The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-02-07
TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS,
FIRST SESSION.
FRIDAr, February O, 1886.
CONCLUDED
HOUSE OF REPREsENTATlvEs.

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"onths iOh ofFsbrosry sss1 tle Hudson Gay Company
spilled TO the British government Tor Dsw lease Of the
letter OF that date, from JPey, esq, governor Ofhr CON
pany Lord Geneg then secretary OF state for the colo
nes This letter sets forth thegrounds Of tbs application
states all that the company have done 10 carry oa, The
purposes Of the British government tells how they have
driven the Americans out OF the fur trade and got all lo
themssve-how they occupy the whole county BY TWEEN
tytwo permanent establish snts, hs IN 1887 land
.s one Of them steamer OF the eoast-how they have ia
place begun farming and mean to export agriculture
"a Amsrcaand. Gaally. how they eonhdsnty hops that
With and protection the British dominica may no, only
wish Of Russia and Amsrcs occupy the exclusion
British subjects, but British interest and British influence
NAV he maintained paramount thi, Interesting part
As coast OF the PaciRsS Thus hr-snd Il very far-Oo
Pely speaking to the government Of the company
purpose and policy.
But this Is not all On the I,t Of February 1857 George
simpson ESQ ugent Of the company in America writes to
Governor Peily the subject He says the posses
an object OF very great nportance and We
Ing their claim TO by forming the nucleus OF colony
through the establishment Of arms and the settlement Of
Of retiring officers and servants as agrcuuT''
This too went to the government with the Application Tor
the British government such Arguments altogether
reblr. But, be II observed, into the new lease thus
granted in 1898 the government introduced wholly
condition Lord Glsnslg tells them In his reply that they
may their trade monopoly AZ before, but he adds
will be Indispensable TO Introduce INTO me new such
conditions enable her Majesty to grant Tor the pur
po.e settlement and colonization any Of the lands com
pr,ed in IL And accordingly in the charter was inserted
proyso reservIng TO the crown 10 the largest terms
FIJI right to establish coonet add govern them and
nsr them to other colonies belonging to the erown'and
th, In any Of the lands granted What these lands
90 granted The northwest of America not under any
c, government Of the United states That every inch
Of Oregon, down to latitude ~ degrees"
Thus it will be seer that the Hudson Bay Com
pany, under the authority Of the British govern
ment is only settling her retired servants in that
country but is also preparing prospectiyely for
tsbishng colonies there and still we have made no
war upon that power for her encroachments. Yet
the distempered fancy Of some gentlamen has not
only enabled them to see the "air-drnwn dagger"
but also to fancy that they Great Britain shaking
her "gory ocks' at for our supposed violation oil
her rights. The war-spirit Is already sufficiently
ardent throughout the country, and does not require
to be famed into fame. t. .a.
The aggressions Of Great Britain upon American
rgh,s-her bribing the mercsnary Indians w times
past TO the murder Of helpless women and children,
have fixed deep-roo,ed prejudice in the minds Of
our people, aud they at all times eager for a
war with her when occasion shall require it; and il
Great Britain shall make war upon US because OF
the assertion and maintenance Of our rights, upon
her head must rest the consequences
Before the conflict is ended, her foundations may
be sapped- days may be numbered-and some
modern Daniel may be called upon to read and to
interpret the handwriting on the wall.
The territory Of Oregon is bounded on the north
BY the parallel Of $40 40 on the east by the Rocky
mountains, south by the 42d parallel, and ives, by
the Pacific. II is about $50 miles in length and $50
in breadth, and contains about $50 900 square
miles.
Although for number Of years past but few Of
citizens, except trappers and hunters, have gone
TO Oregon vet within the last three or four years
the tide Of emigration to that country has rapidly in
creased Distance seems to be overlooked by them
Nothing can be more interesting than the narratives
given Of the travels, from day to day, Of the thou
sands who are marching over barren plains and
sandy deserts to Oregon. In lS43, among other
emigrans there passed through my section Of coun-
try an elderly gentleman, with his wife, his children
and his grandchildren, numbering between thirty
and forty. They had their focks and their herds
with them, and, camping for a few days in one o.
prairies, they purchased some cattle to add tc
their stock. The old man had a bright eye, firm
step, and heart that quailed not in contemplating
dangers and difficulties. He was going to get land
for his children and grandchildren to occupy the
American soil; and could not but think how great
ly our people were in advance Of the government.
These accounts constantly remind us of the travels
Of the patriarchs Of DID, and looking back through
the dim vista of time to the days Of primitive sim
pIicity we Abraham and Lot pitching their tents
in the land Of Canaan and the plains of Jordan, sepa.
rating to the right hand and to the left to prevent
strife between their herdsmen, as the whole land
was before them; when Jacob, with his house.
hold and his cattle that were very streaked and
speckled, departed from Padan Aram, the home of
Laban, his father.n-law, and returning to visit his
father in the land Of Canaan, met and exchanged
fraterna saluations with his brother Esau in "tht
land of SER" the country of Edom; when Moses
and Aaron, following the "pilar Of cloud by day
and Of FIRE by night, conducted the children of srae
in their pilgrimage through the wilderness. Here
however, the parallel ceases, for the American fac
has not been furnished to our people, and the
American laws have not been extended over them, to
guide them to and shield them in the "and Of prom
Use" beyond the mountains; yet they press onward
with add nd VA cu
exhaust or subdue, encountering at every step thu
untutored savage and enduring tolls and prvation,
known only to the hardy pioneer.
We can have but faint conjecture OF the tumul
Of delight, and Tho. wild and rapturous joy which
heayes the bosoms Of those enterprising spirits
when, from the crest of the Rocky mountains, they
fret gaze upon the hills and Valleys mountains and
rivers beyond--when they stand upon the bluffs
and with bewildering delight hear the roar Of tn,
mighty Pacific. These have gone forth tc
found an empire, animated by the same noble and
generous impulses which bore the pilgrim fathers
across the deep to the rock Of Plymouth, and which
tempted Boone in his the Cumberland
mountains, and through the fertile and beautiful
plains Of Kentucky to the banks of the majestic
Ohio
Who Of them in those days could even dmly
IN the future the States which would spring up
and spread over this continent from to sea; the
widest dreams Of the enthusiast Of those days have
been more than realized, for the march Of improve
ment has oustrlpped the imagination ITSELF There
~ IN this untameabe spirit Of enterprisewhich is
one OF the elements Of the nature Of the American
peope-no touch Of sordd or mercenary feeling.
They 60 forth to see, to explore and to nhabit the
green and glad earth which God has given them
and ocean and mountain barriers will not restrain
cannot limit, their onward march .. =
About the parallel Of 49, there are some excel.
lent hsrbors; but south Of that there are none, ex-
cept Bulfnch's harbor and the mouth of the Colum.
bis--neher Of them very desirable PR"
The country sbounds in mountains and valleys,
rivers and plains, woodlands and prares, and from
s climate and soil it Is destined to be one Of the
finest grazing countries on the continent,
Captain Spalding, in his letter. says;
The colony from the United States is situated in the
Willamette, branch OF the Columbia, about NINETY mile,
nom the mouth Of the river which IL the 6nes
grazing and wheat country IN Oregon
h.The extent Of the country comprising the Willamette
valley shout 800 mile, long end 900 broad inersperse