Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-12-01
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS,

The InteHigencer publishes communi-
cation from some esteemed friend, depre-
eating the rumored terms on which the
proposed fishing grounds treaty is alleged
to have been negotiated. This writer's OBJ
Jectlons are aimed at the feature opening
our coasting trade to colonial vessels. We
have to say, that no treaty without pro-
vision similar to the one objected to by
that gentleman would get even a hand
full of senatorial votes from States not
vitallv interested in the profits of the
coast-carying trade. The country should
at once understand that the Congressional
representatives of nearly all the sections
of the United States which are more in
terested in cheap freights than in great
profits on frelghtlng. are already most
anxious to decrease the rates of coastwise
transportation. They conceive that meas
ure to be the next step forward for this
Government. in the direction of freer trade.
1t also seems to be we'll understood in
political circles here, that the Admins.
tration are anxious to lead the way in
any reasonable attempt to approximate
towards free trade. Under these circum-
stances, we can have no idea that a new
treaty with Great Britain will obtain the
sanction of the Senate, which fails to en-
brace provision thus obnoxious to the
L'tetiigencer's correspondent, of whose
remarks the editor says
% In the subjoined communication an es-
teemed friend takes exception to the salts
faction which We indicated yesterday on COPY
ing the reported settlement by treaty of our
Fishery difficulty with England. Our CORES
pendent does US no more than justice in ascri-
bling our pleasure to the simple fact of an ad-
Justment rather than to the particular terms
Of 1t. These, we, confess, we hardly thought
Of knowing that, besides the fishery right,
they involved questions of navigation and
commercial equivalents with which We profess
not TO be very familiar, and in arranging
which we had no apprehension that We should
be great losers in negotiation conducted by
an able Secretary of State American in his
feelings. and with that salutary sense of Bun
combe which he probably does not more en-
hrely discard than other public men. 1t was,
therefore we repeat, not from any satisfaction
with the particular stipulations of the report
Ell treaty that our pleasure sprang, but simply
from the fact of the adjustment of a national
difficulty, persuaded rs We are that it is good
thing to settle a long-standing and possibly
threatening dispute, whether between nations,
families or individuals, without too miscrly n
regard to equivalents, so there be general
fairness and mutual concession.
The Union is again upon the Cuban
question, quoting Havana correspondent
Of the London Ners, to substantiate its
allegations against the purposes of Britain
IN connection with the future of the
island.
The Sentinel assails the Union with
great spirit, for fighting behind bush,
and stoutly maintains that no amnesty
with the late Free Soil wing of the
part" was involved in the action of the
last Baltimore Convention. The same
paper adopts the sentiments of the Nm.
"0"at i"tsaigsncer upon the subject Of the