{"newspaper_name": "Litchfield enquirer.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
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l THE OREGON NEGOTIATION is said to have ter minated at Washington, in the draft of treaty es- tablishing the forty ninth parallel the boundary between the United States and England, being merely the extension of the eastern Rocky Moun- tain boundary along the parallel of latitude, 1 to the Pacific Ocean. This is yielding territory three hundred miles in width from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific, to which MT. Polk in his l Inaugural aveIed our title to be ssclear and ur- questionable" This report may be only diplo- matic " fceler," put forth at the present time 10 ascertain the views of the press and the people of |lhe United States on that line as compromises The U. s. Journal, the Washington organ of the. Young Democracy says: ''We desile the Execu- tive to be strong in the affections of the Democrat I ic people, and we shall do what we can to secure result so desirable; but we can have no compro- mise upon the 49th degree of north latitude. It such compromise has been agreed upon it will be rejected by the American Senate, and be washed out in the blood of battle on new fields of glory in the wilderness of the West.'

 Our Government having long ago, through MT.

 Rush, offered to make the 49th degree the bounda- ry, we can see no impropriety in now agreeing up- on that line; and we believe the American peorle I generally would be gratifed if the negotiation should result in a.eomr:omise so reasonable and proper, by which 9cenlrcversy of long standing may be brought to an honorable and peaceful ter- imitation.