The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-07-05
COM MU NICATIONS.
- For the Una,
SEARCH, W
The InteIIigencer says:

"For many years II had hecn the policy of rr.,..
every means Ia her power, to obtain from the other f
powers treaties which. while they stipulated on tss.
for reciprocal right of search in repression Is
trade yet gave to England exclusive right ,e
practice; inasmuch as England alone, OF the Eufos
.rs had numerous military and commercial marine y
exclusive police Of the ocean, IL only NEEDED ~ ~
should bring the United States within the same ea m
which she had extorted from the PRINCIPAL rua
States. She cndeavored to effect this by negotIaios
failed"
1t is here admitted, thatthe object Of Foo,.,l
to "repress the slave-trade." She doea no, u
the right of search as a neutral, but as a belLa.'
right. She sought to suppress the slave trad y
means Of extending her commerce, by creatins
markets for her manufacturers. She masksS
purposes under preence of philanthropy; bu, n
mask has been detected, and her true n,o,iv,. j
posed. She had a redundant and starving NJ
lion, clamorous for bread; and was compelled =
peal her corn laws, or find new markets f.s
manufactures She sent Lord Ashburton IL NJ.
ngton, who insisted upon the right of searl
cause it was an indispensable means of sust,s'
the British corn laws. What did Mr. Webs,,1
Did he require England to abandon the ron
SEARCH No; but his treaty says: If you viii y
enforce your right of search, we will ourselv.
our own expense, send a fleet to the coast of lsI
who will do more to accomplish your obiec, MI
you could obtain by our granting you the rlsb, Il
search. Your object is to suppress the slayein,
You say that the right of search is necessary IA
complsh that object. If we grant You tha, ~
you must be at the expense of sending a Brssll|
fleet; you must expose British sailors 10 the AL
gers and diseases of that fatal coast; you must ,ns
British gold in defraying the expenses of tina, A..
Now, instead of your employing British AL
numbering British seamen, and spending Brt,l
gold we will send an America feet we will essno1
American sailors, and expend American cold. n
thus do more for you, than you can do for voul
selves. Lord Ashburton said, Yes; but he d,d N
surrender the right Of search. He took our Az
he took our sailors, he took our money; but he nj
his right Of Search to be called into use wbene,1l
the necessities Of England may render il expedsr'
Is il strange that the London Times Lord Az,
burton's organ, or that the National intelligence,
the advocate of British interests, should aud sues
treaty? But, seys the Intelligencer France has HI
lowed the example Of the United States, and ha, n
gotiated to send a feet to Africa, as a substitute h
the right Of SEARCH and this is claimed as a mer'
rious result of the Ashburton treaty; and exuns
from the speeches in the French Chamber !,
given to sustain this claim. The case, as presents
by the Inteligencer, is plausible; but to u.s. !,
pears that the manner in which the quntuple tre.r
was denounced by Mr.. Stevenson, then our minisp
in London, and by General Cass, then our minst
in Paris, made the exercise of the right Of scare
ny Engiish cruisers odlous IN France; and that d
government of France was driven to incur the q,
pense ofsending fleet to Africa, as a means Of gu
citing the public feeling in France on the subject
the right Of search; and that England gladly avais
herself of the opportunity of driving better b,
gain with France, and compelling France to expen
as the United States had done, a large sum for d
purpose of protecting and fostering British ineres
on the coast of Africa. We will recur to the e.
tracts which illustrate this more fully.