The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-08-05
NEW YORK HERALD.
New YORK.. wednesday, August 5, 1916.
The Oregon Treaty-Its Ratification.

OF informing readers OF the fact that the treaty
entered into between England and the United
States, for the settlement of the Oregon dispute,
had been ratified by the English Ministry, and is
now in full force and virtue. Although il was
considered certain of being ratified, by most peo-
pie, there was some little doubt entertained by
several since Lord Pamerston had got into Of
flee; nasmuch as it was thought that that gentle
man, for his love of saltpetre, would be desirous
of having opportunity TO disturb the friendly
relations between this country and Great Britain,
These doubts are ofcourse, now dispelled, and the
prospect is good for the maintenance OF peace for
an unlimited period.
The treaty was ratified ON the l7th ult., and Mr.
McLane Immediately hurried with it by express
to General Armstrong, in Liverpool, who received
it in time to sail in the Hibemia. The ratified
copy is now in possession of the government at
Washington
According to the tone of the public prints, and
from conversations that we have had with persons
lately arrived in the steamer, we learn that the
Joy of the English people, and particularly the
manufacturing portion, was unbounded The
news spread like wild-fre throughout the coun-
try, and addresses of congratulation were drawn
up and sent to the government. In many of the
manufacturing districts bonfires and other de-
monstratens ofjoy were made, the equal of which
has not been seen since the battle of Waterloo
and the overthrow of Napoleon.
Our readers are aware that considerable doubt
existed, both in England and in this country, in
regard to the true meaning of that section of the
treaty providing for the navigation of the Column
bia river In common with other journals, we
expressed our opinion, which was nearer the
truth than any other that was given. We had the
pleasure, however, Of setting the matter ut rest
forever, by giving the true construction OF that
section in our Washington correspondence yester-
day. Our correspondent derived his information
from source that places its accuracy beyond
question. 1t appears that the charter of the Hud.
sons Bay Company is perpetual, but it covers no
grants of land or water, but contains a permit
to hunt, trap, Sc, which permit expires in 1858.
The permit may, of course, be rene wed, but the
renewal will amount to nothing. No fears, how
ever, may be entertained on this point, be-
cause, long before even the present charter ex-
pires, the Hudson's Bay Company will be dis
solved. As il is, the profits of the concern are
small, and do little more than the expenses,
account of the decline of the animals that fur
nish them with furs, and the gradual occupation
of the country by emigrants. Now that the diff
may expect a stream of emigration to flow there,
composed of hardy emigrants and their farni-
lies, who will locate in the territory and pursue
the arts of civilized life The inhabitants of the
forrest will, of course, fly before them to regions
remote from the emigrant 1t may reasonably be
supposed, therefore, that in about seven years the
Hudson Bay Company will be dissolved. Indeed
the London Times already hints this.
Tba E,,b L..
denied, in the Union, that the right to navigate the
Columbia was vested by the treaty in the Hudson
Bay Company in perpetuity. All that can be
said is, as we have frequently stated that the art-
cles in that paper must be interpreted by the rule
OF contrares; and that the organ is in fact no Or
gan at all, and never possessed the confidence of
the administration. BY its blindness on so many
important occasions, those who naturally looked
TO the Union as an exponent of the views of the
government, were led from one blunder into a
greater one, and never arrived near the truth The
country has been put astray by the assertions that
1t has from time to time put FORTH SO much that
the public is settled in the conviction that the
Union is not the organ of the administration, and
does not possess its confidence.
The wing party throughout the country and in
Congress, has repeatedly charged Mr.. Polk and
abandoning the line of 81 40, and submitting to
the Senate treaty on the basis of 49, We have
reason to believe that this charge is unfounded
We believe that Mr.. Polk and Mr.. Buchanan are
still emphatically 81 40 men up to the hilt. and
never would have consented to a treaty that gave
England one title south ofthat line Mr.. Buchanan
has avowed this over and over, but the predica-
ment in which he was placed by the Senate, left
the administration alternative but to act as
they did. That body abandoned the cabinet on
line, and by passing the notice di,solving the
Joint occupancy in the shape it did, virtually ac-
knowledged that it would ratify n treaty that
would be based on less. Hence followed the
offer OF England; and the administration aban-
doned as it was, had no course left but to throw
the responsibility on the Senate.
The course of the President and the Secretary
of State in this matter will yet be fully justified
by every American. The whole of Oregon is vet
TO be ours.
The New YORK PlLoTs.--ln our columns to
day we publish a communication, which gives
an unanswerable reply TO those who, instgated
by the movements of chques, have lately attacked
the efforts being made to restore the pilots of our
city to their former well deserved privileges II
is strange that these underwriters, with their
agents, who cry the loudest against our pilets,
and raise the common bug-bear of anti-monopo-
y as their excuse, are themselves induced to this
very course, by the knowledge that in the New
York pilots they find a set of men who cannot be
made the tools for political purposes. and who by
their independent spirit will not obey the dictates
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