The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1853-02-12

ont lne specie as last rs demanded.
TIE CLAYTON AND BrLwER TREATY.
Mr.. Cass and his coad juors, who late
~ made the attack upon this treaty and
upon Mr.. CLAYTON, were most unmsrci-
1ully drubbed at the time in the Senate,
hy Mr.. Prarcr and Mr.. Seward; about
that NO fair man of any party who gave
any attention to the matter as it passed,
had any doubt.
The letter of Mr.. King to Mr.. Clay.
ton, which the latter most fortunately
had preserved, was cIncher on Mr..
tass, (who had put other words in the
mouth Of Mr.. ~ and showed that Clay
ton had fully consulted with the Sem
ate before concluding the treaty.
And at the very time of the late dis
c'Ission, Mir, King addressed the follow
ing statement to Senator P-arcc:
"Col. KING desires Mr.. PEARcE to say
sin the Senate, that it has not been his
'd"sire or intention, in any thing which
II" has been represented as saving, in
relrrenc" to the CLAYTON and Bulwer
treaty, to cast the slightest imputa,ion
ION MIR. ]. NJ. CLAYTON, in reference to
that matter. On the contrary, he tie
'sires to do Mr.. CLAYTON the Justice to
sav that he is convinced that in every
thing connected with that treaty. he
'(Mr. CLAyToN) was actuated by pat
'rintic anxiety TO protect the rights and
'int"rcsts Of his country. Col. King
feels mortified that any thing said by
'him, under a misrepresentation of the
facts of the cas-" should have been made
the basis for unjust reflections en- Mr..
'CLAyToN
notwithstanding all this, The Wash
ington Union-whose article is copied
about IN the face THE facts, here and
there over the country by unprincipled
locoIoco publishers STILL attempts to
stlgmatize Mr.. Clayton and the Wing
Administration on account OF that treaty.
The National Intellgencer of last
Saturday utterly demolishes the Union
on the question. Among other things
it saws
"Whatever Central America is, or
ever Was, is included in the treaty; and
whatever British Honduras is, or ever
was, this treaty does not pretend TO
NEEDLE with it. Mr. Clayton could
have had no EXCUSE or apology for ex-
GLIDING the British from their little set
Element at the Belize, comprising ter
ritorv not larger than the State of Rhode
Island. AR. Folks recognition of the
existence OF a British colony there shut
out all hope OF successful negotiation
on such subject. The avowed reason
for excluding British colony from Cen.
trail America was the danger that it
would control the Nicaragua canal in
the event Of a war. They were there
fore excluded by the treaty from the
territory of Central America, which is
about one thousand miles in length.
But Mr.. Clayton had no more. apology
Or reason for attempting to exclude the
English from British Honduras than
from Jamaica. Indeed, it would have
been quite as easy to negotiate them gu,
of the one as the other. The protec.
ton given 10 the proposed canal by the
operation Of the treaty was all that could
be desired by American capitalists; and
tn" liberation OF Central America from
British dominion ought 10 reflect the
hlshes; honor on the negotiation"
,
E"-The Nashville Banner and Wing
referring to the late attack upon Hon
John NJ. Clayton in the U. S. Senate