Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1852-1852, 1852-12-10

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lnibition, has been made the subject of serious
to doubt that due respect will be paid by the
government of Her Catholic Majesty to the rep,
reservations which our Minister has been nstruc-
ted to make on the subject.
1t is but justice to the Captain General to add
that bis conduct toward the steamers employed
to carry the mails of the United States to Ha-
vana has, with the exceptions above alluded to-
been marked with kindness and beraty, and
indicates no general purpose Of interfering with
the commercial correspondence and intercourse
between the island and this country.
Early in the present year official notes were
received from the Ministers Of France and Eng
land, inviting the Government Of the United
States to become party with Great Britain and
France to a tripartite Convention, in virtue Of
which the tlrce powers should seyerally and col
lectivey disclaim, now and for the future all in
tenuiou to obtain possession Of the Island of Gu
la, and should bind themselves to diseounte-
nance all attempts to that effect on the part OF
any power or individual whatever. This invita-
ton has been respectfully declined, for reasons
which it would occupy too much space in this
communication to state in detail, but which led
me to think that the proposed measure would
be of doubtful constitutonality, impolitic, and
unavalling. have, however, in common with
several of my predecessors, directed the Ministers
of France and England to I've assured that the
United States entertain no designs against Gu
ba; but that, on the contrary, should regard
its incorporation into the Union at the present
time as fraught with serious peril.
Were this island comparatively destitute of
inhabitants, or occupied by kindred race, l
should regard it, if voluntarily ceded by Spain,
as most desirable acquisition. But, under ex-
isting circumstances, should look upon its in
corporation into our Union as very hazardous
measure 1t would bring into the Confederacy
population of n different national stock, spea-
king a different language, and not likely to har-
monize with the other members. 1t would pro-
bably affect in prejudical manner the industrial
interests of the South; and it might revive
those conflicts of opinion between the different
sections of the couatry, which lately shook the
Union to its CENTRE and which have been so hap
PLY compromised.
The re lection BY the Mexican Congress Of the
Convention which had been concluded between
that Republic and the United States, for the pro-
lection of a transit way across the lsthmus Of
Tehuantepec and of the interests of those citi
ne,r, of the Uuitrtt f,rates who had become pro-
p.ietors of the rights which Mexico had confer
red on one Of her own citizens in regard to that
transit, has thrown serious obstacle in the way
of the attainment of very desirable national
object. I am still willing to hope that the diff
ferences on the subject which exist, or which
may hereafter arise, between the governments,
will be amicably adjusted subject, howev
err, has already engaged the attention of the
Senate of the United States, and requires no
further comment in this communication.
The settlement of the question respecting the
port of San Juan de Nicaragua, and Of the con-
troversy between the republics Of Costa Rica and
Mic ragua in regard to their boundaries, was
considered indispensable to the commencement
of the ship canal between the two oceans, which
was the subject of the Convention between the
United States and Great Britain of the 10th
April, 1850. Accordingly propositio for the
same purpose addressed to the two governments
in that quarter, and to the Mosquito Indians,
was agreed to in April last by the Secretary of
State and the Minister of her Britanc Majesty.
Besides the wish to aid in reconciling the differ
ences of the two republics, engaged in the ne
gotiation from desire to place the great work
of a ship canal between the two oceans under
one Jurisdiction, and to establish the important
port of San Juan de Nicaragua under the gov
ernment of n civilized power. The proposition
in question was assented to by Costa Rica and
the Mosquito Indians. 1t has not proved equal
ly acceptable to Nicaragua, but it is to be hoped
that the further negotiations on the subject which
are in train will be carried on in that spirit of
Cancellation and compromise which ought always
to prevail OIL such occasions, and that they will
lead to a satisfactory result
have the satisfaction to inform you that the
executive government of Venezuela has acknowl-
edged some claims of citizens of the United States
which have for many years past been urged by
our charge d'affaircs at Caracas. 1t is hoped
that the same sense of justice will actuate the
Congress of the Republic in providing the means
for their payment.
The recent revolution in Rucnos Ayres and
the confederatcd States having opened the lros-
pcct of an improved state Of things in that quar-
ter, the governments of Great Britain and France
determined to negotiate with the chief of the
new Confederacy for the free access of their com,
merce to the extensive countries watered by the
tributaries of the La Plata, and they gave a
friendly notice of this purpose to the United
States. that we might if we thought proper pur.