Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-05-23

finished up his own business and quit concern In fact
would SEEM from the promphtude moderation, and fair
with which he adjusted all differences both with the Uni
ted States and Great Britain, that his only object Of issuing
the alarming ukase of 1921 to bring those Powers TO
settlement acting upon the homely but wise maxm that
short settlements make long friends.
These the circumstances of which the British and
American grew with Russia in the years s24 25
They public treaties open to all perisa and emnendy
worthy of being read will read the third article of each
the one which applies Northumberland which will confirm
all that have said The article in the convention with the
United States is in these words
" II is agreed, that hereafter there shall
he formed by the citizens Of the United States under the
authority States any establishment upon north
of America Of the islands adjacent the
noh of foT degrees and jorty minutes Of north latitude
and that The manner there shall be formed by
Russian Subjects under the authority Russia south OF the
same parallel"
This the article which governs the American boundary
with Russia, confined by It's precise erms to the islands and
coasts, and having Of relation to the continent
The article the British convention with Russia governing
her boundary, the words far the limit
cened, and only explicit with respect to the continent
Like the third article of the convention, and is
in these words:
"Art 8. The live Of demarcation between the possess
sons Of the high contracting parties the coast OF the
continent the islands OF America, the northwest shall
be drawn in the manner following Commencing from the
southcrnmos point of the island called Prince Of Wales island
which point lies the parallel OIL 81 degrees 40 minutes north
latitude the I3st and 1854 degree west ong
tude meridan OF Greenwich the said line shall ascend to the
North along the channel called Portland Canal FAR the
point vi the continent where il strikes the 56t degree north
latitude From this last mentioned point to point Of inter-
section Of the lis degree Of longitude win be
the distance OF than marine leagues from The
The limit between the British possessions and the line of coas
which is to belong to Russia above mentioned shall be or
exceed the distance of marine leagues hercrom
And the line ofaemaration shall follow the summit OF the
tans situated parallel the far the ponof Inter-
section of the lii degree OF west longitude of The
meridian and finally, from the said point OF intersection, the
said meridian line Of the l4st degree, its prolongaon as
the Frozen Ocean, shall form the limit
the America the north
.s
These the proofs, these the conventions which estab
shed limits the northwest coast Of America between the
United States and Russia In 1924 and between Great Britain
and Russia in 1925 They identical object and nearly
in terms they grow out Of the difficulties and terminate
in the way. BY each the Russian claim confined
to the coast and the islands by each the limit given
both to the United States and Great Britain and that limit
fixed at the south end of island the latitude of
which supposed to be in $50 but found be n54o 40 the
Emperor Paul had granted the privileges of trade the Rus
sian American Fur Company II was limit wholly in the
water, not at all the land The American line
touches land the British only reaches by going north through
Portland canal to 56o and thence pursue the ten
leagues from northwardy to 6l, and thence due north
the Frozen Ocean leaving the Russians only the project
ing part of the continent which approaches ASIA
the into the strait which Behrng found and which
his This is the Russian line on the continent with
Great Britain the United States have continental line
either with Russia Great Britain.
have shown you the limits established with Russia in
1924; have produced the treaties which established them
and here also a map which illustrates them and shows
every thing precisely have read it from the treaties
1t is the map of Mr.. Geenhow, clerk in the Department
OF State who, long he confines himself the business
OF copying maps and voyages does very well but when he
goes issuing opinions national subjects and setting the
world right about the execution nonexecuton of great
treaty. that the line of never established I'M
der the treaty of Uech-when he goes at this work the
Lord deliver from the humbug But here the map with
the lines all right upon it, drawn in the and along the
coast according to the treaties First few dots IN the water
at the end of Prince of Wales island in latitude $40 40
then dotted line up NORTH through the middle of Portland
canal to latitude 81 then northwestwardy along the coast
and ten leagues from to 6o and then north to the Frozen
No line all along $40 40 TO the Rocky Noun
t.ins and that right for the treaties put there
And here another map which illustrates error and shows
you line on paper where there's eah and Of which
the Senate has ordered thousand copies be printed
for the instruction of the people, Here goes running straight
through from the the mountains caring nothing in
It's course-cuing lakes in two div ding neghborns posts
from each other and reckless Of every thing except follow
hy-four forty That il pusues with undertaking fidelity
and the engraver has marked strong the map that
may overlook it. In all this there is but one fault and that
is, that there is such hingno such line upon earth
never was and never can be- by principle recognised
the time that the Russian convention of 1924 was made
Well there is no such line and that would seem to be
enough to quiet the excitement which has been got up about
IT.. But there IS more to come. sat out with saying that
although this nifty ouriory established northern
boundafor the United States yet proposed to be
shedasa northern boundary, not for but for Great Britain
and that proposal made 70 Great Britain by ourselves
IKE statement the OF the
nifty fourfories, but II is strange than true and
AFTER stating the facts to prove them The plan of
the United States at that time this That each Of the three
Powers (Grea Britain Russia and the United Stae bav-
ing claims the northwest Of America should divide
the country between hem each taking third In this plan
partition each receive share Of the continent from
the Sea 10 the Rocky Mountains Russia taking the northern
sce the United States the southern and Britain the
centre, with forty for her northern BOUNDARY and
forty nine for her southern. The document from which
now read will say but that the first offer forty
nine the real one, will hereafter show This was
plan. The moderation Of Russia defeated it, That Power
had settlements that part the continent and rejected
the continental share which offered She limited her
self to the and islands, where she had settlements and
left Great Britain and the United States share the continent
between themselves But before this known we pro-
posed to her fifty -four forty for the Russian southern boundary
and to Great Britain the for her northern boundary
say, -four forty for, although the word in the proposition
was fifty five, yet the principle which gave fifty four
running from the south end Of Prince of Wales
island, supposed to be in yfve but found have point
to running down to fifty -four forty We proposed this to
Great Britain She refused it, saying she would establish her
northern boundary with Russia who her north, and
not with the United States, who her south This
seemed reasonable and the United States them and until
them renqushed the business Of pressing fifty forty upon
Great Britain for her northern boundary The proof is in the
Executive documents Here ia despatch from Mr. Rush.
our Minister in London, Mr. Adams, Secretary Of State
dated December 49, 1923
al unolded him Mr. Canning) the proposals Of
my Government which 1. That regarded the
try lying between the Stony Mountains and the Pacific ocean,
Great Britain, the United States, and Russia should jointly
convention similar in its nature 60 the third art-
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