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TO THE SECOND EDITION OF PAMPHLET
ENTITLED THE OREGON QUESTION" SC.
BY THOMAS FALCoNER, ESQ.

a
April isao entitled AN Answer to the Structures Of Mr.
Thomas Faleoner Of Lincons Inn the History of Ore
nient for the sake obrevity to take each OF the complaints
OF Mr. Greenhow separately.
. ISL ISL r preieg, IN every instance in which
argument on the Oregon question: cited from the History
Of the Federal Government" written by Alden Bradford
LID editor Of the Massachusetts, State Papers, the follow
respecting the extent of the purchase of
lana from France by the Of the United States
1.-THE purchase included all lands on the east side Of the
Mississippi reer $50 as to include New Orleans) not then
belonging the United States far as the great chain Of
mountans shieh deid The waers running he Pacific and
those falling into the 4iante and from e said chain
mountains 10 the Pacific ocean, the territory claim
ed by Great Britain on the side, and by Spain the
The words in italics placed between inverted com.
mas as citation. BY Dr. Bradford hmse they not the
ford his authority passage as the
terms Of an agreement to which the treaty 1903 the
ance of Louisiana, these terms under the treaty Whsth
er he is correct not depends upon the value Of
taton incorrect does he deny statement of DR.
Bradford There appears to be to doubt that the
ana. Mr. Greenhow states however, that ahis surprise
was great on finding that Mr. Falconer had this
The is that MIR Facone in his work ION the Discoy
cry Of the Mississippi" &C. referred to the passage part
and in the second edition. p II thinking he might Se
anaeooa ne speaks Of i as part Of the terms of the
in treaty itseior the reason perhaps which ias.esS
Mr. Jefferson in 1877 three after the purchase Of
LOUISIANA TO lear that ausi0n to claim
to the coast Of the Pacific would be offensive 10 Spain
dreenhoW on the Oregon asa) But though the citation
part Of on which the treaty is founded II is
ny Dr. Bradford and MIR Greenhow
hat S % exercise
OF authority in the Oregon territory under the
R.S Of the United the
taking possession of country by persons oc ally
The no " the author
legislation by which the territory became to the
dominions Of the Crown" TO this Mr. Greenhow replies,
that Mr. Falconer forgot concealed the fact Span
sh officers had landed all those coasts and each
sion had most formally taken possession in the Of
der Of their government before attempt for the
purpose had been made there by The people q other
vacant wastesthe the official assertion Of sovereignty;
and the other occupation. The first alone is OF avail
without occupation But is well known that the spanards
never occupied the country they had done govern.
part oft in 1914 The country open any government
to and occupy it, any formal
OF possession unaccompaned by occupation which
government might previously have made. Such posses
Of 10 0rsg1n Sy first made
to DO this was recognised in the convention Of the Escur
sdiy mo authority, says Mr. oreenhow ION the mart
Of the British government was alleged by the claimants
Nootka Sound whose cause supported by the British
statement Mr. Falconer does not conrovert The Nootka
dispute might not have arisen IL the Spanish officers had not
unjustably seized the vessels Of British subjects But
whatever defect in title to settle at Nooka might have
existed through Mearss proceedings the British govern.
waste and abandoned territory; Vancouver 10
take possession of III and to authorize the Hudsons Bay
treaty Of the Escual which also sanctions the establish
ment Of British settlements in ths country
work respecting the northern boundary OF Louisiana is
entirely msquOted" The whole passage as follows:
-" referring 10 the state Of things at the
at that time all included between the Atlantic on the
east and the Mississippi the In the north were the
m weR Law
Spain and beyond the Mississippi the spanards claimed the
east region called Louisiana stretching from the Gulf Of
Mexico northward and northwestward underlined ex
| tent' -
Mr. Falconer has cited the last lines only in order to con
rover the statement that Louisiana extended inde
nitey to the north The other portions Of the do
not qualify affect the assertion OF the extent
Louisiana did extend indefinitely to the north that
authority is cited by Mr. Greenhow support Of his as
formed out Of the province Of Canada that according Il
the representation Of vaudreu surrendered Canada to
north than the illinois; that its extent was a dis
nc subject of negotiation when the treaty Of cession
the Illinois and south Of the Hudsons Bay territory
formed part OF Canada. When therefore the treaty Of
the dHnS line e s the point
Britain and France east and west of it, all the territory
Canada NJ Moiras states that the Official map Of the
French government engraved in 1907 supports this
TO s 81 ad de nd
this view Of the case but setting the map aside is still
!
did reach further north than the Illinois Il could moi
reach further north than the of the Mississippi after
fixed on as the most northern point of Louisiana
6hly Mr. Faconer remarks that Is honorable for
the Of the United States to
populate the Oregon territory in order TO enforce It's
claims at future time To this Mr. reenhow replies that
aid sna o he sna
their energy and in expelling the Americans
Of Which heR spdy
British colony But this Z no reply Mr. Greenhow mus,
the wish to settle the dispute By the agency nas
any GSioe or hostile opessons on the part Of the British
Company may have advanced for official avorand If I'M
they are surely not TO be adopted by the
gard for public rights which the British m Sas
hibed but which Mr. Greenhow ought not to form
portion Of the policy Of the American government whose
to resist the extension Of European dominion in America
and to eonne its limits and abrdge its duration wherever
may actually exist on the Oregon, p 1885, NJ
Can that be lawfully abridged, which lawfully belongs
| to a foreign government
The above are all the facts in Mr. Falconers argument
which Mr.. Greenhow comments on He says there In
mistakes msquotations and misrepresentation of all
knds but he certainly would not have been backward in
he admits would be 'irreagabe" if the facts cor.
sustained by a reference to Mr. Greenhow's own work.
Mr.. Falconer himself did not think his argument
rrefagable He thought possible that he had overlook
ed something, and that there might have been fair
e he sss .t % Of
how would not have printed SO feeble denial if the really
mmaterial matters which he has noticed all that
| he could find fault with, or attempt to answer
The very disconrteous and Incorporate spirit In which
Mr. Greenhow has written his reply only be injurious
| to his own reputation.
There some other remarks which the writer reluc-
family aludes to- on account of their personal character
Mr. Greenhow states that the valuable portion Of the
documents published by Mr. Faconer the discovery and
settlement Of Louisiana were already well known IN the
United States (see Spars Life of NJ La Sale and Whites
New Recopilacon0 and that number still greater Of
more interesting papers the subject lie in
script before him. Whatever had been previously pub
shed Mr. Falconer hai noticed and his estimation Of the
literary services OF Mr. Sparks well Justice
led him TO acknowledge with what he had already
done. Whether what MIR has first published is
less valuable than what had previously been published
he will not contest; but he most sincerely hopes that
Mr. Grsenhow whose industry will enable him to per
The following passages only to be reconced by
proving that Martinez made permanent settlement in the
Oregon Territory. This Mr. Greenhow would be unable
to The spansrds did not visit the country alter the
Nootka affair settled