Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-09-03

ter, beyond the Rocky mountains The second COMPANY
daie aud is formed of the Hudson Bay and
the old Northwest Company united, and exist ui.er
license Of twenty years granted by the crown unaef
Of Parliament. Ii bears the name oil HUDSON Day
Company but entirely distinct aoA The chartered
company Of King Charles that carry no trade on
the of Hudson Bay as the old Hudson Bay Com
pany can carry none on The waters OF The faelnc
ocean. This licensed company was hrst created IN lei
aud continued by a license for second term oil
tweny-one years the ysnr lo42 1t is, therefore, now
in the fourth year Of present eksenee and has seven
live. IL is Of this second, licensed COM
pany that the treaty speaks and, Of course; all the Pr-
yileges granted by the treaty refer To IT, The treaty Sup
uaies for this company, is under its present license
not may may not be, under new license IL
spulaes for company whose existence IS TO terminate
IN 1862 and Of course, that is the limit point oil du-
ration of this privilege OF navisauon which Is becoming
large object IN the eyes OF some gentlemen
Certainly n must be admitted 10 be a very different thing
from the perpetual navigation offered 1s26, and the
SOreregRty Of the right bank of the river demanded by
the British since so many years The year 1868 Is the
do not yield the reading Of the treaty. as II now stands
will only have wait I'LL 1868, when time will bring an
argument which misundersand.s
Limited time, the next Limitation is as TO the num-
Der or character Of persons who enjoy this naga-
lion. This restricted the Hudson Bay Company and
the British subjects trading with them. The company
can only consist OF few hundred persons, and, as Tor
British subjects trading with them, know of trnde
which such subjects have, can have, with
the company The Indian trade Is the only trade aud oil
that the company has the monopoly importing rs own
goods and exporting its furs If there is any exceP
uon IL must be The Puges Sound Agricultural Company,
whom provisions may be purchased but this would
nothing, that company may be removed on
any day the Uned States please take their possessions
q valuation. The lew hundred persons who compose
the company, their servants and engages, then the
only persons who enjoy this navigaIion-vey differ
en from the twenty FIVE millions Of European and Anne
British Subjects 10 say nothing of the hundred and
fifty millions of Asiaic quasi suhects who could have
enjoyed this navigation under The offer made during
Mr.. Adaniss administration, and repeated since The
number of these gators is thus reduced TO handful
and, ENJOY their privilege, this handful, in every in
stance of It's use, must justify their right to H. II OF the
company, they prove themselves be II not Of
the company they must prove themselves TO be British
subjects, aud trading with The company. And of all this
proof, own officers, under the regulations we shall
promulgate, will be the Judges. Small is the chance for
the abuse of the privilege, the annoyance of c
Zens, under such restrictions.
The kind of commerce which the company carries on
another and further Limitation upon the of the
privilege. 1t is in furs and goods. The
goods carried Up the in the spring. and the urs
brought down in the fall and thus per
annum will be about the maximum OF this formidable
navigation.
The kind Of vessels which be used in this nav-
CATION is further restriction upon it. These vessels
and they have been going upon that river since the Joint
eniiOn Of 1879 small bueaus light enough
be carried the shoulders the portages the
different falls and RAPIDS and shallow enough of draught
penetrate the head streams Of the river TO their souTc
the mountains Ii is in favor of these little bars
that the privilege Of navigation is granted and is limit
ed to lhem-Or the privilege only extends TO the river
and the carrying places, that when canals made
around the falls and rapids it is the river and the
carrying places that the privilege will still be conhn-
ed, aud of course restricted the light batteaus now IN
Such trade, such vessels, cannot do us much
damage during the seventeen years may be carried
To certain extent all rivers and the rivers OF all
civilized nations, entered by foreign vessels. All our
seapOrs, within practicable distance from the
entered. In time Of peace they come under treaties. and
ii joyful sight behold them. In time Of hos
tile vessels excluded The Columbia in this respect
will be, 10 the head Of ship navigation, like the Msslssp-
p the Potomac, the Delaware, and others; and proud
will be he day when the flags of all nations shall be seen
in IFS port
But be expected that this attenuated priyi
lege will even be used for seventeen The trade
diminishing now and II must immediately cease on
all the waters OF the Columbia south OF 40 deg, II must
become quite Insignificant. The bulk of the goods
brought TO Fort Vancouver go to Frazers river and
when these pay duties at The mouth OF the Columbia
they cannot stand land and water carriage OF seven OF
eight hundred miles. Some other mode of reaching Fra
zers river where alone any valuable trade is now carried
onsome way shorter in distance and free from duties
be found and is probable that the preparations
now making for port, high up the nOrthw est
coast intended by the Hudson BAY Company TO be Their
channel Of communication with FraZers river. Slmp-
sons river just under the famous line of 81 40, where
the Hudson Bay Company have built Fort Simpson, and
which the British government made II point to obtain
from Russia in 1925, WILL all probability, be the
route for the trade which reaches Frazers river
through the Columbia, The Okanagan, and Thompson
river 1t will be shorter distance, free from duties TO
foreign government and from foreign port regulations
ba with the sovereignty of the right bank of the
which the capacous mind of Sir Alexander Mckenzie
conceived the substitute for the northwest passage
and which had been the real point of contention between
United States and Great Britain for thirty years. has
dwindled down TO temporary and limited privilege, un
der jurisdiction, and will probably be abandoned
before the time is As far back 1901 Mckenzie
proposed to get the sovereignty OF the Columbia, that
through il and the rivers and lakes connected with Hud
sons bay, commercial India night be op
ened. His government has struggled for il ever since
Ii yields and il will be Tor the American govern
o make the Columbia and the Missouri the new
line of that with India, which, since the time
Of The PhGnicans has aggandlZed every power that pos
sessed it, and enriched every country through which i
/ flowed
The third article of the treaty provides for the posses
sorry rights of Hudson Bay Company and other Brit
sh subjects who may be in the occupation of land law
| fully acquired. 1t is in these words:
"n the future appropriation of the territory south Of The
49 parallel of north latitude, provided in the first
cle Of this treaty, the possessoy rights OF the Hudson
Bay Bay Company and Of all British subjects who may
be already in occupation of land other property lawful
acquired within the said territory, shall be respected
The limitation Of lawful acquisition to all these rights
would to exclude them ALL neither own law
nor those OF Great Britain admit the validity oil Indian
sales individuals and for possessory rights unde
the Joint occupation nvention they could only continue
10 the end OF The company, QS63) The whole object o
this article would to be FOR the quiet of the compa
ny and the other British subjects until they remove
The whole language of the article is technically precise
and equally explicit admitting the dominion of the Un
tied States over the occupied places and the absence
all present expected title in the possessors. The hrs
words o. the article Culture apProPriatons) admit
right TO dispose Oi these possessions the last words shal
be respeced) slpuate that the occupants shall mol be dis
turbed Al the utmost this undIstuTbed possession
only extend TO seventeen years for II still OF The new
licensed company and not of the old chartered company
that the article speaks. | would wish this time TO bs
shorter and believe will be for the trade being stop
ped, there is no earthly inducement TO remain upon thu