The North-Carolina standard., 1845-05-14

tOelLHer acceptS 0Hes4S ne tHIeS0f each p1aceu
upon footing of perfect equality. Each has the
Sright of trade and entry, Byttvirtus Of his own
.chimt sovereignty; each agfees9o 4olerate.the
trade and entry of the other for ten years. Nei-
ther surrenders any part of bis rtaiHs and the
treaty is not to be construed 70 the disadvantage OF
the title Of either. II results from these stpua-
lions, that the party in possession at the expiration
of the Ten years, will have the right of possession
until The question of title shall be decided. Il re-
9uires no Vatiel 10 tell us this. The principle is
the same IN national and municipal f;iw. When
the tile disputed che party in possession of the
disputed property, has right:to hold it until the
question of tnle shall be decidedly court of
justice, when the dispute is between individuals;
by arms, or negotiations, when it IS between ma
tons In the case before the Senate, the u States
have right of possession as the tfue owners of
The country; another right under the Ghent trea-
ty; and furrhef right Of entry, under the terms
efthis convention But the last right is limited
privilege, which has but two and half years to
rum If It is suffered 10 expire, it viii require no
spirit Of divination to foresee the result All right
of entry or possession will then be denied. Our
right as owners will be said 10 be limited in the
convention, which had expired our right under
the Ghent treaty will be said to have been satis6-
led by the Idle ceremony, rather worse than use
less, in which Mr.. Provost was an actor; and
having the possession Of the river, feet in its
mouth batteries upon its shores line of posts to
Canada, and the command of 100000 Indians,
Great Britain may safely take the attitude of def
ance. and trust to her arms for the defence Of her
position. That she will have the disposition to
do so, can be doubted by no one who has observed
The Of her policy with respect to this river
the increasing boldness Of her pretensious and
the "relactance" with which she agreed to such
modification of the third article Of the conyeu-
'tion Of 1918. as would leave that country open,
for limited time" to the citizcns of the United
States, as well as to the subjects Of Great Britain
Letter Of MesSys GGlLatin and Rash, Oct. go,
1918.
MIR. B. now took up the bill, and complained
of the unfair manner in which It had been op-
posed. He called it unfair, because gentlemen
had stated il 10 be what it was not, and then plade
war upon the phantoms of their own imaginalions.
The bill proposed nothing more than the military
occupation Of the country, 10 execution of the
Ghent treaty. 1t proposed to put money and
troops at the disposition ofthe President, to enable
him TO receive the country, and 10 retain it. The
President WAS bound 10 execute the treaties of the
Union, and be could not go in person, like Mr.
John Baptist PrerOsk to receive the possession
OF the Oregon with his own naked hands. Yet
gentlemen had represented the bill as PROPOSE
ton to found colony, and 70 establish Territory,
and then launched forth into all the common place
declalhatIon gainst colonies and territories. Mr.
B. would not follow them INTO that field Of idle
debate; he would stick to the proposition contnin-
ed in the bill. He wouH cali for the complete
execution of the Ghent treaty He would demand
IT that part alone which was made for the benefit
OF the West, was to Femain forever without exc
cuGone If second edition Of the retention of
the Northwestern posts was to be struck off for
the benefit of the Western pcoplc2 peculiar
fatality seemed to attend upon the execution Of the
treaties made for the benefit of the West. In 1888
Great Britain stipulated. among other things to
surrender the posts of Niagara, Detroit, and Mac
kinnw yet she retained them for thirteen years,
in violation Of that treaty. and for the avowed pur
pose Of monopolizing the fur trade, and retaining
the command Of the Northwestern Indians Two
Indian wars, and the drsolaion of the frontiers of
Kentucky and Ohio, were i"e fruits of that perf- |
dlous policy. At length W. have another treaty, !
stipHlaiing, among other things for the surrender
OF another Western post; and already ten years
have elapsed, and the post is not surrendered I
The cause OF retention is the same-the fur trade !
and the Indians the fruits will battle same
fresh wars with the Indians and the desolation of
the frontiers OF Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, and
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But gentlemen have put some questions, which
l feel myself bound to answer. They asked
What arc to be the advantages of occupation?
What the effect upon this Unien 3 Whal It's ef- !
feet upon the Asiatie Powers2 - :
l answer, the advantages will be-
/. In securing TO US the fur trade of the Rocky
Mountains, the Upper Missouri. and the Collm-
oia, worth, peradventure; million of dollars per
1nhtm, for century to come
e. In preventing the British and Russians from
acquiring the control Of the Indians ON the waters
IF the Columbia These Indians are estimated at
100000 souls, possess the finest horses, and are
lmong the best horse-rnen in the world. The
present age has seen the Cossacs of the Don and
Ukraine, ravagrng the banks ofthe Seine and the
Loire; the next may see the Cessacs oft Oregon
ssuing in clouds from the goFges CT the Rocky
Mountains, and sweeping. with the besom of DESC
ation the banks Of the Missouri and Mississippi
8. In giving us naval station on the coast OF
he Pacific. The want of such station was fuf-
v yexempli6ed in the cruise of Commodore Porter,
Turing the late war. In that cruise, we had thed
spectacle of a naval commander
raVersng for three years, a sea infested with en-
'mies, sometimes burning his prizes on the ocean,
ometimes hiding them in distant islands. some
ines seeking the enemy, and sometimes flying
rom superior force, and at last sustaining MUIR
Iereus attack, and losing his Ship in a neutral ,
'ort.- The loss sustained on that occasion, in
'rizes and higate Ito say nothing of lives, above
III price, was fifty or a,hundred times theamount
# fappropriatien in this BILL And this loss we t
must expect to undergo, in all subsequent wars, {
nless we provido-a post Of our own in the Paci-
lc Ocean. But it is not ships of war alone, aEd
heir prizes, which are to lose for want of such
post Our merchant vessels need the same ac-