Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1845-1851, 1846-06-13

the fatal sound of Frazers river and the forty British
posts upon it, but still wants the people TO believe it
Is theirs, and to got for 1t. say war. for any
attempt part to take the British establishment,
on Frazers river would be followed by quickly
and as Justly attempt TO take their towns IN
Canada. This is dreadful. We are the American
Senate, acting in the eyes of the present agc and of
pCsterlty, and upon great responsibility. by our
acts war may be made and we are bound by every
sacred and cry human obligation, TO make mis-
take IN bringing about great a calamity War IS
a calamity IN Itself upon u mistake is double
calamity; but a upon design after the mistake is
detected, is calamity for which there IS name. Ii
rises to the magnitude of the greatest crime | read
the treaties which showed the mistake. l thought it
very probable the iy-four ortcs lad never read the
Russian treaties, and did not know what they read
produced the Biographies TO instruct them III FraZcrs
river for thought they were Ignorant Of it. did
all clearly intelligibly, indisputaby. waited for
the result. In fact | waited long, and Until delay
was dangerous before | could venture set them
right | knew the trailty of poor human nature, and
that instead of thanks, resentment would more pro-
badly be my reward. Well, it has come-a personal
attack on myself-readIng mutlla,ed scraps furnished
by caterers to show Inconsistent and then not able
to do lt-not able to help ont their miserable decep
ton even by any words culled from my innumerabIe
speeches, and mutated for the purpose, and then
msapplled. What said of islands applied to con-
tinents; what said of the Columbia river applied
4 to New Caledonia; what was said Of the Oregon
2pplitu 10 RACER river Miserable pcrNcrSiOn
everywhere to turn me against myself, and make me
a party 10 the deception of the people.
They quote fty-four frty tie continent the
line Tor which the people must fight. | repeat, on
the continent. ! must be careful about that for if
omit the repetition once the whole speech i knocked
IN the head. | am quoted against myself; | am
proved 10 admit it. Thus it has been to-day. tie
Senator from Michigan has found one meniio of the
line without continental repeated immediately he
iasens himself upon 1t, when all know that | made
Tie distinction between islands and the continent
when spoke until 1t must have been wcarisome to
the Senate starting, if one had been in The room.
could now repeat the words Yes | have SAID iftv-
FOUR forty thousand times. perhaps ten thousand.
and always knowing what | meant-a line in tie
ocean at the end of island, and that line made
by Russia with Great Britain as we'll as with the
united States. But perhaps can tell the iiiy-tou
fortieS something about that line mean the actual
Inc at the end OF the sland-of which they 81 II seem
to be ignorant. They seem to look upon Ii a real
adjustment OF boundary nice and critical adjust
nent OF utlc-a wise settlement of mutual rights up
on great dellberation. No such thing. No question
OF right or title was ever considered about tall the
result OF fur-tradng enterprise. Russian ur-trader,
IN the last century, settled upon the Prince of Wales
Island. the south end Of which supposed TO be in
fiy-hvc The Emperor Paul. in 1899. the year be-
tore his assassination, gave thcm Charter 10 that
tent; and when the Emperor Alexander came ma he
the treaties with Great Britain and tie United States.
IN lS3l-1J, he governed himself by the charter and
thus Eus siam fur company made that line, far Is
II Is one at tie cnd OF an island, without caring
straw. and perhaps without caring fig, for the titles
of any power in the world. Tue coast was dcre-
let. and they settled upon it,
This IS the origin of tie line for, after agreeing
upon ffy-fyc, granted by the charter. il was OK
tended to fitty-tour forty, to point leg Of
the island, running down twenty minutes south. tbs
Is the way that fifty -four forty came to be established
at the end of Prince Of Wales >land-ratcr acct
dentay to become tie exact and sacred measure Of
right, for which nation must 90 10 war Eat lit
tie more truth will make more accidental still The
fact IS the Emperor Paul had recalled the traders for
fr msconduct they were about to lose Their cstab-
lishmenis; TO prevent It, one of tie rich partners
married his daughter to of the Empcror's cOur-
tiers, and gave hin hor whole fortune I'm bills of eX
change on the future earning Of the company The
Emperor Paul, As all the world knows, with the K nd
est impulsions. little PRECIOUS 20 he not on
~ revoked the call OF the traders, but actually gave
them an exclusive chlrer down to ifly-fve and that
Is the true history of fifty -four forv far as it In
It's aqueous existence at the end of Prince of Wales
island. And this Is, in fact, the line, and the history
OF tie line, and the Of the line. which, limited
To an island -four frties extend FIVE hundred
miles on the con-. ncn, and then attach 10 it 4 sacred
and lnvolable character, being the wise and exact
determination, upon great diplomatic considerations
OF national boundary! Was there ever anything 50
ridiculous ever anything so farcical ever ANYTHING
SO erilng the rcbukc of the people thus mislcd AID
deceived, at first by Ignorance, and now by dcs on
The Senator from Michigan reads from my old
speeches to show that the SpanlardS claimed TO sixty
one and that pronounced their title better than that
OF the English. Certainly did, but always confined
to coasts and Stands, where the ships sailed and al
ways ending with the saying that neither Spain nor
Great britain had made permanent settlements that
the whole coast dercct, after the Noo,ka con-
troversy, from Cape Aendocino forty deg, to the
Russian settlements, until Mr. Astors settlement at
he If (olu al
whole coast, north of the Columbia and south Of the
Russians, is derclict to-day That being dcrc-
lct at the time Of the negotiations OF 1924 tic Unit
ed States and Great Britain went by the continent
and not by the coast, divided the continent according
To discovery and settlement, and let the islands 90
with the division in front of which they law
The Senator picked a hole or thought he picked
hole, IN "A word of mine, in of my speeches. and
very short word-thc word ''aH." | said all the
statesmen OF twenty and forty years ago left FrazerS
river 10 Great Britain, and offered to divide by forty
nine. lie denies the ''al, and instances that Mr.
hlonrocs administration in lS53, offered fifiy-onc
That Is beautiful read You, In sundrv places that
they offered hty-one first proposition and upon
principle known to be erroneous and to be rejected TO
be followed immediately by the offer of forty-nine
which was done, and, IN fact good agreed 10 by
Mr.. George Canning, the prime minister Yes they
offered hty-one, and upon objection TO it offered forty
nine but by leaving out the forty-ninc the Senator
from Michigan undertakes To pick hole in my ''aH"
II he had done 1t, 1T would have been nothing but
he has not done 1t, and | now repeat and reairm my
assertion, and invite him to put all the caterers to
work to find an error IN it if they can affirm that
every American statesman of twenty or forty years
ago-1lr Jefferson and Mr. Madison in 1907 Mr.
Monroe and his cabinet IN l-23 offered To divide by
ioriy-nlnc leaving Frazers river wholly to the Brit
sl', and that because belonged To them
The Senator from Michigan Is greatly pleased with
the offer OF ftIyone those who offered 1t knew it was
unienabe, and sent the real proposition along with it.