The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1842-04-09

mere 10 the plan OF Catherine, and force
England to defer her projects.
But if England has sometimes sue
cumbed under the efforts of her adverse
RES, she has never yielded; never has
she definitely renounced the pretensions
which placed her in open hostility with
the rest of Europe. Her tactics always
consisted in dividing cabinets in order to
attack them separately,-now by force,
then by perfdy,* and to obtain from
their momentary feebleness a recogni-
ton, more or less formal, of her mara
time supremacy.
When protracted wars had brought a
general exhaustion in Europe, and peace
had become necessity to the whole
world, there were no longer neutrals to
harrass; there were no longer the means
OF pretext of contra band trade to sus-
tain this right of police over the ships of
commerce. right which in spite of all
leagues and combinations, England has
never ceased to exercise. There her
pretensions transform themselves, she
elevates another standard, and DISCUSSES
her purposes with the nobest professions.
This very power which had been seen
for so long a period, directing her efforts
to monopoly oftrade, and had caused
to be formally stipulated in the treaty Of
Utrecht, and in the greater portion of
subsequent treaties, that she alone would
+ have the privilege of supplying the Spa
nish colonies with negro slaves,-this
Identical power suddenly processes a AOr-
Tor Of Slavery!
She abolishes slavery in her American
Colonies much the more willingly, that
, her Colonies of India, being of much
greater political Importance and geogra-
phical magnitude, cannot be supported,
if new plantations do not give employ
: ment to their miserable population; and
! besides, that indigo, sugar, coffee, and all
, the tropical productions succeed marvel
lousy upon the borders ofthe Ganges.-
The abolition Of slavery then by Eng
land, is in fact but compromising the &C
: cesSary to save the principal But she
: wishes also to realize another advantage
! from the speculation.
: She commences preaching emancipa
/, ton to other nations who possess slave
f colonies, and who have no others to serve
as an indemnification for the loss of these
: As formerly she made treaties by which
she secured to herself, exclusive of al
I other nations, the pronIs OF tiU sIoer (
a trade, so now she makes treaties inter
h dieting this trade to every nation, i
being no longer necessary to her com
. merce. And under the pretext of effect
e. ualy preventing it, she during a period
t Of general repose, obtains the sanction o
l. this right of search, against which uni
h ted Europe had for SO long period arm
d ed herself
5 Now let us not deceive ourselves: a
I, the bottom, it is the application of her oil
e principles of maratime law which pre-
1t walls to-day. The end remains the same
It the means and the form have alon
t. changed. To convince ourselves of thi;
re it will suffice TO follow the course of he
+ policy for the last twenty-five years. Tn
t. same ardor, the same obstinacy whic
IS she formerly had, she now has. Thi
to right Of search exercised as an instrI
ar ment to suppress the slave trade she d.
Id manded at the Congress of Vienna, whe
in NJ. Tallyrand refused it. She renewe
lv her demand in 1918 when she kne
" Louis XVIII to be favorable disposed
s. her interests: she demanded it again
e the Congress Of Verona. In short, tn
ne interchangeable ambition never reposed VI
IS. til 1881, that is to say, not until it ha
e definitely succeeded. All the minister
wings and tories, have labored for tn
on end with an equal ardor; proof wit
wv out question, that it has been eminent
til an English question, one of the e1emen
lis ofRthat secular policy which has new
se tolerated but with umbrage, the idea oil
CIV commercial or maratime rivalry.
ly We have then reason in saying tn
the convention Of 1881, has opened a ne
ms era. This convention, the result of o
gh first enthusiasm for the English allianc
'ci has been the signal of defeat to tho
60 principles which during two centuri
os- have opposed barrier to the pretensio
nd of Great Britain. From this nome
MS, the position which they took and ma
the tanned in opposition to this indeiatigaI
ar, policy which no refusal has for a n
ing ment discouraged. The general trea
rk, lust concluded now attests the fact
Ink Among the great Powers who have sis
the ed it, there are two, Prussia and Austr
the who lose less than others in this pol
, OF cal change. These Powers having
lem Their colonial possessions nor maritl
the nretensions, sacrifice nothing but dill
'ist- matte precedents and governmental
the ditions, Russia and France lose more
C in The former has establishments in
hes Californias which may be molestet
rch. pursuing the application of the pre-
by sions of the treaty. The latter ent
rom tains upon the coast of Africa, with
nro- L:c- af tho norro raca commercial