The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1843-04-21
No.4e.

company, and there is not the least chance
of success. Since ourcommerce was first
driven from Oregon, several attempts have
been made to renew it, but they have all
ended in complete failures, and always
will, until the proper steps are taken by
the government. Our statesmen reason
strangely when they advocate The estab-
lishment of naval squadrons in all the wa
ters of foreign nations where our com
merce finds an opportunity TO labor, but
leave oar own ports unprotected, and suf-
fer the resources Of a rich and extensive
territory to be pillered, and its tenants
plundered by the avarice, ,reachery, and
oppression Of such a monstrous foreign
monopoly. What is the difference. so
Tar as consequences are concerned, wheth-
er the Hudson Bay Company place Paix-
han gun on Cape Hancock and gun
boat on Poin. Adams, and peremptorily
refuse TO let our vessels enter to Colum-
bia; or, allowing them to enter, virtually.
and to all intents and purposes, prevent
them from trading with the proper sub.
jects OF our government! If The former
would be called an open violation Of
the treaty of 1918, the latter cannot BIO
called anything but secret violation OF
the same treaty. A small fort and Gus
lom-housc at the mouth of the Columbia
would soon regulate this business, and
open 10 American enterprise an extensive
field for commercial operations.
Alluson was made. in quotation
above, to siares as belonging TO the COM
pany. The reader will, perhaps, be sur
prised that nation which clamors so
loudly against slavery in America, and in
favor of the fright Of search" or "risi- Z
tation," should allow its colonies in Ame-
RIGA 10 tolerate that institution in its most
odous forms. But such is the fact the
only kind of slavery which England is
striving to put down is african slavery.
She ensaves her own poor at home. and
suffers her colonies 10 traffic in the flesh
and blood Of naticcs in Asia and America,
in their own lands and on their own soil.
In places governed by the Hudson Bay
Company the price of slave is only Ten
or twenty blankets. Women are rcckoned
of more value than men, because from
them they can procure n stock better Sui-
ted to their purpose. If slave dies
within six months after the purchase, the
seller refunds half the price. Many in
stances are said TO have occurred where a
man has sold his own child. Every trap
per and hunter usually has two or three
slaves which are provided for blythe COM
pany; and thus they save great expense
of additional servants. Every encourage
ment is given TO such as will n,ermarry
or live with the natives, as thereby the
men become attached to the soil, and
stou, and expert race is produced by the
crossing Of the blood, for the service Of
the company. A few years ago one Of
these halfbreeds, the son Of chief trader,
was sent 10 an academy in the north part
of New York to fit himself for college.
He has since been sent TO Edinburgh to
complete his education. lie is represcn-
ted as possessing strong and vigorous
mental powers. The third year after
learning the alphabet he received the
highest honor Of the academy, and the
next year was fit TO enter the university.
Much more might be said of this en-
pire monopoly, and lis vas, designs, and
a more intimate connection between its
operations and the secret policy Of Eng
land respecting the northwest coast Of
America. But no one, who will give a
moments thought to the subject, can fail
to arrive at the conclusions, distinctly
Swallowed forward by the light of the past,
that her determination is to grasp a, all
the country from the Gulf of California to
a, least the 5ith degree Of latitude. Al
ready is she treating with Mexico for the
purchase of California. For that cnd she
has loaned capital, and sold vessels Of war
to that government. For the same rea-
son she has acknowledged the indepcn-
dence Of Texas, knowing that broil
would be kept up, and Mexico become
SO weakened in power and reduced in
her finances, that an easy purchase could
be made of that most excellent country.
She has even now assumed an inierces-
sion (inteJtroce) between The nations.
all that surprises us is, that our own
statesmen are not more vigiIani in the as
scriion and defence Of our own rights and
honor, and more willing TO give eacou-
ragemcnt and protection 10 our own en-
terprising and patriotic citizens. This
subec, has been labosiously investigated
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