The Yazoo Democrat

HON. ROBERT J. WALKER.

THE OREGON QUESTION.

Like death, the arrows of detraction "love a shining mark."

The distinguished individual who now presides over the Treasury Department has been an object of incessant attack ever since his unyielding devotion to democratic measures has been proven, and ever since the powers of his intellect have been developed in maintaining and defending in its councils, the true interests of our nation.

Upon all great questions in which were involved our rights he has taken a bold position in the front ranks. He was a pioneer in the important question of the annexation of Texas, and his able letter upon that subject was a source of light to the people during the last presidential contest.

Upon the Oregon question he has been equally as firm in the advocacy of the right of his country. It will be remembered that in the celebrated letter above referred to he used the following patriotic language:

"I have always been the ardent friend of that measure. I advocated it in a speech published long before I became a member of the Senate; and now since the death of the patriotic and lamented Linn, I am the oldest surviving member of the special committee of the Senate which has pressed upon that body for so many years the immediate occupation of the whole territory of Oregon. There upon the shores of the distant Pacific, if my vote can accomplish it, SHALL BE PLANTED THE BANNER OF THE UNION! and with my consent, never shall be surrendered a single point of its coast, or an atom of its soil, or a drop of its waters."