The Life of Thomas Hart Benton
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Some have thought our true policy was to follow Calhoun's advice and merely wait, thus letting the inrush of American settlers soon control the whole region in our interest, and this is often a wise national policy; but in this particular instance (as Benton intimated in his speech on February 19) some collision would surely have occurred in the region and blood have been spilled, and in the excited state of feel- ing in the two countries this would almost certainly have precipitated a war. It ...is a curious study in the methods of human affairs that it was only the "bluff" of the Fifty-Four-Forties that at length secured for us so rea- sonably fair a settlement, but we can at least console our- selves with the reflection that, if we did secure our point by a not inspiring attack of blatancy, our opponent had for the better part of half a century followed the poli- tician's advice to " claim everything," and had insisted upon rights in the valley of the Columbia to which she was far less entitled than were we to the whole of Oregon.
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Some have thought our true policy was to follow Calhoun's advice and merely wait, thus letting the inrush of American settlers soon control the whole region in our interest, and this is often a wise national policy; but in this particular instance (as Benton intimated in his speech on February 19) some collision would surely have occurred in the region and blood have been spilled, and in the excited state of feel- ing in the two countries this would almost certainly have precipitated a war. It ...is a curious study in the methods of human affairs that it was only the "bluff" of the Fifty-Four-Forties that at length secured for us so rea- sonably fair a settlement, but we can at least console our- selves with the reflection that, if we did secure our point by a not inspiring attack of blatancy, our opponent had for the better part of half a century followed the poli- tician's advice to " claim everything," and had insisted upon rights in the valley of the Columbia to which she was far less entitled than were we to the whole of Oregon.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Meigs, William Montgomery, 1852-1929 to read onlineMoreLess
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