New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-06-02

t-Vp The Eren,ng Post of last "Wednesday spoke
of our notice of Mr. Geo. Wikcss Oregon as dica-
ted by personal spite 'enmy 10 Mr. Wilkes dc
&c Now we do not personally know Mr.. Wikcs
Of ALL but he knows that his conncxion with the dis
reputable Press of our City has been such as tojus>
more surprise than we expressed AT his appearance
as National champion ON the field OF Territorial
controversy ltwas because Mr.. Wilkes proved IN
his Oregon that his old habits and tastes were IN
ve,cra,e tina, we alluded to them in this conncxion.
We do not know that we need conirovcrt the
Posts (qu Wilkcssl cavis at our article but We
will He says Mcarcs had abandoned his settlement
or hu,s ON shore before he was captured and broken
up by Martinez But that matters not n hair-wc
have not spoken Of Mcarcss settlement as aiordine
ANY holding ground To the British. 1t was ON the
assumption Of such settlement that Great Britain
armed against Spain. and Spain, 10y the Convention
of the Escoria made signal PREPARATION for Mcarc- =
losses BY that Convention, expressly by one sec
lion and generally by the whole Spain conceded 10
Great Britain the RICH, to trade aud settle any part
Of the North Yves, Coast north of lat iOs BY re.
sen,ing the of Martinez, Great Britain denied the
sovereignty of Spain over that TERRITORY In aionine
tor thai aCt, SPAN suFfthltftt Vitl SpNtTt-hlNs IT
she had ever possessed il. Both nations have ever
since acted as il the concession was made in good
faith and had never been nvaldatcd
We said the first internal exploration of Ore
eon was made by Mackenzie British in 1898 No.
saws Mr. Wilkes or his apoloesi, d" in May. 1902.
Capt Gray sailed up in the Columbia to the distance
of frenfy or thirty m,ics into the interior that Is
into the bay at the mouth of the Columbia River
This is the last internal exploration of a country
six or eight hundred miles square We ever heard of
We said the first settlement in Oregon was made
by the British in sos the Fraser river, having
its mouth little north of 49, Hcrcupon the Post
critic lwho objects 10 our temper and want Of " q
kind and benevolent spirit says
"Ths attempted pcrvcrson is gross enough To amount
10 deliberate iasehood for the settlement alluded by
the Tribune was made at the Aead-ravs Of the above
river between ~ and 80. and that not until lst0 one
year ser the interior exploration of Lewis and Clarke
and their establishment, Of American tort al the mouth
II that river.
Now rs we had not said nor attempted To give the
impression that Frascrs settlement was made at or
near the mouth of the river We arc AT loss 10 con
ceive wherein our gross 'pcrvcrslon consists w hat
matters il on what part OF the river Fraser settled
The Skole river first iravcrscd by Mackenzie in
1898, and il was settled upon by Fraser both Brit
ish) in 1906 or &. Our people certainly did mo-, dis
cover this river. We did not cxplorc it, we have
never made settlement upon il. The establish
men OF an American fort at the mouth Of the river
when stripped Of It's superfuous rhetoric amounts 10
this thai Clarke h Lewis risited the mouth Of Fra
sers river and built hu,s there To winter ia We
have never pretended to occupy save transienily.
loot OF territory ON that grca, River And now We
propose to expcl or subjugatc those who hare had
posts upon II steadily for nearly forty years
But says the Wilkes Post manifest.
In relation to the difficulty If maxine . c,.., .
Oregon i ony necessary 10 inverse the Tfilun.s M
sitions in order TO show that the difficulties IN IN,
Great Britain arr far greater than the side of A,n.
There already than than three times ss r,s,
Americans British in the territory and in ,hs, Nj,
country II would require more than ten thousand enc
nes TO drive them nom ,ae soil"
But Great Britain does not ck,o expel err pco
pie from Oregon; she asserts no right to do 50 She
comedies tina, wcAarc territorial rights ;hcrc subject
(ss are hers to adjustment before exclusive jurisdic
ton is enforced Our people are pouring in and Sc,
Ting wherever they please and not finger Is lifted
not murmur uttered, against them DR. McLaugh
lin the has asked and accepted oiour
Oregon Legislative Council charter to cOnstruc,
Canal round the Falls OF the Willamette All j. har
mony between the people OF the two nations: ours
have been saved from famine and priyaion by the
ample provisions and goods generously supplied
them ON long credit by the British Company. All
10 going on admirably there; our people are rapidly