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BR1T1sH CLAIMS To OREGov.-Says the Philadel-
phia Ledger We admit that Britain has repeatedly
claimed and maintained rights in this territory if
right and aggression synonymous. Itclaimed, by
virtue of discovery by Drake, who the ter
ritory, and being pirate, whose life was due to the
gibbet of any civilized nation could have conferred
no right if he had. 1t claimed by convention with
Spain, which expressly reserved all territorial juris-
dction, and subsequently ceded all such right to u.s.
And it now claims by similar convention with US,
convention WHICH expressly denies to it any such
jurisdiction And Britain has maintained rights in
this territory. How 1t maintained the convention
with Spain by encouraging its subjects to settle there
and by force of arms in its war with Spain, which
began in 1903, and continued till 1909 and by an
alliance with Spain against Napoleon from 1909 till
1915, during which PERIOD Spain contending for


sence at hOme had leisure to examine and resist
the encroachmens of its ally in distant colony and
by force of arms against in the of 1872 and
by the convention Of 1918, which merely allowed a
settlement to its subjects has violated by military
occupation and legal jurisdiction and by careless
short-sghted unstaesmanlike, unjusifable indifer-
ence to the characteristic perdy and rapacity Of the
British Government. In short, these British rights in
the territory, which are rather wrongs, have been
maintained by British force and fraud, ard permitted
by American blindness. And now, when our eyes are
at last opened domestic traitors set up these British
aggTessiOns rights against us