Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-07-09
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Frazer's river, which claim TO 81 deg. 40 min
included and menaced. That claim is now on It's last
legs. The myriads of good citizens who have been
deluded into its belief, and who have interest in
being deceived, now abandon it as 4 sheer mistake.
The Baltimore Convention, and the editors and
and the honor Of their country that error and who
had probably read the Russian treaties of 1924
and 1925, the diplomatic correspondence of that
time, ever heard of New Caledonia, taken il
int their heads consider whether continents were
appuTtenant TO islands, islands TO continents these
editors and orators may still hang to their old
dream of y-our forty from mortified pride, and the
consistency, not of judgment, but of vanity: they
may still hold on to the shadowy phantom of their
former love but their power to involve their country
in for line which has no existence, and for
country that belongs to Great Britain as clearly as
does Canada, is gone. They longer lead the
country into war upon mistake and thus the war
party at home may be said to be extinct In Great
Britain see no desire for war, except with those
who have power to make it-namely, the abolition
fanatics and the Hudson Bay traders. The former of
these parties, unnstructed by the of the San
Domingo instruction, and its effects upon the blacks
we'll as the whites of that island, would deem negro
emancipation cheaply purchased i'll the United States
by the slaughter of every man, the violation OF every
woman, the of every child, and the conha-
grafton of every dwelling in the whole slave-hoding
half of the Union: but, happily, these fanatics have
no longer French National convention TO organize
their crimes and speeches and votes must still be
their arms, instead of the knife and the torch.
The fur traders, now always, still ready for
a war; which gives them n little while longer the
monopoly of beaver; but their power is not equal
to what it has been They set the Indians upon in
the war of the revolution, and in fact began the
at Long Point, (mOuth Of the Kenhawa,) in May,
TIA They instgated and kept up the long Indian
wars In the northwest terminated at last by Waynes
victory under the guns of British fort One Of the
cau of no late had in boir of
beaver; and their savages, as in the war of the
revolution, fought the first battle in the bloody drama
that to follow. As interlude, when not at
with US, they fought each other; and nothing in the
long catalogue of Indian massacres can be more
shocking than those perpetrated upon each other,
through the nstrumentaty of savages, by the Hub
son Bay and Northwest companies; and all from the
love of beaver. The act of Parliament which united
these two companies under charter, assigned it
for of the junction, the face of the act,
the necessity of joining them together prevent their
destruction of each other. This company would still
find, in their opinion, Judging from their past acts
and present writings, compensation for national
war In their own further monopoly of beaver but
see sign of their with the government;
and for the rest, let them beware The next war
with Great Britain will leave them not fort stand
ing from the Lake of the Woods to Hudson's Bay
from the Saskatchiwine to Fort Chpcwyan-from the
mouth of Frazers river 10 Bear lake. But they have
no longer power to make war. After doing all they
to give that blessing to the two nations, they will
probably set up for the innocent and injured party
demand indemnity for lossesclaim the navigation of
the Columbia-and require time TO remove. | should
be willing to be negotator for half an hour when
they should come forward with such reclamations.
would remind them of something that might stand
as set-off, and that without going back to the
of the Revolution, the OF the northwest the
war of 1872 Leaving out old scores, and confirming
myself to the unsettled account which has grown up
hof cir fhn of nd he five hun
drcd men killed on the Missouri and the Columbia,
the five hundred thousand dollars worth of property
pundered there-the thirty years ravaging of all the
fur regions in the valley Of the Columbia under the
reciprocity convention, which expelled our traders
from own territories instead of admitting them
to these modern items, and would soon find enough
to silence the demand for indemniies and rejecting
the prayer for future favors. But enough of this
There is no longer party, either in the United States
or Great Britain, which make either upon
mistake, or upon fanaticism, or on beaver.
| The treaty of settlement and limits will probably
be concluded before the expiration of the twelve
months which the abrogation of the convention
qures If not, the effect will be the same to us,
though not to Great Britain. Under the first article
of the Client treaty shall receive the possession of
the Columbia and as an incident of that possession
as well as by the admission of Lord Castereagh in
1918, shall have the right to hold and govern 1t
until the question Of title is decided This brings
me the practical question of providing for the es
adjustment of government, and the administration Of
law in the country which we claim. The President,
in view of this question: and with due consideration
of what can do pending the convention, and what
after its abrogaion, and combining himself to the first
class of these measures, has recommended five,
namely, the notce-the extension OF law and gov
eminent to the American settlers to the same extent
that the British government has extended law and
government to British settlers-the protection of the
emigrants by mounted regiment-block-ho houses on
the way-a monthly mail These the measures
recommended by the President Four of them have
been granted (for the mounted regiment will furnish
the best mailcarriers ) only remains, that of the
temporary provision for the government of the settlers
and this might have been passed in little time as
IL would have taken to read the bill three times If
presented in the form recommended by the President
He recommended an extension of our law to our set
tiers the extent that the British had extended
it to theirs This ght have been done by the easy
process Of copying their act, with the publications.
which would have adapted its application to our cti
zens and by this means adequate temporary gov
would have been provided with the advantage
of being free from the possibility of objection, or
cavil on the part of the British authorities.
i The bill from the House is not modified copy of
the British act, and is therefore Objectionable. 1t
also provides for what is already dUne and therein
is Objectionable again. bill for the mounted reg-
ment and the chain of block-houses for the protec-
ton of the emigrants, passed the Senate FIVE months
ago. Not being presented regiment, for the
conquest of the country up to 54 49, it passed with
so little notice, that the event seems to have been
almost unobserved. 1t has lately passed the House
of Representatives, and is the law of the land
and il all the other measures recommended by the
President had been brought forward in the way
they would have passed as easily, and the whole five
measures, notice and all, finished four five months
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