Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1842-12-09

f suned in the Message has been fully main
] tanned at the same time that the stipuatIon'
| of the Treaty of Client are to be carried ou'
in good faith by the two countries, and that
f all pretence is removed for interference with
our commerce for any purpose whatever 10y
a foreign Government While, therefore
the United States have been standing up lo'
tho freedom of the seas, they have not tho'i
proper to make that a prctext for avoiding q
luflmcnt of their Treaty stipulations, or a
ground for giving countenance to trade re-
! Iprobated by our laws. A similar arrange
mcnt by the other great powers could not
fill to sweep from the ocean the slave trade,
without the Interpolation of any new prncl-
pic into the maritime code. We may be
permitted to hope that the example thus set
viii be followed by some, if not all Of them.
We thereby also afford suitable protection
TO the fair trader in those seas, TINS fulfilling
at the same time the dictates of n sound pol
icy, and complying with the claims ofjustice
and humanity.
1t would have furnished additional cause
for congratulation, if the Treaty could have
embraced all subjects calculated in future to
lead to a misunderstanding between the two
Governments. The territory of the United
States, commonly called the Oregon terrific
nv, lying on the Pacific ocean, north of the
12d degree of latitude, TO a portion of which
Great Britain lays claim, begins to attract
the attention of our fellow citizens, and the
tide of population which has reclaimed what
was so lately an unbroken wilderness, in
more contiguous regions is preparing to flow
over those vast districts which stretch from
the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific ocean.
In advance of the requirement of individual
rights to these lands, sound policy dictates
that every effort should be resorted TO by the
two Governments, TO settle their respective
claims. 1t became manifest at an early hour
of the late negotiations, that any attempt for
the time being satisfactorily TO determine
those rights, would lead to protracted dis
cussion, which might embrace in its failure
other more pressing matters, and the Exec
utive did not regard it as proper TO waive all
the advantages of an honorable adjustment
of other difficulties of great magnitude and
importance, because this, not SO immediate
ly pressing, stood in the way. Although the
difficulty referred to may not for several
years TO come involve the peace of the two
countries, yet | shall not delay to urge on
Great Britain the importance Of its early set
Element. Nor will other matters Of CONNER
cial Importance to the two countries be over
looked; and have good reason to believe
that it will comport with the policy of Eng
land, as it does with that of the United
States, to seize upon this moment, when most
of the causes ofirrtation have passed away
to cement the peace and unity of the two
countries by wisely removing all grounds of
probable future collision.
With the other powers of Europe our re-
latlons continue on the most amicable foot
ing Treaties now existing with them
should be rgidly observed, and every oppor-
tunity, compatible with the interests of the
United States should be seized upon to en-
large the basis of commercial intercourse.
Peace with all the world is the true founda-
ton of our policy, which can only be rem
dered permanent by the practice of equal
and impartial Justice to ALL Our great de-
sire should be to enter only into that rivalry
which looks to the general good in the icul-
tivaton of the sciences, the enlargement of
the field FOR the exercise Of the mechanical
arts, aud the spread of commerre--that great
ciyilizer--to every land and sea. Carefully
abstaning from interference in all questions
exclusively referring themselves to the poit-
zeal interests OF Europe, we may be permit
ted to hope an equal exemption from the in
reference Of European Governments, in
what relates to the States of the American
Continent.
On the Odd of April last, the commission
ers on the part of the United States, under
the convention with the Mexican Republic, |
of the | lth of April, 1889, made 10 the prop |
or department, a final report in relation to
the proceedings the commission
From this it appears that the total amour;
awarded to the claimants by the commissions
ers and the umpire appointed under that
convention, was two millions twenty-six
thousand and seventy-ninc dollars and sixty
eight cents. The arbiter having considered
that his functions were required by the CON
venton to terminate at the same time with |
those of the commissioners, returned TO the
board, undecided for want of time, claims
which had been allowed by the American
commissioners, to the amount Of nine hun
dred and twcnty-eight thousand six hundred
and twenty dollars and lightweight cents
Other claims, in which the amount souoht
10 be recovered was three millions three hun
dred and thirty-six thousand eight hundred
and thIrty-seycn dollars and five cents, were
submitted to the board too late for its con-
sderation. The Minister Of the United
States at Mexico has been duly authorized
to make demand for the payment Of the a.
wards according to the terms of the convcn-
ton, and the provisions of the act Of Con
gress of the I2lh Of June, 1910. lie has
also been instructed TO communicate TO that
government the expectations of the govern
ment of the United States in relation to those
claims which were not disposed OF according
to the provisions Of the convention and iii