Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1845-1851, 1846-06-13
U ~ entp -Nintb Congress.
In Senate. Monday, June l, 1916.
Spcpclp Of Gen. (:sSs,
with MR.. BENToN's REJoINDER.)

citizens IN the Oregon territory.
(Concfuded from our last
The honorable Senator acknoW ledres the receipt
in letter from Mr.. Kennedy, of extract from the
journal Of the English House of Commons in III t.,
showing that commissares appointed for settling
the trade between England and France, and he de-
duces from that entry the conclusion that comm>sa-
res were probably appointed at the time TO
carry into effect the tenth article of the treaty of
Utrecht, which relates to limits. There is ncccs-
SHY 10 make this Il matter OF deduction We have
better evidence the subject to which have before
referred, and to which viii refer again. 1t is the
statement of Father Charevoix, the celebrated tray
ecr and historian Of the French settlements in
America, vino sent TO this continent by the
French government to explore and describe their pos
sessions. He SAYS:
The nee citations between the two courts for the bound
aries ceased although commissaies had appointed on
both >ies the l7l9 And this
The statements Of such Charleyox needs cor,o-
boTation, by DE VI as. who exist
IN any written record, any maps charts single
cument showing that these foniier> boundaries under
the treaty OF Uech definitely established Amd
IN l12 all proceedings this subject bad been ablni ed
According 10 Father Chaievoix that preext
m sht be sven TO violate the good unde standing
hid beer found difficult establish between the two
OF France aud En- gland The Office
OF fole-n afrS contain chart relating
treaty OF Utrecht egadng iIontier those of
the department OF Marines and thus the of Charlie
vOIx Is fully sustained"
There is no doubt Of the appointment of commits
their diplomatic discussions. Projes were probably
received and nterchanged. And pc. ha ps the dScOr-
Ounce among the historians, to when have already
adgeried arises from their reference to these papers,
and counter papers, and not to final act Of the
commIssar;es. | repeat, sir, what said former
OCCASION do dot presume to speak dogmatically on
the subject 1t my opinion from proofs before
that no line was finally settled under the treaty Of
Utrecht. ms opinion ready change when-
ever the present evidence Is changed into evidence
more satisfactory.
The honorable Senator SAYS, that when the ceebra-
ed map OF George Ill. Is produced, a red line will be
found 1t about tenth of inch wide.' ma rked
boundaries between the British and French posses
sions In America. fired by the treaty IF Urecht."
have only to say, SIR. that | have already declared
against rcd-line map. Whether shall DO
SO against another II viii be time enough determine
when see II, and examine the circumstances con-
nected with it.
81 far, sir, this discussion respecting boundaries
und'r the treaty OF Utrecht has practical bearing
upon any question before But the Senator now
carries the line of the Rocky Mountains, posi-
ton not before assumed, and which, If established will
take from almost half Of the Oregon territory.
There Is not of the authorities whom he refers
who carries the line upon the parallel Of 10 deg. TO
the northwest The Senator spvs. indeed, that
Jetreys de-; but the quotation he introduces from
that author does not support this view. He seems to
attach much importance To this authOri'y so much
50, indeed, that shall stop moment examine it.
Thomas Jefrics, ESQ.,, as stated BY the Senator
was geoeraPher 10 has royal hignesS the Prince Of
ila'eS-" lie was proiessed map maker and he
wrote work, published in 1850, entitled :. History
OF the French DOminIons in North and South Ameri-
ca The Senator says lie takes credit TO himse f
FIR mixing it Ohe line Of d Anvle) more favorable
to the French than the French had made it for them
selves. What changes he made or upon what prin-
clPeS. are not shown. The remark i, not calculated
u Increase our estimate Of his accuracy
The Senator says that the latitude of 10 dec 70
the Western ocean is his limit Of the British posses
sons" VIII not assert that there is any mistake
here, for cannot refer To the book quoted by the
Senator but Il the extract he gives contains all that
Jeireys says upon the subject, certainly does not
justify the construction linus given to it, Jcifrevs as
quoted, says, speaking of the line:
Beginning at Davis inlet east coast Of Labrador
New B'iaIn in the latitude of about 56 degrees ard
drawing with it ceraiaiy rery precise
Of an mPosttpt douadry TIN Lake Abibas down
10 the 49 deg ee OF norh latitude; from thence
tnued to the Northwest ocean, settled by commits
sioners unier the treaty of Utrecht"
Here IS no coniinuance upon the parallel Of 49,
but continuance without describing the course after
stating the parallel. If, however, Jeircvs intended
TO assert that the line followed the parallel of 10 he
is at war with himself and utterly unworthy of conf
dence in his work, published seven years afterwards
IN 1860, to which | have already referred. he says
Canada, according TO the English accounts, is
bounded north by the highlands which separate it
from the country about Hudson's Bay, &C." "Its
nations hitherto undiscovered" Here is neither 40
nor the northwest ocean. But still further. In this
work IS map OF North America exhibiting tie
boundaries between the Brishan Frcn IN pos sessions
And upon this map a line which commences in the
HudsOns Bay regions and runs thence about south
west perhap. 100 miles, nearly in the latitude of Is
thence norilcry curvilinear course TO a pojnt
north oil ~ and about north from the west end Of
Lake Superior, where that part OF the map stops 1t
Is line which evidently follows the highlands as
stated above by Jerey>; BECAUSE with one exception
1t divides the waters running north from those running
south. And ii is thus marked Bounds of Uuds,n'
bay By the treaty OF Utrecht
Douglas carries the line indefaflg west. and that
expression might be rendered consistent with IT., tor
mInstIon east of the Rocky Mountains because the
western boundary of te Iluds N bav ons (he
limit OF the BRUSH territory that d.rccon) was
unknown
will not TO this matter, sir, bnt will take the
liberty of advering to the synopsis of the
tons connected with it which submitted To the Son
ate a former occasion:
L. Ii - not shown that any line was established, ON
the parallel of forty-nine to the Pac ocean.
= The country on the northwestern coast was then
unknown, and believe unclaimed or. at any rate.
circumstances had arisen to call in question any
claim TO it,
.. The British negoiiators iii 1913, and their min
lister in loll fixed upon the voyag, o. Captain Cook.
In IT'S, as the commencement of the British title TO
what is called Oregon.
4. The treaty of Utrecht pro, les for tie estab 81
ment Of line between the British and French colo.
MES, including the Hudson Buy Company The
British held nothing west of the compaay's pos>es-
sion~, which, by the charters included only the
lands, countries anil ter tories ON the waters run
ming into Iiud-ons buy.
,. If England established this line to the P,ciie
ocean, she can have no clam south of il: and this
kind of argument al homiqem become, concl,s;ve
And let me add that owe this argument to INV friend