[Charles Creighton Hazewell], ‘The Oregon Question’, Western Review, 1:1 (1846), pp. 182–204.

The lapse of years has demonstrated, that New England has gained almost as much as the western states themselves, by the consummation of the measure so strenuously resisted by the majority of her people. The East then feared that the West would obtain a great weight in the confederacy, and be more / than a match for the Atlantic states. The occupation of Oregon, will benefit the North and the East; though the filling up of that territory, and the extension of our dominion over California, must give the sceptre of commerce to the farthest West. The West has only to remain firm, – to maintain her ground with resolution, to plan with wisdom and execute with energy, – to come as triumphantly out of the present dispute, as/our fathers did out of that which related to the navigation, in the first place, and ultimately the monopoly, of the Mississippi.