The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1839-02-23

As bright, as when upon creations dawn
The voice OF God proclaimed, Let there be light!
Like virtue struggling with adversely,
That sun appear'd ;--
And those same clouds, ashamed of former hate.
Bhished and that Went down behind IN" hills
B.ilgeport, Nov. 26, 1873 M. A. ".
MEMORIAL FROM CITIZENS OF THR OREGON TEI
R1ToRY, PRESENTED THIS SESSION.
To The hoorabe the Senate and House If Representative
of the United STATES Of .7merica:
The undersigned, settlers south of the Colun
bia river, beg leave to represent to your honorab
body, that our settlement, begun in the yea
eighteen hundred and thirty-,wo, has hilbert
prospered beyond the most sanguine e>pectationE
of its first projectors. The products of our field
have amply justified the most fattering descri
tons of the fertility of the soil, while the tacile
which it affords for rearing cattle are, perhap:,
exceeded by those of no country in North Am.
RIGA. The people of the United States, we b.,
lieve, are not generally apprised Of the :extent
valuable country west Of the Rocky Mountains.
A large portion ofthe territory from the Columh:I
river south, to the boundary line between thi
United States and the Mexican republic, and e,[
tending from the coast of the Pacific about tw
hundred and fifty or three hundred miles to tn,
interior, is either well supplied with timber a
adapted to pasturage or agriculture. The iert,
valleys of the Willamette and Umpqua, are VI;
red with praries and woodland, and inersecte !
by abundant lateral streams, presenting faciliej'
for machinery. Perhaps no country, of the sam,'
latitude, is favored with a climate so mild. The
winter rains, it is true, All objection; but the :
are generally preferred to the SHOWS and n,ensi'
cold which prevails in the northern parts Of th'
United States. The ground is seldom covere /
,;tb i &
hours.
We need hardly allude to the commercial ad.
van,ages ofthe Territory. It's happy position fc
trade with China, India. and the Western coasts
of America, will be readily recognised. Th
growing importance, however of the islands
the Pa.ifc is not generally known and appre.-
ciated. As these islands progress in civilization,
their demand for the produce of more norther1
climates will increase. Nor can any countrt
supply them with beef, -four, &c. on terms So
advantageous as this. A very successful ef1,n',.
has been recently made. at the Sandwich Island:,,
in the cultivation of coffee and the sugar cane. !.
colony here, will, in time, thence easily derv.
these articles and other tropical products in e,-
chanJe for The produce Of their own labor. W.,
have thus briefly alluded to the natural resource )
Of the country, and to its external relations. The :
are, in our opinion, strong inducements for tn,
Government Of the United States TO take form Il
and speedy possession. We urge this step ri,
promising to the general interests Of the natio,,
But the advantages il may confer upon us, ar
the evils it may avert from our poserity, are H..
calculable.
Oar social intercourse has thus far been pros
cuted with reference to feelings Of honor, to II
feeling of dependence on the Iiudson's Bay Con
pany, and to their moral influence. Under tn
state of things, we have thus far prospered, b !,
we cannot hope that it will continue. The J.
ricutural and other resources Of the country ca
not fail to induce emigration and commerce. As
our settlement begins to draw its supplies throue
other channels, the feeling of dependence upc 4
the Hudson's Bay Company TO which we ha. ,
alluded as one Of the safeguards Of our social H.
tercourse, will begin to diminish. We are anxio 5
when we imagine what will be, what must +
the condition OF so mixed community; free fro 4
all legal restraint. and superior to that moral :
Huence which has hitherto been the pledge of o
safety.
Our interests are identified with those Of Il .
country of our adoption. We hatter ourselv .
that we are the germ Of erea, State. and . q
anxious TO give an early tone to the moral and
tellcctuai character of its citizens We are G,ll =
aware, too, that the destinies of our pos,ertv w
be Intimately affected by the character of tho :
who emigra,e TO the country The territory mu
populate. The Congress of the United Sta,
must say by whom. The natural resources
the country, with a well-iudged civil code, W
invite good community. But a good commul
ty will hardly emigrate 10 country which prol
Uses no protection for life or property. Inquire
have already been submitted to some of us for
formation Of the country. In return, we can
lv speak Of country highly favored of natur
We can boast Of no civil code. We can promi
no protection but the Interior resort of selcd
fence. BY whom, then, shall our country be 20
ulated! By the reckless and unprincipled adve
turer! not by the hardy and enterprsing phone
of the West. BY the Botany Bay refugee, r.
the renegade of civilization from the Rock
Mountains. bv the prohlgate, deserted seam'
from Polynesia, and the unprincipled sharpe
from Spanish America. Well are we assure
that il will cost the Government Of the Unite
States more to reduce elements so dscordant :,
social order, than to promote oar permanent peat'