| GEORGE H. HIMES, | |
| City Hall, Portland, Oregon. | Assistant Secretary. |
| Volume I] | SEPTEMBER, 1900 | [Number 3 |
THE QUARTERLY
OF THE
Oregon Historical Society.
THE OREGON QUESTION.
II.
The conventions of 1824 and 1825 marked the formal and final withdrawal of Russia as claimant to the sovereignty of the Oregon country, or of any part of it. The convention of the former year pledged her withdrawal as claimant against the United States, that of the latter year as claimant against Great Britain. The boundaries of the territories in question were thus finally determined, and the parties to the dispute were reduced to the two nations by whom the question at issue was ultimately to be decided.