Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1856-02-29

commenting inc diplomatic treatment of Fla,
SUBJECT by Mr.. Buchanan, our Minister +,
England, he continues
1t is not now, Mr.. President. n ouos,ior
With us-as it has, indeed, never been a ones.
uph with us-ls to what is the trup cnnstrun.
ion ana meaning OF this treaty, SO far forth
my ntte' US III pertains to the oblirations
u the british Government to withdraw any
NVl'nf' oi settlement, or actual occupaucy
she then mad or now has, from all and evcry
Part oi central America, comprising the Re-
fu'"es Oh Guatemala, Honduras, San SALIVA
roI Nicaragua and Costa RIGA or so far
loI .u us IL pertains to her Obligation not to
exercise any dominion whatever over ANY NOR.
ton Of that territory. The language IF rho
greatly, to this extent, at any rite. seems to
De 700 clear and too plain to he misintrrnr
'e' OF u DC misunderstood. This question il
no longer deoatable one among ourselves. |
/ dlilc"thd mat the mere question Of the c0n-
! Mr" non OF the treaty is no longer to be con-
"a l.tt,t US an open one between w and the
Dfit'sh Government. If apprchcnd Alright
ih' Views ana purposes of our own executive
Government, all discus sion upou ,he consyr,,c
no" "i t'e 'fedty-lnd the relative righis nnd
05hgdt'oHS oil the parties under it's now Ia
be regarded as finally and forever closed, All
that remains, then, Tor the American Govern
neht now, Is to urge and insist that her Ma
lts'y Government shall "duly observe and
keep all the obligations to which her G,itL
and honor are plishted hy this treaty
And | hardly need to say, sir, that tie
dne Observance Of these oil CATIONS Of the
treaty requires Of her Majcstys Goycrnm mt
the inncdiite surrender Of any actual occn-
Fancy, or the exercise of any dominion she
may hlye upon the Mosquito coast, which she
Is now claiming the right to hold, and is now
! exercising under the pretcxt or by virtue of
holding some sort OF inIehniJc aud indelinable
protectorate over its people. 1t also requires
. "i her the discOntlnunnce Of whatever : tile
ments or occupancy she may have in that Sec
| tion Of the country, lying between the Si5oon
and tie Sirstoon rivers, and which she is
now claiming the ght to settle and occupv
a. being a part Of British Honduras or the
! belize, although lying wholly exterior to the
/ limits OF the Belize, us defined hy the treaty
of Great Britain with Old Spain In 1856 and
and renewed with Mexico III 1926. 1t also
requires Of her the immediate and total with
urtwdl OF her colony of the Bay Of Islands"
winch She Is now claiming the right to hold
and to co'on'>e, as being the proper depend
encos Of British Honduras, although wing
more than four hundred miles from the coast
81 the Belize, nd within ii .ht of the coast of
the State Of Honduras, and within thirty
miles o. its principal port town of rruxllo.
After remlrkins that the groun1 OF discus
sloi'' 50 far as any thing previous to the treaty
was concerned, had been gone over by Others.
and therefore he needed not to repeat their
arguments, he continues.
Nor shall stop to discuss SO ridicrIous =
rrc;cnsiun OF the British Minister. as that the
BAY Islands come within the exception Of the
declaration OF the American neroi iatnr nt thn