The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-03-25


While he best minds In C0ngFrss are
With II lesraing and ability. ilae
sahieri q Iiile and lie hiEh Questions 81
sapedieney. e0nnerled wiGh de Orrgon
dispute. theFe freqnenlly appear n de
public journals important fsris % striking
opinions. presented II familiar euise. cdr
lorial o. Otherwise. Hhirh throw come
light o. Ihe Ohsnre ard difIirull paih lhal
those ~ho dirrrilhel nialic aHsirs are now
exploring with % nlurh anxiety. Such
We regard die matter contained IN die an
nexed passages. whirh We exnsrt hom d
letter Irum Washington in tie New iork
Evening Post. and xhich Nc CONSIDER ID
The more weighs irom Gnding them in laas
journal: ]
a great deal j. said about Oregon, and
sometimes by people who. apparently.
know lille about il. For example. The
editor Of an Ohio paper calls The whole
country. from the ed degree ofnorth lasi-
iitle 10 81 40. By The name of Oregon.
and viii have The whole Of IL or \ war
nothing less will satisfy him.
"1'he same editor saws llIat. American
citizens are dispensed through the whole
territory" Is not The editor in error here.
l have made some inquiries respecting u.
and cannot find that more than Two Anne
rirans ever were in that country north Of
ile i9Ih degree Of latitude. One Of these
was a man who accompanied Lewis and
clarke in their expedition. and Is said TO
have passed the ensuing winter rs a hunter
in the valley Of Frazer's river; The other
was Mr.. Hiram Jewe.i, who was wrecked
4 good many years ago At Sooika Sound.
or Queen charlotic's Island, or some
where mp that way. The description he
gave Of the country was any Thing but fat.
iering.
The editor Of the Ohio paper is clear.
ly wrong in asserting that American CHI.
zens are dispersed through the whole oI
| that territory from l20 10 So 90. / do
not doGh. that American ships have visited
all the harDOrs on that coast, and traded
with The natives all along shore Bnl
the chief American settlements are in the
| Willamette valley. and on the clatroI
plains, both of which are south Of the 10
lumhia river.
! "Some people say that the word Orc
gon' is derived from the Spanish, and iha
il signifies pennyroysl.' But herein the,
only show their ignorance. The SpanisI
name for pennyroyal is prleo. The uu
derivation Of Oregon is from oregano. viii
majOram, a very different, plant from pen
nyroyal. r..
lf IL would no, be thought TOO bold
. me, I would repea. a suggestion I ono
before made through your paper. namel,
',hat you English and Americans, bcfor
you 20 TO war about the wild maljorar
country, otherwise called Oregon, Shout
appoint joint committee Of inquiry 10 lei
inmate its exact yalue.'
any own belief is. that there is not !
the Whole Or tiIaI region, 500 miles Ion
by 500 broad, as murh good land as is I
be found in the single State Of Indiana
The point Of honor is, | know, a ticklis
one, and the more worthless tho territory
the stronger the poin. Of honor. But, a
, already stated, I do not NEEDLE with sue
. high Governments as peare and war, an
making and unnaking Presidents. con
fine myself to matters Of fact; such, for ex
ample, as the true derivation Of the wor,
Oregon, the general worthlessness of TN
territory, and the fact that American ciii
zens are no, dispersed through the who'll
OF it.
Up. s. The name Oregon was origi
nally applied only to the county drainet
by the Oregon or Columbia river. How
long has il been since i, has been used I,
cover the whole northwest coast from ~
10 540 40 ?"