The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-04-30
Frum - Nadoaai IntalEigrnnrs. AFra -.
Final Action On the Oregon Question
In CongreSx

Frum - Nafaaai InislEsrnorr. AFua -.
Final Action On the Oregon Question
In Congress $3.50
Congress has a lenEih made final dis-
position II the Orgcn subject. and N ;
manner which, next 10 having rrsrsiaed
from any afiiOn ~ Al, viii receive. ne
doubt moi. the general aPPEOhalion u lie
ealniTy. .-.. ~.
The tE0 Houses yesterday settled iheiF
differences in regard 70 ihe form of aurhoF-
izing nOlire, by adopting with two nnim-
PoFiani changes in The phraseoiosy, re-
commended hy The eaaieFeesl the Pream-
Tie and Resolution Of the Senate. These
changes consisted simply in Substituting
the words all proper measures" for = re-
newell efforts" and The word 50 adjust
menl" lnE tie word /" settlement" These
ehanges. if they aiisri the sense Of tho re-
solution n al, strengthen rather Ilian ins-
pair the foree IL the Senate's original pro-
position. Thus reported, lhe Tcrnmnien.
datiOn Of the eOnieTees was agreed 10 by
the Senate By 4 Enie Of ~ 10 10; aud by
! the House of Representatives by the very
decisive vote Of li2 TO 90. The resolu-
lion has finally passed both Houses. there.
fore, and is A. follows;
WHEHE.s, BY the convention eonelnIied the
twentieth dsy ii OeiolsF, eighteen hundred and
/ eighteen. between the United States of American
! and the King ii the LATED Kingdom of Great
Britain and lnslani, iaE the period of ten years,
and Afterwards indefinitely extended and conlin-
. und in ioTce b. another convention IT the same
parties, ronrlHdcd the sixth day Of August, in le
year Of our l.ord one thousand eight hundred aHi
tweuiy-sCseH. i Was agIeed that any country that
may h. claimed By either parry on the northwest
caast Uf America westward Oi tie stony 90 Roxy
Mountains, now commonly called the OFcgon ter
rioy, should. together with is harhors hays. and
ereeks. and the navigation Of an rivers within the
same, he free and open N the vessels, citizens,
ard subjects Of ihe two Powers, but without pre-.
iulicc to any claim which either Of the parties
might have To any part Of said country; and with
this further provision, in the second article of the
said convention of the sisih Of August, eighteen
hundred AMI iweniy.sryen. that either party might
ahsngatc AMI annul said convention, on giving due
noiicc uf twelve months 10 the other contracting
parry:
And WHEREAS il has now become dcsirahl'
that the respective claims Of the United state
anil Great Britain should he definitely settled ant
that said territory may no longer than need re
main subject 10 the evil consequences Of the ii
I viicd allegiance Of ia American and British 20
pula,inn, and Of the confusion aud conflict Of ma
iiunai Jurisdictions, dangerous 10 the cherishe,
4 pace aud good understanding Of the two eoun
=. tries:
with asiew, therefore, that steps he taken 70
the ahr0galinn Of the said convention Of tho sixt
Of August, eighteen bundled and twenty-se,eu
in the mode prescribed in its second article, am
:. that the attention of the Governments of bot
countries may be the more earnestly directed I
the adoption Of all proper measures ior speed
and amcahlc adjustment Of the differences an
: disputes in regard to the said territory:
n Rcsoirtd By tie Senate and House Of Rsprt
SIGNATURES Of the United States IF Amerioa 1
c Congress assembled, That the President Of III
l. United States be, and he is hereby authorized,
his discretion 10 give In the Government of Gre;
10 Britain the notice required by the second artic
Of the said convention Of the 9th Of August, lS2
IL for the ahrogation OF the same"
NJ This resolution may be considered .
an emphatic expression Of The sense of III
nr two Houses of Congress in favor of con
d promising the Oregon boundary dispute
to and the adoption of" all proper measures
IL includes, as the reader will perceive, a
It. biiraiion, as we'll as all other modes ,
a. settlement,
in the only speech made yesterday
the House of Representatives on the su
". iect Of the resolution, it was pronounce
We to be an instruction 10 the President
nd compromise and This opinion, COMM
II. from a political friend of the Presider
b. smay be regarded as fair construction
- the true nature and effect of the Resol
:, ton.
'"' The Resolution, having thus happi
passed both Houses in shape as une
ceptionable as it could well have take
of requires (being a Joint Resolulion( to
It'll placed before the President of the Unit
cct States for his appreciation and signature
Use which will, OF course, be done without d
M lay,