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(From the Glasgow Constitutional, Jany, 14,) The Courier and Inquirer contains the follow. ing note from its correspondent at Washington, upon the supposed Oregon question —
of both patrons will be brought into force. Let us then make adequate preparation. Let us show to the world that we are a suited people, anxious peace, yet prepared for war. Let us show to our contituents that we are ready for duty, and that we meet the assumptions of England, not ma spirit
but in a tone of firmness and self of deprecation, reliance. Let us show to the world that republics are jealous of their rights, and prepared to defend them as well as monarchies.
Mr Magnumn followed against the adoption of the resolutions.
Mr. Allen hoped the resolution would be adopted without a solitary vote against they, and asked if we were so much afraid of Great Britain as to hesi tate upon an inquiry into the state of our national
defences.
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4. Any individual having £100, however large his family may be, is liable to be drawn. If dis- qualified by lameness or otherwise, he must find a substitute.
5. Personal desqualifications on the part of indi. viduals not worth £100, will render them non-la- ble, Il ceruited to by the sergeant
it understood by then connect with the Mi- litla, that Government have not determinel upen enrolling that body through any fear of war, but with a view of affording the Canadas, New Zea. land, and other portions of the colonies, additional military force. London Sua.
MR. VACAULAY'S LETTER. While in common with every friend to peace in England and Europe pre rejoice in the failure of the Whig abortion Cabinet, we cannot allow Lord Grey to have what we call the credit, and what the clubists call the discredit, of the achievement.
whilst be boldly arowe the ag It as regards Great Bri of her owe ambitions policy
ounty whose sway extends fifth of the population of the globe, and nion covers an eighth of its surface, he
having lorn all these vast pos the on where by the sword It th such poi Lists as General Cass that argue the mill resed question of the I colonization. It is not to historians such ens to be that we care to justify the cause and in recante regions of the earth. But were we so inclined, we might demand as a preli minary to the argument an answer to this one question In what corner of that continent which Europe is now told to regard na the natural inheri- tance of the American citizen dwell the primeval national of America, the original owners of the soil? Are they east or west of the Rocky Moun tains! In Oregon, or Texas, or California, or per haps, in the southern states among the slaves of the cotton-grower and sugar-planter? They are
as we say, eulogium, is founded, our opi from their forests and their prairies, first debauch. Dion is on record. We consider it to have been conceived in the worst possible spirit, and publish- ed in the worst possible taste, and so we hesitated not to state immediately on its appearance. It seems, however, that strong as our grounds for this opinion were, much stronger really existed, if we are to credit the Edinburgh Evening Post, That letter contains the following sentence suppressed journal unhesitatingly declares that the original in the publication:-"Lord Grey is the most ca- -
of mankind !" Can this be true? Wo ask Me pricious, the most wayward, and the most arrogant M'Farlane, doos the letter contain such a passaget we quarrel not with him for publishing the letter himself, because that is a matter purely between him and Mr Macaulay. If Mr Macaulay com- plains, we can very well fancy this answer-"Sir,
Mr
of
might ensue to the sea-board from the steam ships | no where exterminated, annihilated, driven forth acaulay's letter, on which the Whig accusa-
Mr Archer forcibly depicted the horrors which
of Great Britain,
Washington, Sunday Night, Dec. 14, 1845, #Mr Buchanan, on Friday last, had an interview The last packet brings a speech of an individual of several hours with Mr Pakentaro, but it is not calling himself General Cass. Of course, all ge, known, though it is surmised, that the Oregon ques-nerals must talk" cannon fire," though, in Ame. tion was brought in some form under consideration.rica, the republican taste runs out ridiculously en It is stated on authority in which I plece reliance, ough into the shape of all kinds of titulars--and that Lord Aberdeen is not entirely satisfied with the she is thick sown with honourables, and similar tone and manner in which the negotiation has been fooleries-majors who serve out bear, and colonels conducted by Mr Pakenham, nor with its having who rub down the heels of one's horse, brigadiers been abruptly brought to a close, and that he has driving stage-coaches, and generals with the pen intimated as much to our Minister at London, and behind their ear-one knows not exactly in what probably to Mr Pakenham, through despatches position of existence this martial personage is to brought by the Cambria."
