The Oregon. Question.

The Albanu Argus of Friday opens thus
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Inc ALOIHV aTSuS VI iilstJ OpVho N.iN'


THE Ne-Yok Tribune has discovered that we haye no
palid CLAIMS disputed Oregon ISrr,tory ard !. eS
presses astoaishment that the National i
bon ahoqd heye declared our title to tue Oregon clear ana
Ihdspuiable. f" &c. &C.


We call upon the responsible Editor oi the
Argus to repair the gross idJustlcc which some
blundoring or knavish subordinate has here done
us. In the article on which the above is based
we did our best to establish the right OF the
United States to nil Of Oregon South OF 490
North lalitude-that is, $50 miles farther North
than the parallel of Quebec. TIE tbs residue of
the region we term Oregon we were unable, on
pretty thorough investigation, TO make out good
title for this Country, and we frankly SAID So
To be sure, we do not believe the more Northerly
region good for much but to raise bears on, but
that is not the point. The first question is one of
right, and if the region North of 49o were an
Eden instead OF the sterile, rugged frozen wilder
ness it is, we could not. from the data we have
been able to csllect, mako 1t out territory of the
United States. But neither our facts nor our de-
ductions are opposed by the writer in the Argus,
while, BY the language above quoted, the suppress
sion of the ,ohole Of in the Baltimore resolution
respecting Oregon, aud saying aferward ~
Oregon should be surrendered as The Tribune
proposes" he dishonesty gives his readers the
impression that we advocate the surrender of the
whole Territory to Great Britain will The
State Printer allow this injustice to pass mcor-
rected and unrebuked?


We have ever maintained the title of this
Country to the larger and infinitely more valua-
bic portion of the Oregon Territory, while az the
same time we have avowed our conviction that
it would be best for all parties that the whole
should be united in ono independent Republic,
leaving US the Rocky Mountains for natural,
strongly marked and impregnable Western boun.
dary.


1t mey be, as the writer in the Argus asserts,
that we are destined ultimately to absorb al
Mexico, Canada Sc. sc. and become not the
United States of North America but simply
North America. We suspect, however, that this
selfappointed destiny would hardly serve as L
title TO any Of those countries whenever 1t shall
please US to set up a claim to them.