The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-16

could be suggested by which Great britain ana .ae United
could unite promoting by their joint influence aud
cooperation opening of the great channel OF
municaton by Lake Nicaragua, and declaring 1t common
highway the and benefit of all nations would re
ceiye favorable consideration OF her britannia Ma
jesty's government
Having that Lord Paimerstou, in asserting the
right of the Mosquito Indians 10 be considered IA an indie
nendent nation laid particular the circumstance
that Nicaragua which claimed the sovereign Jurisdiction
over territory had but for very brief period
had possession of portion OF IT, said to him that
without formal discussion of the question: would state
TO him in few words what the doctrine held by the
government the United States upon the subject that upon
continent where Indian tribes were included
within the general jurisdctonal limits OF the different CIVIL
nations European origin which had eoonzed aud set
tied the country relations subng between the aborg
ines European settlers most important branch
of public law had been thoroughly studied and nyes
and soemny settled by the enlightened decisions of
our highest national tribunals upon the authority OF Euro
pean and especially English law and practice that the Span
ard the English, the Dutch and the French who had es
tabhed colonies in different parts OF America were all gov
erned by principle their intercourse and relations
with the Indian tribes by of them had it ever been
held necessary in order vest in them the general terrific
rial sovereignty the Indian tribes within the limits
spectvey appropriated BY them that they should actually
have occupied the territory which these tribes Of abo
rhymes scattered that the ultimate property high
domain of the Indian territory always considered as
in the nations coonzng the country by the mere fact
of discovery settlement anywhere within the limits de-
sared be assumed by them that this principles the
colonial charters executed by the in the time Of James
First and afterwards conveyed immense territories by
parallels of atsude and from sea to sea-
though the time they known to DO occupied almost
entirely by wandering tribes of Indians, and there hardly
white nhabtant in them the same principle had been
acted upon by Britain in various international
by the treaty of Utrecht she obtained from France
OF Acade Nova Scotia by the treaty Of Paris she
power the further cesson of Canada
dependencies and from Spain the Flordas while
part yielded France the vast regions lying west of
the Mssisipphus passing from to another in full do
and sovereignty immense territories which at the time
the actual occupation numerous Indian tribes that
resulted from this long OF universal usage and con-
vcnona practice that actual was Ia no wise neces
say the exercise of rghul sovereignty Indian tor
rtory that though Indian tribes possessed Of some
separate political existence, such a. that
of governing their communities BY their internal laws
also of sustaining the relations of and war, yet
impossible recognise in them complete national indie
pendence as that which claimed for the Mosqui
without subverting the whole fabric Of public law be-
longing peculiar position which had grown with
the general and OF oil the civilized nations
of Europe To these remarks Lord Paterton replied
ing that he fully admitted the general doctrine for Which
tended that the principle lehieh they conducted their
relations ch The Indian tribes Canada out that the
the Mosquitoes geaeris and stood upon its
| culior circumstance.
1t strange that in the face OF such arguments as these
on the subject Of British intervention in Central America
touching indeed the very point most directly at is
sue-the treaty between Mr.. Clayton and Mr.. Bulwer
should have been consummated lat least far as Mr.
Clayton concerned,) and that he, American minis
ter should have failed his duty in the premises in
allowing the point Of the occupation Of San Jua Grey
town. by the British agents. to be postponed in the arrange
ment of the treaty with his shrewd English adversary
Mr. Rives had his attention turned to it by Mr.. Clayton
and Mr. Rves contested the point face to face with Lord
Palmerston But Mr. Clayton appears to have been silent
The miserable and dishonest plea of Lord Palmerston
in regard the right of the Mosquito Indians TO hold their
alleged doinons in the very teeth of the right OF dis
covery by San and against the right OF revolution by
Nicaragua false and fatal as it was in regard to the whole
Mosquito coast became douby false and fatal in regard
/ to San Juan Greytown; for England had formally
acknowledged the latter as belonging to Nicaragua by
more than one of direct and official significance
Hence we assume however The treaty may have
made the United States and England parties in protecting
the neutrality Of the Central American States, that NJ
C2ayon should hare demanded from Great Britain
explicit declaration regard to British uspaioa and out
rage San Juan Greytown IN ls4sths usurlation
curing too directly after the acquisition of California BY
The United States but he failed to do he failed to do
many other things in that most extraordinary convention
San Juan bore relation to the Mosquito argument 1t
had been practically independent Of British intrigues-
though independent in fact than the Mosquito
coast ltSef OF all Spmn
guaor three hundred years. and it was great wrong
that hr Clayton should have insisted upon spe
cifc declaration in regard to it.
i Coming back however to the suspicious entertained in
regard the treaty before it became binding obligation
upon the United States and England it is instructive to
how the apprehensions of leading statesmen have
been realized by the unfortunate results of that treaty
and it would be impossible describe the and in
dgnaton Of those senators Who nearly years after it
had been consummated and who had voted to confirm it
in good faith finally informed that by supplemental
page reading had been given to it. Rarely have we
known to he more deeply and profoundly surprised
and panied. sss
SIr Webster succeeded Mr. Clay ton in the State Depart
neni and became fully conscious of the importance of
settling the question of the occupation and ownership of
San juan and attempted to suggest eevcnil,-hour
PLANTATION Of the shameful bunder Of his predecessor He
/ accordingly limited plan, but it discarded and
bic question. Captain HoIlins finally inform the
curious that the United States had consented and
never would that which less infringe
ment of the treaty than outrage upon the people Of Nj
caagua And rest the second part of the series
Il MISSOURI ELECTION.
1t appears that the democratic party in Missouri has
been efectually defeated We lose that gifted and