Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-07-23
the country westward Of the Stony o
Rocky Mountains

lrankptSS anu QeclSlVencSs oI pOucY, u.
which our government, should be admins
tered. The consequence is, that al tn
end Of the ten or twenty years,trealy, th
parrie are as far of from. final settle
menl DIS ever, The arguments pn, aid col
are 10 be renew ed, with The diff ulty al
ready adverled to,-lhat of inuins Ih'
facts obsrured by time, aud The reasonln!
, impaired hy exlraucOus arrangements
which serve no other purpose thar 10 in
crease the presulnptions III favor of lhs
Ilper eel, wniIe rendering them imper'
lecl III lne case Of the h0ursl clalIanl.-
what has been the consequence oi this
our imbecile diplomacy? Why, that the
Brush government, under lie name 0
the Hudson's Bay, or North West Com:
pany, have taken possession oil the best
places for military OperaIons, have built
turIs, auI established colonies, from which
they diverge 10 The settled porIous OF the
Umcd States, smuggling INTO them BrlI-
ISL manufactures, along an Immense line
oil territory, thInly settled, winch II Is very
difficulty To guard. We take the follow
ins Interesting passages, descriptive oil
company, aud Of lis operations, from The
official report already referred to.
Greal Brlain had very much dis.
lingushed herself al an early pernd, by
vuy ages ol discovery III the seas to the
northeast aud tnls Continent. Thus II
happened that sue acquired territorial
Ilshls OH The shurrs ol Hudsun's Bay,
Which AT the Congress OF UretchI we're
formally achuow ledged by France, as be-
lure stated. The extent ol this territory
was not then, uur until long afterwards,
definitely settled. Meanwhile. among The
corrupt munUpoles of the reisnni Charles
III. was the grant Of charter 10 the - Ad-
yenlurers OF the Hudson's Bay Compa-
n.y." Their declared end proper objects
were, of course, navigation, aud trade IN
The furs, fish, or other productions OF Hud-
sons Bay. Exploration was, one the ben
efls anticipated from the Company; but
The Company itself proved for more than
century 10 be the great obstacle to ex.
ploralion, or in he emphatic language 0f
the Loudom Quarterly Review IA cuInpe,
tent witness un such polnt,j From the
momen, this body Ol Adventures was
instituted, the spirit of adventure died
away , aud every succeeding etfori was
paIsie,, by the baneIul influence OF a mo-
nupuly, ofS8hich the discovery Of North
west passage was deemed the iorerunuer
of destruction" This Company is TO
}: Il erica precisely whai the East ludia
Company is 10 Asia. 1t has been suffer
ed to extend lis power from Labrador
southwesrw ardly 10 Lake Superior, thence
along the ligns deS UcrsantS OF the MIssls-
slppl aud Missouri. aud so sweeping Il
round by the base of The Rocky Noun
Iai,s To the Slave Lake. and thence back
tn The extreme northeastern shores OF The
Atlantic. A glance al he map viii show
TIE vasl extent OF those imperial domIn
ions. When by lh' aid Of The Anslo
.Amerltari Provinces, GreuI Britain had
.uudurd Cauaua, IhIs did not become In
cnrporaled with the possessions Of the
Huhson'> Bay Company. On The con
Irary, hen the Independence oI The Un.
ted States gave Use To new relations III
the Nnrlnwesr, The lluds"u's Bay Compa.
ny was placed by britain on the Iooting "i
an independent Power; and ~ regulating
,iIe rights of mutual transIt,in that quar-.
ter. Jas Treaty. conta:uS lhi> clause:
The country within The limits of the
Hudson's By Company only excepted"
Thai is 10 say, when the territorial or
commercial ishs of the United States
are 10 be- restricted, the Hudson's Bay
Company is put forward as an ndepeu-
dent foreign state. So also is it, when
there is opportunity or OCCASION to extend
British rights in competition with ours !:
as in dpalings with the Indians il has re
praledIy happeued, where the acts Of the
Company have ii, all times been greatly
injurious 10 The United States Bur. on
ihr contrary, if the United States, or any
other Power. seeks 10 repress the pre!en
Sims Of The Company, il j, no longer left
by Great Britain to stand un its own brit
Iorn as political community, but is ia.
ken under The wing OF the British GOV
ernnenr. This, indeed, we know is the
precise mode in which the East Indian
Company has heen made the instrument
of conqueriug the bundled millions of
| Hinduslans.
After the Hudson's Bay Company had
for a length of lime lorded it in sole su.
premacy over the Indians of lhe cxren.
sivr region claimed by il, there sprung up
a competitor of its profitable fur-,rade in
the Northwest Company of Montreai.-
These two companies did not scruple ro
engage in continual feuds, growing ouI OF
jealonsies of trade, and mutual complaints
Of violated privileges; nay, they actually
waged hostililies one against The other il
the euise OF -overeign states; rendering
the interior Of the continent scene q
rapine, outrage and bloodshed.
These empire companies and their ira
ders, trappers, and agents, have heen the
immediate instruments of much of,iha
perpetual intermeddling of Great Britain
with the Indians of The United States
which, from ITS TO the present day, ha
never ceased to lie praciced 10 our injury
and The fruits Of which were seen IN eve
ry one Of the disasters of The West an.
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