The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-18
GREAT BRITAIN IN CENTRAL AMERICA-No.


GREAT BRITAIN IN CENTRAL AMERICANA. 8.
We of those who have censued the senators who
voted for the Clayton-Buwer treaty, made in April of
1850 because we knew what Infinite pains Mr. Clayton
then Secretary of State had taken secure support and
particularly democratic support for that convention
emphatcally his darling scheme His construction of
the treaty far with many who disposed doubt
both its expedency and its justice and il until
nearly years after it made that the true character
of that remarkable agreement broke upon the country
Ikea from uncouded sky Thesuppemental
note between Mr. Clayton and Mr. Crampton and the
in the Senate to the right understanding of the
treaty was in itself lamentabe exhibition but
when finally Mr. Webster and Mr. Everett tried to patch it
up by arrangement the whole affair was calculated
the most painful olicitude Sir Henry Bulwer
the English dipomatist who helped to construct this
treaty. deserved, il he did not get peerage for his
shrewdness and skill Ever since the convention was
agreed upon between the two nations the power of
England in Central America has been increased and
under the cloudy antiquities which mark most of its inn
porant passages the agents of Great Britain do hes
tate do what they would not have dared to under
take did they not feel how completely they had obtained
the advantage of in the Clayton and ulwer treaty One
of the points in which this treaty seemed be obec
onable to the country at the time it perfected consist
I'd in the fact thai absolutely reversed the Monroe doctrine
That doctrine has become necessity to the American peo
pie. Often and long derded by the opposition
Virginia abstraction it has finally grown upon the
only ground upon which we protect the American
nent from the gaspng ambition of European powers The
continued ntgues of Great Britain against progress
and prosperty-our growing interests the Pacific
deep socitude in having uninterrupted and easy
over the various Ishmus crossings that now almost
bring the two great into unisonal conspire
give it the weight of undying obligation. However
may differ as to the exact way of applying it, there is
difference of opinion when we called upon to
surrender it. The Claytonulwer treaty surrenders it de-
liberately According the treaty. the United States
and Great Britain mutually and recprocay pledge their
faith to each other that they will take use hold
ica henceforward and forever What American does
from civil feuds and wasting wars and foreign domino
tion by being added the American Union San Saliva
dor applied for admission only years before Mr. Clay
allowed this treaty to be made Since then kindred
interests have brought Central America and the United
States into close and neighborhood But by the
of this treaty. have allowed ourselves be
rights in Central America and interests except Mcar
the gropA ofMe american republic, not to take hold use
occupy exercise dominion any part of Mexico
henceforth and forever"
To show how this treaty viewed when it pub
ishsd to the American people in 1885, take the follow
ing remarkable extract from article in the Washington
Union of May l6 in that year. The prediction made is
calculated to excite singular feelings with present facts
before
And for what consideration do renounce hcnceforh
and forever the sovereign power of annexng portion
Of Central America to the United States thus opening wide
the door for British influence throughout the whole of that
extensive region Great Britain orsoo has abandoned the
proectorae of the Mosquito Shore and that of the King of
the Mosquitoes This moonshine from the begin
ming The assertion of this claim absurd to have
been rdcued by the London Times the advocate of almost
every British aggression upon the rights of others This
has brought this claim TO general market that she has
sold 1t TO Mr.. Clayton for high price. She
PRINCIPLE AND PRECEDENT
THE UHITED STATES HEREAFTER
TURE BLOOD exp TREASURE"
1t was this extraordinary feature of the treaty--the
making party in regard to American soil Of govern
ment who had neither rights nor neighborhood to fory
her claim and whose whole connection bolstercd by
series of usurpations and wrongs-whch before it
consummated, lei many doubts as to its Justice and
produced many unhappy consequences Strange to say
that those who oamorous against the Executive
because of the destruction of Greytown port in Nicara
qua just as clearly Boston s port in Massachusetts, but
which had been seized by armed British force In le4s
and since occupied in defiance of the reatystranee to
say that while these camor about Captain Hoins and
the affair at Greyown they forget that that very event
was almost the predicted consequence of treaty with
England which they less ready and eager to a
plaud when it was agreed upon.
But this is not party matter 1t should not be discuss
cd MS SUCH We not anxious to make Mr. CLAYTON re-
sponsibe for the results of his treaty enough for us
know that has been misunderstood and outraged that
ID does to be that held in England that under
Is terms England has abandoned her protecorate in
Central America that she has yielded her scandalous
domination San Juan; that she has increased the
Mosquito boundary that she has annexed and coonized
he Bay Of Islands, and that the whole region of Central
America swarm with her creatures busy and bitter with
her intrgues. And without entering lustifca-
ion of the affair of Captain Hollins San Juan it is GER
min that but for that Grem Britain coud hare con-
tnud 10 disregard The treaty she has done for four years
past That she has done it is only necessary TO refer
proof to the instances have given and to the vain
md to clear up the mss under which the treaty has been
generally misunderstood by the American people and so
hamofully disregardcd by the English authorities
Senator Douglas, in his great speech this subject in
March 1881 scries Of uuesf;nps xYb;cL oo,a