Mobile register and journal., 1845-11-21
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intimately with the newspaper press US il has done.
There was embarrassment, growing out or the re-
lHtions Of 'he Globe with the Executive Department
oil the government. The official character tat tbe
Union" maintains cannot be productive Of Qoud.
and will be attended with difficulty. We hope that
Mr. Richie may be elected public printer without op-
position 1t is due to his long and creditabe editori-
al career We hope also, that it will be Insisted that
his unnatural union between the government and
the press shall be dissolved. The articles of the
Union" are regarded as cabinet papers. and ills
course al this time fills the public mind with alarm
The article which first attracted our observation on
The subject ofOregon contained the strong declara-
ton that the whole of Oregon was ours-tlal the
surrender Of any part would be gin 10 Great Bri.
tain, to hush Up "a dispute The democracy Of the
land were called on to respond amen, and Congress
was invoked to act conformably.
The Union called 10 account for the tone
and temper Of this article, in opinion very pro-
perry. IL now says that it merely stood upon the
question OF right-hat it stated an opinion on the
naked question Of tite-hat ii has done nothing
pre- than to reiterate what has been asserted by
messages,
dispatches, in majority reports The floor of Con-
gress." IL The Union meant nothing more than
this feel tempted to say to il, in The language
Of one of Maeres characters, civilian, rascal, cow
ard, how dare YOU scare us sol" To say with
more sobriety. that its course has excited strong
feeling in the public mind. and that the that
it recommends will not meet with The sanction Of
q Dponlp Ol Tor IF Ina
does follow from the controversy on this subject the
administration will be held 10 frightlu RESPONSE
bIity. The other article on this subject is the one
in which the 49ih parallel is considered. The Un-
ion says the line Of the 49th parallel winch has
played such part in the boundary negotiation be-
tween the United States and Great Britain, was first
thought OF and aiterward negotiated upon, and as
there is little reason TO daub, finally agreed upon
lar as the Rocky NJ ,intains solely in consequence
Of most singular mistake the part of both gov
ernmenIs. II proceeds, "the acl is we'll established
that under The treaty of Utrecht, no line whatever
either adopted or proposed by the commissinn-
ers orby their governments, the boundary of the
Frcuch possessions of the norh or the British pos
sessions of the SOUTH And lastly, concludes the
Union, the only author Who makes mention Of the op-
poiHnent of any such commissioners under the ucaly
Of Utrecht, that their negotiations ceased pre-
malurely in 1922, they having been appointed in
I7l9.
1t may be prooer to add, contnses "the UnIon,"
that Mr.. Monroe, when our minister at the cosrt Of
st. James in 1901, 10 have been The first
American statesman who brought into our negoIia-
lions this imaginary boundary line of the 49ll de-
gree, supposed by him TO have been run under the
treaty Of Utrecht There seems no doubt that Mr..
Monroe msled by an old map in his possession,
referred to in his correspondence. We have too
few books in this quarter 10 be able to discuss dis
puted point Of history. The account given by the
Union however is evidently an inaccurate one. The
nrgoia ions for the Settlement Of boundaries under
the trsaty Of Utreca, continued from time 10 time for
thirty years, and il is than probable that this de-
gree may have been agreed to and acquesced in dur
ing part ofthe negotiation. Chiei Justice Mar
shall who IL certainly the very highest authority
the subject, in his profound aal comprehensive
judgement Indian titles. reported by Mr. Whea-
ION, reflects much light OIL this subject and points
he way to the from whence he derived his
full knowledge Of the subject. 1t will be that
he refers to two commissions, and long aud pro-
traced negotiations winch has escaped the observa-
tlon OF The Union. He SAYS, "by the 18th article Of
the treaty Of Utrecht, his christian majesty
coded 10 the Queen of Great Britain all Nova Sco-
tia, or Acadie with its ancient boundaries. great
part Of the coded territory in the possession Of
he Indians, and the of the cession could not
be adjusted by the commissioners TO whom it was
referred. The treaty ofAix la Chappelle, which was
made on the principle Of the status anti bellum did
not remove this subject of controversy. Commits
sionsrs for lis adjustment appointed whose very
able. elaborate, though unsuccessful arguments in ia
of the title OF their respective sovereigns show
how entirely each relied on the title given by disco
very 10 lands remaining possession of the Indians.
After the termination of this (ruess discussion The
subject was transferred to Europe, and taken up by
the cabinets of Versailles and London. This contro-
versy embraced not only the boundaries oil New En-
gland, Nova Scotia, and that part of Canada which
ajoined those colonies, but embraced our whole
western country also France commended not only
that the St. Lawrence was to be considered as the
centre of Canada, but that the Ohio was within that
colony. She founded this claim on discovery and
having used that river for the transportation of
troops in IL war with some southern Indians. This
river comprehended in the chartered limits of
Virginia; but though the right of England TO
sonable extent of country. virtue of her discovery
Of the coast and of the settlements she made en-
it, was not 10 be questioned; her claim of all the
lands to the Pacf Ocean, because she had dscov-
cred the country washed by the Atlantic, might with.
oul derogatng from the principle recognized by all,
be deemed extrayagant. 1t interfercd too with the
claims Of France, founded on the same principle
She therefore sought to strengthen her original title
10 the lands in controversy. by insisting that il had
been acknowledged by France in The 18th article of
the treaty Of Utrecht.
These conflicting claims produced long and
bloody war, which was terminated by the conquest
Of the whole country east of the Mississippi. In the
treaty Of 1853, France coded and guaranteed to
Great Britain ai Nova Scotia or Acadie and Canada
with their dependencies and it agreed tina, the
boundaries between the territories Of the two
tons in America, should be irrevocably fixed by
line drawn from The of the Mississippi through
the middle Of that river and The lakes Mourepos and
Ponchar,ran.
LUIS he"y eAP'ess't CeueS anu ""s anyways "eeh
understood to cede, the whole country the Eng
fish side of the dividing line between the two na-
tons, although great and valuable part OF it was
occupied by the Indians. "Gredt Britain her part
surrendered to France all her Pretsnsions NEST Of the
Mississippi. has been supposed that she sur
rendered nothing, although she not in actual pos
session Of foot Of land She surrendered all right to
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