structions
In the Senate, on the 17th ult., General Cass moved the adoption of the resolutions to wit, in ions to the committee on naval affairs, to in- quire into the condition of the navy, and to the military committee to jostitute a similar inquiry in to the condition of the land defences, and to the militia committee respecting its re-organization, all of which inquiries were to be considered with the view of an efficient preparation, by land and sea, against the dangers apgrohended of a foreign in vasion, General Cass said, it was impossible to read the annual message of the President, and the
The discussion was going on when the report left. ed, then slaughtered, by the ancestors and fellow citizens of General Cass. An if he will venture to tom his views from the country of his birth and pride, and look upon the boundless plains of India, we will show him a far different result of British government, and, if be likes the word, of British aggression Thera let him look around and see the natives of Hindostan, from Cape Comoria to the roots of the Himalayas, wherever our dominion extends and our influence can be felt, wherever the advantages of British protection are not counteract- ed by the oppression of their own princes, peace. ful, contented, happy, improved in every quality both of body and mind. Then let him contron the fate of the North American Indian under the rule of the United States with that of the Hindoo under British dominion, and learn to restrain the fury of his declamation within the bounds of truth and justice.
be found.
States.
bave just as good a right to publish a private let fer as you had to divulge a private conversation," and no doubt, in Whig ethics, this would be so. That England will persist in her claims, Ge. But we do ask, since this letter was published at all veral Cass may be well assured. England has al. why was it garbled ? How can we tell that it does not contain an equally grapie sketch of some of ready made immense concessions for the sake of the other visiters at Chesham Place? We should, arriving at an amicable settlement, and would, we above all things, desire to see the brilliant es doubt not, still be disinclined to stickle fer a few miles of desert, more or less; bat since the 4th of sayist's eulogium on the rest of his colleagues. April last nothing has occurred to change the resolut is quite clear, if Lord Grey could have overcome tion then so firmly expressed by the Ministers of would have eat in the Cabinet, ay, and taken "any his Foreign Office objection, that Mr Macaulay
Commentaries of the public press, without the aptitude. Thus, we have, in this perfection of Go. the Crown in both Houses, and General Cass may office or no office," co operating with "the most ar
rest aseurred that no inch of British territory will be surrendered to the noisy clamour of a faction in prose herself to any just claims that America may set forward through her negotiators, or establish
(From the Times. }
in arbitration.
rogant, the most way ward, and the most capricious of mankind" for the good of the country all for The nuble-aduled crea- ture is capable of any sacrifice. And he looks it. We maintain he looks it, let old Daniel undervalue his beauty as he may. After this, we really sub. On the hand, is war the inevitable result of our
mit that we are entitled to the sketches," Seri- persisting in claims which have been recogniseously, however, this matter must not rest where it in some measure at least, for a period of forty years? No. The republic of American is not sonkis. If the sentence quoted by the Edinburgh pa- so low as to be driven into hostilities by the deper is not con ained in the letter, M'Farlane is clamations of such men as General Casa. There bound to say so, out of pure justice to Mr Mucan- are still among her citizens many to whora berlay, even though Lord Grey should forfeit the honour is dear, and her best interests not unknown. panegyric. But, if the sentence so quoted really To them we look to guide the excited passions of does form part of that letter, what an awful scene. the people. Even Mr Polk, unequivocal as is the does it open to the country! But we positively declaration of his opinion on the question of Ore cannot bring ourselves to believe, either that Me gon, is not, we believe, prepared to go to war for Macaulay ever penned such a sentence, or that he so worthless a possession. His message contains entertains such an opinion of the noble Lord. It is same sound commercial views; and though he may utterly impossible that he could have contemplated have thought it expedient to pay a tribule in words sitting in the same Cabinet with such a man! to the great democratic elements of the constitution is monstrous to suppose that he could have con- he is called to wield, it does not follow that, in sented to see the colonies of England consigued to the care of "the most arrogant, the most wayward, action, he will forget-that England is the bes customer of America.
and the most capricious of mankind "" His duty to Lord John Russell, to his Sovereign, and to his country, all forbid such a supp sition. Mr Mac. aulsy had not to learn Lord Grey's character in Chesham Place He know him long, and had official opportunities of studving that character. We repeat, therefore, it to be utterly impossible that, if such was his opinion, he could ever have countenanced Lord John Russell's committing England's dearest interests to his arrogance, his waywardness, or his caprice." We await with impatience, but at the same time with confidence, Mr Macaulay's indignant denied of the imputation.
