New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-04
NEw.YORE. Dec. 81, 1855.


GESrLENEy Your communication of the 2sth has
been received and With every feeling of grateful ac
Acknowledgement | beg to tender my profound thanks
for the very high honor thus conferred upon mean
honor rendered the more distinguished as coming from
a source which imparts additional value to the munit-
cent gift SO iatteriugy bestowed.
To be noticed in this manner by the Chamber Of
Commerce and merchants of New York viii iesurSly
create renewed incentivoo to professional ZEAL Inc
military and civil marine of country are so closely
allied by common honor and common interest
tie one blauch being incomplete without the other
that these acts of generous berey OF the merchants
cannot but tend TO foster mutual confidence and re-
spect.
You truly remark that the Treaty with Japan is an
event which must ultimately lead to momentuous re-
suits. mere beginning ii is true, in the great work
Of bringing mighty empire into the family OF nations
and within the influence of our benign religion,
yet tending consequences that no one can at present
ioretell.
The treaty with its notes of explanation had sup
posed could not be misconstrued. II IL not - COM
..mercal treaty." but of anty and partial inter-
course for trade and this all that 1t was possible
to obtain at frst Precisely such compact as ours,
has been thought worthy Of imitation by three OF the
GREAT Powers Of Iope aud it should b. recoeced that
ito ninth article contains stipulation granting 10 the
United States without any consultation or delay
whatever superior privileges or advantages may Mt
any future time be conceded % any other nation or
nations -
When the treaty was forwarded by me TO our Gov
eminent 10 be submitted by the President if he saw
fit 10 the Senate for ratification, notes accompanied
H. explanatory of my motives and actions on article
9TH wrote a. follows:
Tl. most article. az there can BE- little doubt
that hearing OF the success OF s ms,lon me
F,eh and Russians viii follow example, and may DO
reasonable suppose that each will gain come edditioal al
vantage until commercial treaty accomplished Aruele
nine viii se 90 Americans, without further conssanon' All
these adyAIfageA" -.
The result has proved the correctness of my antici-
pa,ons ~ TO other Powep-Engsnd and Russia have
both followed olr example. The compact of England
A. one Of her officers states says nothing about COM
nerce" while that Of Russia copies ours exactly,
with the single alteration OF the substitution OF the
Port of Nagisack for that Of Napha, in Loo Cioo
France was seeking TO make a similar compact, ana
presume has ere this succeeded. No person ON earth
could by mere friendly negotiation have induced Japan
at the time to make general treaty OF commerce
with any nation ignorant liz Government snd peo-
pie were of the laws which govern inernationai com
mercial relations. g
Aud now gentlemen, let me again thank you Tor
this manifestation Of Your kind consideration. Inc tes
tnonal which you have presented from yourselves
and associates shall be treasured in my amily with
sacred care; and trust that those TO whom u may de-
cend will always preserve grateful renembrance OF
the names of those who have in this contributed
so largely To their parents gratitcation.
With sreatrespect. am, gentlemen,
Your obliged and most obt servt
Near. P PERT NJ II. Grnnell Thomas Tlestcn VIM y.
Aso- Geo Curtis John J. Palmer, John l.. Aspnw al,
". Blunt Committee
Mr.. j. PHmLIrs PH0SIx presented report on the
Coas,ug trade, which, though accepted was taken
| back by the Committee for modification.
Dir. BsRsfow, frvn the Committee on the V-rry