 10 Vancoavers island is said to be exceedingly rich
come desirable to but for the present we would rather see
some part Of our national debt paid than any considerable
sum expended to acquire it, And should ever become NO
cessary to we believe will be much more easily procured
from trading money making Company than from the Br-
sh Government Contrary, therefore, to the view Of some
contemporaries we hear with pleasure that this island has been
coded to the Hudson's Bay COMPANY
FROM THE LONDON TINES .EprEMBEn g.
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with regard to territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT particularly de-
serving OF attention. Prussia, in her vital uggles through
the middle OF the last century, not desperately bent
upon consolidation and enlargement than is america at pre-
sent and State which still retains in lis original possessions
sufficient unoccuped land to maintain double TIN amount az
population imposing into its service all the epedients Of
annexation, conquest and purchase with much e,ermna
tlon andenergy as il we're actually gaspng n,hose ex
tremes OF political existence which necessaed th seizure
OF Sesa, and almost paated the first partition of Poland
MS policy may be- perhaps to extent, the malfesta
ton Of that high national purpose occasionally proclaimed by
American statesmen of reducing the ueros parts o. the
continent under their rule upon the faith and sanction of s
tural donations may be simply the natural development
of ambition and activity in thriving, uncontrolled and un
quiet people But with either both Of these motives We
have no doubt there compounded the part Of forecastng
statesmen, strong desire multiply and extend as far as
possible those outlets for discomfort esessness which are
the very lungs OF the American body polite and postpone
TO the enoest practicable period that moment hen the rush.
ing stream OF expansive population length lie checked
and with sudden and terrible recoil What emigration is
or ought to be- to Great Britain, migration is the United
States Their colonies are in their western provinces All
opinions concur in stating that the facilities afforded by the
wilderness Of the Far West spirit adventure or change
have proved the salvation Of the Government and have been
the chief means OF servng intact for seventy years. con-
stuon which, by the side OF recent incarnaons of de-
mocracy seems to few Of the features of steady and
consolidated monarchy The efforts of the American Govern
men to pepeuae the existence and the free action Of
this political sayvave have been commensurate in success
less than in spirit with the necessities OF the case Taken
If
per- may say that the annexation Of Texas the acquisi-
tons from Mexico and the awards in Oregon placed at
the disposal Of the authorities at Washington tract of aud
at least twice spacious the whole presently inhabited
ton Of their possessions. In fact taking the whole breadth
OF the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific between the
5Oh and 30h parallels representing the present domtt
ions Of the United States of America, would substa
tally say that the whole space Of the Missouri
in other words wothds Of the whole territory is yet
nanted and lies in for the capces necessities of
generations TO come 1t is particularly nsrve to observe
with what summary and busnesske prcmpuJe every
Of this accumulated property is secured in the Government
stores and stamped, asit with the national mark for
the undetermined purposes Of the nation
Already that coast the capabilities Of which to
pay little heed has been brought within call of Washing
on and the ports Of the Pacific will be kept in hand by
the Cabinet sitting the shores of the opposite
line OF mail steamers Is forthwith to between New York
and New Orleans at New Orleans il will Join second line
from that port to Chagres the Ishmus Of Panama from
the Ishmus third line Of steamers will the Pacific
to and fom the Columbia river The ink of the treaties is
scarcely dry, and yet January next the direct and regular
communication between New York and Oregon will be such
this time last year, had been established between
London and Ascension. The Americans no sharesmen
in their operations The terms of the convention left certain
posessy rights the Hudsons Bay Company within the
hpner assigned to the United States These the States
are anxious TO purchase Immediately and is probable that
the President without waiting for the re-assembng Of Con-
gess, will negotiate during the recess bera valuation,
his bargain for the whole Of these possessions How much
the price paid for Louisiana California would the Govern
ment Of Washington give for island which TO have
gone begging for twelve months in London7 There this
peculiar interest attached these transactions the Ameri
can there actual operation the
OF those events Of which in world only read
We may look at the North America of 1915 the North
en Europe Of thousand years before, and may watch with
our own eyes the territorial settlement Of continent There
are the Spanards Of the Isthmus the rival Saxons in the
centre, the Scsvonians in the northwestern ANGLE and
powerful element Of Ces interspesed We may imagine
new race OF Franks establishing itself in transatlantic Gau
colony Of Scaves struggling up q Pomerania,
or new swarm Of Huns settling upon a Danube. We
have civilized instead Of babarous deal with and
therein consists the whole difference. With this variation,
nay Tx Our speculative eyes upon continent Of which the
distribution and occupation uncertain and fortutous
mat OF Europe IN s days Of Chaemagne There may
one empire or two OF one races there may be king
dons republics nnumerabe. Nooy can yet calculate the
members Of the American family when the partition and ten
ancy Of the continent shall be at length complete The inter-
est felt in such prospect this is diminished by the
consideration Of the extent which national credit
involved OUr half Of this rast territory hare at least
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