Daily American telegraph., 1852-08-21
equanimity of the Senate read from the
"New Brunswicker," Provincial paper Of the
date of August Sd, 1852:

date of August Sd, 1852:
NEARLY all the American papers VIC have seen
labor under the impression that the lmpe
rial Government is about to enforce the legal con-
struction given to the convention of 1878 by the
Crown officers of England, and prevent Americans
from fishing, except at the distance of three marine
miles outside of lines drawn from headand to head
land have good Authority for asserting that such
is not the case II is quite true that since the opn
ion of the Attorney General and Advocate General
of England given upon the case submitted by
the Legislature of Nova Scotia, the Government OF
that Colony, upon the urgent request of the fisher
men, has evinced desire to carry out the extreme
legal view of that convention; but the Imperial Gov
ernment has steadily refused to take that view of the
case, conceving that American fishermen might prop
ery claim to fish anywhere outside of three miles OF
any part Of the coasts of British North America
within baysm than six miles wide.
"Acting under this impression, the Imperial Gov
ernment has for years sent few soops of war,
other smaller armed vessels to cruise during tho
fishing season along the shores of the Colonies to
prevent foreign vessels from fishing within three miles
of the land But these vessels had each such largo
extent of coast to watch Ovcr that the duty of keep
ing foreign fishermen three miles from the land
indiferontly performed; and the trespasses and
croachments have consequently increased cvcry year,
until they could be borne no longer. The Colonies
found they must take the affair into their own hands,
or else abandon their shore fisheries to the people of
tho United States who by the convention of 1918
nounccd toreUer any liberty heretofore enjoyed or
claimed to take, dry, or fish, in within three
marine miles Of any of the coasts bays creeks, or
harbors of her Majostys dominions in America
1T was owing to these determined movements on
the part of tho Colonies that the Imperial Govern
ment resolved upon giving efficient assistance to pro-
toct tho North American sheries and this assistance
was offered rs neighbors will soon learn acth
the Visp of entorcing Ms rigm legal construction
pipen 10 the convention, but absolutely TO yyeuet tho
Colonial cruisers from, carrying ont Mat Uery
strnetion, freby incnrrtng the risk Of unpleasant
IL.
poioer 1t was to insure the continuance of peace,
and prevent the possibility of hostile encounters that
the Imperial Government has despatched its vessels
to the shores Of North America"
Sir, there was presumption, which it seems
to me we ought to have admitted, that would
have prevailed against the sounding forth Of
these idle alarms For one, want no evidence
that England desires and is determined to
maintain her power wherever she can, and
to fortify and extend it over the world wher
ever she may, consistently with the rights o.
other nations, and perhaps, without very
careful regard, in all instances, to those rights
But, on the other hand, | want no evidence to
satisfy me that England desires peace with the
United States.
The vast commerce of the world is practical.
y divided between these two capital maritime
Powers, and is as yet largely in the hands Of
England. The British nation is mercantile one
We also are mercantile people with whom
England deals largely, and we are agents in
carrying on a large portion of the commerce of
England with other countries. The trade be-
tween the two countries employs 10000 Amer
lean vessels and 5000 British vessels, with an
aggregate tonnage Of three millions Of tons
The comfort and welfare and happiness of the
British nation depends, rs do our own largely
on the preservation Of that commerce. War
between tho two nations would sweep it from
the ocean. The Ministry that should involv,
that nation in war with the United States
would be driven from power by public indig
nation, arising out of universal calamity and
distress.
England is a manufacturer. Her imports in
all her domains are valued by hundreds of mil
lions annually, and her exports are equivalent
She needs raw materials-cotton and wool and
other articles and bread-stuffs and provisions
And to get these, while extending the markets
for her manufactures, she bends all the policy of
her commercial and fiscal systems. We furnish
those indispensable supplies lavishly, and we
consume her fabrics Of iron, cotton flax, wool
silver, gold, everything in preference to man.
ufacturing for ourselves. A war with the
United States would close these relations al
once, and the artisans and laborers of England
would be involved in calamities such as they
have never yet known.
England is a creditor nation. We are debt.
ors to her. Heaven knows how much capital
is not accumulated in England. II is capital
that has been gathered through thousand
years. by a nation of wonderful and world
reaching sagacity, industry, and enterprise.
We employ of that capital all that we can
obtain, for we have need of it all, to bring at
once into sudden development and perfection
vast and perpetually- extending regions which,
for near 5000 years, were, by civilized man,
untrodden and unknown. A large portion OF
our public debt is owned in England. Large
masses Of our State debts are owned there. In
addition to that, our merchants are indebted to
England know not how much; but | have
known the time when the whole public and
private debt of the United States was not less
than S250,000,000. The interest on this debt
constitutes the support of considerable por.
ton of the British community.
England, then, cannot wisely desire, nsr
safely dare, war with the United States
She knows all this, and more that war with
the United States, about these fisheries, would
find the United States able to surround the
British Colonies She would find that the
dream of conquest of those Colonies, which
broke upon us, even in the dawn Of the Revo.
luton, when we rendered them an invitation to
join their fortunes with ours, and followed il
with the sword; that dream, which returned
again in 1912, when we attempted to subjugate
them by force, would como over us again and
that now, when we have matured the strength
to take them, we should find the Provinces
willingly consenting to captivity. war about
these fisheries would be a war which would re
suit either in the independence of the British
Provinces or in their annexation to the United
States. devoutly pray God that that con
summation may come; the sooner the better
but | do not desire it at the cost of war, or o
injustice. am content to wait for the ripenet
fruit which must fall know the wisdom o
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