The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1841-09-09


States have these hundred millions thrown "
pom them flor the exports bring y the imports
which pay the custom house revenue, bear the
burihen Of this revenue:) shall these Staten
bear the bur,hen Of these hundred millions, sfs
ter giving up their Iands.o the Generat Gov"
eInn,ent, for the common benefit Shall Geof
gia and Virginia, the real donors, be taxed in
their exports 10 provide money for deieRco
which money will be nearly all expended TO
,:he Nohh) after seeing their lands squandcrsd
uway bye rule which gives the mass Of i 10
the North, and to those States which had no
land 10 beslow on the Govsfnmspi; or; having
IL rstaiasd, and Aow cell H. for is o~f beDetils
like Massa chusetls and Maine; or having il
sxaeted three millions Of acres out OF Vtgnia
grant, as cid Connecticull Are planting and
agricultural States thus 10 be called upon for
hundred mliions for the defences,y after seeing
the land revenue thus diverted from the Treu"
sury to which it be 5elongs, aud sent to a quar-
Tor from which it never came, and which quart
ter is again 10 be the grand absorbent Of thenew
hundred millions, thus so wantonly exacied
from The South and Vest 10 THE Injustice 10
bei Certainty it would so seem from present
indications from The partyin power. ThatPar
ty, the uucompromlsiDg enemy Of detenceS
wheuswe had surplus Of forty mlions, are
now raging for defeHce when the Treasury iS
empty; and. by q sn'sirOus ambide1ierity,
which makes mOckery Of popular intelligence
etre,cbing out one hand 10 gather money BY
loans and laxss, for the purposes, Of defence,
wbile throwing away with the other, the mon
| ey whch ihey have in possession, and which
| 10 fully adequate to the object. -s .-.
General reasons point oul the duty Of defence
| to oil nations: special reasons impress that
| duty uponus at present We zee foreign
| power-the only one that ever tough, us-eri-
| IDENTITY preparing to fight us again evidently
| pursuing a system, Of aggression which must
leave w no alternative but disgrace and loss,
or war and victory. We see this; and, while
the public mind has been wellturned towards
several points Of this aggressive course, per-
nit me 10 bring little more fully into view two
9TH points 90 which too little attention has
vet been bestowed, and which are assuming
an importance which can no longer be Seled
or dlspsraged: speak Of the Columbia river
question, and Of the organized Society IN Lon.
don 10 produce u negro insurrecnon IN our
Southsrn States. With the indulgence Of the
| Senate, | will take few minutes to state these
two questions, and TO develope few Of tho
circumstances which impart 10 them an emPhat.
&c and mouN ntuous Importance
The United States own the Columbia river,
ito mouth, tributaries and valley-eVery thing
lhst beongs 10 it south Of for,y-niDe degrees
and that 10 about every thing that is worth
having upon it, The United States own it;
and this sball prove su,hen,icsv wbenl come
to argue the resolution submitted by my col
league, [Mr. LINN to give notice Cor termin'
atihg The convention with Great Britain for liz
Joint occupation. For the present, merely
assert the American title, stating that il rests
l. Upon the discovery Of Captain Gray, IL
1890. 2. Upon the purchaseof Louisiana in
1903. 8. Upon Tho discovery Of Lewis enc
Clark in 1905 A, Upon tho settlement Of As
toria, in 1911. s. Upon the treaty with Spain
in 1919. 6. Upon the Nooika Sound trenty
between England and Spain, 10 1870: and, z
Upon tho treaty Of Utrecht, between France
and England, in l704. Twill not enlarge up'
on these heads Of tile at present. postpone
tho argument to more suitable OCCASION. Bu
Twill say oftheiwo last heads, that thep a'on'
and without reference to other points, cut Of
the British from oil claim 70 either territory
OF GOh1I BOutll VlP1O uokIoeb ~ buO "
tho Colombia. This il, all clear 10 lboee Wit
have looked into the. treaties of Utrecht, or 0
Noolka Sound. BY the former, which termi
mated the wars between Queen Anne and Louil
the XIV, tho boundaries Of iheir North Amer
lean possessions we're settled throughout tb'
whole extent ofiheir claims in the new world
Commissaries were appointed 10 draw the lin'
betweenibsm. Beginning entbe coast Of La
brador. andfolowiug devious line between
the British settlements on HudsoRs Bay, am
the French settlements on the lakes, il arrives
atthe Lake ofihe Woods, then supposed 4
be the head Of The MISSISSIPPI river, From.th'
Lake of the Woods, the line between The. tvs
powers was agreed TO be fixed on tho latitude
Of that lake, taken 10 be the 49th degree ant
10 follow that latitude 'indsfnitly to the West
2 To this boundary, east'Ofthe Rocky mOun'
lains, The British conform 70 this daysto thai
boundary west Of those mountaiBs, they con
formed ill the discoveries Of Capt. Cook pu
il intoiheir heads TO setuP claims and 10 con
meuce an establishment q Noptka SOund--l
souUd which is cut by the A9th degree. Thil
reused the Spanards, who denied the right Q
the English 10 any settlement on that coast
and retnoYedlhs intTuders from IL The Eng
lish, ,aS usual, threatened war; the Spaniard
prepared Gor war; and by preparing for Il, q
vOided ii and saved their territory. The threa