TIE OREGON QUESTION.
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Among the important questions that ag


itated the public mind during the last Pres


idential contest, the Oregon Question iustl!


occupied a prominent position, and the Of


feet the decision Of the American people
is likely to produce, and the weighty con


sequences involved, have attracted toward.


it universal attention. Recent occurrence,


render the belief war between two Of the


most powerful nations on the globe, Great


Britain and the United States, win be the
result--and the mutterings of disconteni
which are heard from beyond the Atlantic,
betoken its approach.


Many Of our citizens impelled BY an en-.
terprising and adventurous spirit, for num-


Der Of years have been emigrating to the


" far west'' and establishing homes in the
distant Territory Of Oregon-and in the
recent contest it was made an issue wheth-
er our government should take effective
measures for its occupancy, and the exten-
sion of its laws over those who had left the
homes of their youth, severed the link that
bound them to their native land, and fixed
their destiny in the wild forests Of the west.
True to their own interest, and attentive to
the calls Of humanity, they determined
speedily to accomplish the noble project.


President Polk with the frnness and de-
dision which it becomes the Chief Magis-
.trate to act on all questions, appertaining
to the welfare ofhis country, reiterated the
expressed win Of the people, and emphati.
cally asserted the justice Of our title 70 that
valuable and vast Territory. No sooner
was his declaration made and borne across
the Atlantic than, did tho English lion fiiri-
Ously shake It's manc, and commenced its
angry growL That nation ever envious q
the growing prosperity Of the American
nation, and brilliancy Of is rising fame
have vigilanily watched its every move
ment, eagerly seeking some pFeiext fol
blazonina forth % she word an act which
Il may consirue inso one of wrong and in
iustice-actuated by such motives they are
denomcine tie American people in the
most malignant terms. ior the position they
have assumed ID regard 70 the Oregon
Territory. They have boldly threatened
unless the independent freemen Of the Uni
ted States yeild the important stand they
have taken, and resign the privilege Of ex-
sending the egis Of their protection over
American citizens inhabiting American
sod, that fhey win again hurl at them the
thunasfbol,s e var and decide that great
question on the baHlefeId. But they win
find the AHieTiean people have not lost the
noble spirit which promptedtheir ancestors
in the haIlOWed days Of '76 to strike down
the lion Of British despotism, and plant in