New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-10-02
RrItIsh and American Rights.

British and American Rights.
The following article from the London Times
contains some truth with regard to the and-grasp-
ing proponsities Of our people blended with more
error. Ii is quite wrong in the assumption that
the stability Of our institutions IS dependent on
the continued extension Of territory aud diiiu-
sion of our people We should be more quiet
more stable. more truly republican, if our limits
were fixed aud Interchangeable. Our National ap-
petite for more is avce, but one for which Great
Britain has little right 10 reproach as
We have no wish 10 acquire another foot OF ter
ritorv, but We aic DESTROYS that what Is confessed
lv ours shall as soon as possible be entirely ours
without partnership or adverse possession. Il
was necessary 10 admit and guarantee the pos
scssorv rights of the Hudsons Bay Company III
Oregon in framing the Treaty, and even to concede
the free navigation OF the Columbia but this ~ TO
be submitted TO only until it can be peacefully OBJ
waited To perpetuate the present arrangement
is TO expose the two countries to incessant COLI
.ions, heart burnings aud the peril OF war Inc
distance Of Oregon alike from Europe and TINS
country is so great that the Wild borderers there
will be restrained from mutual euds by no saluta
ry fears OF law or penalty 1t IS very important
that the line should be run and marked, and all
our side OF it be ours at the earliest possible peri
cd Let the rights OF the Hudson's Bay Company
In our Oregon be extnguished as soon AS pracu-
cable aud the British claim TO navigate the Column
ba goes with it, Such is the opinion OF our ahlest
urists Let them navigate 1t # they need 70. on
suferance but not as their right by Treaty 1t our
Revenue aud other laws are to be really extended
over that region.
Asto Vancouvers Island, it IS said to be exceed
inrly rich in soil timber, coal harbors a.. and It's
possession may become desirable to us but for
the present we would rather see some part OF our
National Debt paid than any considerable sum
expended to acquire 1t. Aud, should 1t ever be-
come necessary TO us, we believe 1t VIII be much
more easily procured from trading, money making
Company, than from the British Government
Contrary. therefore, to the view OF some cotempo-
raries. we hear with pleasure that this island has
been cedcd to the Hudsons Bay Company
romthe London Times. Sept
The policy pursued by the Government OF the Ohitcu
States with regard to territorial ssgasnuleiuent j.
particularly deserving OF attention. Prussia IN her
vital struggles through the middle OF the last century
was not more desperately bent upon consolidation ana
enlargement than Is America at present ana sta'.
nnoccunied land 10 maintain double the amount OF lts
population is impressing into It's service all the eXpe
dents of nncXatiOn conquest and purchase Win ~
much determination and energy AS II It were actually
easping in those eXtremes of political existence when
the seizure of Scsis and almost paateo
the first partition Poland. This policy may be per
haps to some extent, the manifestation OF tha' nlsh
national purpose occasionally proclaimed oy AuotV9
statesmen of reducing the uttermOst parts OF the con
rnent under their rule upon the faith and SANCTION o.
scrp,ural donations 1t may be simply the natural
developement of ambition and activity IN thrNhs
uncontrolled and unquiet people But with either oI
both OF these motives we have no doubt thtIc Is com
pounded the part OF torecasung statemen Strong
desire 20 multiply and extend a. Tar as possible mos'
outlets Tor discomfort and rcstcssness which are the
very lungs OF the American body polite, aud 10 post
pone to the remotest practicable period that moment
when the rushing stream OF expansive popuatloh uius
az length be checked. and with sudden ana
rccol What emigration Is, or ought 10 be, 10 uFea
Britain migration is 10 the United states Their colo
nies are in their provinces All opinions con
cur in stating that the facilities afforded by the
wilderness of the Ear West 10 the spirit OF adventure
OF change, have proved the salvation oil the uoNeIh
ment aud have been the chief means OF preserving intact
for seventy years Constitution which by the sue OF
more recent incsrnatiOns OF Democracy seems 10
wear not few of the features OF steady and consoh
dated Monai chy The efforts OF the American GoNeIh
mcnt to perDetuac the existence and secure the ree
action OF this political safety valve have been coheh
surstc in success not less than in spirit with the neces
.ties OF the case Taken with the previously vacSn'
territories OF the United states proper we may ssy
that the Xalun OF Texas, tue acquisitions NUN
Mexico and the awards in Oregon have placed al the
disposal Of the authorities At Washington tract OF and
81 least twice spacious As the whole presently ihhso
tied portion of their possessions In iact taxing tuV
whole br, sdth OF the Continent from the Atlantic 10
the Pacihc between the 5Oh and 3Oih parallels As rep
resenng the present dOminOns OF the United states OF
America II would be substantially correctto say tnat the
whole space west OF the Missouri or, IN other WORDS
two-ihrds of the whole territory IS yet untensnied
ana lies in reserve for the cspuces or necessities OF
generations 10 come. 1t IS particularly instructive 70
observe with what summary and business-like promp
utude every acre Of this accumulated property sc
cured in the Government stores, and stamped as II
were with the national mark for the undetermined pur
poses of the nation Already that coast 10 the csps
btes of which we seem 70 pay go little need mas oeeH
brought within cal OF Washington ana the ports OF Tue
Pacific will be kept well in hand by the cabinet sitting
on the shores OF the opposite ocean line OF ma.
steamers IS forthwith 10 run between NeW'lors AhS
New Orleans at New Orleans II will JOIN second me
from that port 10 Chagrcs on the lsthmus OF Panama
from the lsthmus third line OF steamers will traverse
the Pacific TO and from the Columbia River The Inn
OF the treaties scarcely dry and yet IN January next
the drec, and regular comm unic alton between New
York and Oregon will be such al this time last year
had not been established between London and Ascen
sion. The Americans want no sharesmen IN their ope
ra,Ons The terms OF the Convention left certain pos
sessory lights 10 the Iludsons Bay Company, within
the frontier assigned 10 the United states These ghts
the states are anxious 70 purchase mmedistey and Il
probable that the President without waiting for the
reassembNng of Congress will gOtse during the re-
cess at no bers valuation his bargain for the whole
Of these Possessions How much Of the price paid
for Louisiana California would the Government OF
Washington give for al island which seems 10 have
gone beg -ing Tor twelve months In London There is
this peculiar interest attached 10 these transactions on
the American Conunen,-that we there see in actus
operation the Of those OF which in our
own world can only read. We may look al the
North America Of l,4S as at the Northern Europe of
thousand years before and may watch with our own
ewes the territorial settlement OF Continent There
are the Spansrds OF the lsthmus the rival Saxons in
the center the csvonians in the North western gle
and powerful element OF Cells interspersed. We may
IMAGINE new rsce OF Franks establishing Itself in a
trsns,tsn tic Gaul colony OF Scsves struggling
up 10 a new Poneranis. or new swarm Of Huns set
,llne upon 4 new Danube. We have civilized, instead
OF bsr6srous races deal with and therein consists
the whole difference With this variation we may ix
our speculative eyes upon a Continent OF which the dis
triouon and occupation is uncertain and fortuitous
that Of Europe in the days Of Chsriemsgne There
may be one empire or two, OF one or Two races, OF