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OREGON MEETING IN LLINoIs.-On the Sth inst.
there was meeting held IN Edgar county IN rela


ton to the Oregon question; David Longnecker,
Esq, was chairman. 1t was resolved tina; the ter
ritory lying between 42o and SO North is ours by
treaty, discovery, exploration, and occupation; that
Mr. Polk was right in asserting our clear and un-
questionable title, and that negotiation had tailed
after long trial, 1t was time to abandon the JOINT
occupation arrangement, and build forts from the
Missouri to the Columbia, at suitable distances,
also to extend the laws of the United States over
that country. Ii was also resolved that credit was
due TO the President IN this matter, that negotiation
must be speedily terminated, and that no foreign in