The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-01-17
MIR. Bancroft.

MIR. Bancroft.
Mr. Bancroft has contributed to render great service to
his country since he went to London He has essential
ly assisted in indicating The rights of country and
promoting its interests in various ways-n Hberating
countrymen confined in Ireland, in equalizng the postal
rates, in efforts TO extend commerce with England
liberal terms, &C., &c. We have already shown the
benefits of the postal convention which he has much
contributed to make. But republish with pleasure
the following additional tribute in its favor from the Bal
timore American:
The York Express says that the postal treaty which
Mr. Banc ro has with Lord Palmerston, and which
the Senate has ratified is very good treaty. and the
gotation OF it quite leather in the American minister's
cap
The treaty be truly reciprocal, and in that
very great i'm provement upon of the treaties
we have had with Great Britain where the whole was
question OF money OF trade. Twenty cents Will
send letter any part of the United States Great
Britain, and two will send newspaper. The British
post office also takes letters newspapers deposited ia
Liverpool, and sends them part of the world the
she sends her own letters and papers. We
also happy that intercourse with the Canadas and
the provinces restored that letters be prepaid in
either country for tho whole route, and thar newspapers
upon the usual OF POSTAGE and with the
usual conveniences.
The most remarkable part of this treaty. however, and
tho which, in the end, rs calculated have the
effect upon mankind, is he opening OF Great Britain
our newspapers and periodicals. We can now supply the
British reading public with American newspapers for
British pennies, whereas their papers five PEN
Mes and although Cannot of course, expect to dmin
ish the value of the British journals yet the power have
to flood Great Britain with American newspapers
price below their power given that will
able be heard by the British reading public and
therefore have much influence upon it, The chea per
style of printing periodicals in this country also is going
have its effect, and give them circulation there,
anon, in respects corresponding with the circulation
their reprints have among
The great beauty Of the treaty is its benevolent and fra
character which considers the United States and
Great Britain Of but family though residing it
in different households Everything is done by that
be done the interchange Of mind and good
feeling well as OF commerce. and trade Great Britain,
with open hand and open heart welcomes ; and
as cheefully welcome her, and give cheap and easy
transmit to her Canadian dominons SIN of war; too
the treaty poby provides that he mail packets of the
offices shall continue their navigation without impeachment
moestation until six weeks notice given by either gov
eminent that the service must be discontinued"
| But under other obligations to Mr.. Bancroft
His literary researches have not been without great
benefit to his country We have instance of this before
u.s. his settling forever the problem about the auhen
ITCHY of the Meckenburg (N CO. declaration of indie
pendence, which was discussed several years ago. Mr.
Jefferson did not believe in the existence OF such docu
men, as appears from the following extract of his letter.
addressed to Mr.. John Adams, in July, 1919:
But what has attracted my peculiar notice, is the paper
from Mcckenburg county, of North Carolina published in
the Essex Register which you kind incloso
your last, Of June the odd And think gen
une believe spurious deem 1t to be very unjust
fable quiz like that OF the volcano, infinitely related
having broken out in North Carolina half dozen
ago. in that part of the country, and perhaps in that
very county of Meckenburg for do remember its pre-
locality ths paper be really taken from the Raleigh
r egister as quoted, | wonder it should have escaped
Richie who culs what good from every paper the
bee from every flower; and the National lnteigencer
which edited by North Caronian and that the fire
should blaze all at in Essex, thousand miles
from where the spark is said have fallen But if really
taken the Raleigh Register, who is the narrator and
the subscribed rea is it as fictitious the paper
itselfl Iappeals original book, which is burnt
Mr. Alexander who is dead to- joint letter from Cas-
well Hughes and Hooper, all dead a copy the
dead Caswel and another sent to Doctor Williamson,
probably Dead whose memory did not ecolec in the his
tory he has of North Carolina, this gigantic step
its county Meckenburg Horny is silent in his his
tory Marion whose of action the country Dor
dering on Mecklenburg. Ramsy, Marshall, Jones' Grar
din Writ historians Of the adjacent States, all silent
When Mr. Henys resolutions, far short of Independence
flew like lightning through every paper and kndled both
sides of the Atlantic, this flaming declaration of the
date the independence of Meckenburg county of North
Carolina absolvng it from the British allegiance and alb
Turing all political connection with that nation, although
Congress, isnever heard Of 1t is known
even twevemonth AFTER when a similar proposition is
first made in that body Armed with this bold example,
would you have addressed imid brethren pcas
of thunder, their tardy fears Would not every advo
of independence have ung the gories OF Mechenburg
county, in North Carolina, in the of the doubling
Dickinson and Others who hung heavily us Yet the
example of independent Meckenburg county, in North
| Carolina, was never once quoted.
! But every doubt is now removed by the following ari
Gle in the Raleigh Standard OF the 10th instant:
| THE MEoKLENBuRe DEcLARArror.-A few days SINCE in
the Senate Mr. Shepard submitted report from the
mtee to whom referred the communication of the
governor in relation colonial and revolutionary his
OF North Carolina accompanied by the folio wing high
ly interesting letter Mr. Bancroft, the American min
London the Hon. David L. Swain, this State
The letter is follows:
| 80 EATON SQUARE, London, 4th July, lS4e.
My hold it of good augury that your letter
OF the 18th OF June reached by the Hermann,
time to be answered this morning.
Yon may be sure that have spared pains discover
in the British State Paper Office, copy of the resolves
the Committee OF Mecklenburg, and with succe
glance ut the will show that in DAYS the
traffic Of that OF North Carolina took souherly direc-
vannah, knew what was going in Charlotte Town
before Governor Martin. The first
binary RESOLVES by the people Charlotte To,cm ckien.
burg county, was sent over to England by Sir James
June 775 The newspaper transmitted is sti pre-
served and Is the number 499 of the South Carolina
and Country Journal, Tuesday June 49, 1878 read
the resolves you muy toe sure, with reverence and imme
discoverer do not send you the copy, dentcaly
the with the paper winch you enclosed but
forward to transcript of the enre letter of Sir James
Wright The newspaper have reached him after
he had finished his despatch for tho paragraph relating