The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-05-22
THE DAILY UNION.


prsssiOns 1t is more proper should that his objsc
lions directed 70 our proposal o. not letting Grea
Britain go above north with her settlements while We
allow Russia CONS down TO that line with hers Ia
treating Of this coast he had supposed that Great Britain
had her northern question with Russia as her southern
with the United states He could motive for the United
states desiring 10 stop the settlements Great Britain south
ward but he had not before known Of their desire to soF
them northward and all limits concedsdto Rus
STA II to this effect that his suggestions went" "
This was her answer, refusing to take, in 1923
az northern boundary, coming south for quality
what 10 now prescribed 10 her, at the peril OF war
for southern boundary, with nothing north for
although the fact happens TO be that Russia Is not
there, bounding Us the north, yet that makes no
difference in the philosophy Of orr my fourforues
who believe It 10 be so, and, on that belief, are
ready 10 fight. Their notion is, that we 60 jam up
10 $40 40, and the Russians come jam down TO the
same, leaving no place for the British lion 20 put
down paw, although thatpaw should be no bigger
than the sole Of the doves foot which aought rest
ing place from Hoahs ark This must seem little
strange 10 British statesmen, who do not grow so
fast as 10 leave all knowledge behind them. They
remember that Mr.. Monroe and his eabinet--the
President and cabinet who acquired the Spanish
ntle under which we now propose 10 squeeze them
out Of the continent--actually offered them six
degrees OF latitude in that very place; and they will
certainly reasons for this much compression
now, where We offered them 20 much expansion
then. These reasons cannot be given. There 10 no
boundary at $40 40; and 90 far as we proposed to
make il one il was for the British, and not for our
selves, and 80 ends this redoubtable line, up to
which all true patriots were TO march and march
ing fight and fighting, die if need be singing all
the while, with Horace
"Daies 81 dseorIm pro paiyi& mort"
SsSsa and decent u ia 10 die for Onss country.
And this is the end Of that great line all gone
ysnished-eya porsied into thin air--and the place
where IL was not To be found. Oh mountain that
was delivered Of a mouse, thy name shall hence
forth be hfty-four fouy And thus, Mr.. President
trust have exploded one Of the errors into which
the public mind has been led, and which 1t is neees
sary to get rid Of before we can find the right place
for our Oregon boundaries.
lproeeed TO another Of the same family-the dog
ma Of the unity and indyisibility Of the Oregon
title, and It's resulting coroary Of all or none Il 10
assumed by the friends Of Oregonn 10 be all one
title all the way from ago up to $40 40-no break
in It; and, consequently, "aH or none" is the only
logical solution which our claim il can receive.
We'll, this may be brave and PATRIOTIC but s il wise
and truel And can we, with clear conscences, and
without regard to consequences, pass law upon that
principle and send our agents there to execute il
These are the questions which present themselves
TO my mind, and in answering which wish to
keep before my eyes the first half Of the great max
im-ask nothing btl tohai Is right. | answer, then,
that Il Is not true that title TO what is called all
Oregon Is not one, but several; that il consists Of
parts, and is good for part, and bad for part; and
nOlnlIS lust OF DC determined IN TelA-
uon TO Il without separating these parts into their
proper divisions, and giving to each division the
separate consideration and judgment which belongs
TO It. Thus the title TO the Columbia river and liz
valley was complete; the claim TO Frazer's river and
its valley began; and the claim TO the islands and
coasts rests upon different state Of facts and diff.
ferent principle Of national law, from that which APP
plies to the continent
The title to the Columbia river and its valley
rests upon discovery and settlement, and was com
plete before acquisition Of the Spanish title in
1919. The claim TO Frazer's river and its valley
and to the coasts and islands in front Of it, began in
1919 and rests upon the discoveries Of Spanish nav
lgators; and of these discoveries the islands and the
continent have very different degrees Of evidence to
exhibit mention these differences Of title as facts
too well known TO require documents to prove them
and the bare statement Of which should be sufficient
to explode the dogma Of the unity and bility
Of the Oregon title. IL is not "aH one hisn II Is
not good "tor all none" II is not a unity There
are breaks in il; and these breaks are sufficiently
large to cover large geographical divisions Of the
country, and require separate consideration and
Judgment That consideration will be given at the
proper place: at present limit myself to the cor
rection Of the error, widely spread over the pub
lie mind, that the Oregon title is all title, from
42o to $40 40.
come to the line Of Utrecht, the existence of
which is denied upon this floor by senators whose
fate il seems be assert the existence of line
that is not, and to deny the existence Of that is
clerk IN the Department Of State has compiled
volume Of voyages and treaties, and undertaking |
10 set the world right, has denied that commissaries
met under the treaty Of Utrecht and fixed boun-
1aries between the British northern and French Ca
madam possessions in North America. That denial
mas been produced and accredited on this floor by
senator in his place. Mr.. CAss;l and this produc.
ion of laundering book, with this senatorial en-
lorsement of its assertion, lays under the neces-
sity of correcting third error which the "fty-four
fortes" hug to their bosom, and the correction of
which becomes necessary for the vindicaton of his
DRY, the establishment Of political right and the
of the Senate from the suspicion OF igno-
rance.
| affirm that the line was established; that the
met, and did their work; and that
what they did has been acquiesced in by all the
powers Interested from the year l7l3 down TO the
present time. This is my affirmation; and, in sup |
port Of it, and without repeating anything said here
ofore, | shall produce some new proofs, and take
some new positions, the first of which is, that this
inc was enforced by us (without anything else but
The treaty of Utrecht to stand upon) for fifteen
years-from 1903 to l8l8-as the no .thern bounda- |
nv line Of Louisiana, and submitted to as such by
he British government; and British traders thereby
kept out Of territories west of the Mississippi
while our own treaties let them into territories
On this side Of the river. In. a word, will show
hat this treaty of Utrecht saved us from calamity
for fifteen years in our new territory Of Louisiana,
acquired from France, which the treaty Of peace
Of 1888, and Mr.. jays treaty Of 1874, exposed us
% in our old territories Of the United States, con-
1uered for us by our fathers in the war of the revo
luton This is my first position, and this is the
case which sustains it.
In the year 1903 the United States acquired Lou
siana, and with became party to all the treaties
which concerned the boundaries of that provin
The treaty Of Utrecht one of these, and the
parallel Of forty-nne of the lines established by
C. and governing its northern boundary. We soon
had occasion for the protection Of that boundary
Spanish connivance and weakness had suffered
British traders to invade the whole northern
flank of Louisiana, from the lake Of the Woods TO
The head waters Of the Missouri river; and on our
acquisition of that province found these ira
iers in the actual poss lssion of the Indian trade
throughout all that extensive region. These
traders were doing immense mischief among our
Indians on this side of the Mississippi by poison
ing their minds and preparing them for war against
the United States. The treaty of peace and Mr..
Jays treaty. under the delusve idea of reciprocity,
gave them this privilege Of trade in theTold terrific
ries Of the United States. Experience Of its evil
ELECTS had ta,pht N lesson of wisdom: and while