Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-10
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The Union, in republishing the: recent
speeches of Messrs. Clingman and Banks
dale, upon the Nebraska question, Incl
dentally pays these gentlemen high COM
pliments. The editor also doubts the
probability Of the rejection of the Gads.
den treaty, arguing, very sensibly, that
there are but few leading points in con-
nection with the treaty which the Presi-
dent regards as of importance. These
points, according to the general outside
understanding, are hardly being contro-
verted, as far as we can learn, in the
current quasi-secret discussion going on
in the Senate. The questions which are
generating all the excitement are under
TODD to grow out of features which par
les are anxious to have Incorporated in
which are of immediate Importance
only TO SPECTATORS. As sent to the
Senate, the Convention was Invested of
every feature on which speculation
could possibly be hinged. In that shape,
it was an administration measure; pro-
posing simply to settle the Mesilla Valley
dispute, to secure valuable right of
way to California with adjacent territory
sufficient to make that right of great i'm
portance to our country. Next: to re-
lieve us of our interminable obligations
under the 1lth article of the treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo, which are to cost
us some fifty millions n the next thirty
years, if not set at rest in some
such manner as that proposed in this
treaty. And lastly, to secure prompt pay
ment of debts honestly due from Mexico
TO citizens Of the United States, without
paying imaginary prospective profits,
and without giving a preference lin the
treaty. to any one claim over another
leaving the claimants, each, to establish
his own rights legally and fully, before
receiving penny.
These praiseworthy objects are all the
points involved in the treaty, as recon-
mend by the President to be ratified.
The Tehuantepec dispute between rival
bands of spectators is an afterc,ap, with
which the President has nothing to do,
and for which the Senate alone viii be
responsible, if they go to grinding axes
in what they may finally do in the mat
ter. CoiamOn sense teaches the prime
necessity for securing the objects sought
to be attained by the President, in the
treaty as sent in. He Is under no re-
sponsibility for what has occurred in
the Senate chamber in the matter. The
Senate must settle that with the country.
If they choose to be pulled and hauled
(between the Sloo folks on one side, and
the Garays ON the other, and to let aboli-
ton jealousy Of the acquisition even of q
valuable right Of free overland commune
cation with our Pacific coast, because it
lies South Of Sc degrees, 80 minutes
North Latitude,) defeat the treaty, why
they must shoulder the responsibility. II
is New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and
the interior country from the shores OF
Lake Superior to the confluence of the
Ohio with the Mississippi which are to
suffer. For every dollar the coast COM
mercial cities may eventually loose for
want Of the right Of way to California
and her ocean wise connections through
the Mesllla Valley, Milwaukee, Cleveland,
Chicago, Syracuse, Pittsburg, &C., trad
ing with those coast cities-are to be indi-
recdy taxed to pay their due proportion
Of the "scot."
The Iateligcneer corrects the Union S
understanding with reference to the re-
cent lecture Of Hiram Ketchum, Esq, on
which that paper commented day or
two since. The orator was Hiram
ketchum, jr., not ST.
The Seminal again argues against the
military supervision of American Nation
al Armories, as movement of dangerous
aristocratic tendency; and also con-
dennis the morbid curiosity of the pub
lie in desiring to know more of the Cut.
ting and Breckenridge affair, than was
made known in the original COMPRESSION.
al explanation Of MIR. Preston. The
Sentinel further urges, the enactment Of
what is known in Washington as the
clerks bill" presenting many interest
mg statistics favorable to this necessary
measure.