The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-03-07

Britain claims her occupation at Belize sstsms,
ueh Yatel speaks Of when he writes Of nation hold
ing territory private individual within the limits Of
another nation Belize never was colony Of Great Brit.
ain II is mere settlement OF British subjects The ten
ure Of Great Britain there in respects like that
tenant 90 lie has not sovereignty dominica ca
that farm, but be has right OF occupancy.
What Is the title claimed by Great Britain in Ruaan
aud the Bay Islsndsf She holds them colony shs
holds them ALL She claims TO exercise dominion there;
claims that they fully under the power be,
Britannia Majesty Is London Not Belize The hon
orabe perfectly right when he said yesterday
that the British Parliament, by two successive sctsOns
passed In 1917 and the other in Extraordinarily disclaime
all dominion sovereignty the part Of Great Britain
over Belize and its dependencies.
"a colony country Ia whieha nation exercises do.
mnion sovereignty cannot become the dependency Of
private settlement the settlement OF nation holding
mere settler. IL absardiy its face and If Great
Britain should up such pretension, II would only dis
grace the lawyer in Doctors Commons who should advise
| or attempt TO sustain IL.
but Mr. Champion, in the letter which has been read
says that he understands the dependencies Of Belize Be-
precisely dependencies which my friend the Attorney
General and legal adviser Of President Taylor in 1850
that able opinion which has been Published in eonneru
with these dispatches, described them TO be- and that's
the small islands situated within marine league, perhaps
or very small distance least, FROM the Of Be-
ize the first Of them called Cayo Caina or ST. Georges
Key and the others called the 'cluster Of small sanda
the triangle mentioned in the fifth article OF that treaty
where the BRUSH might Wben the
drove the inhabitants from the main land, when,
sequence other causes, impossible ret those
| ships n the continent.
ssMr Badger. What treaty describes these islands,
'Mr. Clayton. The treaty which l refer defining
the dependencies Of Belize s the treaty OF London July
H. 1856; and fifth articles of treaty are
those which describe the dependencies Of her Maesys SET
Element at Honduras aad there other small islands
which be considered dependencies Of Belize. In
draughting my reply to Sir Henry L. Buwer, when be
cfeif dane ndancias
those very small islands which may be known to be the de-
tendencies OF Belize"
| Now, this speech made while Mr.. Everett wa,
present in the Senate, for hnd by referring to it that
he answered questions put him by Mr. Clayton during
that speech.
Did he not sit by in silence therefore Thy the editors
-argument) and did he not thereby admit all As2 He ut.
word in defence Of his former errors made
his speech in March previous. That he then understood
the subject when Mr. Clayton had fully explained we
have every to beeTe II he meant to maintain
the face of this conclusive argument his former statement
that the Bay Islands had been for than hundred
years dependency of Belize Why he silent then and
torerer atterP "Ma
Mr. Marcy also proves clearly that it impossible Mr.
Everetts assertion could be He quotes the treaty Of
1885, which excludes Great Britain from the old vceroa
y of Guatemala Central America and "he islands
acent" of which, every knows Ruatsn and the other
Bay Islands were part.
Then again. in referring to the time Mr. Everett madehs
Speech find the resolution referred to by the Intelligence
offered by Mr. Clayton inquiring whether these islands
belonged to Honduras offered by him for the avowd
purpose Of enabling him make his speech in March
1853 At the close of the debate his part be says
it may sleep upon the table, &C. Il quite indifferent
Its fate" Yet 1t is this resolution on which the haG-
gencer relies to show that Mr. Clayton himself had formed
opinion whether Ruatan included in the treaty.
No doub, the negotiations left this question be decided
by the history of the title these islands and their &C.
ogphy This the with the treaty of 1883 and
that of Cheat The limits OF the United States had
settled afterwards by the Ashburton treaty The neeo
of the convention Of 1850 stated when exchanging
ratifcatons that the limits and dependencies Of Central
America he in future adjusted. Thus Mr. Cram
ton explains the in 1855 the boundaries Of COSTA
RIGA and New Granada unsettled. So are those d
Guatemala and Mexico But islands there
be possible doubt that they belong to Honduras
/ of the Central American States.
With regard the assertion OF the Iteiigsncu, that
the canal aud not the liberation of Central America from
British aggression, the chief object Of the negous
tons the proof that Mr. Marcy right in giving prom
lnence TO The latter Is 10 be found IN the hrst letter a
dressed Lord Palmerson by Mr. Lawrence precisely
cording to Mr. Caytons instructions The FIRST the crest
question put by Mr. Lawrence to his ordshp ado you
intend to occupy, COLOMBO forty any part Of Cena
America" The first in reply mo" Then The
question in regard TO the canal followed this The last
question would have been answered by the first the
had been in the Affirmative. The parties fixed site
for the canal Routes for !, had been proposed in many
par Of the shmus and the object Of protecting any and
all routes could not possibly be effected II Great Britain
did not agree to abandon the whole country We repeat
therefore, the 6rst grea, point be settled the neu
trazaon of this country The editor read the inst part
of the treaty and overlooked the last which binds both
parties agree protect all canals and all railroads that
may be made in that region.
But of what possible be for the editors
purposes whether the naturalization OF the isthmus was
the chief object Of the -Smpact1 lie has to cor
fess il object, and that II intended to effect
that That is all need ask.
| We we'll that there are many among Us who
like the editor Of the IieRigenc think the best mode
escaping the caames OF Is make concessions with
great professions Of friendship for Great Britain. The"
men only encourage our antagonists In all controversies
and the most efficient Of all instruments for the puP
of either dsgraeing the nation involving II in the Dor
rors Of war.
| AN ABOLITION FALsEHooD ADOPTED by THE
Ksow-soTHING ORGAN.
few days ago denounced utterly false the as'r'