The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-06-16

cisl enterprises OF Great Britain. Other naons have
pursued Of conquest in the pDdsgulsed aim OF
military ambition; with her Il 10 commercial ambition,
supported by associated and arms This very ques-
ton illustrates the necessity Of wsichfoness part
The British Isles may he sssimlaled great citadels
and workshops on the coat Of Europe. The ships Of
her navy floating fnnresses. with military stations
doliing al the globe. in every She has Glib
Talisr, Malta, and the Ionsn Islands, for the Medler-
/ rsnesn Sierra Leone ST Helena. aud the Cape. for
Africa, With Noys Scotia. New Brunswick. and Der.
muds, she mensees the Atlantic coast Of the United
Sisies with Jamaica she fanks The Gull Of Mexico !;
and by the Sc Lawrence and the Lakes she peDeraies
into the in.ernost recessos Of North America Hin
dosian and Ce,lon give her the conTol Of Southern
and Central Asia. She possesses the antarctic world
OF Australia. Al Singapore, she overlooks The indo-
Chinese waters. Lately she has leaped across the
/ BONN Islands west Of japan She seeks the dominion
of the Sandwich Islands exemphed IN the doings of
Lord Byron 10 the Blonde, aud the recent visit Of
Lord Edwsrd Russell II rumor do err. she enter
sins the thought at least, of obtaining through the
shareholders OF Mexican stock the Bay OF San Fran
CISCO the nohlest bay and habof The Pacific Of
America al hand TO the region. where. defiance
VI rights she bias already planted herself on the wa
ers Of the Oregon. What effect is all this TO have
our oil important whale fisheries and other in
the Pacific What effect the business and the trsn
auiIy Of settlements on the Missouri and the Ar
kansas Does not indifference stimulate her eu-
pldy neglect enable her 10 magnify claims into
4 rights, aud TO convert intrusion into title
Mr. Gushing proceeds TO give history Of the various
negotiations that have taken place between Great Bri
tam and the United States, respecting the regions to the
aud northwest and vi the unjust conduct OF Great
Britain in regard the Indians whom that nation has
always employed or endeayored TO employ. in
agsius, our frontier settlements We have room for
only one more extract, which is the conclusion oi the
| speech
The war Of 1912 changed materially the relations of
the parties BY the annexation Of Louisiana TO the
United States, the English line removed from the
Mississippi The United States relieved from the
troublesome clauses Of jays treaty IN the negotiations
for the commercial intercourse between the two
tries, which prodnced the successive conventions OF
1915, 1875 aud 1927 the United States refused
the sipulatons Of the third article Of Jays treaty.
Since the war; therefore, Grea, Britain has enjoyed
peculiar treaty privileges Of intercourse with the Indians
Of the United States, she did before and il is left
stand upon general principles We had purchased Wis
dom by dear experience. Hence the OF eth April,
1916, based upon the principles assumed at Client, by
which Foreigners prohibited from trading with
Indians their goods beng subjected to forfeiture and
their persons (unless fortified with passpo 10 6ne
and imprisonment and the Presiden, authorized to
ploy the military force carry the law into effect
These provisions, needful they the peace Of
The United States evaded by the Indians being in
weighed into Canada to receive stipulated subsidies
or annual presents proved by the evidence of Mac
keDze, OF Generals Clark and Cass, e Mr. Schoolcra
Of Mr. Fulkerson, aud the svowa Of Lord Gleneg they
evaded by the disregard Of our boundary easy
those vast regions, extending from the Lake to the
Rocky Mountains, where the line, though designated by
treaty. has not been marked and they null
lifted and utterly naught by the intrusons OF the
Hudsons Bay Company into the country Of the Colum-
bia nver dehauchng, corruptIng and sing against
| the numerous tribes inhabtng the immense country
between the Mississippi and the Pacific ocean, 1t is
Impossible TO reconcile these things with the neutral
obligations OF Great Britain. Her practices with
Indians greater breach of neutrality than any thing
which citizens have done on the Canadian frontier
the latter being transient popular outbreak the former
organized system Government having withsiood
ard suppressed this, while the British Government Off
cially and publicly participates in that Whatever We
the Congress OF the United States can do by aulho
rzing the establishment OF post the Columbia
Otherwise to put stop TO these abuses, should be done
while the Executive should he invoked to the
same end the peculiar powers conferred on him by the
| Constitution ...
MIR Speaker, hasten to bring these protracted
remarks 10 conclusion feel sensible oil the diff
culiies am liable 10 meet in bringing before the
House a subject which, though much and ably dis
cussed in former Congresses has been thrust aside
by more engrossing domestic questions until il is 10
many ntents, and especially in lis present relations
new one have now done my duty have
posed facts which seem TO me important TO be under
Stood and TO give due effect 10 which, have deemed
IL necessary they should go forth the country from
the Halls OF the Capitol. The whole of our fur
trade our whale fisheries our intercourse with
Asia, giving profitable employment TO so many mil
lions of our capital and to the population Of all parts
of The country, are stake in this question. Our
Indian relations are involved in H. Upon its issue
depends the fate of noble domain the seat in dis
tant time, of prosperity and OF power II is impor
tant in all points Of view That wide region, the
interior plateau of The continent, with its wild noun
tains and lis romantic OF chase and war that
ocean of he praries, with its peril, lis adventure, its
hardihood of life, analogous 10 the sublimity of
spectacle and the FIRING vcSsitudes Of the sea IL
self; those rich valleys of the Oregon, through
which the same bright banner which sparkes on the
Atlantic may carry the of civilization west
ward on the Paci6c-all this will be possessed or
| peoped, ere long, either by England or BY us.
Which shall il be Can the sense of our true in
tereSt, the honor and pride ofhe nation hesitate
II is country ours by right ours blythe necessities
of geographical position; ours by every consdera-
ton Of national safety and ours will be in tranquil
possession, il we temperatey but firmly assert our
rights. The world is wide enough for England and
| for us. We have much to gain by a cordial inter-
course, conducted as becomes nations of the same
blood and the tongue each at the head OF civil
| lzatlon in its proper hemisphere much 10 hazard,
either BY practising suffering encroachmenis on
either side Of.shots OF that dominant race, which,
starting from the mountains OF CaucaseS, has pro-
ceeded in opposite directions east and west, encircng
the globe If we are TO confront each other on the
shores of Asia and of America there lei US meet in
confident good will, imbued with that just conscious
OF each oilers power, and that mutual respect
for each others rights, which are The only single
| foundation OF stable peace.
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