The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-06-04
VOL. No. "a.

ting this embarrassing. difficulty, we offered
TO yieIduPour rights to nearly six degrees Of
our territory-alI that between 40 deg. and
50 deg. 40 m., and extending from the
Rocky Mountains to the Pacific ocean,
sufficient to make six States as large Is
Mississippi This was a proposition so
liberal, an offer to make q sacrifice 50 great
for the purpose of obtaining the settlement
IOf difficulty when the right was al in us,
that anything more would have been atya.
rance with the dignity Of a great nation or
the honor Of free people. II was an Of
fer TO sacrifice a vast region Of rich and
fertile country, in a climate well adaptedtO
the healthy and prosperous condition Of our
people. But upon what terms did the Brit
ish. negotiatCrs propose to accept this pro-
positiOn3 With that insulting impudence,
which no other nation under heaven would
have been guilty Of she renewed her de-
maud for the free navigation Of the Missis-
sipp. This demand was exhorbitant Ia
1914, but it was al this period tenf0ld moro
unreasonable. -Four new States had al
ready sprung into existence upon It's banks,
and the fifth had petitioned for admission
into the Union. Such privilege could not
upon our part be granted, and Of course
these negotiations were concluded without
efecting anything towards the settlement
ofthis Perplexing question, further west
than the Rocky Mountains.
But by this treaty, which at that time
was concluded, a joint occupancy by the
twoparties, Of the disputed territory, for tho
term Of ten years was agreed upon. II is
the third article ofthe treaty, q is as follows:
at is agrecdthat any country that may
be Granddaughter party, on the northwest
coast of America, westward of the Stony
Mountains, shall, together with its harbOrs,
bays, and creeks, and the navigation Of all
rivers within the same, be free and open
for the term Of ten years from the date Of
s
the signature Of the present convention, to
the vessels, citizens and subjects Ofthe two
powers it being wen understood thai this
agreement Is not to BE- construed 70 the
prejudice of any claim which either Of the
two high contracting parties may have 10
any part Of the said country, nor shall DO
taken to effect the claims Of any State, to
any part of the said country, tho only Oh.
jet Of the high contracting parties II that
respect, being to prevent disputes and diff
ferences amongst themselves.
Pending all these negotiations, England
never produced or showed any grounds Up.
on which she based her claims to our ter
ritOry. She knew that she had none, and
that the right was IN US. All she wanted
was delay and pOstponcment Of final &C.
ton in the matter, land in this she was
successful that she might reap rich harvest
frOm the wild productions 81 this new com.
try-4hat she might erect faFis--EnalEe per.
munent settlements -caltivaio the SOIL
send her tlapers and traders there -open
a free market CT her trade--erect ciyil ii.
bunals, and While she would thus Be prof
Ting BY he possession IL our country, her
gasp would BE- growing lirohgeF and firm.
Ell until q day would como when she could
openly declare that she held BY tho right Of
possession This joint occupancy n name
has already pr0ved an exclusive occupancy
BY Great Britain, and which that power
win mover Telinqu.h whale shscan employ
any eonninly devised sohsns % evaas H.
h 1894 negotiations wers again con-
moncoi lelaiiFs 70 tls sakocl bdl uo,h.
! ING vas olena The conferences housv-.
eT, "a u6l t'oso without q concIIalo1y
proposition D or Nini-ief. which vas -.
fused b. tie Bliliah nasoiiaiorE uh0hrs.
tim haa ihs eifoaialy d propose ths Co
luuibia river q. lha aisidine Ire. rossr1iag
70 fbeir royoilneut he perpetual fosnuV.
LEGATION Of the channel Tluo % her ch,E,-
ac,er or erasping avsrics ani national -.
honesty Enslaad aciea end 10 hns vas
seHled IN the reaolatioa a. Plaoes eaP-
lbusd in dc w.. she acingUlodosd our
fright 70 he cosrly no-ih of ths Columbia