[54-40 or Fight by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link book54-40 or Fight CHAPTER VIII 10/22
Even the Whigs think that we own Oregon by virtue of first navigation of the Columbia.
Both Whigs and Democrats now demand Oregon north to fifty-four degrees, forty minutes. The alternative? My Lord Aberdeen surely makes no deliberate bid to hear it!" "Or fight!" exclaimed Pakenham.
"God bless my soul! Fight _us_ ?" Mr.Tyler flushed.
"Such things have been," said he with dignity. "That is to say," he resumed calmly, "our rude Westerners are egotistic and ignorant.
I admit that we are young.
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