The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-05-21

without srbit "a ton and are seriously endangered
by the intrusion Of that cum brous expedent. What
husband and wife, woat father and son, what bro
thsrs, will admit umplre--or will not lose much
By admitting one? Nay, there not many part
ners in mercantile hrrns who will submit their
differences 10 the judgment of stranger. IL the
matters in dispute are tribes, then let them be
settled with agna unity and quiet, 80 as TO make
no scandal. II they great questions, nations
are generally too proud and Independent to be
dictated to IN their highest ASPIRATIONS and their
tenderess sentiments by some cold, unsympa biz.
ing, ADD perhaps jealous foreigner No, great
people Will either spontaneously resist or sponta
neously concede, bat will not be reduced to pupil
age, and placed At the bar of another court tina n
its own high court of conscience. That feeling ia
natural. and will prevail notwithstanding all
schemes of arbitration; il is better to lori e
new letters, which will tainly be broke as coon
the strain is on them"
The Liverpool Chronicle takes a different view Of
the matter, what follows from that journal
Of the 7th instant:
1.-The Peace Society has given during the present
week the hrst practical proof of its skill in carry
ing Gnt The object which its name implies Mr.
Golden, Mr. w Ewart, and number of other
gentlemen, waited upon Lord Clarendon, the For
eign Secretary on Wednesday, with a request the
reasonableness Of which the most pugnacous will
at least &C acknowledge. Ii was TO this effect that
clause should be introduced into certain treaties
now pending between this country and the United
States, stipulating that, ia the event of any die
pute of grave character arising between them,
the point at should be referred to arbitraon,
to remove the chances of hostile collision.
Ii appears that the Senate and the Executive of
the United States Government are quite willing
to have such a clause introduced, provided our
government assent. According TO the showing
of Mr.. Golden, the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tons in the United States, in recent report, re-
commended such stipulation in all treaties which
may be made hereafter with foreign powers; and
when great country like America, whose power
and whose resources indisputable, exhibits
such disposition for peace, the days of appeal
to arms are drawing TO close Had the arbitration
clause here referred to been in existence years
ago, much uneasiness would have been removed
from the minds of statesmen both sides of the
Atlantic. The occaaions have not been unlrequent
when we were on the very verge OF war-wi ness
the disputes connected with the Northeastern
boundary question, the Oregon question, and
recently, the Fishery question. In all such cases,
the dread 10 that toe crisis may be fastened by
circumstances which cannot be foreseen guarded
against, pendlng the existence If the dispute. Hot
blood on both sdes-angry passions, aroused by
self-interest national antipathy-msy cause a
body of men, the citizens or subjects of either
government, to come into collision, and strike
blow offensive to national honor that il
can only be wiped out by war. This has
been ielt 10 be the danger hitherto; and with.
out such stpuation MIR. Golden
suggested, and as the American Government are
willing TO introduce into permanent treaty form,
there is really no telling how another rupture
of similar character may arise. We regret to
see that Lord Clarendon fenced with the question
10 way that the occasion hardly warranted.
When such are the feelings at Washington, why
should they not DC Immediately reciprocated in
London! Our Foreign Secretary, ii appears not
aware OF the existence Of such report the one
presented 10 the American Senate by the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations which may be attributed
TO the fact that he has only recently been called
upon to discharge the duties of his present office
for it is incOnceivabe that the British Ambassador
at Washington would keep his government in ig-
norance Of document of such vast import lance,
not merely to the peace of the two countries but TO
the general happiness OF mankind
Hitherto, we have not viewed " IN much favor
the efforts in which Mr.. Golden mas been en- "a ged
to secure peace at any price; and when we see
the whole European continent oristling with bayo-
nets-when We see immense standing armies kept
up by the great European powers to crush the
least spark Of liberty which their respective
peoples may exhibit, the sight, we confess. has
been sadly atyariance with the pacihc purposes
which MIR. Golden has in view, and showed that
during such policy, we, a neighboring PEG
pie, could not afford to dispense with a healthy
self protection. But, as regards America the case
is altogether different. We are connected with
that country by so many ties of self interest md
consanguinity, our feelings and our sympathies
nearly parallel, that il is for the advantage
of both that prudent restrictions in time of peace
and prosperity should be made against a hasty
ebullltion OF temper, arising out of any subss
quent momentary irritation. If England and the
United States were TO show to the other civilized
powers of the earth the magnanimity arising
from perfect confidence aud self-esteem, the moral
effect of such demonstration could not fail TO be
great, snu Wignt possibly influence the policy
even Of the most despotic governments Ills a
remarkable lact, and one which has been fire.
quentiy dwelt upon, that while the American
army and navy are, as regards numbers and re.
sources, utterly contemplate when compared with
own, yet there is no government on the flce
of the earth more respected and feared abroad
which proves the force Of moral power even when
unsupported by physical appliances This has
been the groundwork of Mr.. Cobden's arguments,
tending TO show the folly Of keeping up the enor-
nous naval and military establishments which
entail upon the people Of this country an outlay
of nearly sixteen millions annually or eighty
millions of dollars, year with another Mr.
Cooden's views have, undeniably, received ga
heavy blow and great discoura CEMENT by the
accession Of Louis Napoleon to the throne Of
France. We inclined to think that his
peace theory would have made much greater
progress but for that circumstance. But with
such a neighbor in immediate proximity TO us
whose antecedents were so p1y questionable and
whose very oath was not To be trusted, the prac-
teal necessity Of acting the defensive more
than match for the best reasoned theory that the
ingenuity of man, however skilled, could advance
But the pacific principle is again in the ASCENDANT
and when the treaty which formed the object Of
MIR. Cobden's visit to the Earl of Clarendon has
great stumbling block to the permanent friend
snip and union Of two mi ghty peoples will, at all
events, have been removed. II will take the sting
out Of all the war orations, from which certain
members OF Congress re in the habit of trying to
evoke political capi.al-orations which are gen
orally most inhamed and inflated when there is
the least TO justify them"