Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1840-04-06

the following remark;
"There are difficulties 10 be unprecedented bet,oeea
The american and British Governments MGt would
S3on stoaliow up all these bifing cONisi9ms among
ourselves
That the administration may attempt to
get up war excitement, is not at all i'm
probable; nay, 1t the President and his ad-
vsers actually believe that such an excite
ment would soon swallow up all these
triAing collision" for instance, as
the sub-treasury, hard-currency, reduction
of wages, the tariff, reform, in fine the
Presidential question-we have not doubt
they will go to the very verge Of an actual
war with Great Britain; perhaps, the
whole figure, and make declaration Of hos
tllities. AS mere party move, they would
do this--in order, if possible, to turn off
the eyes of the people from that destruc-
tive war which the powers that be are ruth
lessly waging upon the country. We are
firm in the faith, however, that this new
experiment will fail. If war is actually at
hand, who has the wisdom, the firmness.
and the experience necessary to conduct
it Is it the slippered hero of the draw
ing-room and the carpet, or the hardy old
veteran Of TippecaDoe, Fort Meigs and
the Thames? Is it VAN buren,, who
thought it unconstitutional to employ the
militia in an offensive war,-or HARRIsoN.
who shared with the soldier all the priva-
tons of the field and the camp, and with
the militia and volunteers of the West,
annihilatcd the disciplined veterans and
the savage allies of Britain. The people
would readily decide such question and
the higher the administration gets up the
war-steam, the more unanimous will be
the popular sentiment for the General who
"was in more actions, perhaps, than any
other general officer, and never suffered a
defeat" But can it be possible that the
President has uttered the above quoted
sentiment and that he really apprehends
serious difficulties with Great Britain p
We know the outrage upon the Caroline
is unatoned for; that the North Eastern
Boundary and the Oregon questions are,
or ought to be, serious questions and that
the British government has not been slow
IN making preparations for a brush if
worse comes to worst" But these are
no new things. All this has been long
known at Washington and yet the brief
note of Secretary Forsyth of the l2ht of
March, 1910, and the reports from the
War Department show that nothing has
been done on the part Of our government.
Thus little is the importance which the
President and his Cabinet have attached
TO the movements of, and " the difficult
ties" with, Great Britain. If different
state of things is now to take place.
why, then, our Rip Van Wrinkles at Wash
ington have been walked up very sudden
ly,-that's all.
Since the foregoing was written, the
following documents have been received
UNITED STATES SENATE.
THURSDAY, March 90.
IheCkair submitted the following message from
the President OF The United States
TO The Senate oj me United States:
transmit 20 the Senate herewith, copies of of
fetal notes which have passed between the Sec
Rotary of State and the British Minister, since my
last message, on the subectef the resolutions o
the l7th OF January.
NJ. VAN buren,.
Washington, 26lh March, 1910.
Mr.. For 10 Mr. Forsyth
Washington, March 10, 1s40
The undersigned, her Brttanc Maiestys En-
voy Extraordinary aud Minister Plenipotentiary
has been instructed by his Government 10 max
the following communication to the Secretary O
State of the United States in reference to III
boundary negotiation and the affairs of the dispu
ted territory.
Her Majesty's Government have had unde
their consideration the official note addressed 1
the undersigned by the Secretary of State of tn
United States, on the Oath oflast December, in re
ply to note from the undersigned of Tie I'd O
November preceding, in which the undersige
protested IN the name of his Government, agains
The extensive system of oggression pursued by tn
people of the State of Maine within the disputes
territory, TO the prejudice of the rights Of Grea
Britain, and IN manifest violation of the provision
nj agreements entered into between the authori
dies ofihs TWO countries at the beginning of tn
last year.
Her Maiesay's Government hove also had .hai
attention objected TO the public message transmit
ted by the Governor of Maine TO the Legislntur
of the State OH the third Of January Of the pres
ent year.
Upon consideration OF the statements col
tanned in these Two oficinl documents, her MAZE
AVS government regret 10 find that the princip
acts OF entertainment which we're denounced m
complained of on the part Of Great Britain, so Il
from being either disproved or discontinued,
satisfactorily explained by the authorities of Il
State of Maine, are, on the contrary, persisted
and publicly avowed.
Ter Maiesty's Government have consequent
instructed the undersigned once more formal
10 protest against these acts of encroachnent al
aggression.
Her Malesty's Government claim and expe
rom me good faith Of the government of the Un
tea states that the people of Maine shall repa'
themselves IL the situation in Which they stoo
before the agreements OF last year were signed
that they shall therefore retire rom he valley
the ST. John, and confne themselves TO the vail,
OF the Aroostook that they shall occrny IN
valley in a temporary manner only, for he on
pose as agreed upon, of preventing Depreciation
aud that they shall not construct Notifications, n
make roads or permanent settlements.