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the same Information which su scs, shockprs,r

the same information which su ses, shockprs,i
and alarms them now.
But Mr.. President even that communication
was only reteraton of the same information
before given. For on the Sth day of July 1850
the following official exposition appeared ia
the National Intelligencer, together with the
Convention then first officially promulgated:
~A'The British title TO tho Balize, the treaty
does not in any manner recognize: nor does IL
deny'it. OR MEDbLE WITH IT. That settlement
remains in that particular, AS 1T STOOD PREvI-
oUsLy TO THE TREATY"
| Senators who accuse Secretaries of stupidity
| or suppression and fraud, cannot be allowed 10
plead ignorance of official expostions in the
official journals.
Sirthiy and lastly .hall attempt to con-
vince the Senators that they and tho Senate
did understand that the Convention did not in
clude British Honduras when they approved il.
Mr.. King, Of Ala, was Chairman of the
Committee on Foreign relations, and so the
proper medium of communication betweenthe
| sienote and the Secretary of State. The Sen
ator from Michigan tells us that Mr.. King has
stated to him that "Aftor the quasi ratification
came from England on the Goth of June he
had an interview with Mr.. Clayton, who desi-
red to know whether the Treaty ought to be
| sent back TO the Senate for its action on that
| conditional ratification. The only reason OF
sending it back to the Senate was that the SEN
ate might have not understood the Convention
as not including British Honduras, and so
might object to the ratification Oft as thus OK :
planned by the negotiators The correspon-
dcnce between Mr., Clayton and Mr. King tells
the result.
So the proper organ Of the Senate reported
that they perfectly understood that the Conven-
ton did not include British Honduras. The
4 oh tt ,as.-
man; and since they have so broadly assumed
to speak for us all, they will not now deny that
they did not know what we all perfectly un-
derstood.
| Just what Mr. King advised was done by the
Secretary. He took effectual care not TO use
any expression which should seem TO recognize
the right of England to the portion of Elondu-
ras-lhat is TO British Hpnduras-which she
possessed. That right remains just as it was
before Good or bad, it is not made worse or
better by the Treaty. AS toihe Bay ofisIands
| if it was in fact a Dependency of British Hon
duras, on the 4th ofJuly, 1850, then the forma-
ton of Colony there, is not violation of the
Convention. If it was not, then in fact, de-
tendency than that transaction is a violation of
the Treaty. But in either case it has rothing
to do with the present question.
The Senator from Louisiana, (Mr. Downs
in very wantonncss of censure, has supposed
that nots0hly the Senate, but the lfe Presi-
dent. Gen. Taylor, was kept in ignorance OF
the conditions Of ratification, and this upon the
ground. merely, that Gen. Taylor sickened on
the 4tl, and died OH the OH of July. But II G
COMMITTEES on Foreign Relations now appears
to have known these conditions on tho 29ih OF
June. and the President may be presumed TO
have been instructed by the Secretary with a
fact hat was officially communicated to the
Sennte. Whatever else might have been the
errors or misfortunes Of that Administration,
want of mutual confidence between the Secre-
tary Of State and his distinguished Chief was
not one of them. They stood together firmly,
undivided and nsepsrable 10 the last.
Storms of faction from wi hin their own par
ty and from without beset them, and combina-
tions and coalitions in and out of Congress, as
sailed them with degree q violence that no
othor Admnistrati N has ever oncountered.--
But they never yielded and never faltcred for
an instant. Theo went on firmly, and firmly
united together in their great work of consoli-
dating the then newly extended republic, upon
the foundations of universal liberty, and estab-
fishing lis G ntinental power on the founda-
tions of commercial interests and republican
systems. The administration which they con-
Quoted was not beaten down by human hands,
nor human words, nor human votes; but 1T went
down only under Providential visitation that
if it had happened on tho field of Monterey, or
at Buena Visa, would have either forever lost,
or long er postponed the extension of our bor-
doris to the shores of the Pacific ocean. Those
who have profteu by politcsI changes conse-
Iquent on that sad event, may still continue
the censures which, for two years past have
| howled equally around the Sec otary of State
| in lis retiremen, and the veteran President IN
| his grave. Let me, on tho other hand, who
had some htuoble portion of their confidence,
and know tli3k fidelity to each other and to
their country. perfSrm-though it may be a.
lone-the duty of vipdicaiing them against the
cIamors of prejudice and error.
And let me say to the Senator from Louisiana,
and to-the Senator from Ohio,N Nnd to the SEN
atordr6m Michigan, that long as their careers
respectively nbe protracted-eyen as hope
they may to thoen oftheir natural lives-in
ripened age, and devoted as l know they are,
yet, that it will be happy for them and for us
all if even then, they shall have established
claims upon the affection of their country, and
tho gratitude Of mankind, equal to those which
were perfected in the Administration, (broken
off in its seventeenth month"; but connected for
tnat short period by John NJ. Clayton, the ven
erable statesman of Delaware, and presided
over by Zachary Taylor. the Hero who indca-
ted and opened the way of our armies to the
conquest of Mexico.
| C. The Fakir of SYa having given cou-
pie Of entertainments at which he distributed
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