The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-04-17

which il is impossible to say that any lay down
beforehand any positive rule These cannot proceed on
alton as the table before them On the face OF that paper
the Mada~aka was laid down as north and
at the north west angle OF Nova Scotia and then
reaching roxnd, and then says the estern boundary
shalt be the River ST. Johns from its mouth to its source
goes therefore, the idea that the Of the st.
Johns the northwest angle of Nova Scotia or else he
leaves hiatus in his description The fact as stated by
you sir that this deneation of the Madawaska
erroneous 1t is not north and south liver Errors in
the calculation Of the longitude had led to give north
AMI south direction whereas should have northwest
and southeast direction and this carries the map
order conform to the act from forty to fifty miles iur-
Their to the west Now, Of the various questions which
may reasonably suppose to arise in OF that Sort
would be whether in Of mutual mistake Of that
kind, founded mutual misapprehension, this
bound by the Of the river be what might
these questions no longer OF Importance to u.s. SINCE
the whole has been settled but they have their
influence and worthy of consideration in historical
point Of view The conflict Of these maps is undoubted
ly pretty remarkable circumstance The great mass OF
cotemporaneous maps conormable to the claims of
the United States and the remarks read by the President
Paris under Lord - by Mr. Oswald on the part of the
British Government, met with great opposition in the Br
fish Parliament 1t was opposed on the very ground that
il made line of boundary exceedingly inconv enient to
Great Britain" the British Minister said, that it
made the United States masters both of Nova Scotia and
NewBrunswick; and maps we're published exhibiting this
line exactly clameI by the United States. These
maps accompanied the parliamentary papers and debates
incredible that these maps thus making ont case on
which SO much stress lad been laid, against the British
ths N.Y.
word suggest against the accuracy Of these
They defined the treaty end boundary as on the
maps going the ground at all that they exhibited
any presentation Nevertheless it is matter of
historic nctorey that from the time OF the conclusion
of that treaty till day had been impossible to bring
the Governments to any agreement on the matter
That the words OF the reayon the lair and necessary
ways been with the United States very DOUBT if
any intelligent Englishman at this day would be found
sble to show the line any where else-not that it pos
sble to bring the North West angle of Nova Scotia
this side of all the waters that run into the ST.
Johns-I suppose man hardly would undertake
to maintain seriously such proposition as that
but the argument always has been that which was sue
cessfuy pressed upon the King Of Holland that there
was a difficulty in ascertainng the meaning of these
words and that difficulty led his Majesty, as difficulties
of similar character other lead referees ar
bitrators into the notion of splitting the difference"
compromising the claim-and drawing line between
that claimed by us the one hand and that claimed by
the British the other. The English gov
ernment therefore, has always proceeded less the
terms of the treaty themselves than those external
considerations and especially upon that relative
the great Inconvenience Of such line of demarca alton
and founded upon that natural result another infer
ence, the high impossibty that England would have
agreed to fundamentally, not through necessity
which separated her own provinces from one another
and made the communication between them dependent
the will and pleasure OF foreign power The treaty
OF Washington and the negotiations which preceded it,
entered into in spirit OF compromise and settle
men When the present adminstr into power
determined that arbitration conducted with the
diligence ability and learning the part ofhe
United States had failed and that the matter like
ly at all events to terminate in compromise, might be
quite wise for the parties to attempt to compromise
themselves, such considerations they might
adopt-rather wiser this, indeed, you must
ly admit, than to it to the consideration
of a third power. (Great spplause) up
that principle and in that spirit, that the
gocations of 1912 entered into. II altogether
that amicabe and rational spirit in which neghbor
says another according TO the scripture Let agree
with adversary while he is yet the wav" Or
might suppose two landed proprietors would have
DONE whose contiguous estates had project
ing corners-irregusr lines, producing in
the Of plantations and farms These things
in private life adjusted not the principle that one
shall get all he and grant nothing yield every
thing and get nothing but the principle that the ar
cement shall he for the mutual convenience and al.
vantage of both parties the be made fair ard
equal and honorable TO both Grest appisuse Ibeieve
or at least trust with great humility that the judgmen.
Of the country will ultimately be that the In
this case was not Objectionable one Applause) III
the first place am willing to maintain every where tina
in regard to the States OF and Name they
are better off this dsy than il Lord Ashburon had not
sgnei the treaty and gone back to London with ques
ton still unsettled They get by the ope ming OF the
navigation OF the rivers and by the other benefits obtain
ed through the treaty than all the territory is worth
north OF the ST. Johns according to any estimate any
gentleman has yet been pleased to make And as TO tb"
United States, IL trust the highet military
Judgment in the country-f can trust the gepera'
sense of intelligent persons acquainted with the
we can trust common sense IN looking " tue