Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-11-19
The Northwest Coast.

Portland Telegram.


Portland Telegram.
MIR. Webster gave to the Tyler
Administration all of the dignity and
character which it possessed, not
only directing it's diplomacy through
the Department of State, but coun-
selling the other heads of depart
ments as we'll. He wrote Secre-
tary Forwards report on the curren-
cy, and other State papers, besides
serving as a balance wheel to regu-
late the movements OF the ardent
Cushing and the fiery Wise, Mr..
Webster's great work, says the At-
lantic for October, however, was the
negotiation of the
TREATY OF WASHINGTON
With Lord Ashburton, which he con-
sidered as one of the greatest active
ments of his life. 1t settled a vexs-
tious quarrel over our northeastern
boundary, it overthrow the British
claim to exercise the right of search,
and it established the right of pro-
perty in slaves OH an American ves-
sci driven by stress of weather into
British port. But the treaty did
not settle the exasperating contro-
versy over the fisheries on the North
Amerian coast, or the disputed
northwestern boundary. Indeed,
Mr.. Webster was ut one time dis
posed to cede the valley of the Col
umbia river for the free right to fish
on the British colonial coasts of the
North Atlantic, Governor Simpson,
of the Hudson's Bay Company, hav-
ing
For agricultural purposes, and only
valuable for its furs. Just then DR..
Whitman arrived at Washington,
dressed in Mackinaw blanket coat
and buckskin leggings in which he
had crossed the Rock Mountains, to
plead the retention of Oregon.
'sBut you are too late, doctor"
said Mr.. Webster, For we are
about to trade off Oregon for the
cod-fisheries. The Doctor soon
convinced the Secretary of State,
however, that the valley of the Col.
umbia was of great value, and it was
retained, while the settlement of the
fisheries question was left to sue.
ceeding generation. Lord Ashbur'
ton, retaining his business habits
Brought to Washington not only 6
diplomatic suite, but butler and Q
cook, and rented the spacious man
sion of
MATTHEW ST. CLAIR CLARKE
Near that of Mr.. Webster. Much O.
the preliminary negotiation was car
ried on at the dinner tables of the
contracting parties, and Congress
sional guests were alike charmed b!
the hospitable attention of the " fine
old English gentleman" and the
Yankee Secretary of State. Lore
Ashburton offered his guests thu
cream of culinary perfection and tht
gastronomic art, with the rGres
wines, while at Mr.. Webstsrs table
American delicacies were served il
American style. Maine salmon
Massachusetts mackeral, New Jer
sey oysters, Florada shad, Kentuck.
beef, West Virginia mutton, Illinois
prairie chickens, Virginia terrapin
MARYLAND crabs, Delaware canvas
back ducks, and South Carolina ric
birds were cooked by Monica, ant
served in u style that made
THE EBANKER-DIPLoMAT
Admit their superiority to the pot
ages, sauces, entremets, ragouts, an
desserts of his Partisan white-cappe'
manipulation of casseroles. MI
Webster's papers in the negotiation
with Lord Asburton are models @
skillful reasoning, and his letter o.
impressment is regarded as diplo
matte masterpiece. He not only ha'
to contend with a practical and &C
complished diplomat, but to man
age n wayward President, and un
friendly Senate, hostile House c
Representatives, and the State Coy
ernments of Massachusetts, an
Maine. When a leading merchal
congratulated him on the result, b
thanked him, and said: "Thel
have been periods when 1 could hav
; kindled a war, but, sir, l remen
bered that I was negotiating TOR
Christian country, with a Christia
country, and that we were all livin
in the nineteenth century OF II
Christian era. My duty, sir, WI
clear and plain"
A SOUTHERN writer finds that muG
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