...no place in it. It is necessary to recall the words of the Baltimore convention respecting Oregon: "Resolved, That our title to the whole of the territory...ought to be ceded to England or any other power." Compare this with the statement in Polk's Inaugural Address: "Nor will it become in less degree my...

...States "to the whole of the territory of Oregon" was "clear and unquestionable," and that ''no part of the same ought to be ceded to England, or any other power." President Polk in his inaugural address made "the same declaration in the very same words, with marks...