. A history of the United States. ettleOregon. — In 1843 ^hesettlers in Oregon, intrue pioneer style,formed a governmentfor themselves and solaid the foundations forlater states in the FarWest. Explorers, mis-sionaries, and pioneershad seemingly wonsouthern Oregon, atleast, for the UnitedStates. Both Englandand the United Statesclaimed the whole ter-ritory from Californiato Alaska, and for the time being held it jointly. A fewAmerican statesmen thought that nature had fixed theRocky Mountains, bordered as they were with deserts ofsand, as the final western Umit. They scoffed at thesettlement o
. A history of the United States. ettleOregon. — In 1843 ^hesettlers in Oregon, intrue pioneer style,formed a governmentfor themselves and solaid the foundations forlater states in the FarWest. Explorers, mis-sionaries, and pioneershad seemingly wonsouthern Oregon, atleast, for the UnitedStates. Both Englandand the United Statesclaimed the whole ter-ritory from Californiato Alaska, and for the time being held it jointly. A fewAmerican statesmen thought that nature had fixed theRocky Mountains, bordered as they were with deserts ofsand, as the final western Umit. They scoffed at thesettlement of Oregon and opposed its annexation. Othersheld a different opinion. Senator Thomas Benton, himself apioneer of Missouri, championed the cause of Oregon in Con-gress. He had great faith in the future of the West, even tothe shores of the Pacific. The majority of the Americanpeople agreed with him. They even talked about war with Pass through the Mountains on theOregon TrailSweetwater Gap 352 RELATIONS WITH NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES. England, asserting that they must have all the territory southof the parallel 54° 40 or fight. Boundary Disputes. — John Tyler was then had been elected as Vice-President, but General WilliamHenry Harrison, the Whig candidate who had won the elec-tion of 1840, died within amonth after his had more sympathy withthe Democrats than with theWhigs. The only Whig whoremained in his cabinet wasWebster. In 1842 Webster sign-ed a treaty with the Britishminister Ashburton settling theboundary dispute on the north-ern border of Maine. Like mostagreements of that kind, thetreaty was a compromise, eachside giving up its extreme claims. No progress was madein deciding the Oregon question. On the question of Texas, Webster and Tyler did not agree,for Tyler was anxious to annex Texas. Calhoun was, accord-ingly, made Secretary of State, and he signed a treaty ofannexation with Texas. When it was sent to the Senate forapproval, the se
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