Indeed, war with Eng- land upon the Oregon boundary seemed imminent.

The demand for the whole of Oregon or none, with or without war with England" was carried into the Senate and into the House, where the resolution to settle the question im- mediately with England was championed by Stephen Douglas.

89 The Oregon question was one of the few great national problems in which the people of Iowa and Wiscon- sin seem to have been deeply interested.

Naturally they appreciated, more than did the East, the immense value of the great Northwest.

And they realized that the securing of it would give more power to the Middle West.