Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1842-07-21

The copy used by them has been obtain.
ed, and the river which we claimed as
| the Sts Croix is marked upon it as the
i K. st. Croix.' The due north line is
there marked from that river; and the
one since enormously decided to be the
st. Croix is on that map called the Pas
samacadie r. Although the decision
was against US, and has since been prov
ed to be wrong, yet we felt bound to a
bide by it.
.'Here, then, the only difficulty that
ever ought to have arisen in connection
with the boundary was amicably adjust
ed !; and all that remained to be done
was. to run and mark the meridian line
from the monument to the highlands
which divide the rivers which flow into
the Atlantic ocean, from these which fall
into the river st. Lawrence. and thence
along the highlands to the northwestern.
most head of Connectict river. But this
was not done.
MIR. Chairman, the language used in
! the description of those boundaries is So
plain, that II seems scarcely possible for
honest and honorable men to differ in
their constructions Of it. If such lam
guage were used in deed of conveyance.
describing the line between Yourself and
your neighbor, sure am that no lawsuit
would be necessary to determine your re-
spectve rights. You would call your
surveyor, run the line, erect your monu-
ments and continue to live as good neigh
bors.
1.-The first imtimation we have Of any
claim on the part of the British to the ter
ritory now most unjastly brought into
dispute. was given sixteen years after.
AT the formation of the treaty of
Client, in 1874, the British commissions
ers proposed to ours i" such variation Of
the line Of frontier as may secure direct
Communication betaceen Quebec and Hall
}ar." Our Commissioners replied that
''Mey had no authority TO cede ana part
oflhe territory of the United States. and
to no stipulation to- that effect would they
subscribe - The British Commissioners
rejoned, that "the proposal left it open
to them 1.-THE American Commissioners
10 demand an equivalent jor such cession,
either IN frontier or otherwise.''
They. then insinaate, for the first
time, that any doubt existed .as to our IT,
tie. They say, - the American Commits
sioners must be aware that the boundary
of the district of Maine has mever been
correctly ascertaiaed; that the one assert
ed at present by the American Govern
ment,by which the direct conmatnaca, ION be-
faoeen Haltfar and Quebec becomes inter
Tatpted, was not in contemplation of the
British pleni potentiaries who concluded
the treaty of 1898 and that the great
part of the territory in question is actual
ly nnoccnpied."
" This faint presentation Of any claim
on the part If the British was expelled
by our Commissioners. But they pro-
ceeded to insert an article in the treaty
they were then framing, for ascertaining
and marking the line. And the 9th ar
ticle of the treaty of Client provides for
the appointment of Commissioners by the
two Governments, to survey the bounda-
ry line; and in the event of disagree
men between the Commissioners, it pro-
vides submission of the matter in con-
troyersy to some friendly sovereign or
state for arbitration"
Commissioners were appointed; but,
as might have been expected after the
| failure TO obtain cessien from the Uni
ted States Commissioners at Client, they
were unable to agree. They could not
agree as to what point was the north
| NIL e Il e
ranges of highlands were the highlands
mentioned in the treaty of 1785-what
point was the 45th paraell OF latitude
nor the northwestmost head of Connecti-
cut river. The event had occurred, there.
fore, In which our Government was
bound. by thestreaty of Client, to submit
these questions y. sumo friendly sovereign
or state; and accordingly, on the goth
OF September, 1927, a convention was
entered into by the two Governments,
specifying the terms and conditions on
which the matters were to be submitted
and they afterwards selected William
/, King of the Nethel lands," as The
friendly sovereign Or state to decide the
r questions. He was, at the time of his
selection, King Of the Netherlands but
after contend'ng asai" st successful re-
beiiicn of his own subjects after being
stripped of a portion of his domlnions
(Belglum.) and rendered dependent on
Eng land for the emainder-therebv he
coming, in fact, only King of Holland
a a. Gerent sovereign and state, and ceas.
, ing TO be independent-he, in 1880, for
the first time. found leisure to hear the
; parties on the matters submitted to the
King Of the Netherlands"
"Our Government had, in the mean
time. appointed Judge PrebIe, distin-
suished citizen of Maine, as Minister to
that court, with view to the CONDUCTING
Of the cause before the arbiter.
"After hearing all the proofs and ar
, , guments. the arbiter, on the 10th of Janu.
airy, SS1, made his award on the cues.
ton of the northwesternmost head Of
Connecticut river. namely: That the
source Oi the gtraam runn,nr mt ..l