The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-08
HoUsE OF RKPxEsESrATrvEs.
Murrh 4 1aar
Z. EsomAs and others.


From Post
THE PRESIDENTS VETO OF THE SPoLIATIOS BILL
The message OF President Pierce with admirable dear
and harness. dspaies The cloud Of false suggestions
and cossr1cons based garfield documents which have
been conurea up Of forgotten history 70 make
Of The French spoaons Of the last century for claim
speculators in most instances who Of late have gathered
in Washington renew in another form this spoliaon
the American people This spurious fabrication Of pre-
fences for entering the treasury In the Of the
chants asserting csims against France resolves
itself into the assumption that our government surre
dered The claims Of these merchants against France 1900
relieve itself from the obligation Of treaty with
France of IT'S The fall history given in The Presidents
message that the treaty Of IT'S abrogafed two
yess before the pretended surrender Of claims which sur
render assumed have been the consideration for the
release Of the United States from the treaty And then
the message proves by the record that the claims pretended
70 bare been surrendered surrendered
urged in subsequent negotiations and very large
conceded be just By France and payment provided for
them in the treaty OF 1898 and further that France
sumed that any ascertAned by her be valid al
though rejected by the Uned States she would also pro-
vide for them.
Al orr treaties with France were declared void Ia Ire
BY o Congress and the government released from them
O. the express consideration that il the Of
png tbe bostle Of the republic Of France and The
AnHriozn commissioners Ellsworth, Davis and Marray
Who negotiated the convention with France from which
he implication i made thai the United States
eSssd from the obligations Of the treaty BY France in
Urn for The surrender Of merchants clams them
svs declare II many words that the act or Congress
authorizing the reduction 81 French cruisers BY force
~ authorization Of war that the treaties ceased 10
obligatory from the natural state Of things that the
lev Ahrogatng them but exercise Of the constn-
uonal Frerogatirs u declaring war And the commits
soners said that II th he treaties had not under
gone more uulIyng operation than the condition Of
var necessarily imposes See their letter 70 John Mar
shall SECRETARY a STATE.
Il Il not thea hs boaef efrontprv 10 infer that these
commissioners would give Up the claims ogtseiy ca
pW-etzrns 70 Obtain reeass from treaty. declared pulJ
Two years before BY The sovereign war-sapr pousr ~
'ae eo1uuyannllsa too faF the Avopsa ID nose 4, : -
Fring the hostile our ~ which these rlairs VA
asepwhich the commissioners themselves saia -
undergone the nuIliyng operation war necessarily inn
'osea Napoleon notwhstanang he voald n0 admit The
prri-ns0nson which THE cia against France
Geg the wavsd whizh h@d justified the act II Con,
Erss u declaring Al tss Fresch treaties abrorntd ana
7~ing cur ships and capturing French vessels IN rrsa
~ subsequently, ar~ea Indemnify fr All capturrs hir
cSsr Circumstances exempted from the French edcts
which made 10 rsrAzson Of what France considered
aa7ssons 80 ths EnElish and continental coalition
Asnsi Der AMI enrich American merchants 81 TIE a.
sn q France and IA Folstou u Der commercial rights
- Just American who vii dtvsst himself II the feeling
lrh HrariAhly makes take sides 18th bis country
~ = gNarrsl whether right wrung can review The
'@ ~tpseu lsss and 1904 touching relations with
sot = find she down il the aunalE IL Con
-, = that time without seing that however the mass
At people might justly ogsnplain a. being made The
cams q ths EaroPean hgerenis the mass a our rnsr-
'uh bad right complain q The conduct 81 their
clens 70 demand Indemnity from th,7n for loss
Ihs iac stands patent and glaring on every pare
our merchants brought sbe Preach war On our com
- p N siSnos heart snd soul with Eaginud while
NE coalition u al Europe % destroy Frsnce This
-@ass was earrrly sought ~ merchants through
federal representatives from Al the commercial citirs
1hsn obtKined by the secret agsncy o. G0uFernsur
- - enemy q the Preach republic Al The EngIish
- nc imhodiea in treaty framed ~ Lord Grsnvins