The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

From the Columbus Hemisphere.

OHIO AND MICHIGAN.

There is an evident desire on the part of several of the opposition prints in this State, to turn the unhappy controversy now existing in reference to our Northern Boundary, to political account. To what extent this desire may abound in that party, we cannot say; we hope that it is not general, because there is an odium and a dishonor attached to such a course, from which we would fain relieve our enemy.

Now and then, in various quarters, we see a hint thrown out that the General Government is taking sides with Michigan; that the Territory is encouraged by the authorities at Washington; with sage conclusions drawn from these assertions, with a view to prejudice the people against the administration. We regret this course very much, because it is calculated to produce distrust among the citizens of this State, and prevent them from acting with that unanimity which may be necessary, and which ought to govern their councils in an emergency.

It cannot be disguised, that the authorities at Washington do not look with approbation upon the proceedings of Ohio. As to the right of Ohio to the soil, the Attorney General is clear enough, but he makes that right subject to the action of Congress. Then so far as we have the opinion of the law officer of the Government, as to ultimate right, the administration is with us, while if we may judge from some articles in the Globe, it disapproves of the mode which our legislature adopted, to possess the State of the land in dispute.

We would prefer that the Globe had not interfered in this controversy. It is highly indiscreet in its editors to do so; yet while we say this, candor compels us to admit that, so far as we have read the admonitions of the press, out of this State, they are universally against us; Ohio meets with the censure of all, Jackson and anti-Jackson. Many of them ridicule the claim of Ohio in toto, while the most favorable do not go as far as the Attorney General. Now we attribute this to a want of knowledge on the subject; and we look forward to the time when public opinion out of the State, will admit that Ohio, if not altogether justifiable, at least had much cause for any thing that she has yet done.

Before we close this article, we have a word to say to that portion of the Whig press and politicians in our own State, to whom we have alluded. Where were they in February last, when a distinguished Whig and former President, denounced the pretensions of Ohio, on the floor of Congress? When but for his violent opposition, his wholesale denunciation of Ohio, the law would have passed, and now been in force, awarding the jurisdiction to Ohio? Where were they then? John Quincy Adams did not receive a word of censure from one of them. And he is among the most virulent enemies to the claim of Ohio—denied that Congress had any right to give the territory in dispute to us—and declared the claim of Michigan just. Suppose Mr. Adams still in the Presidential Chair, instead of an Administration that admits the ultimate right of Ohio, we would have one opposed to us in toto. The present administration admits that the general government is under an implied pledge to give Ohio the jurisdiction, and that Congress ought to do it, while Mr. Adams denied the right of Congress to do any such thing!! We think both in error, but it is clear that the administration takes the most liberal view for Ohio, that is taken out of the State.

It is to be regretted, then, that any portion of the people of this State should be so void of honesty and principle, as to endeavor to turn the current of events, in this controversy, improperly