Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1853-10-13


ls concerned, is the parallel Of that of Gen.
Lopez. 1t was fitted out in the Thames
without interruption lill the last moment.
and though it then fell under the grasp Of
the police, its members succeeded in escap-
ing to Spain, where Tor some time they
found shelter at Gibraltar |, is declared
iu tie last number of the Quarterly Review
60 be notorious, that associations have
been formed at London for the subgersion
OF dynasiies with which England is at
peace; that arms have been purchased and
loans proposed that Central Committees
issue orders from England aud that Messrs.
Mazzlni 81 Kossuth have established aud
preside over boards of regency for the Ro-
man States and Hungary, add for The
promotion &C reveluatvri IN cvery part % ,ire
world" have before me list, purporiing
to be taken from Prussian police Gazette,
OF fifteen associations of Continental rcfu-
gees organized IN London, and now in ac-
ton for the above mentioned purpcses
When these things are considered, the
fact that, in the course of four or five years
two uncomfortable and abortye efforts have
been made from the United States, though
deeply 20 be lamented and siernly to be con-
dcmnod as a violation of municipal aud in
" shocking" as it seems TO be thought by
you. IL docs not IA my judgment, furnish
amy ground for the reproaches which It has
drawn upon the government aud people of
The United States Nor does the remark
90 my letter Of the first of December that a
+ disposition 20 engage Ia such enterprises
would be increased rather than diminished
/ hy our accession to the proposed Conyen-
ton strike me as melancholy avowal,"
as you pronounce it, on the part Of the
President. You forget lhe class from winch
such adyentufcrs are 10 all countries enlist
cd-the Young, the reckless, the misinlorm-
ed. What other effect could be expected
to be produced on this part Of the popula-
ton by beng told that their own govern
ment, IA disregard Of the most obvious ia
erests, as well as OF The most cherished his
toucal traditions bad entered into a COM
pact with iWo foreign powers, to guarantee
the perpeiuitv Of the system under which
Cuba now sufersl Does not Lord How
den, the English Minister at Madrid, make
a very similar ayownl IN his letter of the
39lh Of May last addressed To the Spanish
Minister OF Foreign Affairs, when he says.
" cannot conclude without expressing nay
deep regret. that the course Of Spain is
such, as to produce a general alienation in
the opinions OF the English public, out of
which viii most inftllibiy result state of
feeling 'chich no goUerRmeat can control or
oppose ?"
The idea that A convention like that pro-
8 posed was a measure naturally called for, in
consequence of these lawiess expeditions,
seems to rest upon an entire misconcepiion
Of the present state OF the law IN the United
States, and Of our treaty relations with
SPAN. Our treaties with thar government
aud the laws Of the United States forbid all
such enterprises. The tripariite conyen
ton would have added nothing TO their uu-
lawlulnoss Ii we had been DESTROYS of
multiplying objections, we might well have
complained, that the acts OF very small
number Of rash young men, citizens and
foreigners, should be put forward by two Of
The leading powers Of Europe, as the main
reason Why We should be expected to enter
into a strange compact with those powers,
binding ourselves never 90 make a lawful
aud honorable acquisition Of Cuba. There
is no logical connection between the ideas,
and there Is something bordering upon he
offensive IN their ASSOCIATION.
Consider, too, the recent antecedants of
the powers that invite US to disable ourselves
t. the end of time from the acquisition IN
any way of this natural nppendage TO our
continent. France, wuhin the present GEN.
tury, to say nothing of the acquisition of
Louisiana, has wrested moiety of Europe
from It's native soyereigns has possessed
herself by force Of arms, and at the time
greatly to The discomfort Of England, Of six
hundred miles Of the northern coast of
Africa, with an indefinite extension into the
interior; and has appropriated to herself
one of the most important insular groups of
the Pacific. England, not TO mention her
other numerous recent acquisitions in every
pait Of the globe, has even since your dis
patch of the 10Th of February was written,
annexed half of the Burman empire to her
oycrgrown Indian possessions, on grounds
Iii the statements IN Mr., Cobden's PAM
phlet are 10 be relied upon-compared with
which the reasons assigned By Russia for
invading Turkey are respectable.
The Unlted States do not require TO be
advised Of 1.-The utility OF those rules COR
the observance Of international relations,
which for centuries have been known to
Europe, by The name of the Law OF Ma
tiJus," They are known aud obeyed BY
as under the same venerable name. Ger.
laia circumstances 10 our history have
caused ihem to be studied more generally
and more auxlously here than la EoT0oe.-
From the breaking out Of the Wars of the
French Revolution, TO the yelr 1872, the
United States knew the law Of nations only
as The victims OF us systematic violation by
the general maritime powers Of Europe
? For these violations on the part of England
. prior TO 1874, Indemnihcation was made un-
der the seventh article of jays Treaty
For similar injuries on The part nf France,
p we were compelled TO accep, an illusory set
OF under The Convention of 1900. A few
years only elapsed, before a new warfare
upon our neutral rights was commenced by
the two powers. One hundred millions at
least Of American property were swept
from the seas, under the British orders 10
council aud the F,ench, Berlin aud Milan
DEGREES These orders and DEGREES were
at the time reelprocaiiy declared to be in
eonlrayention of the Law of nations by the
two powers themselves, each speaking of
the measure Of the other party. In 1881,
liler the generation OF the original sufferers
had sunk uuder their ruined fortunes to the
= grave France acknowledged her DEGREES to
haYe been OF that character, by a late and
/ partial measure Of decentralization. For
our enoTmous losses under the British Of
des- IA council, We not only neser received
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