The Yazoo Democrat., 1853-03-16

and Sartiges, declining to accept the preferred
ri-partite treaty, in order TO guarantee Cuba to
Spain. The comments below will be read with
interest.
From the Times of22d.1
The elaborate and circumstantial dispatch, in
which Mr. Everett justifes the refusal of his gov
ernment to concur in the proposals of France
and England, is perhaps, the very best defence
that could have been made for the policy in ques-
ton. 1t confesses, with unusual candor, the uI-
terror expectations of the American people, re-
fers to what is termed 'the destiny of the Union
in temperate language, and dissects the probable
results of the convention, suggested with what
we must admit to be considerable success. 1t
would be absurd to deny that by the proposed
remuneration the sacrifice of the United States
would be greater and more sensible than that of
the other contracting powers. As it can be af-
frmed with perfect sincerity that neither Great
Britain or France DESIRES or has ever desired the
possession of Cuba, and as this possession, even
if obtained, must certainly be far less productive
either of those States than to the States OF the
Union, it follows, of course, that the two Euro
pean governments would have lost nothing by
American government would have surrendered
whatever prospects it might entertain. We are
quite prepared, also, to acknowledge that, con
sidering the position of Cuba, at the mouth of
that gulf which receives the mighty rivers of the
United States, and the probable development of
so young and so powerful nation, the acquisi-
tion of the island at some time or other might
H.,
ican statesmen.
If Americans had never said either less or more
than Mr. Everett now says for them--if they
had confined their own views to the ordinary
chances of the future and forborne to ascribe
views of different complexion TO Others the
proposals of the tripartite convention could
hardly have been Invested of rmpertinence. But
we learn from their own diplomatic publications
that the Government of Washington has for
some past time been engaged in impressing upon
Spanish Ministers the aggressive intentions OF
other States, and especially of this country, res
pecting the island of Cuba, and in justifying, by
these allegations, its own oficious and importu-
nate proceedings At the same time, the popu-
lar feeling of the Union has been so resolutely
bent upon a forcible anticipation of its .desti-
ny" in this particular, that the Supreme Govern.
ment had some difficulty in preventing, on the
part of its own citizens, an explosion of those
very designs which it was imputlng to Others
Under these circumstances, therefore, the Gov
ernments of France and England were manifest
Iy warranted in taking the American Govern
ment at its word, in discaiming for themselves
all the pretensions ascribed to them. and in ask
ing for such disclaimer in return as would SET
at res; forever a question which the Americans
themselves had been exclusively concerned in
raising Mr.. Everet's refusal. though iustifable
in our opinion. as piece of national policy.
must nevertheless, be conclusive evidence of the
truth of the case. and convince the world of the
real views of the several parties concerned.
The dispatch of the American Minister, how
ever, entered at considerable length. and not
without certain degree of eloquence. into an
historical exposition of American policy and Of
the relations successively assumed bv the expan-
ding Union towards its own neighbors and the
States of the European continent. But, while
this temperate and plausible statement was w.
ing before the Senate. General Cass was commu-
nicating his own views of the tdestinies of
America" and of the policy which in his opin-
ion the Government of the Union was entitled
to pursue and enforce. The Generals ''resou-
ton" proposed to declare that the United States
would not interfere with the existing possessions
of Russia. Great Britain. France. Holland. Por-
tugal. and Spain on American territories-that
it permitted those kingdoms and colonies to
subsist on sufferance; but. that meantime, it alb
solutely forbade any further extension of Euro
pean interests by colonization or settlement on
any of those parts of the globe bounded by the
Atlantic and Pacific between Greenland and
Cape Horn This is really an unexaggerated
statement of the motion which the General SUBJ
mitted to the Senate and which amply vindI-
Gates, we must needs confess, his title to that
"capacious swallow for territory" which he
avowed a few weeks ago. One continent is not
enough for him; he prepares to gorge couple,
and the islands Of the two oceans and the Gulf
will, of course, add but impercepuble morsels
to the meal.
As an exemplifcation of his practical views,
he delivered himself of a severe invective against
the Federal Government, because in treaty re-
Gently concluded between the United States and
Great Britain, respecting mutual remuneration
of certain districts in Central America there had
not been comprised an unconditional surrender
| of the ancient British possession of Honduras.
In the same spirit he might have deplored that
the settlement of the Maine boundary did not
include the forfeiture by this country of New
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