But the General has adopted the war style in all its effronteryAmerica must go on; her march is destiny; she must conquer; Nature has said, she must command, "and this rhodomontade is the morality of the republic! "We must have Califor nia," cries another braggadocio-California being a province of Mexico, and Mexico being at peace with the United States. We must have Cuba, says another heroic booby-Cuba being a Spanish colony, and Spain being at peace with the United "We must have everything that we can seize, ," is the general chorus of the American mul- prehension that a crisis is arriving which will dem vernments-in this purest legislation in this model and the cordial co-operation of the whole country. state of the "rights of man, the most barefaced, The President tells us in his Message that negoti... | broad, and unqualified declaration of the wrong the United States, however amenable England may the good of the country! ations are closed; that the claims of the two nations of man" that the world ever witnessed. Even Na have failed to be settled by arbitration, The influ poleon, in asserting the principle, had the decency ence of England with the European powers, from to cloak it under the pretext of injuries suffored, or which an arbitrator would have had to be chosen, safety to be obtained. Yet, for the attempt to put and doubtless decided our authorities against the his principle in practice, Napoleon was cast into process; that we had better hold on than submit to the dungeon when he died, and Frace was trampl a Royal arbitrator. Conceding his entire and cor-ed by the armies of Europe.--Britannia, dial adhesion to the views of the President, in the present attitude between the two nations, arising from their conflicting claims, what are we to do ? Shall we recede, or stand still, or go on? No recede It is the misfortune, if not the vice, of democra was not to be thought of at this state of the question. tic institutions, that they encourage, where they There was nothing to be gained from a national ought to restrain, the passions of unprincipled men. pusillanimity we cannot purchase present pesce That pressure from without, which acts beneficially at the expense of the national hancur. It would but at rare intervals upon the solid power of a well. be "sowing the wind, and reaping the whirlwind," constituted state, being at once the index of the peo- No! He (General Cass) would now repeat what ple's will and the consequence of the people's he had expressed heretofore, that it was better to necessities-this pressure, when driven against the fight for the first inch of Oregon than the last fluctuating forces of a republican Government, is better to meet the enemy at the threshold, than apt to overwhelm them altogether, and by haster await his approach to the hearthstone. And, how ing deliberations, that should be slow and cautious ever separated now by party differences or by space, to a premature conclusion, is certain to plunge the all parties throughout the Union, to its extremities, country into a dissastrous confusion, and possibly he knew would be united in defence of the national into lasting rain. In this anarchic tendency of rights. Our destiny is onward-its western mov. democratic institutions, the true cause is to be found proent cannot be resisted; you might as well at of much that is objectionable in the Message of the tempt to stay the waves of the Pacific as the tide of President of the United States. And to the like Sandwich Island papers, published in English at Honolulu Oshu, to the tet of September. Judging our emigration setung in that direction. We can origin may be attributed the inflammatory haran not recoile we cannot stand still our claim most gues that are now resounding throughout America from these papers, the island are making rapid ad vances is civilization, as they contain a large num- be maintained or abandoned. Our hardy popula. co the subject of the Oregon houndary.ber of commercial advertisements, and abundance
The speech of General Casa!in the Senate of tion of Oregon demanded the support of the Gov- ernment, or they would establish a government of Washington, is doubtless a faithful expression of their own. We had an explicit and able memorial the feelings of a certain party in the United States upon this very subject last week, seting forth that a party which, if it be as strong in wealth and ta the memorialists wore tired of waiting for you and tent as in numbers, may succeed, as it now threatens, would cast off all diplomatic chicanery and national in destroying the peace of Europe. The voice of raised by pusillanimity, and set up for themselves. It was General Cass is the echo of the war cry
