The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-06-29
From the Richmond Enquirer.

| THE NEGor1AT1oN-We sincerely trust ina
the nerotiation will remove all difficulties be-
tween the two counries-but the question Is. Is ho
without serious difficulty.
! The BoUyDARY.-Maipe acceded to the aPP'',
cation for appointing Commissioners on her par
TO decide on the proposition, which Great Dr'taln
has made. The Executive OF Massachusetts mas
also appointed Mr.. Lawrence, with the van Du,
ron District Attorney. Mt. Mills, and tnlro
I Commissioner, who is Wing, to represent her
interests in the Eastern Boundary: II LORD ASH
burton be confined the offer of pecuniary COM
pensation. for the land in question, 1t is not SO
certain that he will succeed. Maine has 6een peer
mossaesirouss of securing the navigation OF the
ST. Johns, with an exchange OF portion OF the
disputed Territory This might take oifa slice
of the British settlements. Should the Name
Commissioners, there FORE adhere to this position
il might be necessary for Lord Ashburton to write
home for supplemental instructions-and thus,
of course, more time would lie consumed. But
even if Great Britain should decline tile PROPOSE
tons of Maine, we should rot despair ofan amica-
BILE adjustment of the QUESTION. The next would
be, for Lord Ashburton and Mr.. Webster, to lay
down the bassis of the plan hitherto agreed to
Of Joint Commission.
QUESTION OF FSEARCH-This is an important
and difficult question. MIR. Stevenson has taken
the bold, but the true American ground--in
which he has been followed by Messrs. Cass in
his Exposition, and Wheaton in his Enquiry
Our Government must take high ground, and we
trust will maintain it. We cannot yield an inch
of it. We GO for Peace, consistently with our
Rights and our Honor-but no humbuggery, no
ingenious trick, no plausible and pretended COM
promise, of the Liberty of the Seas. After rous-
ING up the Just pride and sensibilites OF France,
we must not sacrifice the principles we have as
suned. =. Her Ministry have placed themselves
in rather an embarrassing predicament-and 1t
is impossibie to speculate absolutely on the
course they will pursue. The last indication we
have seen is in the Journal des Debats. IN an
article said to be from the pen of M. Gulzot, IN
answer TO the attacks on Eng land in the "Presse'
and the "National."
1--WE need not dwell on the last treaty relative
to the right of search The Chamber having
testified its disapProbation, the Government mas
notratifcd il, and M. Guizot has repeated, even
,osat,ev, in terms the clearest and most preclse1
thai. LANGUAGE can furnish, that unless important
should be introduced, it will not be
ratified at all What is not less true, and what
France ought not to be mistaken abou. is, 'hat
England has right to be astonshed at ms re-
fusal to ratify, and at the explosion OF abuse
which accompanied it-for the treaty was our
work as much as hers" !
So far as our municipal laws can be cxerted
for the suppression of the, ,odions slave trade, we
lre willing to put forth our' strength to en-
,,oy resncc;ablc squadron on the coast of Afri-
and 20 lay the strongest injunctions upon
,ur consnI in cuba, to prevent our flag from be-
na abused, and our vessels from being III iraIau, io
,en,ly prostituted to the purposes OF 'hc siavH
& IeaIcrTbut we must protect cur vessels from all
violation and search by British cruisers IN
state of peace.