The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-04-01
who have followed in the wake Of the Senator

who have followed in the wake Of the Senator
from Illinois:
"Mr. Polk, in his message to the Senate
when transmitting the treaty which provides
for the protection Of the Panama railroad.
that the province Of Panama shall be neutral
territory, justifics that treaty on the ground
| that It is treaty for commercial purposes
merely, and not a treaty for political
alliance, which he admits would have been
fatal to its confirmation. On the very prin-
ciples laid down by Mr.. Polk in that message.
il is impossible that he could ever have as
senteG to the ratification of Mr.. Hise's treaty.
81 have quoted but a part of the twelfth
urticle. The other provisions of that article
are not only entanglng, but entangled. II I
understand the article at all, it provides that
we shall not support Nicaragua in her wars
of aggression outside of her Just limits; vet
the naval and military forces, and the eniire
means and resources of both the contracting
parties shall be employed 'to put down ali
wars and bloodshed arising therefro rom,' and
to suppress all violations of the peace and in.
terruptions of the neutrality Of the State OF
Nicaragua; that is to say, if Nicaragua should
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bound to fight till we put down the wars and
bloodshed arising from them; and Nicaragua
is to help us to do that; Tor not only our en-
tire means and resources, Chat is, all we have
IN the world, or can possibly get } but all she
has or can procure shall be employed for the
comTon purpose. We are also bound to
suppress all violations Of the peace within
her limits, to effect which we must have Ike ri
an army there. The twelfth article ther
proceeds to declare, 'lor further explanation
it is understood that if the State of Mica
ragua should become involved in fjustl wal
with any foreign power or neighboring Estate
within her own borders, to defend the terri
tories rghtinlly belonging to her, or to re-
cover such territories wrongfully wrested from
her the United States engage to aid and de-
lend Nicaragua in carrying on such war with
in her own rightlu limits Comment upor
this provision of Mr.. Hise's treaty woul,
, seem to be an inexcusablc waste of time.
= "There are other articles in this treaty sur
c iiciently absurd to condemn it, But if hav,
e not already shown enough for that purpose,
e feel that 1t would be useless to refer to an,
J. others. Is there man in this Senate win
o will dare to standup & say he would have vote
h for it! Not one. And If the whole Senat
! had voted for such treaty, it could neve
y have been ratified, either by President Poll
1 or by President Taylor. If the presiden
! had ratified it OH our part, we know it neye
d could have become treaty; for the govern
i ment of Nicaragua, when this treaty wa
J., presented to it by Scnor Selva the commits
: sioner who signed it with Mr.. Hise, utterl
q disapproved it, and refused to ratiry it. o
i this fact all were fully apprizcd by the pub
a llshed letter of Mr.. Carcache, the charp
y d'ailaires accredited to our Government b,
o that of Nicaragua, addressed to the Secretar,
e oil State on the 3lst of December, iS49."
d Mr.. CLAYTON shows that one of the mai,
= objections urged by Judge DOUGLAS to til,
Squier treaty is equally applicable to that he
gotiated in Mr.. PoLK's term with New Grana
l da. Mr.. PoLK's treaty threw the Panam
route "open to all nations on the same terms.
7 The CLAYToN-BuLwER treaty makes tn
"Nicaragua passage free to ali nations on tn,
3 same tcrms;" providing for the neutrality o
3 the territory of all the Central American
, States, liberating them from the dominion o
) Great Britain, and, while recognising th,
$ title OF Guatemala, entering into no allianc,
, III her behalf-W Washington Republic.