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There is reason to believe that General GRANT
expressed an opinion adverse to the CLARENDON-
'JOHNSON Convention freely and strongly during
his visit to New York, and we regard this as the
most unfavourable circumstance connected with
this most unfortunate subject of dispute. If the
PRESIDENT be decidedly hostile to any settlement
(for any other settlement we believe to be impos-
sible), the question must remain open as an un-
healed sore, perhaps hereafter to stir up the States
into uncontrollable irritation—perhaps for retalia-
tion, which would immediately produce war. This
will be the deliberate election of the United States,
for England is acknowledged to have ell-seeded Mr.
SEWARD'S demands, an Ito have satisfie 1 not only
the United States Executive, but the Pleriipoten-
Cary chosen by the Senate without a dissentient
voice to conduct this very negotiation. The Re-
public is under the im2ression that she can wait ;
th Ltt her claims lose name of their force by time ;
and that iit them she hl3 a standing. grievance an
menace against Great Britain. We consider this
to be a most unfortunate dausion, born of the old
arrogance of man assuming the place of Pnovt-
DENCE. There is no country so placed as to need
the speedy removal of disputes more than the United
States. England is an old, settled Monarchy, worn
into its present form by the friction of ages, ac-
companied by numerous convulsions and dreadful
wars. She is an extinct volcano which might blaze
up again, but now shows no signs, indeed in thiEf
way is believed to be exhausted. Her late elec-
tions have proved a marvellous similarity of feeling
through all classes, from the Land's End to Johnny
Groat's llouse, the whole people with very slight
divergence thinking alike. The foreign policy
of England is such that nothing save the
most wanton aggression could drive her into
war, and possessing the knowledge that a war with
any other country would involve a war also with
the United States she is bound in heavy damages to
keep the peace. Her weak spot is Ireland, bat
Americans exaggerate the degree of her weakness
there. Such is the nation which some Americans
consider will soon offer them the chance for retalia-
tion by its becoming involved in strife. Although
the United States are masters of their continent,
and separated from other Powers by an ocean, yet
we doubt whether their chance of war be not greater
than that of England, The Union is the most
rapid formation of a first-class Power ever known,
not created by conquest. She is a volcano lately
in active eruption, and even now smoking. The
elements of contention are scattered abroad, and
subjects of dispute grow quickly and loom threaten-
ingly in the future. It is possible the United States may
desire to keep this foreign difficulty to neutralize home
I difficulties, on the same principle that a homeopathist
treats his patient; but though it may answer for the
physical body, we doubt its applicability to the
body politic, convinced that the speediest and com-
plete settlement of a dispute is, as a rule, the best.
The chances are that in future political contests
public attention being absorbed the Alabama claims
will be wholly or partially lost sight of. Dropped for
a few years, it will be difficult again to arouse
for them public attention, for they involve
endless, wearisome despatches, and much dry
legal references. The general impression will then
be that England's offer to pay for the damage caused
by the piratical cruisers which got to sea from her
harbours was refused by the United States. The
proposal to submit the case to arbitration will esta-
blish a precedent favourable to Great Britain, and
one that will tell against the United States if
cruisers escaping from a pore of the Republic here-
after destroy British commerce. Why should not
the United States then do what Great Britain now
does ?—offer to submit the claims to arbitration.
The nation that proposes to do this will find it more
profitable to keep their cruisers at home; yet the
precedent will be difficult for America to evade.
