The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-27

xtitutionAL honorabls and proper means
sssk 10 carry out the sxpresssd win % ths
people At tho earliest possible moment.
Not lea should it b q duty 90 assert and
maintain our right 70 that part Of our ter
rieOFy which Ay beyond the Rocky Noun
tAins. Our titls 70 the Oregon country
Was clear and unqusseionAbls: our people
were preparing % psrfsot that title BY
occupation. and the Jurisdiction % our
lAWs and the bsnsIats % our institutions
should b sproad over them IN the far away
region they had choss0fOr their homes.
The sposch Of Polks vas nO more
acceptahlS In England than Tylsr's mes-
cage had been. lt stirred tho British
pres 60 anger. The Times declared that
In spite 0f the Prsaidsnt's mAsauders
and in apito Of what be called constitn-
ti0nal rights the territory Of Oregon
should never be- wresesd from the Britiah
Crown but by war. Lord Clarendon
brought up the matter in the House %
Lords On Ghs night Of April =. he re-
ferrsd To the extraordinary terms In which
Polk had asserted the right Of the United
Statss to tho whole Of Oregon and en-
pressed tho hope that Whils whatsoever
could be Justly claimed would Be readily
conosisd tho 0ovsFnmsnt would not
shrink from VindicAiinG British honor
and British rights Lord Aberdeen in
reply pointed out that Polk's Spesch was
not an address Co COnsress. but a speech
20 the psopls. IL was not To be included
In what hsr MAjesiy's 0Overnment could
recognise ~ oflcial. Her Majestys
Ministers would continue To avail them
selves % every opportunity to bring the
Oregon negotiation to an amicable close.
War was the greatest crime X not tho
greatest folly Of which a nation could
be guilty IL lightly entered into. vet war
Was sometimes lawful ThsTe we're
indeed limits which must not bs passed
But he hoped that they would not be
passed. He hoped for . conclusion ami
cable and satisfactory. should u bs
otherwise hs could only say that Eng
land Possessed rights. clear and unauss-
tioslabls rights which by the blessing Of
God and ths help of the Parliament he
vas fully prepa rcd Ia maintain
In the House Of Commons Lord John
Russell called attention To Polk = words.
Polk had said Our title to the Oregon
country In clear and unqUestionable.-
Now title "a a country like Oregon night
Do acquired in thres Ways-by ancient
discovery. by treaty. by Occupetion and
ssttisfnent. The speaker went on % de-
clare that in all thrsS Of these WavS the
uLs Of England TO Oregon was superior
10 that Of the nited States. He had heard
10 remark Cd that 10 was . matter OF indif.
ference 90 England who owned oregon.
But 10 was not q matter of indifference that
England should sairrsnder any portion Of
hsr possessions TO Q clustering announce
ment. Mir Robsrt Peel did not deny that
q popular appeal had been made to the
passions OF the people % the United
States and that 10 had been made by one
Who should in every possible way have
discounlsnanced such an appeal. He ~
grOetsd che tone aud the temper % the
Presidents spsoch. he would sAy that
England had . right 70 Oregon that was
clear aud unquesiionable. and that II
British rights were invaded he vas ready
and resolved 10 maintain them.
This set the English newspapers going
again. The London Tiaaes was made
proud BY the moderation and frmnsas Of
her Maie-ty'a Government. IL deplorsd
the III regulated. overbearing. aggressive
spirit OF the American democracy. But
since matters wSre a. they were the Amer
leans should he told. should he plainly
told. that their Pre'ensions ~ acted on
amounted to the clearcst oasus osth that
had over yet arisen between Great Britain
and the United States. WiImsT and
!SMifh's Times spoke up for the pOlitensss
and hrmness OF celebrated animal. N
said that certain animals could oo led. but
not driven, and that Bull was one Of
them. " added rather queerly That buii
in his intercourse with foreign nations
prided himself on his courtesy and ex-
ported the same in return The new
Presidents peremptory style had stirred
up Bulls. The BHroPsoH Tt'nes said that
q conflict between the two countries would
infiict deadly injuries on both. England
would suffer most, because her mAnufac-
turing population would be made pauDen
by the cutting on OF the cotton supply.
But the commerce OF America would he
swept from the sea.
Mr.. MoNiaster tells us that Il was firmly
believed IN England that war was AZ hand.
IL a conceivable that the English Govern