New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1843-03-24
VOL. III. NO. 29e.

his beliefto Mr.. WEBSTER that the treaty viii no,
be ratified by the. French, and complains Of the
ignorance of the true state Of trade be.weenth
two nations which marks The debates in the Cham
bers on their commercial relations, .-.s..=.
VII. Mr.. cAss, May 81, 1912, encloses to Mr..
WEBSTER letter he has received from NJ. Gg1zor.
VIII. NJ. GUlzar, under date of May 26, 1912,
acknowledges the receipt Of the letter of Gen.
CAss of February -, 1912, to which he now
makes reply, which would have been premature
before the letter had received the Official character
given to it by the despatch Of Mr.. WEBSTER. NJ.
GUIzoT says that be mig hit we'll refrain from enter
ing into any explanations of the treaty of Decem-
Der 90 l84, since it was not yet in existence-not
having received the ratification Of the French
King. He is anxious, however, to express fully
the views of the French government upon the sub
iect and he therefore declares e-opinion enter
tanned Of the representation made by Gen. Cas-
that the treaty will involve the United States in
new and unacknowledged obligations:
"The treaty of the Goth December, 1884," he
says, " be its future des,nes what they may is not
founded on another principle than that Of the con-
veLtions of 1881 and 1888. TIE stipulations of
these latter conventions bound France and England
only; the treaty of the Goth December extends
them to Austria, TO Prussia and TO Russia, making
in them certain changes more or less important,
but which did not alter its nature. In order fairly
infer from the very extraordinary intention OF
imposing upon other States the obligation of sub
jectng themselves to it, would be necessary that
this lnteAtion, in no manner indicated in the COM
pact of the Goth December, should result from the
preceding conventions. Weheve never understood
them In such sense; we never could SO have un-
derstood them" ..-.,. ...s-..s.---.
NJ GUIzor adds that the Dispatch of Mr.. WEE
srER convinces him that the Bnited States per.
ccive the possibility Of concluding some arrange
ment with the stipulating powers for the suppress
sion of the slave trade. If they choose, however,
to re main isolated, he trusts that opportunity
for immunity will thereby be afforded to an infa-
NOUS traffic.
TX. On the 29th Of August, 1912, Mr.. WEE.
srER addresses TO Gen. CAss a letter announcing
the conclusion Of treaty between the Governments
of Great Britain and the United States, acopy OF
which he transmits, drawing attention especially
to the stipuations mutually entered into upon the
subject Of the suppression of the trade In African
Slaves. Mr.. WEBSTER informs Gen CAss that he
is thus furnished with the American policy upoa
this subject; /. independent but cordially concur
rent efforts of maritime States to suppress, as far
as possible, the trade on the coast by means OF
competent and welaFpoipted squadrons to watch
the shores and scour the neighboripg seas; ?. con
current becoming remonstrance with all Govern
ments who tolerate within their territories markets
for the purchase of African negroes. He adds
that it will remain for each Government to revise
its own municipal laws in such way, as shall best
protect its stipulations against its own citizens
This dispatch Gen. CAss is authorized to make
known TO the French Government.
x. Immediately upon the receipt of this letter
Gen. CAss. under date of September IL, lS42, &C.
kuowledges the receipt of the intelligence con-
veyed in it, adds that. all apPrehensions OF diff
Guilty having passed away he does not see that's any
nublic iaterest demands his further residence in
Europe, and requests permission from the Presi-
dent TO retire from the mission since he can no
longer be useful there and the state OF his private
affairs requires his presence at home.
XII. The Acting Secretary of State, under date
of Oct Ii, 1912, communicates to Gen. CAss the
permission of the President which he desired, eH-
pressing the Presidents qualification at the good
intelligence he has always maintained with the
French Government, his regret that his own WISHES
should terminate the mission, but yielding to his
desire to devote his attention to his personal ane
private affairs.
XII Under date of October 3, 1912, after pre-
errine his request for permission to return to tie
United States, and before that permission had been
received Gen. CAss addresses TO Mr. WEBSTER a
letter stating that he had laid before Al. Gui-
zpr cepy of his despatch announcing the con-
clusioa of treaty with Great Britain. :" In exc
cutting this duty" he adds, q felt too we'll wha'
was due to my Government and country 10 ihti-
mate asy regret to q foreign Power that some de-
cararion had not preceded the treaty, or some
stipulation accompanied it, by which the eNtraof'
dinary pretension of Great Britain to search our
ships. at all times and in all places, first put fo''n
Inv Lord Paimerston on the 9Th August, l04 |,
and on the 18th October following again peremp,
te,ilv claimed as a right by Lord Aberdeen, wouid
have been abrogated, as equally incompatible win
,he laws Of nations and with the independence OF
,be United States. confined myself, therefore
to simple communications of your letter" But
in addressing his own Government he says toat
reserve ceases. He proceeds therefore to express
HIS qualification at the termination OF our dlicui-
ties with Great Britain, so far as they are tsfms-
mated, He refers then to the British claim OF
search as advanced and upheld by Lords Palmer
s7os and ABERDEEN, to the language OF the Pre-
sident's Message, to his protest addressed to NJ
Gc,zor..,o AIR. WEssTER's approval of that pro-