New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-02-14
Tgp OREGON QUESTION.

ton. being the substance Of Lecture delivered by
him before Literary Association OF that City
This Lecture gives historical account OF the va
rious discoveries and settlements on the North
Yves, Coas, of America, and is accompanied by an
excellent Map Of that entire region. MI Sturgis
has spen, several winters on that coast, and is ia
niliay with lis history, geography, topography, ac
He was there long before this dispute arose, ana
was acquainted with Capt. Gray and all the cary
American voyagers in the North PacIfc, and was |
invited by Mr. Aston TO share with him IN the Asto
rial enterprise in 1911, but declined MI sturgis
exhibits and explains the whole ground, MAINTAINS
our superior rights south OF the Columbia, but con-
cedes GONE rights in that region to Great Britain
also. He proposes an adjustment Of the boundary
controversy By compromise, which shall give us
ali the territory South Of 49o n. latitude 10 the
Ocean and Great Britain all North OF that line.
with the whole Of Vancouver or Quadras Island, OF
which small portion stretches South oil 1872. Ihis
is precisely the line we had previously proposed
or rather simultaneously for Mr. Sturgls's lecture
was delivered on the 22d ut though not printed
ill some days later 1t is the line offered az COM
promise by our Government in 1877, but rejected
by Great Britain, the middle of the Columbia
hlVcI DfluB iIlC COMPROMISE PAcPoseo VA i'''
part On these mutual offers and reflections the
matter has rested until now, when We are discuss
ing the propretyof settling the controversy by
taking military possession Of all that is in dispute
and coolly driving the British out OF the country
Even the grace of giving England the twelve
months notice Of the termination of Joint Occu-
pancy which we are bound to give by treaty was
an alterthoueht, not contemplated in the original
bill, and reluctantly assentcd to by the more zeal
Gus Oregonians in the House.
Surely the Country must be startled by the reck-
lcssness, the evity, with which certain politicians
are pushing on collision with Great Britain In
regard 10 Oregon. Let il be borne in mind that II
i, we who assume the offensive-who propose to
change the existing state Of things based on treaty
stiouations, and grasp the whole OF adlstant region
which we have hitherto been content 10 hold IL
common with The rival claimant. In the region Of
which we propose utterly 10 dispossess Great Britain
is included the whole valley of Fraser's River,
which Great Britain claims TO have explored in
1898. and which her subjects certainly settle d IN
ls0S-fve years before we had foothold IN Ore
Ron. This River we do not even claim to have
discovered or even raised building or flag upon,
and vet we now propose to Gust the power which
has held undivided sway over it for nearly forty
years Does any man imagine that we Shall be
allowed TO do this without bodshed
But hear the albany Argus:
Neither do we believe IT [occupatonl viii bring
us into with England. No one really apprehends this
When that power convinced that the United States are
determined to have Oregon and tho whole Of It, she viii
leave It aone for her interest as well as her policy WIN
lead I'm that direction To her. that country is Of little or
no Importance but 10 It Is otherwise, because Is 10
DO OF own States occupied by our kindred, gov
erned by laws and ultimately to bo as closely dent
Ned with our Union as Iowa aud Nebraska are now
The leading assertion here made is directly OPP
posed to the position of Joint c. Calhoun, who
ough, to be as well informed on the subject as even
the Argus itself Mr.. Calhoun, some two years
ago, orgued forcihly in the Senate against the poll
cy now arsed by his party, as every way unwise
and perlou,, and certain TO defeat It's object -
England said Mr.. Calhoun, will not deeicrs
War but she ..ill build fort at the mouth of the
Columbia, garrison it with her troops and back
',hen, by her feet and defy all your efforts to dis
posses her. We cannot doubt that she would
feel constrained to act like this. To argue thatwe
may with IMMUNITY take territory which she be-
leves 10 be hers, because it is not important to her
while we consider il so to US, is deploraoy sily-
We never yet heard Of nations surrendenng lts
territory because Others saw fit TO covet it. Beside
if a frontier on the Pacific is SO important to us
why not to herl She desires shorter route TO
China and the East as ardenty as we DO, and her
interest in obtaining one is far greater Contigui,y
of territory, which MI Greenhow urges as one
ground of our claim TO Oregon, favors US only up
70 800 North--above that. Oregon is more contigu-
Gus to British territory this side of the Rocky
Mountains than to ours. When We become "con-
WINGED" that Great Britain win give up part OF her
territory whenever she learns that the United
States are determined to nave il, and the whole OF
it." we may as we'll strike for Canada and Jamaica
u, once.
The Argus chuckles over the antiAmerican
position" in which it places the Wings, and the
prospect that, If we venture to ego down 10 the
People in the canvass Of 1S4S on that issue, they
(the whigs) win be beaten hundreds of thousands
on the popular vote" All this may be or may not
be- We were beaten in opposing the robbery and
exile Of the Cherokees, but what Wing would
change places on that question with our conquer
orsl We were beaten in Mississippi in opposing
Reputation, in Congress in opposing the nulhhca-
ton of the Single District provision of the present
Apportioument Law, and so on many other Qaes-
lions To US the paramount considerations are,
of Christianity and of Humanity require What
will conduce TO the lasting welfare and true honor
Of our Coantry7 -after these come tina; considera-
ton of winning votes which is foremos, with poI,
clans Of another order,
BosroS STILL wrruou1 MAIoa,-The citizens
of Boston tried for the sessath ,iins Wednesday
to elec, a Mayor, bat with no better success than
an formsr occasions The result was as follows:
Parker (yyhig, S.3ao; Davis (Natve, asp.
Homer Locoj i,sSo. Scattering ID.
A trial was made at the same time &c cleo, s al
de,men, but with the same result. The Atlas says
tina, the extreme inciemency Of the weather lost
the true Wing ticket many votes.
Hon. Junk P. HALE,-A letter in the Boston Pos;
states that the Loco-Foco State Convention, which
assembled at Concord, N. H. on "Wednesday. pass
ed resolution, with only one dissenting voice, de-
claring Mr. Hale to have renounced the nomina-
ton as candidate Of the party for Congress, and
he To he III of