[The meeting was evidently held on Saturday, February 11th.]
The meeting on Saturday evening at the Council Chamber was
much more fully attended than was expected, the proceedings
of which will be found in our paper. After the organization
and the appointment of a committee to report to the
adjourned meeting to be held on Thursday evening next,
William B. Hubbard, Esq., in answer to a call of the
meeting, commenced a most interesting address, prefaced by
offering a resolution complimentary of Doctor Linn of
Missouri, and those senators who stood by him in the
advocacy of the bill for the settlement of this territory.
The cry of fire caused Mr. H. to close his remarks, with a
request by the meeting that he would proceed with them at
the next meeting. We hope Mr. H. will prepare a synopsis of
his remarks for the press. Nothing would be read with
greater interest at this time.
The Government should speedily establish military posts from
the frontier settlements on the Missouri to the Pacific.
Settlements would speedily take place around each post, and
produce in abundance would soon be raised to supply the post
and the flow of emigration.
An adjourned meeting of the citizens of Columbus and its
vicinity was held in the United States courtroom on the
evening of Thursday, the 10th instant, in pursuance of a
resolution adopted at the last meeting.
[Colonel Medary (editor of the _Statesman_), from a
committee appointed to collect facts, reported that the
committee wanted more time. The subject growing more and
more interesting, on motion the committee was allowed till
next Thursday.]
The resolution offered at last meeting was then taken up,
and on motion of Mr. Hubbard, was amended by adding, at the
end thereof, the words "without the violation of any
international law."
The resolution, as amended, read as follows:
_Resolved_, That this meeting duly appreciate the untiring
labors and distinguished abilities of Senator Linn and
others in Congress, in their successful advocacy of the just
claim of the United States to the Oregon Country; and that,
as a component part of the Great West, we hope for a speedy
adjustment of our rights upon the borders of the Pacific
Ocean, and a like speedy occupation and settlement of that
country, without the violation of any international law.
[Copy ordered sent to Hon. Joseph Ridgway, member of
Congress for the district.]
The _Ohio Statesman_ of March 10, 1843, contains the report of the
committee appointed as per the above accounts. The report seems to
have been drawn up by Col. Samuel Medary, chairman, and is a strong
and interesting document of considerable length. It discusses in full,
with all the information available at the time, the economic
advantages of the Oregon Country, as well as the question of title.
The report is accompanied by a map.
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From the _Ohio Statesman_, March 14, 1843.