The Arkansas banner., 1844-01-09

fered, in Canton, S15O,O0O; and that had he accepted this offer, and laid opt tbe
 amount in Chinese goods, they womb bave brought, in New York, $30O,0OO.
 The editor of respectable English peri- odlcal, whose work is eagerly sought after.
 and extensively read in this country. (Edin.
 burgh Review,) pronounces all attempts to
 settle Oregon from the Atlantic States to he
 impossible 'sHowever, the political ques-
 1lon between England and America, as to the
 ownership of Oregon, may be decided, says
 lhe editor,) Oregon can never be colonized
 overland from the Eastern States.n Now, if
 thls IS the case, 1t is worse than useless to
 make the present proposition, which, by
 holding out false inducements to accomplish
 ends beyond our reach, would unnecessarily
 disturb the public tranquility. But is it the
 case Or is it the writer, who, no doubt.
 acts under the direction of the British cabi-
 net, endeavoring to blind us, and withdraw
 our attention from lucrative trade. that his
 own countrymen may, in the meantime, reap
 the golden advantages He remarks :-aIn
 the meantime, the long line of coast (of Or
 egon) invites emigration from the oyer-peo-
 pied shores of the old World (England)-
 When once the isthmus of Darien is ren-
 dered traversable, Che proceeds,) the voyage
 Will be easier and shorter than to Australia.
 which 3O,OOO of our countrymen have made
 Tn single year. Let us not, then,o he con- | cludes, ''rest under the idle persuasion that
 we have colonies enough; that 1t is mere la
 bor Tn vain to scatter the seed of future na-
 tons over the earth; that 1t is but trouble and expense to govern them. Ifthere is any
 one thing which the maintenance of that perlous greatness to which we have attained depends more than all the rest, 1t is coloni
 zatlon-the opening of new markets, the cre- atlon of new customers. It is quite true that the great fields of emigration in Canada and Australia promise room enough for more than we can send. But the worst and common est error respecting colonization is, to regard It merely as that which 1t can never be-a mode of checking the increase of our peo- pie. What we want is, not to draw off drib- bles from our teeming multitudes, but to found new nations of commercial allies.- And Tn this view, every new colony founded. far from dlverting strentgh from the older ones. lnfuses into them additional vigor To them, as well as to the mother country, it opens a new market. It forms a new link in the cham along which our commercial intercom- muncatlon IS carried, touching and benefit tlng every point of the line as 1t passes-I Thus, Tn former days the prosperity of the West India Islands was the great stimulus to the peopling of North America. The newer colony of Canada has fourished through its connexion with our settlements in the States hn n1,oar nf <afN
 ductions in Australia THE UTTERMosT PORTIONS OF THE EARTH ARE OUR INHERI- TANeE. Let us not throw 1t away in mere suplneness or in reference to the wise con c1usions of those sages of the discouraging school, who, had they been listened to, would have checked, one by one, all the en- terprises which have changed the face of the world in the last thirty years''
 Now, it is respectfully submitted that, up- on reading this opinion of this English edit or-who, Gas presume,p is only promulga- ting the opinions of the British ministers IS diflicnlt to suppress suspicion that the assertion that "Oregon can never be settled from the Atlantic States'' was intended to add another to the many delays we have suf- fered, the better to enable that rival nntion to | seize upon and secure the prize. But, as the settlement IS circumstance of the utmost importance, let us suppress this suspicion and examine coolly and deliberately the req son he gives for having come to this conclu- sion.
 First-the distance
 The traveller from the Mississippi to the Pacific has, says the editor, to pass over se- veral distinct regions. 1st-A region of two or three hundred miles in length. occu- pied by the States of Missouri, Arkansas and Iowa. 2d-A region of two or three hun dred miles, inhabited by the Choctaws, the Cherokees and the Creeks. 3d.-A desert of six or seven hundred miles, of which four hundred is prairie land, and three hundred, IS prairie land, and three hundred, directly east of the Rocky Mountains, is strictly a desert. 4th.-The Rocky Mountains, no distance given. 5th.-From the Rocky Mountains overa desert country to the mouth of the Columbia river, mo distance given; but this distance, which to the mind of the | Islander appears to be interminable, will form no obstacle in the way of the hardy migratory sons of the Columbia continent, as we live in an age of steamboats and railrods, by the introduction of which distance is nearly annihilated Lewis and Clark crossed the Rocky Mountains in about lat AZ deg. by very circuitous route- By the one taken by MT. Townsend of this city and his party, in about lat. 43 deg. the whole distance does not appear to be more than from 1900 to 2,000 miles and even this will, no doubt, be diminished by suc- ceeding travellers.
 The second obstacle in the way of settling Oregon from the States (in the opinion of this English editor and his employers, the Brit ish minister's arises out of the difficulties of transit; these he considers under three dis tinct heads, and they shall be examined in the same order. lst-The difficulties pre- sented by the face of the country. He ad- mits that, in regard to the first two or three hundred miles-that through Missouri, Ar kansas, or lowa-the country is made up of prairie lands, with larger proportion of the Il I l