The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1846-05-23
FOREIGN VIEWS,

We make the following further extracts
from the English pnpers brought by the Cam
bria:
The following extract from an article on the
Oregon question, which appeared in the Lon
don Times fthe 18th ult. Winners European
Times remarks that the reputed connection Of
that journal with the foreign Secretary, Lord
Aberdeen, gives to the extracts an importance
which will be best appreciated on perusal.-
The writer, after stating that all the leading
statesmen in the Union, OF all parties, regard
the 49th parallel as the utmost concession, pro-
ceeds: .
"In the whole course Of these negotiations,
that which has changed most completely is the
claim set up by the Americans in 1918 and
1926. The territory in dispute was expressly
asserted and clearly understood to be compris-
ed between the 42d and 49th parallels Of lati-
tude. As for the more northern tract, between
40 deg. and So deg. 40 min, we are not aware
that the paramount claims Of Britain to that
part of it were then called in question. The
proposals of partition ranged between the
mouth Of the Columbia and the 49th degree,
but not beyond, and the American plenipoten-
tiary unsuccess'ully claimed the whole of that
region. Since that time and in the more re-
cent discussion they have raised their demands
they have laid their claims to the whole coun-
try, and then as if it were the furtherest limits
of condecension and concession, they revert to
their original offer, the very anne which was
before rejected. A man, bargaining with a.
mother, offers to sell him a horse for EGO; the
buyer says 1t is too much and goes away
Sometime afterwards, the seller asks him El00
for the same, and after an elaborate attempt to
outwit his customer, he ends by offering him
the horse at ESQ, as a very great bargain. That
} is precisely the course Of this American feel
ing. They have raised a claim to the whole
of Oregon, not withan expectations o%facqui-
ring the entire province, but in order to recon
cile us to the terms we before declared to be
inadmissible; but etruth isthat the bare 49th
parallel is, to all intents and purposes, the SAINT
thing that 1t was twenty years ago.
awe intimated an opinion some time ago tina
the 49th parallel might conveniently serve a
the basis Of an arrangement, but it is clear tina
such a proposal must be accompanied will
= more neutrality-suspicious. than those hereto
i fore annexed to it by the Americans. 1t mus
. leave to US the whole Of V%ancouver's Island
the navigation and harbor OF the straits Of Flu
= ca, the free use Of the Columbia and the north
ern branches, down to the SEQ, and an indem
= nifty or compensation to the Hudson Bay Com
: ppny for the posts they would be called upo
: to surrender. We do not pretend to point on
all the s;ipulatlOns which it would be the part
a prudent and just policy to require, as equive
lent for a concession so much below our orig
nal claims, and as we firmly believe, our jul
:" rights. But the cession ofthe vacant soil migt
Us be polite and endurable, provided the privat
: rights, already long acquired and enjoyed b
!" British subjects, were duly respected: and the
z must, beyond all question, be projected by IL
. ultimatum Of England.