New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-11-24
WARREN CO.
Cnshina on OREGON.

Hon. CALEB CUSHING delivered on Wednesday
evening last Lecture before the Mercantile Library
Association Of Boston on Oregon in which he main
tains the right Of this Country to the whole estern
side of this Continent, from the Mexican line AZ
North to the Russian in lat. $40 40. Last Winter
Hon. Russell Sturgis, Boston sea-captain on the
Northwest Coast when the mouth Of the Columbia
was discovered by Capt. Grey and at different times
between 1885 to 1905 delivered lecture in Boston
on the same subject, setting forth and maintaining
the rights of our Country in Oregon, but admitting
that Great Britain had rights there also and propos
ing the line of 49o TO the ocean, giving Vancouvers
Island 10 the British, as fair and just compromise
of the question which ought to satisfy both nations
Capt Sturgis spoke from personal knowledge OF the
various discoveries and settlements on the North
west Coast-several explorations along the whole
line of what we now call Oregon having been made
by the British Government, before we had or pre-
tended to have shadow of right heretofore we
had ever sent our National flag into the North Pa
ci6c And now it is urged that the schoie of that
region SO explored by Great Britain is indsputa
bly, ours that il is the hight of impudence in Great
Britain to pretend to claim any part of it!
Mr.. Gushing of course makes out the best case
possible for his side of the question. He objects,
however, to submitting the matter to Arbitration,
has no faith in farther Negotiation and though he
does not directly recommend that we make haste
to appropriate the whole territory, believing that
Time will inevitably give it to us, he holds this Ian
guage with regard to the prospect CT hostilities;
.War therefore remains possible alternative but
one whibh in my opinion there not the slightest pre-
sent to apprehend. Remember, war TO exist at
all. must be aggressive war on the part of Great
Britain. She must come here to seek 1t. We are not
proposing 10 60 to Europe and 10 take from her Scotland
half of Ireland by force. 1t is she who nvades and
must assume all the hazards Of invasion. VIII she do
this do not believe it. Sir Robert Peel may talk
largely the subject for thepurpose Of carrying through
Parliament some critical domestic measure or IN the
vain hope in,nidate the United States But England
s dependent America for Cotton and Corn to de-
clare against US lightly; and she fail to re-
member how in two wars with US already, az time
when much less powerful than now she gain
ed nothing but defeat and dishonor."
Such language as this from British statesman
would be regarded and quoted by the Government
presses here as directly provoking war Are we
likely TO preserve Peace by tsunting powerful Ma
ton with our selfvaunted.) defeats of her arms in
former contests And were the defeats and dis
honor of that last contest all on one side? How
happened it, when we declared the last War, thai
the important land battles were mainly fought on
COR soil? Did the British arms ever meet with re-
shameful as in the failure OF our sew
eral invasions of Canada And if we glorioasly
saved New Oreans,.did we not disgracefuIy suffer
the loss OF our Metropolis When the war closed,
wasnot portion ofour territory, Including all we
own OF Oregon in British hands, while not one foot
OF her territory was in our handsl MIR. Gushing de-
grades himself BY talking ofsuch matters like low
bar-room spouter who hardly knows better
Then as to a war for Oregon being aggressive on
the part of Great Britain. we lack evidence AS
suredy, no war win arise from our people settling
in Oregon. for that they have perfec, RICH, to do
under the existing treaty to say nothing of the i'm,
possibility Of hiring live Yankee to settle in Ore.
gon North i9o while there is land to be had else
where on which grain OF sone sort wiH grow. aud