Thus England, by this rejected Convention, will
have materially improved her position in a matter
before so bad that Englishmen scarcely liked to
talk of it. Mr. GEORGE TICKNOR CURTIS'S letter,
tranferred from the New York World to the Times,

forcibly states the reasons why the Convention
should not be rejecte lin America. But our object
is rather to consider what might reasonably be ex-
pected to be the position if the claims remain
unsettled during GRANT'S Administration. " Ilis-
toricu3" anrusingly arrogant now as always, be-
lieves, and so do we, th it, notwithstanding the
PRESIDE 'S opinion, who really knows little or
nothing of foreign affairs, that the subject will be
reconsidered after his inauguration, either through
another Ambassador instructed by his Administra-
tion, or, as suggested by a writer in an evening
paper, by the despatch from England of such
a Minister as Mr. JOHN BRIGHT. The hope is all
the brighter as there are no people easier to deal
with than Americans, if the authorities only know
he way ; but it has been the misfortune of
England to be ignorant of America in density
almost in proportion to rank; and as rank rules in
Britain, that ignorance has caused unlooked-for
mischief. A glance shows many home reasons why
the dispute should not be kept open, although they
have nothing to do with the Convention or the claims.
Although General GRANT enters the White house
with the exclamation still clinging to him "LA us
have Peace," the sort of peace he is about to have
has been aptly illustrate 1 in the clunting of the
electoral votes. On the one side were the Senate,
' on the other the Representatives, and on the floor,
lin angry controversy, were the champions of those
bodies. The question was whether the votes of
Georgia should be counted; the Senate had ruled
that they should, the house that they should not ;
but the President of the Senate was the presiding
officer of the joint Convention, and the Speaker of
i the House was about to succeed to his office.
Their ruling was on the decision of the Senate
setting aside that of the House as if it bad never
been made, and BEN BUTLER, with his sleetes
tucked up, was battling for the rights of the Re-
presentatives, cheered by most of them, while the
Senators upheld the presiding officer. After the
Senate had retired to their own Chamber, BUTLER
proposed a strong resolution of censure for this in-
fringement of the rights and privileges of the people.
There is a fight brewing between the Senate and
the Representatives which does not augur peace.
Last Monday, the Republican caucus of the Senate
decided to take no action on the Tenure-of-Office
meansßepeal dßistilrlusut notifl
g
still less bodes Peace. The Senate of next week
trtinceoomnlrnegss.presli'dheantt,simapulay
for the new Congress will have taken their seats ere
tahlemyotsrtaindsefnetrictahlewith
the present body: therefore they transfer the de-
ision from themselves, before GRANT proclaims his
wethe gopr
etsoe Ipl
tr ets se t avg a:
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in vili
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with
Cabinet, to themselves aifleteirnGenßAhNeTshelaescstse.Ut
Should
theiro u l
athe wishes of the Senate
Chamber the names of t
those chosen not tally
the
Act will not be repealed, and
(tA
the face of this difficulty,
a grave misunderstanding with that legislative body
with which he is most brought into contact. Does
l ls'ern itsir
immediately e-o ;
ffl lce
in
A
this portend peace ? Simultaneously with GRANT'S
inauguration a firebrand will be thrown into the
country, for ex-President JOHNSON, stripped of the
trammels of his high office, will stand free to take
up the gauntlet cast down by the Radical chiefs. It
is a mistake to suppose that ANDREW JOHNSON Will
partyformed has
his Presidential
ih
drift into retirement to brood over the Radical in-
tdeirgmni.tiesAladirneflicyted on him
great
Ten-
nessee which he has been invited to head, and the
fiercest political conflict ever known in that State is
there anticipated. Now this means somethi •ng to
those who know the limits of a political contest
Tennessee, nor are these elements of strife to be in
re-
strained within the boundaries of a State. The
proceedings which gave the epithet of " Bleeding"
to Kansas inaugurated the civil war, and although
a man would have been pronounced mad who pre-
dicted that JOHN BROWN was but the herald of a
mighty invasion, yet we now look back and see the
smooth sequence ; event following event in the na-
tural order of things, although our glance is over
States devastated—a prairie of graves—and a poli-
tical change which makes the Union of 1869 differ
widely from the Union of 1860. The moral we de-
rive from all this is the same for which we have so
long contended, and it is that given by our SAVIOUR—
" Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles. thou
art in the way with hiul!". , •
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