The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-28

ed 80 dominant. to 176S. when she finally
retired from the. continent Of North
tinuous and single struggle to be studied
ms one movement, Il win still be neces-
sary TO regard the struggle and It's out
First should be noticed the respective
claims OF the two nations and the foundn-
lions upon which these claims rested.
rs rne Treaty o. r 81, SermA,n ussD had
and New Brunswick substantially az
de-, described at present on our mape. In
The explorations Of the French Jcsuits
mad given claim to the basin OF the. Mis-
slssippi. To connect Canada and the
and the mouth OF the Mississippi by .
chain OF forts along the inland lakes and
rivers WAS the French design. BY 100
il was s' supposed 70 sSsSantss '1 Tr. ncS
were TO be hemmsd In east Ok the AI is
ghanies on the Atlantic coast
On the maps OF British America in the
early part Of the eighteenth century"
says rarkmSn one sees the eastern
wh IRON sss. cao @sSrs
different In shape and sixe and more or
less distinctly defined"
These colonies had indefinite claims
Interior tracts, founded on ancient grquts,
put not made sood BY occupation orfvin-
dicated by any exertion of power. The
but their numbers could not be brought
into action. The French forces were
small but. they were vigorously com-
II was union confronting division. energy
confronting apathy. military centraiisa-
tion opposed TO Industrial democracy. and
for time the advantage was all on one
fiict,' vol. H., u. 81
When the Anglo Saxon frontier line
moved westward according to natural
with the French forts building on the
upper Ohio, the conflict between these
two forces Was inevitable. The issue OF
victory at Quebec In 1853 This decisive
Seven Years War" began, as Frederick
the Great said oyer a few miserable
s Mullen os mem os and s sass e Rpan
an empire In America
This half century Of conflict which
Parkman has 30 brilliantly described. and
which We have. 40 far spoken OF as
single movement, has generally been de-
scrihed In American history under four
distinct fnfercslonisi wars: uD king
Ryswick In 1895. ~ Queen Anns's war,
% The war Of he spanish Sue suscess lon:
peace 81 se y ir n Pa srs g ss
by the spanish war begun IN 1873; az the
French and Indian War" or the seven
afATs war, from lsJA To lfet closing
with the famous treaty OF Paris The
TREATIES u Rsswick tSsO and Aix-la- Cha
pelie tlsAsl settled nothing. and they may
,nerefory be regarded as mere truces ia
the conflict The conguests made In the
two wars preceding these treaties were
restored. the wars brought nothing bot
losses 90 both sides and The contending
powers were ieft confronting one another
with the 9reat issues between them st4tl
unsettled.
But the student should look upon the
treaties ~ Utrecht usi3 and Paris tiseSl
history of America. BIS the treaty OF
Utrecht France made Important conces-
sions 20 Great Britain In America
l. The British claim Was recognized to
the territory drained bv she rivers how-
tNg Into Hudson bay. THIS region OF in-
definite iinif had been claimed by the
British since the explorations az Hudson
tn isi0
:. Newfoundland and Acadia 1Nova SEQ
tlal ''accoFding 10 SIS ancient limits in.
ciuding the turtrcss OF Port Rnyal tcap-
tured by the Engiish in iSaa, restored III
ieaL reeaptnred IN lille and permanently
retained we're also conceded by the
French The ancient limits % Acadia
We're never defined France contended
that she concession included not only
Nova Scotia. but a marrow strip on the
aescoast. while England claimed from II
a vast country westward to the EngiiSh
settlgments IA Maine and north~ar9 Is
the 81. Lawrence.
g. The treaty % Utrecht declared th.,
Five Nations. the famous Indian CON
fedcsaey Of New York. TO &c subject 10