New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-04-10

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Documents and Observations
On the Seizure Of the American Steamer Black
Warrior as published in the s'Diario de la
Marina" Translated into English by q. n a.
Bartels
First among the documents comes the Pres
ident's Message, which we have already pub
lished.1
SIch is the official document in which the
President Of the United States speaks to his ma
ton. Hitherto, since General Pezuela is at the
head Of this Government, cur columns have
shown no desire to give place to refutations Of
the calnmnies or absurdities that appear in the
newspapers Of the States of the Union The
press of that country has long forfeited all credit
and repute among men of judgment and sense
all over the world, and accordingly reaps moth
ing more than it deserves. eco and contempt;
but it will not be improper on the part of the
editor OF Spanish newspaper, in this cas- to
rise up against, and argue with rhe President of
those States, when he too comes to lower himself
90 far as to write in the manner we have seen
Spaniards! both you that are SO, and yon that
feel honored by that name Of your fathers and
you foreigners! that are kindly and Hospitality
received and treated by this land you all that
have witnessed what has occurred in the case
of the Black Warrior, know that Custom
house regulation strictly enforced to defeat fraud
on the part of an Anglo American trader is an
insult--an insult offered to that nation and such
one as, according to Mr. Franklin Pierce,
must needs be resented Rnop: that if coun-
try is situated in the neighborhood Of the States
of the Union and becomes necessary to them in
their commercial relations, it would be madness
to expect them to permit aggressions and such a
violation Of their commercial rights as that is
by which that same country exacts rigid con-
formity to hers, or that foreigners should sub
init to the laws of the land that receives them
in her bosom. Know that, if those laws do not
please them, they do not go elsewhere as the
old peace-promoting Franklin would advise them
to do, but they must require theirs to reign in
that country, and if they do not succeed in this
with a nation possessed of honor and pride that
would rather sacrifice her last man, then they
make out that. by such independence of the other
party, they are suffering insults to their ma
tional flag Know ye good men of all countries
and opinions. that this is the language which
now is held from the chair once occupied BY the
apostle OF justice, peace and moderation, by the
philosophic, the honorable Washington! Behold
him initiating, under pretences so insignificant,
war that would for two nations be a bloody
one, and to them more painful as experience
would show. Behold him listening to none but
the trader punished for fraud, in order to vii
lify at his hearts desire and with the utmost
harshness the conduct of our first authority, a
Spanish gentleman whose reputation is every
where and in such a manner established tha
he well deserved the honor of more minute in
vestigation Of his deeds before characterizipp
| them 80 outrageously. Know then, We that are
not on the spot, what they were: for the publ
cation we are going to make of them, with off
cial documents, is directed to those that have
| not like ourselves witnessed the proceedings oi
| this low and trivial business, with which they
would wish to make q noise over all the world
| We also hope they may reach the ears of thu
| President of the United States and make hin
| think differently from what he has hitherto
| done upon the evidence of the erroneous and
| passionate communications from his Consul here
| and from Messrs. Tying & Co.
DOCUMENTS
| telich compose the history Of ,chat has occur
red an the case Of the Bidck U,aryi0r. s.
No. l.l-First communication to the Most
excellent the President of the Couacil of Minis
| ters.-Most excellent Sir: To prevent the ill
| effect which in your Pre- eminenee might be pro-
| duced by perhaps exaggerated news, that may
be communicated through private channels
| about the OBTAINING and abandoning of the
II,
going to give to your Excellency, in my double
character of Captain General and of Superin.
tendent the Royal Treasury. a succinctnarfu.
| ton of what has occurred since the arrival ol
| the said vessel, a relation which will in an au
| thentic manner be eorroborated by the Official
| documents accumulated in the dispatch of the
| case, the testimony of which, as far as they &C
| up to now, accompany, and the same I repe It
also to our representative in Washington as in
nh ,I IL. D.
| On the 28Ih day of last month, that in which
| the steamer Black Warrior arrived in this port
| her consignee repaired to the Cnstom-house
| and requested to enter her in ballast. Next he
presented manifest in harmony with that dec
| laration, that Is to say, q manifest in which
| nothing was expressed or declared except arti-
eles of ships provisions and lastly, he solicited
the clearance of the vessel, reiterating the con-
yiction of the vessels sailing in BALLAST and ii
must here be observed, that when the search
ers visit was paid her, according to article l. Of
the Instruction for the Custom houses, Gus
| TOMS officer delivered to the Captain a list Of
| the regulations and obligations written in Eng
lish) to which, like all others, he must subject
himself, and in spite of which neither he nor the
consignee would add, within the legal term, tc
the fraudulent manifest of which have already
spoken. The head Of the Custom house, before
granting the clearance solicited, ordered the
VI 1lue WALTERS again TO WISH the
ship and make sure of the fact of her carrying
no cargo; but having found on board of her a
great number Of bales of cotton which she was
carrying from Mobile to New York, as he said
her departure was stopped and Judicial proceed
lngs commenced; because, according to article
$50 OF the said Instruction, the Captain had in
Cured the penalties which article l62 points out
The diseharging and aepositing of the cotton
was next, by decree from the.Court of Rents
proceeded to, which the captain wished to op-
pose, finishing with committing the rash act oi
| abandoning and leaving the vessel which he and
all the crew quilted This was the reason why
the Administrator Of Customs, with previous con
sent of mine, in polite terms invited the house q
the consignee to name an agent who might, as
his representative, assist in that operation, and
also to 60 through some other indispensable for
malities in order to leave the steamer dispatched
but this step of pure grace and whose sole object
was to avoid consequences detrimental to the
passengers and that house itself, was not ac-
cepted.
In the meantime the consignee came to me,
clearly confessing the fault, attributing it to
their ignorance and begging ofme the grace of not
exacting higher duties than those paid by any
vessel with cargo entered for transit; but did
not judge it proper to comply with his request,
partly from respect for the law, partly also be-
cause, the cause once judicially commenced, it
was no longer my province to adopt the resolu-
| ton solicited, and above all because, weighing
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