St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-10-13
From tic Lancaster ,UnIcn.
General Scott's Mission. II

." From the Lancaster 4UnIcn. 81
General Scott's Mission.
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At the advanced age gilmore than three score
years aud ten, the venerable and illnstriousi
Commander Of the army Of the United States,i
whose !. bnows, are crowned with yictoriots
wreaths" won on the plains Of Canada and tne
mountains and valleys ef NJ exico, ii sent bg4he
present National Administration on d journey
of six thousand miles to remedy thu lnisshief
caused by Mr.. tBuchanan's bung1ing diplomacy
and the rashness and folly OF his pei, agenla and
partisans. The people cannot have fofg;otttten
that in 1914, one of the streng cards played.by
tsthe Democratic Party to defeat Henry Clay.
Fifty Four Forty or Fight, 2 which resulted
after the election of Mr. Polk to the Presidency
and the appointment Of MI. Buchanan as his
Secretary Of State, in q Treaty which not only
conceded all Of Oregon which lay north of
forty-nine degrees on the continent to Great
Britain, but whlch, when it reached the coast
detected the line southwardly SO as to give the
whole Of Vancouyer's island to that country,
liking the middle ct aAe channel between that
Island and the main land as the boundary
| line between the two nations S.' '*t f's
It is from this designation of the boundary
| line that present difficulty arises. There are
| said to be no less than three channels between
! Che Island and the main land. That next to
| Vancouver is the deepest, and if adopted as
the true line, would give San Juan and certain
! other small Islands to the United States; by
| taking either OF the other channels, those
islands would all 60 to Great Britain, as they
would also, by adopting the middle Of the
Strait between Vancouver and the main land
| as the boundary. 1t is contended on cur part
| that the deep channel next to Vancouver is the
truesline; but thus Great gHritaiR does moi con-
cede, and the Language OF the treaty, probably
for want Of accurate Geograp phical information,
/ is indefinite Ii" establishes as sthe boundary
! between the territories Of her Britannia Majes-
! ~ and the United States, sg" the forty ninth
parallel of north latitude to the middle of the
| channel which separates the continent from
| Vaneouver's Island, and thence southerly
through the middle of said channel, and Of
Fuca straits to the Pacific Ocean" nappears
that since the ratification of this, Treaty, the
Island Of San Juan. lying between Vancouver
and the Continent, has been occupied in COM
mon BY the British and Amercans-the ques-
+ tion Of title seems lot to have been agitated,
and the PARTIES got along peaceably together
until lately, when, for some not we'll planned
reasoz Gen. Harney, in command Of the
=, American troops on that coast, ordered Captain
! Pickett with his conlpany 10 take military
possession Of the Island and xercise cllisiv vc
Jurisdiction over it. This summary method oi
determining o disputed question, called forth a
protest from the British Governor at Victoria
-a special message to The Colonial Legislature
and also brought several English men of wal
off San Juan. Harney reinforced Pickett, who
threw up entrenchments, and SO the matte.
stood at last adviees, the two forces confronting
escu oIner, and liaele to be precipi,ated into &
| tl:cSrr OF man 1,r}h oy.1,, -,
folly Of single individual. In this condition
Of things, the Administration, impressed viii
F the apprehension that this small trouble nigh
suddenly be made to assume very large propor
tons, called not upon some Of ils pets an.
pap fed favorites, but on Winfield Scott, to e,
go to the scene ind relieve it from trouble int,
, which it has been precipitated, first, by Mr.
, Buchanan's bunglng treaty, aud next, by hi
fayorlte officer, Gen Harvey. Sc the veteran
has to travel six, thousand miles on civil
mission in reality to save from the consequen
ces of their own acknowledgement tile part!
f which in 1852 made him the but of thei
ridcule-nicknamed him g Old Fuss an,
Feathers ''--decried his services to the country
and cast him off for his fainting subordinate
who fell from his horse into ditch in th
: Valley of Mexico, before he had fairly 60
under fire. Now it is Gen. ScorTs name an;
: | CltSS1 1hCtCk---A1o NAsNulu pluuSuCS--NulCl
have often heretofore been displayed in effect
!. ing peaceful solutions Of difficulties whicl
! threatened war and bloodshed, to which Mr.
; BUCHANAN resorts, IN order to shield him from
. the perils Of war with England which ha
, become imminent from his own inoapacity a
!, a treaty maker, and the rashness Of his ad
mired HAnNEr in attempting, by force, t
Compel submission to tha. construction Of I'll
treaty which would shield his patron from
blame and exposure. Thus it has been Away
that the mallgned wings Of the Union--CrAY
WEBSTER, ScoTT and others-who have beer
made objects Of the abuse and denunciatio1
of the Locofocos--have in all critical time
I been called upon to save the county from th'
consequences of the mismanagements Of th,
#Ipafty which has never ceased to heap upo,
them its fercest censures. s s %.s.2s