The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-12-31
The Lieutenant Gener~Iship.


The Lieutenant GeneraIship.
The following which we find credited to the
Wilmington (Del.) Gasette, Democratic
print, is an acceptable set-off to the nonsenscal
TRADES in which certain other Democratic jour
nails indulge in relation to Mr.. CLEMENs's
proposition, now before the House of Repre-
sentatives:
"We wish the country to repay General Scott
for all his services to the last jot and little. We
are desirous the Republic should be neither un
grateful nor niggardly. II seems to be admitted
that General Scott has performed deal of
labor for the country. from which we have received
glory, renown. and safety.
GAS to the miserable cry about 'Aristocracy,'
which some of Democratic colleagues of the
press raising this ubject. We have no re-
spect for il; not that impugn the motives of
those who express these views, but because we
think il is too idle to be worthy of consideration
No man of observation with half eye on the
country fail to perceive that, whatever may be
the to the facts, there is no tendency to-
wards the forms of aristocracy in this country.
Every day radicalism and progress stride forward
at least ostensbiy. Our fear has been that in the
terrible onslaught made upon the forms of arts
tocracy wherever they remain, the substance may
be overlooked; and we are not sure that the Re-
public is not approaching condition which will
bear some comparison to that Of the gilded age Of
Perices, when in Athens the brotherhood of De-
mocracy failed to protect the rights of the indvi
dual citizen from the assaults Of the corrupt and
wealthy men, who, although they ruled the State
with rod of iron, dared not assume or permit
themselves to be called by anti republican
title"
The course Of the Senate and large portion
Of the Democratic press rescues the party from
the discredit which would follow acquiescence
in the demagogical abuse of the Pennsylvanian
and kindred oracles. With which section will
the House of Representatives have fellowship
The Fisheries and Reciprocity.
The fishing interests of Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick have taken alarm at the ru-
mored intention of the British government to
include the freedom of the colonial fisheries as
an item to be conceded to the United States in
return for the proposed reciprocity. That, they
contend, will more especially benefit Canada,
which has little connexion with the fisheries;
and they demur to the surrender of their ex-
elusive privileges for its advantage. What
formal action Nova Scotia has decided on to
give effect to this view we know not. The
New Brunswick papers, however, report pro-
ceedings of public meeting held at St. John,
at which resolutions were agreed to declaring
that the coast fisheries of the colonies are "the
natural right and property of the inhabitants
thereof" and expressing "deep anxiety and
concern" at the terms in which the matter has
been alluded to by President FILLMORE, and
also by Lord MALMEsBURY, the British Secre-
tary of Foreign Affairs. A committee was
appointed to prepare an address to the Queen
praying that her majesty will be graciousy
pleased to refuse to entertain any proposition from
the United States Government for any inodifica :"
ton alteration of the treaty of 1878, unless such
proposition embraces the full md entire question
Of reciprocal intercourse in commerce and navi
CATION upon terms that will be Just and reasonable
inasmueh as the value of participation in our
fisheries by the citizens of the United States would
greatly exceed any concessions that the United
States G government can offer to the inhabitants Of
the British colonies, and that before any treaty
affecting the fisheries is agreed upon, her majesty
will be gracously pleased to afford her majesty's
loyal and faithful subjects in the provinces an
opportunity of becoming acquainted with the
terms proposed in said treaty, and Of laying their
case at the foot of the throne"
As the subject will probably occupy the at
tention of our Government at no remote period !,
we extract the following from the st. John
IN. B. Chronicle to show the value which
that province places on its rights in the fishe-
ries, and the consequent imProbablty of in
Guiding them-wth its consent-as an equiva
lent for the advantages which the advocates of
reciprocity desire TO extend to the colonists
"With reference to New Brunswick, we may
remind our readers that the Goth Of April, 1850,
nm act was passed by our Legislature entitled AN
act relating to trade between this Province and the
United States OF America which authorized the
Lieutenant Governor with the consent of the Elk
ecutive Council to declare by proclamation what
articles the growth, produce, or manufacture of
| the United States, may be imported into New
Brunswick free of duty. At this period the ques
ton of reciprocity was fully discussed, and the
nature and extent of it were well Understood. After
some little discrepancy of opinion in matters Of
detail, which became m affair of compromise be
fore tho passage Of the BILL appeared to be fiIy
agreed on every hand that ii would be far from
| prudent on our part to hold out any inducement
for reciprocity of dealing with our neighbors be-
yond what fair and mutual reciprocity itself pre-
| sented -.....
"At this period-April, ls5O-the views of our
| people in this matter, and the extent to which
| they willing to go in order to procure
| enlar cement Of trade with neighbors, were
distinctly ascertained. The proposition not
even suggested-indeed II would have been high.
Iy disastcful if it had been that fshery rights
| as secured to us foreuo by the convention OF
| 1878, or any portion of them, should DO thrown
into the SCALE by wav of iuducement TO Jona tha
to close the bargain.
eve sincerely trust, then, that whatever may
be the nature of the negotiations between the I'm
perial and the Unitod States Governments, that
our right Of fishery may not be impaired in the
| slightest degree. Firstly, because the privilege
enjoyed in the fisheries, from their geographical
position, naturally pertains almost exclusively to
the coloniss. and they alone Of her naesty's sub
jects must suffer by their abandonment, and there
fore no imperial general interest can justify this
local sacrifice. Secondly, through their Legisla-
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