Mobile register and journal., 1845-05-30

The Oregon dspnie Is destined fnr some lime to be of absorbing interest to the American, and therefore should he well understood. The mnss of our people are for their country. s'rIghI wrong" but, in the right as alt investigation of the Oregon claim show, the support that they will render the Pres. dent and his counseliifs in maintaining that right, will be SO much the more ardent and energetic. We derise our claims tu the Oregon territory rom the treaties made with France and Spain in 1903 and | lSl9. The Philadelphia Ledger gives the following correct abstract oi title winch is well worthy Of preservation
 s'The Spaniards ceded to us all Their territorial | tights between he northern boundary of New Mexi- co and the southern boundary of the Russian posses
 sI0ns. So did ihe French in their cession of Loui- siana. Then if enher of these nations possessed
 territorial rights this region, he exclusion of BriaIn, we possess thnse rights Going back to the
 iIst settlement of the English North American cnl- onies, now the United States, shall fud that the royal patent of grants to these colonies extended in
 definitely westward, even iO lhe Pacific ocean. If
 then the British government ever had any right over
 the regions west of the Mississippi it ceded that right to the United States by the treaty of 17S3 and
 therefore is prec,nded, in legal phrase, esioLped, from mak jug any such claim at this late period-
 Bnt that government is plecluded by another obsta- cle,
 The French government, some years after the peace of Ak la Chmrele, in l74S extended their settlements over iie Mississippi valley. on the side of that river, along ,he Illinois, and along the
 Ohio up to Piishulg, where they built Fort pu r Quesne. The British government complained of these settlements encroachments saving that the whole of the French territory was on the wes; of the Mississippi. lIhese encroachmenls and com
 plaints produced the war of l1Ob, called ln Europe, ',he seven years war; and in the Uned States. the old French mar,' sgnaliseRiy Brad dock $ defeat by ihe French and the Indians, and ihe capture of Fort Dn Quesne by hc British, which they afterw ard- called Fort Pit; and also bN the British conquest of Canada By lbe treaty of Pars of I763 the terminalion of this war. the French surrendered to the British the Canadas, and all the
 territory east of ihe Mississippi and north of iie
 Oho and by the treaty the British relinquish- ed to the French all Iigh to territory west of the Mississippi This confirmed the right of the French to Louisiana, which extended To latitude hS des. 30 min norh and udt fnilely west, and all his was ceded by France to the United States by the treaty of 1903. Then if the British patents to the North
 American colonies extended to the Pacific, Oregon
 is ours under the treaty of Paris of 17S3 And
 whether these patents extended beyond the Missis,
 sipp mol. as tle territory of thal river was
 confirmed by Rrain France by the treaty ot Pa
 rs in l763, it became by the Louisiana treaty of lS03 Thus whether this territory prior 10 l76S, was British or French, il must be American now, and not British II the British owned il prior to
 l763, they have ceded il If they did not own il prior lo that period, il wns French confirmed as French that pei od, and held French till 1903 |, u hen Il ceded 10
 But even putting of question the French right
 to this territory, still find bar to any English claim in the right of the Spaniards. They ceitaInl, owned it by British admission in l790, for iy the , convention between SCain and Britain dated oi
 October 2S, of that year, the British oblainrd mere
 ly ihe Iigh 10 h along the coast, and To and, trade wik he natives and settle, and thus acknowledge Ft
 territorial jurisdiction of Spain. And lsl9, Spain
 ceded l., lhe United States all is territory on the north west coast north of latitude 42deg. Then, al Britain admitted ihe terril rial rlghis of Spain h, . the convention of 1790 aud Spain ceded those right
 to us by the treaty ol l9l9, Oregon, according t'
 this very convention of 1790, is now American, ant 0 not British.
