Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1827-06-08

.nis"cd operate aSatns; lis, on he su0jeC, matter
OF negotiation, which you had promised 10 resume
Is the argument clea,? is 1t legitimate?
But you follow upstili further this OMISSION TO com.
mun'cate the &C, of 1926; topic which is pretty
evident. by this time, yea had better not have touch
ed fo0 give the following Ingenious reasons why the
ACT Ought not "a have been communicated You mus,
needs prove great deal too much. You no, on,,
show that there was ground for compliant, (which
was never m,ade but you would al;nst lead TO think
that you actually debated with yourself whether you
ought not 10 communicate the of 1895 10 the
American Government, and decided in the negative
You say
"l'u, tho Of 1925 did no, relate specially TO the
o. States held out To all nations OF the world
tam benefits Tor WI heer BIZ the Britis. Co.
vcTutncnt o be So on certa lin conditions.
III communication of the act had been made
To one na;icn, II must have been made alike 10 all
Such communication would have been liable TO differ
emf misrepresentation: governments might have
considered ii as solicitation 10 hioh they were bound
IN courtesy 10 give answer, explaining their rea-
sons for declining W they dad Gccline1 avail them
selves of the provisions oil the o;hea might perhaps
haYetalsn u'nbrage az it, authoritative pretenson
to impose the legislation Oh lhs couury upon ether na
nations
The Simplest course allow the provisions of
the act 10 had their to general know edpe tbrougl
the usual channels OF commercial Information
It's certainly true that tue act of 1925 is terms in
definite. ii applies 10 all nations but il by no means
follows, you state, that te act had been conrnuu-
Gated 10 one, it mast be communicated to ALL Here
again you mislcd by the continued dcluson about
the complaint. Eaaeriousy, what be more pae-
pos.erous u!an the suggestion, that Russia, and
Prussia, and Holland. for instance, would have taken
in duigeon, had you communicated 10 the American
Government an act which bore the subject matter
OF an exisin. negotiation with that government, al
though you did not at the time communicate il
10 them and other governments, will. whom you had
no such DpCoatioua
What more natural and obvious ground of discrin-
'ation could De desired, than that of communicating
the acts 10 all governments with which You had pen.
ding negotiations the subject matter of the acts and
not communicating them to any others
Wihont pretending To accurate information this
subject, much doubt whether the United States we're
not tie only power with which you had negotiation
pending on this SUBJECT, at this time And what 60
vernment wou!d be idle and ulnbragenu as TO ca
vi AZ yonT sending US an act which was 10 stand III
lieu tand singular substituted Of the redemption OF
your pledge TO renew the nee citation?
But so farther. You say in the next paragraph
that some other governments have awaited themselves
CT the act OF 1898. Reasoning upon ordinary princi
pies of po!tca! probability and the natural of
proceeding in such case, have the least doubt
that il every instance in which foreign government
is II possible that the Secretaries ofSiate at Mexico
has accepted the provisions of these acts those proy-
sions have been the subject OF diplomatic communion
ton from your Ministers aud Charge d. Affairs TO suct.
rtoTe'gu governments
and at Bogoio have uaravelled those GETS Of Parlia
men with :heir una:ded knowledge of the English Ian
Guage and tie forms of English legislation
DO you not know ;!at Mr.. Peel ione of the most
Intelligent of your late colleagues, aud whose retire.
nent is the least agreeable concouant circumstance
of your eleraon) has said of the penal statutes
OF Englan that, by the time he had read through
the first s9clUn OF one ftic he got bewilIered il,
the inern!nable maze of rcpettons and legal Verb
age and lost IFS meeting? And do you tell US grave,
~ that DIR. GAIL an, Sepor iianau can take up your
new navigation act, read it tTippng!y, ard pass law
corresponding wit!, lis Provisioas Believe me- sir
Mr. Ward at Mexico, ana your Charge d'AEairs al
hogoa, construed and parsed il o. these Spanish Min
isters, every word.
you insist my believing tie contrary, I can
do il other ground than that Of tie WORTHY man
OF old, ''hacause Il is iinpossi3-, "
But end The mater growing under my hand, and
must take another occasion Ia treat il farther Occu
pied hitherto in correcting your preliminary missate
lnenis, have scarcely touched upon what wonId
gladly have alone been called consider in address
ing person prc-enipent as yourseIf--l mean the
merits of the question: Meantime be pleased to ac-
opt, &c. az AMERICAN CIvGzE1.