James Knox Polk And a History of His Administration Embracing the Annexation O
James Knox Polk And a History of His Administration Embracing the Annexation O
John S John Stilwell Jenkins
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These discoveries, treaties, and settlements, constitu- ted the basis and support of the English claim to Oregon. Contrasted with the Spanish discoveries, those made by the navigators of Great Britain appear paltry and incon- siderable in the extreme ; and in regard to the priority of the former, there cannot be a doubt. But one treaty ever existed, under which England could have derived any title ; this was the Nootka Sound Convention, which, after the war of 1796, had no force or effect. The ...only establishments or settlements made by British subjects, Avere so made, either under the Nootka Sound Convention, or by the North-west and Hudson's Bay Companies. The settlements made by those companies were never consid- ered as national possessions. On the contrary, the Hud- son's Bay Company, which succeeded to the rights of both, was not authorized by the act of parliament under which its charter was granted, * nor by the charter itself, to make permanent settlements of a national character, * 1 and 2 George IV.
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