 8 But we will go hack 10 treaty between Franc, . and BriIain, that establishes our right beyond al controversy By the treny of Utrecht, Of TIA, th' n boundar, line between he British Husnn's Ba, possessi tle north and 'hp Fiench passession il on the suuth including Canada and LuusIana, he
 gins the Atlantic Ocean. in latitude 5S deg. 3' " min. north, thence south to ake Mistasin. ant 6 thence southwest to north latitude 49 deg an' . thence west indefinitely. And by he treaty of Par . is, of l763, the Mississippi is recognized SIS th western British and the eastern French boundary. e By the same treaty, France cedes all her posses V siens m Cansda south oia line beginning ai th i, Atlantic Ocean, in north latitude 58 deg. 30 mn. " running thence souh-west 10 latitude AZ deg, an thence west 10 the north corner of Louisiana Both of ihese treaties exclude the British from ever
 thing of the MisEissp ppi and south of north lat
 itude 49 deg. And as Britain is excluded, by th
 Spanish convention of l790, from all territoria
 rights north of this French boundary, of latitude fl l. deg, she is excluded from the whole norIh- yves coast north of the Mexican boundary of north aii
 Jude 42 deg. Then, Britain had Britis
 right to this territory, excepting pretended am
 exploded discovery by the pirate Drake. and ack n now ledged French right in l7l4 and l763 and a American right to any pretence of British claim
 l7S3 and Spanish fight in I79O, and Franc
 acknow ledged an American right in lS0s, and Spai an American right in 1919, Oregon is now Ameri n can and aoi British '
 n The purchase of Louisiana made in 1903 abov
 stated. included all lands ton the side of tir - Mississippi river then belonging to the Uniie
 States, as far as the great chain of mountains whic divide the waters running into the Pacific from thos failing into the Atlantic Ocean; and from the sail
 chain of mountains tU the Pacific Ocean, betwee e the territory claimed by Great Britain sid IS and Span on the other" (History of the Fedora
 government, by Alden Bradford, Boston, lS40, pag,
 l3O) The chain here alluded to IS evidently tn l. Rocky Mountains, and the territory lying between s and the Pacific Ocean is that oi Oregon now iR dis
 pute. The treaty of Utrecht, of l7l4, and the ces
 sion made by France to the United States give us e complete title 10 the territory. to say nothing oi ih
 treaty with Spain in 1919 ceding II her right '' land orth of 42 degrees beyond the Rocky Noun il tains The iIe of Great Britain founded entirel
 upon the discovery of John Oxenham, the commando
 of party of freeb,oters who crossed the Panam ], in I57h and entered the Pacific, and ihe subsequen explorations of iIe pirate Drake, who passed ,hroue |, the straits of Magellan in 1878 and explored th
 coast far the 18th degree of north ai tude. An
 claim founded discoveries made by rowing an l., lawess advenlurers might be well questioned, bu
 giving England the full benefit of it, and 1t does no avail her m ihe least, for the treaties made wit
 France. in TIA and l763, she ack now ledged ih . right of that country 10 the territory. Disms,in rhis explored right 10 Great Britain derived from tn IT discoveries of Oxenam and Drake, and we find lha l. the first duly authorized navlgato,s who examine
 the country Bodega and Alaurelle. both of whor
 were senl on by the Spanish government m l775.
 They pushed northward as far us the 5Sih degre ,f of latitude; after landing and attempting 10 talk
 possession of the country by erecting cross an performing other rights, they were repn'ed by ih l. natives. The difficulty between Spain aud Engian n growing out of the seizure by Martinez, under th
 instructions of the former, of several English vessels
 and his erection of fort on Nootka Sound led 10 lh n convention of 1790, by which England admitted Ih e right of Spain afterwards transferred to this country
 and claimed not an inch of soil south of the 49ih de c gree of latitude.
 But in addition this ''record" title. have far better founded than thst of any other nation, right Of discovery. Among all nasi igaiors who ex !, plored the coasi of the Paciiic of them eve
 veninred into the Colnba the chief river of Oregon
 nntil il entered for the 6r4i Ime by Capt Gray
 an American trader, in l792, who gave the name q l. nations, ''lhe uaon which discovers and enters tn
 mouth oi river, by implication discovers the whol . country watered by it.' Fms discovery, then. con | frmed the title of the American government 10 th | whole valley watered by the Columbia; and ihe sub , scquent expeditions of Lewis and Clark undertaken
 by the authority of Congress afler ihe purchase Iron France removed all obstacles in the way of assuriH our just and lawful claim to the whole territory. TT Gov. WRIGHT's VETO MEssAGE.-Ths mes
 sage which is too long for insertion in columns
 ia marked by all thit eIearness and ability, whic d.. sl,fs1