The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-08-29

misslaiements might have been found out
/ Now for the American "counier statement" Here i
is, al page 34s OF the book and compressed into abou
half page and such pages the book contains, sna
leaves VIDE margins and about equal to square OF two
(showing i on the page and this is its every word
that saved 10 show the grounds OF the American title
as presented BY Mr.. Gallatin
Mr. GaIan claimed or the United States the possession
OF the eTIory west oil Rocky mountains between the
a2a as and avn parallels, o. Ms groaaa. Of
France though the Louisiana treaty. and the tides OF Spain
through the Florida treaty.
The discovery OF the mouth Of the Columbia, the first
ploation Df The countries through which that Hows
and the Of the first posts and settlements in
The vinua recognition Of the tile of the United States
by The bsh government In The restitution, agreeaby %
mouth OF The Coumbia which had been taken during the
And l,ly upon the ground OF contguity, which should
give the vnlted States stronger right those territories
than could be advanced by other powe-a doctrine
earliest attempts colonization in America, clear
proved by her charters in whica the whole breadth OF the
continent btween certain parallels OF latitude was granted
TO colonies established only points the borders OF the
Atlantic.
This is tie exhibition which Mr. Greenhow makes OF
Gallatn's ,orrespondence--a document OF eighty
pages, and eleven of them taken up with counter
statement Of the American claim in opposition to the
:. statement of the British claim This is all, and this
all is little Mr. Greenhow seems to have been aware
that some poogy due for such conduct, and he
cordingly gves it thus, in a note at page BAT:
The Statement of Mr. Gaiattn most able doeu
only D0utd have too
n,uca increased The bulk Of the Doiunae.
These arr the reasons given for omng Mr.. Gallan's
statement If the title of the United States TOO much
increased tie bulk Of the volume" Now, Mr. Gallan's
statement was only eleven pages and that was
too much o put in The British statement was nine
pages, andhat not too much. The volume itself was
nearly 500 pages and eleven could not have been
told by looking at, handling the book-coud only
have been found out by looking at the figures on the
margins of the pages Besides, the American people
might have pardoned Mr. Greenhow for sparing his
xposures and deections of the British isstdtements
as he snay calls them. and Of which he gives note al
the bottom of page 446 and accepted MIR. Gallan's re-
ply, in the shape OF his counter statement TO all the
errors of the British statement" The country would
probably have pardoned him for such substitution, but
be could pardon himself for so doing and so he
omitted Gaaiins answers and substituted Greenhow's
The fact stands indsputably that in compilation
of the history OF Oregon and California, Tor the nsruc
ton of members of Congress, Mr. Greenhow left out the
whole of the negotiations and the whole OF the cores
pondence Of Mr. Gallatn That fac! is clear Why did
he leave out, sir, Why did he give the British state
ment Of nine pages and leave out Mr. Gallans eleven
pages Can il be that il was for the reason gven' l. Is
reason showsa bad design guess different reason
from the one he gives. Mr.. Greenhow had undertaken
deny the existence of the line established by the treaty
! OF Utrecht. He started with that loot foremost, and
then stuck to it, trying TO prove il well he could by
leaving out Mr. Gallans correspondence, which averred
the existence OF that line guess he left out Mr. Gal
lan's statement because contained this para
graph page 81 OF the document OF Gaatns correspond
ence:
The limits between the norhery possessions OF Great
Britain in North America and those Of France in the same
ayyoined ia pursuance Of e 1t saiy 8
Utrecht. From the coast OF Labrador certain poin
north of Lake Superior those limits fred according
certain etes and bounds and from that point the line
deInaTcaon ogrsed 10 extend indefinitely due
along the i9fh parallel Of north latitude. 1t was in con
lonlty wiih that arrangement that the United States did
1t has been accordingly thus settled far The St
States and Great Britain aud adequate be
gwen why ,he same boundary should not be continued a
say, as far as the Pacific OCEAN.
This is the reason guess that Mr. Galatins counter
statement carefully left out, and so bad
given Tor IT, II avered the existence, in the most forma
manner, OF the line OF Utrecht Mr.. Greenhow had de
MED the existence Of that line, and did feel caec
upon 10 sulfy himself in the face OF the public by pro
ducing Gallain 10 contradict HIM But he does
tent himself with leaving out what shows the line, b,
Inserts argument against At page 436 of his book
he has three pages OF argument against this line, unde
this imposing caption:
Shoeing that the 4sh parallel Of latitude pa, ~oi s,etta
ne ins of SEPARATION boee Tho French AVID the Brtti
territories in North Amoiea, by eommis,aries oryorter
agrseabIy 10 hs treaty Of Utrecht
AT page 2Sl he again denies it in these words;
But there is no epideaoe hieh eau be admitted as s,tab
iihing hs fact hata ins running along The 49 parallel
latitude, any Other ns adopted, epea proposed
OF amy yart Of hs French yossessons on s no and Of III
British H'dson's Bay furtiorie' on the south
And he puts that into italics by way Of giving empha
sis 10 the contradiction And at page 2s2 he 10 bs
perfectly satisfied with himself for putting an end to |
beef which had been hitherto I'D est until his bool
appeared) entertained sctou Suspicion the Unite,
States, and even" formed The baSis Of mporan
treaties" II was his design that IL should form the bas
OF treaties he contradcied, suppressed Mr.
Galans ayermen and the British admission, and pusbe,
up TO hfty-four forty
Mr. President former occasion, when the state o
our negotiations with Great Britain in relation 10 Oregon
The subject OF much and serious discussion, Through
forward these factstbe main fact OF the line of Utrecht
for the purpose OF checking arresting the furious pas
sion which then broke out for 81 deg. 40 min / ad
duced the line OF Utrecht fixing the line between tn,
| United States and Great Britain. While was doins
this, and actually exricang the administration and th
democratic party from the perous condition into which
they had been run, backguarded every day in b,
"organ" in this ciy-he organ calling itself democratic
sometimes edorlaly, sometimes by MIR. Greenhow, un
der his own name. was blackguarded. vlihed, contra
diced and at last rsicued and ped by the organ ant
its backer, for mentioning the line OF the treaty o
Utrecht; and have no doubt that nearly the whole o
the democratic party, which at that time put faith in III,
organ, fully believed iha, there such line tina
OF Uirecht-hai Mr. Greenhow had eclipsed all Amer
can and British negotiaors and that "hfyfour forty o
fight was the duty OF every democrat who not
British traitor. ! was literally cried down. and Mr.
Greenhow cried up until he rode upon the clouds Five
hundred country organs played 10 the tune OF the city
organ and IN the face OF the whole had to take III,
bnint OF saving the country from inevitable c,fi
Great Brtforn" II the first time, perhaps IN which
member NJ party saving the party and the country
from absurd war, assaied by the organ OF tbs
party, even Justly, and much less falsely and wickedly
But with the help OF others succeeded. The dange
was ayeried The true line OF 40 degrees, which we hat
offered Great Britain for forty years. established
and see, from the exhibit have made this day
that all the danger then came from book, fraud
uently false, for which paid 50 $50 TO give ourselves
thirty copies OF II each say we; for though Tough
nat n md rafn The hnrk petf fQ