The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-06-18

% % - running tlsaSAs AsdNss % nc
Raeky Mncnisizs. dividing EPHngs from
llasir hrsnshes, and hrshchss from dasir
spriags. Tea th0sssnd enpiss Il This
errsneous map had heea Distributed By
order Of The Seaslr. ihrOugh The country;
anI from various sources. hundreds Of
thousands of them hsl been distributed.
The line had bern drawn IEll and sinahg
from the sea 70 lie Rnsky Mountains.
shea there was no surh line. Asd yel
our people had been 81 infameJ ~ 10 be
ready 10 20 eut and establish that line By
The sword. MARCHING al the way and sigh
- > they vent along,
aDsLs 81 G,aw-n ssf pro Paaia Hsari.-
In Is sweet and graceful 10 die l"r our
couniry. And vet. sir. sner marching MI
the way for this line Of 50 40. when they
would get there, Ihry world 6nd there
vas no such place. The ~hole thing is
imaginary. intangible. and is disPel.ed in
10 Thin air. All this excilemenI--all this
pairioiism-all this waste Of words and
time, sir. has been about nothing. or 10
something too ridiculous 10 excite the bra
very Of the people TO the people 10 lhs
poiOl..f Ifha csSSI ind ii. There is no
such line. ]; Is ridiculOus-iI is ridieU.
lous, siri and speaking Of IL hereafter, let
q ever he said-s0hI mountain that was
delivered Of \ mouse. hereafter thy name
shall be Sc &C." General langhler.l
No such boundary line was syer estab.
lished. IS the continuous line Of 81 20:
bntas FAR as agreed upon. IL was the north.
ein boundary Of Great Britain. Colonel
Benton Continued his citations from off.
cial papers Of the State department. ia-
GLIDING The correspondence upon this sub.
isci, during the administration Of Jefier-
son and Mr.. Monroe, showing that our
government had uniformly conlended for
80, a. our northern boundary. Great
Britain could not forget these facts. No,
SIR, the growth Of her statesmen vas not
50 rapid Is to forget the events Of twen-
ty-ihree years back. And yet, sir, after
Offering her Ave degrees of l.tilude as her
own, over and over, we prepare to squeeze
her out 81 il entirely. We are 10 20 Jam
to 81 30 on one side, ard Russia is 10
come Jam down on the other. and we are
ready TO GU to war for IL; such is the po-
sition Of the advocates of 81 40. We
must close up and squeeze out Great Bri.
ten entirely. We mus, not let her have
room to put her lions raw upon il, even
II il we're small as the foot of n dove
Is this righti Is this decent! No, sir,
II IS neither rigtn nor decent. The orig.
inal idea was that Oregon should be d..
sided into three psris-Russia have the
North. Great Britain The middle. and the
United States tina Southern portion. Rus
sla has received her poriion-ours was
still 10 dispute. The first great error
then vas that our title was good up to 81
40. lie had corrected this error, and from
this time henceforih there will be no such
the Northern boundary Of Great Britain.
The next error upon hi, Oregon question
was almost equally perHicious with the
frsf. II was pernicious because il was an
error. IL Vas the unsubslan,ia,ed dogma
that our title was clear TO the whole Of Ore.
gon from the undirisibiIi,y and unity of our
lltle up to So 40--ihat there was no
break in u. From This dogma OF unity |
follows the eorollary that our title is clear |
10 the Whole of Oregon. Now. sir, i'll
we come TO examine il. we shall find ths,
IN pars our title is good. and in parl bad
and that the dogma and the coroliary must
20 down together. There are breaks in
he title. To the Columbia il is complete.
North OF that il depends upon the Span.
SIN treaty OF 1919. This single view
freaks up the unity Of The title. There
IRE two breaks in the first division, and III
We 60 further we will find there are two
more. The dogma Of the unity of tide
vas eSpIoded--our title was good to part, Il
md bad to other parts-and it is the place
u sensible men TO examine all the paris
their relations TO each other. II
Mr.. Buchanan was a listener 10 this
Peech, and seemed to be much edi6.
d. Mr.. Pakenhsm looked on an said !
othing. ,
Col. Benton mex, adverted to the treaty. ,
I Utrecht, as establishing the boundary
ne between the French and English DOS 9
essIons along the line Of 40, indefinitely,
Iestward from the Lake of the Woods. ,
lie was called again tn refIte Greenhow's |
ook, aid he did il because the endorse. 6
tent Of Senator had entitled il TO con. 4
deration. He said he would refer sgain h
the records Of the Department Of State, A
hich he did, citing the correspondence a
BON the Oregon question under Mr.. JEFF. K
rson's administration. Col. Benton had a
v'n'o aP,ni'sess.,Ns. p;,s tg,eG, Nsx q
,hyIng the opinions Of Timothy Pick.
ing' Hutchins and others, in suppor, ofi &
e line OF 49f as being established bv n
appointed under the trea. h
OF Utrecht. Col b. mex, referred N !,
map being printed in London under N. =,
tronage Of tie prince, in 1853, in f,r. in
sr support of the line of forty.nine. A m
ong red line was drawn ali the wav n
'ough upon this map in the for,y.nintb in
iallel. Col. Benton said, that gentle 8,
flat,u ~