The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1844-01-26
Oregon Territory.
Eu-opean Correspondence IF tie Richmond En-
quter.
FRANKFORT on THE MAINE, }
November 10, 1919.

tHe uaIe VI my ldsI, SEVERN d'hI'~S az
peared in the Hamburger "Barren-Hlalle, y
in relation to the Territory of Oregon,
showing the validity of the title of the
United States to that valuable region, and
the absurdisy Of Great Britain's claims to
any portion of it. They have beed re-
published in numerous papers, and most
extensively perused.
1t is matter of wonder to Europeans,
out Of England. thata country, possessing
SO many advantages, combining such
powerful interests, as tina, beyond the
Rocky Mountains, should have been
permitted by its rightful owners, to have
remained until now wilderness. They
have hitherto not been aware of It's re-
sources, It's extent. or, indeed, its precise
location on the face Of the globe. What
ever Oregon may have been worth, be-
fore the Chinese Tariff of duties was es-
tablished, it is now, beyond doubt, a
hundredfold more valuable. The central
highway ofhe aporld ,0ili, ,nquestiona-
bly,, pass ouer its bosom, if ii is imme-
diately taken into our possession.
TO Judge from the tone Of some of the
leading London journals, such measure
will provoke war with Great Britain.
The morning Chronicle, Of the third inst. ,
is perfectly rabid on the subject. Ii says,
after describing Oregon, "this is the re-
gion we have now TO diplomaiize for
Fight, there will be none The notion
of it is an absurdlly. If the ring were
kept all the men that America could send
into the Territory by land, would be an.
initiated by the forces OF the lIudson's
Bay company and the friendly Indians,
without our Imperial aid
concur most fully in the belief with
the "Chronele," that fight, there will be
none" In the first place, there will be
no cause for it Whatever, for our right is
so clearly established to the country, tina,
we have ample justification for extending
our jurisdiction, without moments de-
lay 10 the shores of the Pacific. In the
second place, ifou claim were OF a ques-
tionable character, and we were disposed to
enforce it, Great Britain would ncceSSQrt-
N have to act upon the doctrine adyocat-
ed by Lord Brougham last winter, 10 cede
array whole Territories, rather than
pf0UOhe ,Cdr ,cih .9merica. In this,
as in all other matters with foreign pow
crs, we have only TO adhere strictly TO the
principle Of demanding nothing that is
10, RIGHT, and submitting to nothing that
is WRONG"
No, no-"Figh., there will be none"
The war of our old mother, like that Of
all Virago's. will only be one Of aOOrdS.
She may fret and scold, as she assuredIy
will, to see US pick up the fruit, at the in
vi,alion Of his Celestial Majesty, which
she SO thcvishly shook from his tree,
but she canno, help herself Why how
could England su5slsl, with war upon her
shoulders, against a country from which
she derives the means of sustaining her
chief interests. In 1879, she received
but 800, 0e0 bales of cotton from the U.
States now she is supplied by them
with nearly 100000 Her operatives
are five times as numerous as they were
at the former period and, in the name
of melcy, how would she feed them il the
trade in this staple was suspended What
would become of her numerous Colonies
very few Of them self,supporung ones
If she was prevented from supplying
them with. articles manufactured from our
products She could make no reliance
upon her crops in the East Indies. The
yield there has dwindied into utter insight
iicance, compared with that Of our fertile
fields. Within the past twelve months
there has been marvellous falling off !!
In 1912, the imports of India cotton, a,
the different British ports, from the Isl
of January TO the 9Th of October,
amounted TO 20o,773 bales. This year,
during the same period, to l4i,4l6!!-
diminuiion in the receipts in ten
months of nearly third of the entire
quantity. A part Of this has been re-ex.
ported to other countries, bu, if every
bale was consumed a, home, il would not
give more than five weeks employment
to her factories, now, when they work up
1000 bales per diem. She may grow
peoples in India, so as TO monopolize the
Opium trade-but she will never grow
COTTON there which will compete with
that produced by the United States, even
in her otcn markets. The climate though
of the proper temperature, as regards the
degree of heat, is in other respects unsis.
BILE. Her sole dependence, therefore, for
this staple, which sustnims her manuhc.
tories, and her immense commerce, is up
on our planters and if they were to de-
termine not TO raise i, hereafter, they
would fatally siarya Enrlop l nut al ,hnuSo