TRE oREGON QUESTION.
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When an'heir 10 properly attempts
10 lnresiall the results Il lime andkills his
relation 10 gain an immediate possession.
an indignant community stamps ils burn.
ing brand upon his folly and crime. Our
haste IN reference 10 Oregon may have
less gnilI ID il. bat not less folly. We
rnn the hazards Of war. and al The mise
ries which Tsr Lrings with il. q get imme-
diale possession Of that hich lime must
inevitably make ours.


Nine or zen Americans 10 one Erglish-
man are now settling there; when. there
fore. the population Of lhal country shall
reach if.y thousand. forty-iye ihonsand
will he Amer cans; when il shall reach .
hundred thousand. ninety thousand will be
Americans. Now, does any man in his
sober senses believe that these ninety
thousand are going 10 take their not ons
OF civil freedum and Of civil government
from The remaining ten ihousandl Does
any man believe thai these ninety thous-
and will forget their lineage. lase their
sympathy With republican institutions,
and swearallrgiance tothe British Crownl
There is just about as much danger that
the people sf Maine or Vermont silI 60
over TO Great Britain as that the people Of
Oregon will. Il is slander on their in
telligence and love Of freedom 10 predict
such result.


All, therefore, that we have 10 do, in
order TO come into secure possession oil
Oregon, is 10 let her alone. Time will
make her ours, without any fighting eth.
'er with goose-quills or guns. She is
bound 10 US by the grea, laws Of affinity
and symnaihy. laws which can be defeat
ed only by rashness and folly. She viii
come into our arms just as naturally and
inevitably as vapnrs rising up from the sea,
floating of TO distant mountains, and there
becoming condensed into showers, return
i exulting streams 10 their parent ocean,
Blu, suppose worst comes TO worst. and
we have 10 fgh, for Oregon; even in thai
event the longer We put off the conflict
the better for us. With Ninety thousand
Americans there and ten thousand Eng.
lish, or one hundred and eighty thousand
Americans and twenty thousand English,
who can doubt what the issue would be!
We can see reasons why England should
wish TO push this matter to an issue now,
but none why America should, unless il
be that Misrepresentation which overleaps
itself and f,hs on the other side.


North .7merican.