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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
December
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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TIío session comitfenced lriSl Mohday, ind the probability is that the Message t ,vll arrive in senson for our ne.t p'apcr. r Varinusspeciilations are aíloat réspecting c lie action of Congress. The ndmission ■f Texas, ihe adjiístment ofthe TafiflT, and he Orcgon queslion, wJH aíFord 1 íty fbr hiariy long speeches. JM r. Polk s situated rather deüc.itely n reference Lo lije Orogon boundary. He has I red our title to that country to be "cleaY ' md unquestionablej" and the West exticct him to maintain lm position at all tin.ards, while the South, especially the colton growing portions, are much , sed to any tiémonstrations "that may lead i to a war with England, and thereby spoil (he ír.nrket for cotton. A writer in the National Intelligencei says : "Probtibly the Adrninistration and ils organ have, in their liaste to take possessien of Orpgon satis ceremonie, . ed the fact, thal one-third ofthe States of this Union grovv colton, and that the culture of cotton is their chief relinnce for the support oí themselves and their dependants. The planters know that if we lose the English market, which takes more than half our erop. there must be an immense fall in the pnce, and by consequence their ruin. ''The cotton crop of thisyear is gpnerally estimated at two and a half millions o f bales. The Continent will requiro about half a million of bales, the United States half a million alsn; but what will become of the residuo if we go to war wilh John Bull ? The planters understand this, and I daré say they will instruct their representatives to avoid a war ABOUT OREGON."

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Signal of Liberty
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