After presenting to my English readers the foregoing comprehensive Extracts from Haywood, Hannegan, and Benton, and, lastly, those from the Letters of the venerable Gallatin, I may be permitted to ask the question, “Of what use could the Oregon ever be to England?”

Grant that every right, and every power, that of occupancy alone excepted, belonged indisputably to Great Britain, (which they do not,) the right and power of occupancy being exclusively in the hands of the Americans, the territory is de facto already theirs. From this right and power there is no appeal. And had the common sense of England, instead of her false pride, been enlisted in the cause, her people never would have scared themselves with the phantom of a war. Had the uselessness and the danger of such a possession been truly represented to them by those commissioned for such purposes, the just and clear headed English Public would have replied to the claim, “Let the Americans have the whole: England does not want it, and any insignificant rights we may possess we will dispose of for equivalents.” Such would have been their decision, wise for themselves, just towards America, had they been truly informed upon the subject, and allowed to understand the merits of the case.