New-York daily tribune., 1845-04-28
The TisIe to Oregon.

Inc IISlS 10 oregon
The advocacy of Right against Interest, of HUI
manity against Seishness, must erer be unpopular.
He who does mos, 10 gel the Country irreyocabiy
into trouble is the idolpatrio of The reckless and
unrefe cting. Whoever stands up for Peace and
Good VIII, aad labors 10 shatter the webs oil
sophis,ry and falsehood by which Nations are
drawn into mutual lhroat-cuttDg must make up
his mind to be caiumniaied and Ievled as craven
and traitor He will be accused Of instseung
the rival nation TO insist on what deemsItsIlghts'
and twitied of all the teasons committed by others
and all the acts which SANDER HIS biackened ana
prejudice distorted into "moral treason But
we have Surveyed the whole ground, and are ready
to take the consequences OF doing our utmost 10
preserve our Country from the waBton and unjust
war into which so many are bent on pushing neF.
As new faisehoods are set afioat on the SIDE OF
butchery. we shali,ake some trouble 10 expose and
denounce them.
A recen, article oi the Philadelphia Ledger, CIV
ing SYNOPSIS of our title to Oregon, Is certified aa
s' correct" by the Cayusa Tocsin, and made the
basis Of long article which we find IN the Evening
Post Ia addition 10 The faliacles which we haze
already exposed II INDUCES in several Ike TINS; ii
laws great stress on the fac, that several OF our 90
lonial Charters from Great Britain assign no west
crn Boundary, and so run naturally 10 the fdcllic
Ocean. So CT the Louisiana Purchase. bu' 'he
writer is careful not to state that the principe here
established is jus, rs good for Great Britain as Tor
us, and that fur mare Of Oregon hes Fsst OF Can
ada tan of the States Conilguty OF territory
which is earnestly insisted on so far as II avofs o
claim is allowed no weight al all where II Strength
ems that of Great Britain.
But saws the article we are observing, of the
Treaty Of Paris of 1853,
This conf med the right of the French 70 louisiana
rhch ertssded latitude 5S' 80 North. and Indefinitely
West and all this was ceded by rance 10 ''e |''
by the treaty Of 1903"
"u,hich erte,lded to Int $50 go North Hao
extended il so far! Hon. was II extended VINO
recognized any such extension? Here Is very
essential statement slipped in without syllable oi
proof, in such way as TO give the false Impression
that The Treaty of Paris or at any rate some Ifea'y,
established lat. $50 30 as the Northern unit ol
Louisiana But in truth $50 80 was the extreme
Northern point OF CanQda and the French Northern
boundary thence Souh-West 10 lat. 49', auu
thence due West TO the Pacific-just where we say
the line should run now.
But hear the Ledger tc Co again:
.Eut even putting out Of question the French right 10
This territory we still find bar 10 any English claim IN
the right OF the Spanisyds They certainly oWheu II ~
British admission In $780, for b. the convention De'"ee
Spain and Britain dated October y. ei that year. Inc
British obtained mereiy The ri1ht 70 S along he cVaS i
TO land trade with the natives aud settle ana tus az
knowledgcd the territorial jurisdiction OF Spain.
Here is point-blanli lie on the most important
point Of the controversy. We have published (abou'
February ls) the material portions OF the Conven-
ton OF 1880 from which cur readers have seen that
the subjects Of Spain and Great Britain were placed,
with regard TO all this Oregon country, on footing
of perfect equality, and the British no more ac-
knowledged the jurisdiction Of Spain by settling
there than the Spanish did that OF Great Buialn- -
But the Ledger suppresses the Treaty and gives an
utterly unwarrantable gloss in place OF IT.
The Ledgerqnotes the Treaty OF Cesson ot Lou
siana to prove that the purchase of Louisiana gave
ne all the continent west OF the Rocky Mountains
from the said chain of mountains to the Pacific Ocean, be-
tween the territory claimed ty Grsdt Br1fda on one Sde anu
by Spain on the other
OF course. this demonstrates the tact that 1-ea'
Britain in 1903 had recognized rights OF territory
West of the Rocky Mountains-at least claims
which the United States and France saw mt TO
recognize in Treaty TO which Great Britain was
M, a marty. And how shall we now assert that she
Oregon merely onsufierance, and thereby "acknow-
edged the territorial jurisdiction Of Spain q Is not
the assumption absurdly indeiensble?