The Litchfield County post., 1827-12-13


bly, to an act of Congress of the second
of March last, for the distribution of the
indemnity to the person entitled to receive
it, are now III session, and approaching the
conSumation of their labors. This final
disposal of one Of the most painful topics
of collision between the United States g.
Great Britain, not only affords an occasion
of graduation to ourselves, but has had the
happiest effect in promoting friendly dis
position, and in Softening asperities upon
other objects of discussion. Nor ought it
to pass without the tribute of frank
and cordial acknowledgement of the mag
nanin,ity with which an honorable nation.
by the reparation of their own wrongs. a.
chieves a triumph more glorious than any
field of blood can ever lbestow.
The Conventions of the Sd July, 1915
and OF goth October 1917, will expire, by
their own limitation, on the 10th October.
1928 These have regulated the direct
Commercial. intercourse between the Uni
ted States and Great Britain, upon terms
OF the greatest reciprocity and they eff
fected temporary compromise of the re-
spectlve rights and claims to territory
Westward of the Rocky Mountains. These
arrangements have been continued for an
/, indefinite period of time, after the expira-
ton OF the above mentioned Convention:
leaving each party the libertys of termina-
ting them, by giving twelve moths notice
to the other. The radical principal of all
commercial intercourse between indepen-
dent nations, is the mutual interest of both
parties. it is the vital spirit of trade it.
self; nor can it be reconcied to the ma
ture of man, or to the primary laws of hui
man society, that any traffic should long be
willingly pursued, of which all the advan-
tages are on one side, and all the burdens
on the other. Treaties of commerce have
been found, by experience, to be among
the most effective instruments for promo-
ting peace and harmony between nations
whose interests, exclusively considered ON
either sides, are brought into frequent COL
lisions by competition. In framing such
treaties, it is the duty of each party, not
simply to urge with unyielding pertinacity
that which suits his own interest, but to
concede Literally to that which is adapted
to the interest of the other. To accom-
pIish this, little more is generally required
than simple observance of the rule of re-
clprocity and, were it possible for the
statement of one nation, by stratagem and
management, to obtain from the weakness
or ignorance of another, an over-reaching
treaty, such compact would prove an in-
centive to war rather than bond of peace.a
Our Conventions with Great Britain are
founded on the principles of reciprocity.
The commercial intercourse between the
two countries is greater in magnitude and
amount than between any two other ma
tons on the globe. 1t is, for all pnrpo-
ses of benefit or advantage to both, as
precious, and in all probability, far more
extensive, than if the parties were still
constituent parts of one and the same ma
ton. Treaties between such States, regu-
lating the course of peace between them,
and adjusting interests of such transcend
ent Importance to both, which have been
found, in long experience of years, mu-
tnally advantageous, should not be lightly
cancelled or discontinued. Two Conyen-
tons, for the continuing in force those a.
bove mentioned, have been concluded be-
tween the Plenopotentiares of the two
Governments, on the 9th of August last,
and will be forthwith laid before the Sem
ate for the exercise of their constitutional
authority concerning them.
In the execution of the Treaties of
Peace. of November, 1888, and Septem-
Der, 1888, between the United States and
Great Britain, and which terminated the
war of our Independence, line of boun-
Diary was drawn as demarcation of terri
tory between the two countries, extending
over near twenty degrees of latitude, and
ranging over seas, lakes and mountains,
then very imperfectly explored, and scarce
ly opened to the geographical knowledge
of the age. In the progress of discovery
and settlement by both parties, several
questions of boundary between their re-
spective Territories have arisen. which
have been found of exceedingly difficult
adjustment. At the close of the last war
with Great Britain, four of these questions
pressed themselves upon the consideration
Of the negotiators of the Treaty of Client,
hut without tho means of concluding de-
hnltive arrangement concerning them.
They were referred to three separate Com
missions, consisting of two Commissioners,
one appointed by each party, to examine
and decide upon their respective claims.