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Oregon

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
December
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
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At the recent Whig Meeting nt Fancuil Hall, Daniel Webster referred at lengt h lo the Oregon question. Tlie followiug extract frum his speech there will interest our readers. Tliere are many renbous to believe that Webster's predictions willsuon beconie matter of history, notwithstanding the readinesa of of the Pü'.kites tgo to war in vindication of "our right to the wlmle of Oregon." "Where is Oregon? On tlic shores of tlie Pacific, thrce Úíourahd miles fiom ns, and tvvice as far froin Enqlnud. Who is to 6etlle il? Americans mainly: some seulers'undouhicd!y from Enghmd; but 11 Jlnglo-Sttxons; oll m'cri educatcd ín notions of independent government,and nll self-dependent. And nou let me ank if thero be any sensible ium in the whole United Statns wlio will say for a moment that when fifty or n himdrrd (honsand persons of this doscriptio'n shnll find themselvrs on the shores of the fucific Ocran, (lia) they will long consent to bc vinder the u1ik either of the American Congrreefi or the British Parliament. They will ra se a standard for themfelves and thïy onght to do it. I lnok forward to the period when they will do this as not so far distant, but that inany now present, and those not ainong ihe yoüngent of usr, will see a great Pacific republican nation. I believe ih.it i'. ia in the course of Provióence and of human destiny that a great state is to arisc, of Eiijrlish and American descent, whosc power will be eslnbüshed over the country on ihe shnresiif Ihe Facifin; and all tlmse righls of natural and politieel liberty, all those croat principies that both nations have inherited from their fatherp, will be transmitted through us to so that thore will exist at the mouth of the Columbio, or more probably furt her South, a reut Pucific Ilrpublic, a nation where our c'hildren may go for n residence, st'parating themselves from this Governmrnt, and forniing an in'egrul part of a new Govcrnmrnt, half way bet ween England and China; in the most healthful, ferfile, nnd de&irable portion of the globe, nnd quite loo for remote from Europe and from this sideof the Ainerican continent to be undcr the governmcntal iufluence of either country."

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Signal of Liberty
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