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respects identical with the Columbia and which
Mr. Falconer was pleased TO regard as the official
map employed by the plenipotentaries of France
and Great Britain in l76o,--I showed that il WINS
''drawn and presented by the French commissaries
appointed under the treaty Of l749, with the OBJ
ect OF exposing the extravagant pretensions of the
British IN America; and that it presented no river
entering the Pacific from the interior of America
near the 46h degree of latitude, Gas expressly as
serted by M. de Mofras,) nor any alusion to Cana
da, or New France, any sign whatever of
French dominion in America" while, ON the con-
trary, "the whole division of the continent, from
sea to sea, between the 40th and the 4sth parallels
Misunderstanding, of course nearly all Canada
appears en- it as New England" My assertions
were specific, and were either true or false. Mr..
Falconer should have plainly admitted them or de-
MED them; but, instead of this, he bubbles again.
"Mr. Greenhow," he says, appears to assert that
this map relates to the negotiations of l748 The
dates do not confirm this view Of the case" &c.
Does he mean that the map specially mentioned by
M. de Mofras not presented by the French
commissaries appointed under the treaty of l74S'
that it was the map used by the penpotentaries in
l763 that it does contain river which corresponds
in any respect with the Columbia and that il tends
to prove that Canada extended to the Pacific
5. Mr.. Falconer declared in his book, that sit is
not honorable while the title to the territory is unde-
termined between the respective governments to
urge measures to populate il with American citizens,
in order give facilities for its occupation at fu-
ture period" On this point showed, by reference
49, Al. .lad ,Jac IL.
sons Bay Company and the British government,
that the company, in 1898, "caimed and received
the aid and consideration of government for their
energy and success in expeling the Americans from
the Columbia regions, and forming settlements
there, by means of which they were rapidly con-
vertng Oregon into British colony.n This, says
Mr. Faconer, is reply; and he then shifts this ques-
ton to about the settlement of the dispute by
the agency Of forcible and hostile operations.
Whether such operations have been authorized by
the British government, we know not; they may be
ordered and carried into effect in virtue of
single despatch from the Colonial Office. In the
United States none such could be executed, or even
ordered, until they had been discussed and APP
proved in Congress-
Mr. Falconer has, however, most positively and
improperly msrepresented my views, and imputed
to me dishonorabe motives in the latter part of the
same paragraph assert that thc true policy of the
American government should be, by all lawful
means, to resist the extension of European domin-
ion in America and to confne its limits and abrdge
its duration wherever il may actually exist" This,
Mr.. Faconer is pleased to interpret as an asser-
ton that regard for public rights ought not to form
portion of the policy of the American government
and he asks, in conclusion: Scan that be lawfully
abridged, which lawfully belongs to foreign gov
ernmenf" Has Mr.. Falconer not heard of trea-
ties, of purchases or cessions of territories in ex-
change for other advantages' Are these not lawful
means of abridging the limits and the duration of
dominion Finally, may not nation lawfully re-
sort to war for such purposes, when it considers
its own safety threatened by its neighbours
Mr.. Falconer may, with perfect safety, represent
my feeble relating to irmaierial matters,
and displaying dscourteous and incorporate spirit
whilst he well knows that it will be seen by very
few of those who read his reply to it in England.
The terms of that reply have doubtless been based
on this consideration, or he would not have ven-
tured to misrepresent my statements, he has hero
done, in every particular. If he is, he PROCESSES
be- strengthened the belief OF the correctness Of
his views by my answer, he will probably not have
made any alterations in the edition of his pamphlet
to which this postscript is annexed but will have
sent it forth to the world with the quotation from
Bradford's history stipulation in the Louisiana
treaty; with the charges of treachery and bad faith
against the United States, based on that pretended
stipulation; and with the map produced by the French
commssaries in 1857, showing the course of
the Columbia, and as proving that Canada extended
to the Pacific in return for which, he will doubtless
receive the approval of the members of his govern
ment, and the newspapers Of London will compile
ment him on his triumphant vindication Of his first
assertions.
While such liberties are taken by British hsto-
rians, with regard to subjects which accurate in
| formation may be SO easily obtained, and errors 10
easily detected, what reliance can be placed in their
accounts of expeditions to Afghanistan, and en-
bassies to Ethiopia, where they may represent the
circumstances as they please, without fear of contra
diction,
ROBERT GREENHOW.
WASHINGTON, June "a, 1916.
From the New York Sum- June %.
BY the arrival Of the barque Anahuac, Captain
Wilson, we have received our files of Mexican pa
pers. We translate the following: The decree
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