The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-11-26

HaOltS OF abusing, and calling by hard name
: those who were just as good as ourselves, be
cause they differed from us in politics.
We are saved this degradation, and henc
we can say in a grateful and humble spirit
"s"eet are the uses of adversely"
JOINT BRITISH AND AMERICAN COMMISSION
The National lntelligencer, of the 7th instant
contains summary of the proceedings of the
JOINT commission for the settlement of the claim:
OF the citizens and subjects of the United States
and Great Britain, upon each country respect
lively. The commission was provided for a con-
vent1on between the two governments It's iu-
rlsdcuon was TO extend to all claims whatever
presented against either government by citizens
or sub jects of the other, which has remained
unadJ usted since the treaty of peace in 1874
| Their decisions were to be final-the two gov
ernments agreeing to. give full effect to them
and providing that all the claims not presented
should be treated as settled, and no longer ad-
missible
The American commissioner was n. G. Up
ham, of New Hampshire, the British commits
sioner was Edmund Hornby. These had pow
er, IN case Of disagreement, to select an umpire.
They selected Joshua Bates, of the house of
Barring, Brothers & Co., of London.
Before this commission upwards of three hun
dred claims were presented and disposed Of
The aggregate amount, exclusive OF some large
claims, involving great public questions special
" referred to, } about two millions of dol |
lars. The amounts awarded were: to Ameri- /
can claimants $500, 1874 Is, and to British |
claimants S277, 100 88. The number of cases
was rs for British and forty forAmerican claims |
The commission disagreed in about twenty
cases, which were settled by the umpire.
Among the cases thus decided were those
which relate to the Florida territorial bonds
those which relate to the Texas debt and those
which refer to the claim of indemnity for the
slaves of the Creole, which were liberated in
184l by the British authorities of Nassau
In the Florida case, the holders of the bonds
issued by the territory for banking purposes
were presented as valid debt against the Uni
ted States. The commissioners DISAGREED. The
ampire decided that tie United States were not
liable.
The British holders of the Texas debt also
made claim against the United States, on the
ground that the annexation of Texas, and the
absorption of herrrevenues into those of the U.
States, created responsibility on the part of
he United States for the debt of Texas. The
disagreed; the umpire decided ,
hat the United States are not liable.
The Creole case Is one Of great interest to the
southern people. The Creole was bound for ,
New Orleans from the Chesapeake, with slaves. $
II 184l, when the slaves rose in mutinv, kill E
ID the captain and passenger and forced the c
he mate to take the vessel into the harbor of |
Nassau where the authorities proclaimed to the S
egroes that they were free, against the remon- /
frances of the American consul, and refused ,
0 deliver up the murderers, although fully c
lenthed. This case has been long a subject r
t negotiation between the two governments. '
treat Britain maintained that she was not la n
lie. because slavery, being abolished by law, /,
'lthln her possessions, she could not recognise t,
ne state OF slavery there at ALL and that all per- i,
ons, no matter how brought within her bonn n
airy, were free. q
On this, as on all slave question, involving L
he same questions the American and British e
failed to agree. They were all a
.ferred to the umpire, and he decided every /,
ase IN favor OF the American view of the re- ii
of the British government for the b
'rclble liberation of slaves on board of vessels, h
hlch, going from one port in the United States Y
} another, are driven by stress of weather, or D
Their causes. into British ports a
These are just decisions, and will 60 far to o.
title important principles. .~." R
The convention has now completed its task, b.
I'D has closed up finally large mass of de- &c
FRED complaints, which have been subject Of II
intention between the two countries, for more m
ian forty years We begin again with clean Ii
cord IL. O. Pieavnne re