Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-03-07

repeatedly visited they have carried busaes with
OF their influence the tribes every person who
required IL without distinction OF nation or party and they
every ~ ne,r wa
Permit YOU gentlemen, that i is our earnest
wish TO maintain good understanding and TO live friendly
with every person in the country We entertain the
highest respect provisional organization and knowing
the good has effected, well the evil il has prevented
we Wish every success and hope, desire TO continue
live + hs s1s ss and a's,'ss q with IN.
with vent prayer to the Divine bestower of all good
for The happiness and prosperity Of every individual in the
country we have the honor to be- enemen, very obe
dient servants "JOHN MCLAUGHLIN,
JAMES DOUGLASS.
Reply from the Executive Committee
"OREGoN CITr, MARCH 81, 1915.
dated nth Of March, and the 18th Of March
panied with an address to the citizens OF Oregon.
to hear that unwarranted liberties have been
taken American citizen the Hudson Company
premises and affords great pleasure to learn that the Of
fender after due reflection, desised from the and
As American citizens beg leave to offer you and your
much esteemed colleague grateful thanks the kind
and candid manner in which you have treated this matter
we that infringement the rights the Hudson
Bay Company in this country by American citizen, is
breach Of the laws of the United States by setting at naug
her solemn treaties with Great Britain.
As representatives Of the citizens OF Oregon beg your
acceptance Of sincere Acknowledgements Of the obligations
under to yourself and honorable Tor the
high regard You have manifested for the authorities pro-
vsona Government and the special anxiety you have ever
shown for peace and prosperity.
1--WE have the honor 70 be, u, taost oeetien
wants. tsOSBORNE RUSSELL,
"P.G. STEWART,
Executive Committee Of Oregon.
s'Jons McIAusnLis, ESQ.,"
This sir, b the answer Of the citizens Oregon them
selves, through their Executive Comse, to the alleged ag
gressons the part of the Hudson Bay Company. It is OBJ
vians sir that the Company doing nothing than
they had right TO do; they occupying land
than they entitled hold under the treay-a right which
citizens exercising there in very attudnarsn wAy
though Of this do not complain reference 10 the do
cuments which hold in my hand will show that the acts of
American settlers have been free in appopranQ the so
the British hold in my hand the land laws Without
reading them at large, will be sufficient f mo to say that
has been enacted by he Executive Ccec Of that
every eighteen years of age may select six hundred
and oy acres Of land besides two town lots and shah have
the remedy Of forcb entry and detaner against inruder
and the action of espass against uespase. Sir do not
complain OF this But when Of these very men comes
and xes himself at the back door Of the Hudson Bay Com
Pany and refuses 70 reimqush his possession though told
that no has right 10 sit there, when he about locate
his claim for $40 within their improvements it does not
become Us to complain that he stopted doing nothing
more than justice to the officers Of the Hudson Bay COMPANY
whose uniform kindness and courtesy testified TO- TO show
them fair play say, therefore, that had the sae exceed
ing anxiety for all Of Oregon that Oh our friends on the
other side Of the Chamber have, would take the chances Of
collson There is nothing to indicate imrsdiae or
probable collision and years may eapse before such
takes place.
desire 10 bring the attention of the Senate and of the
country to the negotiations the mode in which our oppo
nents havs endeavored c effect their objects And h doing
so trust shall manifest aspery, uakndness Of feel
ing On questions affecting foreign relations know
PERSONS parties but the has here
and has been spread before e country II sent into the
other House at tins when little could be said upon and
but little has be said upon here except by way eulogy
Il j. here however, and it, speak Of at all must speak
I think of it.
On that correspondence, (he late correspondence bic
meant In his Judgment the moral Of the civilized world
L. 49,. n ~. n O..
mcn civilized and Christian nation could at this day.
hold up its head among tho family of nations
Mr. D. need not refer 70 Mr.. Folks inaugural address, nor
to the message Of tho President TO Congress- in which he
spoke oil c ttc clear and indisputabe his offer
Of the parallel Of 400, notwithstanding that title The offer
had been refused by the British Minister because WINS not
accompanied by the free navigation Of the Columbia rver
which had been offered before The Preidena withdrew his
oer OF 49, and in the paper claimed 54o 40 Let il
not be forgotten that this line Of 40 had been offered four
times before-by Mr.. Monroe in 1918 and 1924 by Mr.
Adams in 1926, by Mr. Tyler In ls43 and finally by Mr.
Polk nIs45. But il was now Withdrawn and the Pre-
ndent told Congress that title up to $40 40
tanned by irrefagabe facts and arguments But these
facts and arguments the old facts and arguments
which had been urged and replied to again and again by all
our ncgotiatos from the beginning. Mr.. ID. admitted that
the argument of Secretary of State cd and clear
and therefore able yet contained scarcely the fragment
an idea which not 70 be found in the previous negota
tons Of 20 years standing and in the public dispatches Of
Mr. Clay And the replies and arguments of the Br
greatest respect y there was ocourse repetition Of the
matters and things which had been contained in the ncgeta
tons OF his predecessors. There in the entire cores
pondence light which had just been let in upon the
subject but il the old dispute the old "sfraga-
bic facts and arguments which had been put forth by dplo-
maiists from the beginning
But let him do justice TO negotator. There
fact eagab he supposed Of course which he chung
fast To Of the highest value and which entirely
He asserted that only title clear and ndsputabe
and established by ireagabc facts and arguments but the
British geographers themselves yielded the question
favor. In support Of this position he referred certain
globe Of British manufacture in the Department Of State
The public explanation Of this fact-ch every body had
recently seenwent to show what small and trivial cir
cumstances diplomats might sometimes build argument
But seemed that all these arguments however irreaga
bic, made impression the mpcturbabe mind Of the
British negotator But though convinced by them, he
subsequently offered refer the in dispute any
Sovereign estate" "Non said the President no !:
you offer refer only ths division Of the territory itself to an
arbitrator, but the question Of title We accept
the offer. every well, replied the British envoy, twill
you agree 10 refer the whole NATTER title and all And you
object TO taking crowned head for your umpire will you
submit it to jursts TO civilians mixed commission to
any body, Short (or that the Of it,
bring the question to settlement by independent pure and
impartial minds ;" Then nego,iato found himself in
and, in despair Of getting in any other way, be
plumpy denied that territorial rights Of this country
proper subject Of arbitration either by sovereign, CITIZEN
subject" II 50, why had be said before Why palter
about the Of the Offer the character of the arbitrator
II he had lying back objection which to the
groundwork why not bring forward at once when arb
traon offered
But was the position true in principle And here let Mr.