The daily Butte record. [volume] (Oroville [Calif.]) 1858-187?, 1858-06-15

ment for sixty Of the eighty two years
that have elapsed since the declaration
Of Independence, and that the nation
would be found unprosperous should the
north now wrest that power from them.
This may be corrcct-it matters not
how it may be rcgardcd--it is an idle,
foolish, sectional boast. The South
can so regard itifthcy choose. 1t is an
amusement that may be congenial to
the tastes Of accompanies and Adolf
ticnists to ascertain how many Presi-
dents the South has furnished and the
number chosen from the north. Ma
tional democracy has nobler mission
to perform, than to enforce sectional
considerations in the choice of Chief
Executives Of the nation. The asser-
ton OF Senator Hammand may be true,
but it will not, cannot, be denied that
they were chosen because it was under
stood they were national men. TO say
after having been thus chosen, that
they regarded one portion Of the Union
more than another, is not saying much
for the honor ofthe section represented
by the gentleman. 1t would be more
charitable to the illustrious dead to
presume that, after having been chosen
by the voice Of the nation, they had
performed their duty to- the country
to the bcst Of their ability.
The democratic convention Of 1874,
established a platform declaring for the
annexation of Texas and the whole of
Oregon up to fifty four forty. Upon
this ground the campaign was made and
won. The annexation of Texas was
accomplished and our right to the whole
Of Oregon asserted by President Polk
as follows:
1.-THE extraordinary and wholly inadmissiblc
demands Of the British Government, and the
rejection Of the proposition made in defer.
ence alone TO what had been done by my
predecessors. and the implied obligation
which their acts seemed to impose, afford
satisfactory evidence that no compromise
which the United States ought to accept can
be effected. With this conviction. the prop.
osition Of compromise which had been made
and rejected was. by my direction. subse.
qucntly withdrawn. and our title to the
whole Oregon Territory asserted, and. as is
believed, maintained by irrefragable fact,
and arguments"
Previous to the Inauguration of Mr.,
Polk, Mr.. Calhoun, Tylcr's Secretary
of State, had proposed to accept as oul
northern boundary a continuation of the
parallel Of the 49th degree of north
latitude, which was rejected by the
British Minister, who demanded the
Columbia river as the northern bound
airy line. Failing to agree upon terms
tho English Government, having every.
thing TO gain and nothing to lose, pro
posed arbitration, which was rejected
The 10th parallel proposition of Mr.
Calhoun, after the annexation of Texa,
was sustained by Senators Benton, o
Missouri, Haywood, of North Carolina
Mangum of South Carolina, and John
son, Of Maryland, and opposed by Sen
ators Cass, Of Michigan, Allen, of Ohio
and flanagan, Of Indiana. On thu
22nd Of July, Mr.. Buchanan, thel
Secretary ofStato, addressed a note t.
the British Minister at Washington pro
posing the line Of 40 10 the ocean, whicl
was an abandonment of the Baltimor,
platform upon the subject. This prop
osition was subsequently, Withdrawn
and after Congress had abrogatcd th,
articles OF tho Conventions Of 1918 ant
1898, for the joint occupation Of III,
Columbia, the British Government of
fercd the line of 40. President Poll
declared his determination to reject tn,
offer, unless the Senate by the constitu
tional majority required for the rati6
cation Of treaties, should advise the nc
cepsance Of the proposition. They di,
so, by a vote Of al to Ia. Thus wa
the Frazer country lost to us. Thos
who voted for g iiity-four forty or fight,
/. and to sustain the Baltimore platform
were: Allen. Atkinson, Anterior