mpossible that a people under two distinct govern the wandering settlers of the far west, who would ments at the annus time, as are the people of Oregon, fain secure to themselves the undivided possession could under the existing state of things, long remain of a country yet virgin to the arms of civilization, so. This joint government was not designed for His supporters are, like himself, the licentious de a civilized and growing community, nor adapted to magogues of a faction, who are as carelen as they thepi, and if continued could not fail to lead to are ignorant of the true interests of their country bloodshed and intestine war. If we can neither, What has America to expect from war? i cannot therefore, retrace our steps nor chock them, we to that the waters and the valleys of the Columbia must go on. We must give the twelvemonths are a prize of worth enough in themselves to outs potice, and prepare for the alternative that awaits balance the blessings of peace, and of a great com. their expiration Peaceful in its character as will mercial importance as to justify the sacrifice of all be the notice required, if at the termination of the the foreign trade of the entire country. It is not time designated, if it shall be required, and Great credible that the partizans of wax are really imcretary of State Wylie and Mr Hooper, Acting Britain persista in her claim, it most amount at once pressed with a conviction that the national hour
is involved in the present dispute betwear Barto to a declaration of wor-it must at once bring ou the struggle. It was to be hoped that England and America. No man who regards the length of would yield, rightfully and bonuarably, in order tot me-some forty years-it has been pendlar can the peaceful settlement of this question. But will pretend for a moment to beliere the hour of either the 1 It was safest to act upon the conclusion that country to be seriously at stake. If thes, it be cot sho will nes. When did the, in any case where the mere sequisition of the land, nor the tinhca she had faster Tupon a claim in ferritory or power, tion of the nation's dignity, to what third case shall relinquish is of her own accord / Never. She had we look for the salives of the warging in the exhibited so symptoms of relazion of her ball Unital States! Let Geers! Can hissellest upon Crem Trafforded no pleasure to rorew his own teens and thous of the Arson he serv her ambitious poli
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THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. We have received some extracts from a file of
of that free discussion which indicates a state of society that has interests to preserve. We also find that the Hawaiians have Legislative Chambers, Ministers of State, and a court in which etiquette preserved with as much precision at St James's. Ang the extracts alluded to is a report made to the legislature by Mr Wylie, the minister of foreign affairs, in which will be found the rise and progress of the island independence, with several passages from the correspondence of the British government with our consol, General Miller. We have also a petition from certain native chiefs, who, jealous of the location and terprise of foreign ers, protested against strangers being allowed to take the oath of allegiance to King Kamehamehe IV., with the negative answer made by Majesty's ministers to those representations. We have then the correspondence that took place between Air Be. Commissioner of the United States, who undertook e relations, on the ground that Acheronau isjon Kas been indared to transfer thee adeghend on the eli Kamehameha, and that the law court of the rale fured to listen to his As an iifimul speciein of the march of the Sandwich Island in all not omit to say that the Court sewaas has abundant plague
recording the dinner and fites given by the King. with the base of the peruenges bonnered by in- visions to the rule. Alas not abonld was torres that Bossain Cahi has both a Count of Choseery and so lasirens Debtor's Court-Gla
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We now turn to the letter, as published, which we have a right to assume to be, genuine, because it has not been disclaimed. That letter intimates that Lord Grey's obstinacy prevented the formation We positively deny the of the Whig Government. fact. We have good reason for so doing. It fell to pieces from its own inherent feebleness. an abortion an abortion without life. Lord Grey's secession had just as little instrumentality in the destruction of the Government as it had in 1830, when he was suffered to sucede without a murmur. Lord Grey shall not be male the scape-gout if we can help it. Let him answer to his party and his country for his real errors, but we say, and we may advisedly, to assert that he was the cause of the country's not having what Mr Macaulay mis- calls "a Liberal Clovernment" is pure invention. If we are asked, whether we deny that Lord Gray refused to sit in a Cabinet where Lord Palmaraton was dies to sit as Foreign Minister, our answer is, we do no such thing. On the contrary, we admit is Lord Oray acted like an honese man. Ito thought Lord Palmerton in auch an office would have risked the pesse of Europe; and, so thinking, te dientet from the appointment. Lord Cheer say hase bima moimaton, but he acted on his cate selations conciction, and he deserves gradit, unl not ablamay. We may this with perfect disinterest edes We differ for Earl Gray in polities, and casar interchanged a word with him in our liras. We are now going to murpriss: Mr Macualay, and, no dinht, the country also Wa smart then, plaine ly, that ford daar was not al mo in his opinions.
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