Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1815-02-27

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Remarks On the Treaty from the Bofioa Daily
Advertiser.
We are at length able to lay before our
readers the TREATY Of PEACE. The
substance offs stipulations, may be brief-
iy stated. The FIRST article provides for
cessation Of hoitilities, on the exchange
Of the rati6cations Of the treaty, and for
a'reltoration of all conquered territories
win all the property captured in them
which on the day Of exchanging ratlfca-
tons had not been removed. But places
which under the treaty of 1883 were
claimed by both parties, among which the
principal is the town of Eastport, are to
remain in pofsefIion Of the prefent hold,
ers, until the title is settled BY Commit.
sioners.
Article Second provides that captures
made at Tea fhall be good prize until the
following dates, viz OH the American
coat IL days; in other parts OF the Ats
lantic, the Birth Channel, &c. 80 days;
III the North fsas, the Baltic and Mcdi-
terrancan, 40 DAYS; in the Southern At
lantic Ocean 60 days; and in other parts
of the world 90 and 40 days, after the
date, Of the exchange of affiliations
Nosice in the mean time is 70 be given,
and holtilitics to ceaie as fOon as Potii
bic.
The third article provides for the RET
tOration Of all priioners Of war as ioon as
practicable, and for payment, in fpecle,
for advances BY either government tor
their maint aiIancr.
The five following afticles provide for
the running, and de6nate eifablilhment
BY Commiilioners appointed for the pur-
pofe, of the boundary line, according to
rhe terms of the treaty of 1888. all
which was formerly provided for by the
convention of 1903, negotiated by MIR.
King and rejeefed BY Mr.. Jeferfon.
Article ninth fccures peace to all the
Indian tribes, engaged on either part,
with all the poaeilions, rights AMI privi
leges which they enjoyed in 1911, pro
vided they content TO ceaation of hol
Titles.
BY the tenth article both parties en-
gage to ufe thcii belt endravours for the
abolition of the flave trade. This trade
is already prohibited under icvere penal
ties, by both countries.
Inc elsyeitb and lat article, requires
that the notifications lhaii be mutually ex-
shangcd, IN the fpscc of four months, or
fooncr if practicable. This condition
has been performed by the exchange Of
the ratification in lefs than two months
from The date, viz. the nth init
Such is the treaty of peace. Look at
the manifeitoes, iiTued iu June 1912, in
which the caufcs Of war are detailed,
and you will find that not one of thofe
caufes Of war is even named, or BY the
mott diaant allufon referred to, 10 the
treaty. But the peace is an honourabc
cnsi What does the treaty Of peace
iccure ? Il iecures US peace and our an
eieaf p.DsDFous, which to this day nobody
ever d'fputed onr claim to- Is it then
honourable to make any peace Is it
honourable merely to lmUivefbe qosy which
We voluntarily declared, and to bring GU,
Of the wrecks Of it, cur Gun territories,
with the facri6ce OF all the(e advanta-
geous Populations which were fccured to
US by other treaties?
Let tho(s who think this treaty hon.
durable TO US. fay what has become of
the very valuable grants to US, Of tihing
privileges, BY the third article of the sreas
~ Of 1888 Les them FAY what there is
t. compenfate for the lois of the perma-
nent articles Of the treaty Of 1894 4
What is there Of honour in making 4
srcafy in 1915, much lefs advantageous
han one which was fgned and iealcd
bpt rsfn/fd to be ratified in making fuch
pother as We have made, for ten years
pat, on The iuhjea Of captures under the
orders in couIicil and illegal biockades,
and relirqu'ihipe a. CLAIM to indemnify
in the fctrlcmenl of differences In q
word. when we have filled the world
wish our ciamours agsintt the wrengs OF
GreatsBlirsin, ard fscrihcfd halt We poss