Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-07-09

1t was in the year 1901 that Mckenzie made this
proposition to the British government That govern
ment never ventured to act upon the proposition until
after the joint occupation treaty of ISIS Before that
It's ministers here limited vague claims, but refused to
write them down. or tO.sign them After that
venion, and especially after its renewal in 1923 and
after the disappearance of people from the Column
bia under the power and policy of the Hudson Bay
Company then the government took the decisive stand
and went the whole length Of McKenzies recommen-
dation This is the origin of the British claim to the
Columbia! Because they could not find northwest
passage-because the Unjigah went to the Frozen
ocean-because Frazer's river was unnayigable =
because the Columbia river the only practicable
line of communication with the Pacific ocean, and its
banks the only situation fit for the residence of a
civilized people for these reasons after long delay
and great hesitation, and aided by the improyidence
OF our government, they up claim to the Column
bla! Ii was found to be the only river which
commercial communication could be opened between
Hudson's Bay and the Pacific ocean-the only British
American road to India! The command of the North
Pacihc ocean, and the monopoly of its rich trade,
depended upon the acquisition of the Columbia and
therefore, they must take it. This is the origin of
the British claim to the Columbia river. 1t was an
indispensable link in their commercial line across the
continent The other end of that line was in the
frozen and desolate regions of Lake Winnipeg and
Hudson's Bay, along the icy streams of the Saska-
fchIwlne and Mlsslnppi, Nelson's river;) yet even
for such route as this Mckenzie invoked the aid
cd il. That government now backs the powerful fur
company-the instrument of its policy in America
the East India Company is in Asein its pretentons
to the Columbia as the substitute for the Northwest
passage; and if they had the 1.-THE of title to it
would surrender it, Even with one end of their
line terminating in the icy and desolate waters of
Hudson's Bay, she still struggles for it. What would
1t be if she had the North Pass and the Missouri
river bearing down south the center of the valley of
the Mississippi The British government would fight
the world for such line that, and spend unnumber
ed millions In Its improvement and protection; yet
have turned backs upon t-le it for thirty years
derelict in the hands of our competitors and am
listened to with surprise and incredulIty
when l represent this grand commercial route to
India upon the line of the Missouri and the Columbia
one of the advantages of Oregon-one of in
ducements to maintain our rights there.
The effect of the arrival of the Caucasian, or white
race, the western coast of America opposite the
eastern coast Of ASIA remains to be mentioned among
the benefits which the settlement Of the Columbia
will produce and that benefit not local to us, but
general and universal to the human Since the
dispersion of man upon the earth, know of no hui
man event, past to come, which promises greater,
and more benefcent change upon earth than the
arrival Of the Of the Caucasian (he Celtic
Anglo-Saxon division) upon the border of the
which washes the shore OF the eastern Asia. The
Monaghan, or yellow race. is there, four hundred
millions I'm number, spreading almost to Europe;
race once the foremost Of the human family in the
arts of civilization, but torpid and stationary for
thousands of years II Is race far above the EfhO
plan, or back-abOve the Malay, or brown, Of we
must admit five races land above the American In
dian, red it is race far above these, but STILL far
below the white and like all the rest must receive
an impression from the superior whenever they
como in contact. II would that the white race
alone received the Divine command to subdue and
replenish the earth! for it is the only race that has
obeyed 1.-THE only that hunts out new and dis
tant lands, and even q New World to subdue and
replenish Starting from western Asia, taking Europe
for their field and the Sun for their guide, and eav-
ing the Mongolians behind, they arrived after many
ages, the shores of the Atlantic, which they lit
with the lights OF science and religion and adorned
with the useful and elegant arts Three and a half
centuries ago. this race in obedience to the great
mand, arrived in the New World, and found new
lands to subdue and replenish. For long time it
confined to the border of the field, q
mean the Celtic Anglo-Saxon division) and even
four-score years ago the phiosophic Burke was con-
sidered rash man because he said the English colo
nists would top the Aeghanies, and descend into the
valley OF the Mississippi, and occupy without parch
ment, If the crown refused to make grants of land
What considered rash declaration eighty years
ago. is old history In young country at this day.
Thirty years ago said the thing of the Rocky
mountains and the Columbia; it ridiculed then
1t is becoming history to-day. The venerable MIR.
Macon has often told me that he remembered line
low down in North Carolina, fixed by q royal COVER
nor as boundary between tne WHITES ana the INDIANS
where Is that boundary now! The van of the eau
casian race now tops tho Rocky mountains, and
spreads down 70 the shores of the Pacific. In few
years great population will grow up there, luminous
with the accumulated lights of European and Amer-
can civilization. Their presence in such position
cannot be without Its influence upon eastern Asia.
The of civilization must shine the sea !;
socially and commercially, the of the Caucasians
and the of the Mongolians must intermix. They
must talk together, and trade together, and marry
together. Commerce Is great cIvilizer social
intercourse great-and marriage greater. The
white and yellow races can marry together, as well
as eat and trade together. Moral and intellectual
superiority will do the rest the white will take
the ascendant, eleyating what is susceptible of i'm
provement-wearing out what is not. The red race
has disappeared from the Atlantic coast the tribes
that resisted civilization, met extinction This Is
cause Of lamentation with many For my part, l
cannot at what seems to be the effect of Dr.
vine Law. | cannot repine that this Capitol has
replaced the wigwam-ths Christian people, replaced
the savages-white matrons, the red squaws-and
that such men Washington Franklin, and Jefferson,
have taken the place of Powhatan, Opechonecanough,
and other red men, howsoeyer respectable they may
have been as sayages. Civilization, extinction,
has been the fate of all people who have found them
selves in the track Of the advancing Whites and civil
lizaton, always the preference of the whites, has
been pressed object while extinction has followed
as consequence of its resistance. The black and
the red races have often felt their ameoratng nu-
ence The yellow race, next to themselves in the
scale of mental and moral excellence. and in the
beauty Of FORM their superors In the useful and
elegant arts, and in learning, and still respectable
though stationary-this cannot fail to receive
new impulse from the approach OF the whites, i'm
proved much since so many ages ago they left the
horlo Of cra he aAn-r1 Of von