Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-12-13

Ject OF the two Powers being well understood that TINS
agreement is be the prejudice OF claim
which either of the two high contracting parties may have 70
part Of the said country shall bs taken 70 AFFECT the
try only object Of the high contracting parties in that
respect being prevent disputes and differences amongst
themselves"
The two acts the restoration Of our possession and the
nature of the convention nearly conemporaneousthe
latter taking place but fourteen days subsequently TO the
mer We were them admitted by Lord Casereagh emit
tied be considered the party in and the con-
venon which stipulated that territory should be free
and OPEN for the of ten years from the date OF Its sigma
ture the vessels citizens and subjects Of the two countries
without prejudice any claim which either party may have
any part Of the same preserved and perPeuaed al our
claims to the territory including the acknowledged right to
be considered the party in possession perfectly during the
period Of its continuance they were day the convention was
signed. OF this there can be no doubt
After an aborive attempt adjust the claims Of the two
parties the territory in 1924 another negotiation was COM
menced in 1896 which terminated in renewing, ON the 9th OF
August 1927 the third article OF the convention OF 1918
prior to its expiration provided for the indefinite extension
Of all the provisions the third article Of that convention and
that either party might terminate at any time might
think fit by giving years notice. after the goth October
1925 It took, however, the precauhon OF providing express
article Of The convention Of the goth October, 1875 hereby
continued in force shall Be construed TO impair in any
manner affect the cims hic either Of the contracting par
ties may haze % any part Of he country ,oesfOad q ne
force and has continued to be since the expiration OF
that Of 1915 By the joint operation Of the two our right
to be considered the party possession, and all the claims
had TO the territory while in possession are preserved in
full vgor they the date Of its restoration in 1875
without being affected impaired by the settlements since
made by the subjects Of Great Britain.
Time indeed far from impairng ouScams, has greatly
strengthened them since that period for since then, the
treaty of Florida transferred all the rights claims, and
preensons of Spain to the whole territory has been
stated In consequence of this claims to the portion
drained by the Columbia rivethe point the subject Of
been much strengthened by giving the
ncontesabe claim to the discovery Of the mouth OF the
by Heceta, above stated But is not in this particular only
that has operated in favor welfounded claim,
grounded continuity has greatly strengthened during the
period by the rapid advance Of population towards
the territory, its great increase especially in the Valley Of
the mississippi well as the greatly increased facility Of
passing the territory by accessible routes and the far
stronger and rapidly swelling tide Of population that has
Gently commenced flowing into it.
When the first convention was concluded in 1918 our
whole population did exceed nine millions Of people
The portion of nhabng the States in the great Valley Of
the Mississippi probably under million hundred
thousand of which not than two hundred thousand
the west side Of the river Now our population
may be safely estimated at not less than nineteen millions, Of
which least eight millions nhab the States and Territories
the Valley of the Mississippi and Of which upwards Of
million in the States and Territories wost Of that
river This portion Of population is now increasing far
rapidly than and will in short time fill the whole
tier of States on its western bank.
To this great increase of population especially in the Val
ley of the Mississippi may be added the increased facility Of
reaching the Oregon Territory in consequence Of the discovery
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of the La Platte The depression great and the pass
smooth that loaded wagons travel with facility from Mis-
souri, to the navgabe waters of the Columbia river These
joint have had the effect of turning the current of
population towards the territory and emigration estimated
less than thousand during the last and fifteen hun
dred during the present year has flowed into it, The
rent, thus commenced will doubt continue to flow with
increased volume hereafter There then be doubt
that the operation of the which mpeed
pulaon westward from the shores of the Atlantic the
Allegheny to the Valley of the Mississippi will impel them
onward with accommodating force the Rocky Mountains
into the valley of the Columba and that the whole region
drained by it is destined to be peopled by us
Such claims to that portion Of the territory and the
grounds which they The undersigned believes them
to be weoanded and trusts that the British Plenpoeniay
will in them sufficient why he should decline his
proposals
The undegned Pepossntiary, sbstsins for the present
forn presenting the Chains which the United stuprs may
have to other portions of the territory.
The undersigned avas himself Of this occasion renew
to the British Plenpotenary Of his high cons
deration. ]. G. CALHOUN.
D.) - British Statement, by Mr.. Pakenham.
SEPTEMBER IL, 1914.
The undersigned British Plenipotentary has studied with
much interest and attention. the statement maked Az pre-
grounds on which he declines the proposal offered by the
British Plenipotentary compromise of the difficulties of
the Oregon question The arrangement contemplated by that
proposal would in the estimation Of the American Plenpo
United States to limits far crcumscbed than their claims
clearly entite them to.
The claims of the United States the portion Of territory
drained by the Columbia river divided into those adduced
by the United States in their proper right and those
which they have derived from France and Spain.
The former, against Great Britain they ground pr
Gritty of discovery and priority of exploration and settlement
The claim derived from France originates in the treaty Of
1903, by which Louisiana coded the United States
with all its rights and appuenances fully and in the
manner they had been acquired by the French republic
and the claim derived from Spain is founded the treaty
concluded with that Power in the year ls9 whereby his
claims and pretensons to the territories lying and north
OF certain line terminating the Pacific in the AID degree
Of north latitude.
Departing from the order in which these three separate
claims presented by the American Penpoteniary the
British Plenpotenary will first beg leave observe with re-
gard TO the claim derived from France that he has not been
able to discover any evidence tending establish belief
that Louisiana, originally possessed by France afterwards
transferred Spa then reoceded by Spain to France and
ultimately coded by the latter Power the United States
tended in westerly direction beyond the Rocky Mountains
There s the other hand strong suppose that
the time when Louisiana ceded the United States It's
acknowledged western boundary the Rocky Mountains
Such appears have been the opinion of President Jefferson
complished.
In letter written by him in August 1903, to be found
the following words
The boundaries of Louisiana which deem not admit
ting question: the high lands the side of the
Mississippi enclosing all its watersthe Missouri course
and terminating in the line drawn from the northwest point
the Lake of the Woods to the of the Mssis
pp lately settled between Great Britain the United
States"
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