Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1856-01-08
EAE .RREAp1Nt'S aMLSslCE.


provides chat Congress shall assemble al.
pnally on tte frst Monday OF Dssember
and it has been usual, Cor the PsssiJsit y
,isnake ncicommnnication Of public charAc-
ter to chs Senate and House Of Representa-.
!, lives until advised Of their readiness 10 20
ceive Il. ~ have deferred to this usage m.
s.b all the,olese OF the first month OF tie ses
sion.s but my coaviotiohs iofi du:yf will mol
2; -;atpefmit me longerto postpone the disehargs
OF The ebligaiioa- -snj0inea hy -ths consiitll,
x,ssiishpps Me Rresideat. 10 give TO the Con,
gress information Of the s,alc Of the Union
and recommeud to II cir consideration such
tmeasgres q he shall 4 judge necessary and
z 'E its matter * congratulated that the
q Republic j tranquility advancing in . catesI
;, Of prosperity and peace. la,. I" is'N ' y
=, ToREIsSREh&TIeSs--C CENTRAL AMERICA.
Whilst relations Of anity continue to exisl
between the United States and ell foreign
L tta"Towers, with some Of them grave question,
i are depending, Which may require The. con,
Sidef;iticn % Gongfess,, e y'Rs .d.s ia
,tsf9e Cf'sdcli questions, the most importantis is
y "that Which 1ias arisen out Of the pegotia-
~ tiSps with Great Britain id reference 10 Cen
fM .tfal America: 5"'s9s' - Pr 8 e. ~
zen aoBythe consention concluded between the
two governments on the 10th of April 1850.
both parties coyetanted that (" neither, will
y 4 ever" occupy, or fcrtify, or colonize, oF as
n suufe, OF exercise any dominion over Mica
iA's fagua, Costa Riea, the Mosquito coast. OF
sa ahy part'of Central America"
! 'r'' II was the 'undohbted understanding Of
7" ssthe United States, in making this treaty.
',' that all 'ac present States Of the former re-
public of Central America. and the entire
territory o. Zach, would henceforth enjoy
70 complete jndipendenceH and that both con-
/" tracing parties engaged equally, and to the
- taHne extent, for the present aud for the fu-
ture; that if either then had any claim q
~ liieht in Central America, such claim, and
- all occupations OF Authority Under it, we're
-" unreserSedly fe|inquished by the. stipula.
I" lions o. the convention; and that no dcmin.
ion was hereafter 10 be exercised or assumed
in any part Of Central America, BIZ Great
Britain or tile United States ,s',, 49,
This governments consented to restrictions
IN regard to a region Of the country wherein
We had specific aud peculiar interests. only
upon the conviction that the like restrictions
were in the same sense obligatory on Great
Britain. But for this understanding Of the
% force and effect Of the convention, il would
'' never have been concluded by US. e5 !
., So clear was this understanding on the
sa, part Of the United States. that in correspon-
~, dencs cotempofapeous. with, tie, ratification
of the convention. it was, distinctly express
=, I'd. that the mutual covenants of non .occa-
!, patton were not intended 10 apply to- the
-, British establishment at the Balize. This
). qualification is TO be ascribed to the fact.
.,.s that, in virtue Of successive treaties with
previous sovereIghs Of the country Great
Britain had obtained concession Of the
!, right to cut mahogany or dye-woods at the
Balize, but with positive exclusion of MI do
\ main or sovereignty and thus it confirms
the natural construction andunderstood i'm
port Of the treaty as to all the rest of the
-.,s region 70 which. the lslPulations sPplied.
ma 1T, however, became apparent at an early
,.s dsy,alter entering upon the discharge Of my
ma present, functions, that Great Britain still
continued in ,,ths exercise or assertion Of
large authority in that part Of Central Amer.
"A ica commonly called the, Mosquito coast,
:, and covering the entire length Of the State
,.s of Nicaragua; and a part Of Costa Rica /;
that she Arded the Balize as Der absolute
zoe domain, and was gradually extending, its
limits al the expense Of the Stats Of Hon.
a'duras;, and that she, had formally eolonized
-. \ considerable insular group known as tie
vow Bay Islands, and belonging, Of right to
5Gir that fStae,ysd ~, .s,o., ltal sei ..-., T.,
I ag,a All these acts. or pretensions Of Great
o Britain, being contrary tbthe rights Of the
. ,rStato Of CepLraI rAmetica, and to the man
- ifest tenor of her slipulations with the Uni
.n4 ted States, as understood by this govern
Lqs ment hase been made the subject. Of pego-
", station through the American Minister in
ilondon. w Etransmit hercEith the instrue-
1s ltionsao, lim,on the subject. and the cores.
'.spdndenJe between himIand the British, Seq
y =, fetary. for Fdteign Affairs,by which you
a. will pcrctiye thattledwo governments diff
~ .Gerwidely ahdsnreconeiAbly Us to Tie COP
i,fv sRuetioMU Of the co1dntion, and its effect on
'a rth$irsrospsctise relations to iCetttal Amer
"a qica.aa 90 sat ~ uaE 20 s5gs .,.,.ls,
,-,t taGrcas Britain soeonstrues the convention
VI lsas 10 maintain unchanged all her previous
pretcnsions overthe Mosquito coast, and in
difTreut partsof Central America. These
pretcnsions, as to the Mosquito coast, are
~, founded on the assumption Of political cre-
Ia.ions between Great Britain and remnant
Of 4 tribe Of Indians on that coast, entered
into al a; time when the whole country was
"a colonial possession Of Spain It cannot
= .sabe successfully controversial that by the
e pabliclaw Of Europe and America. no pos
ssbie act of such Indians. or their predeces-
Is -ssots could confer on Great Britain any po-
~ iitiealriglts. aauts Rr e'd rt ,jl' VI "a.
laa Great Bitaihldoe not allege the assent
asa. of Spain as the origin Of her claims on the
MOSQUITO coast. She has. on tie contrary,
by repeated and successive treaties, re-
u nounced and reIinquished nillpretensionsio Of
sa4s'l,er own. and recognized the full and'sove.
/ les reieR rights of Spains inrthe most uneduiy.
oca termss Yet these prctensiohs, so with
~ aout sold foundation in The beginning. and
~ .thus lrcpeatedly sbjured, were, at recent
= "A erc,;v cd nv Great Britain a0nihst tlie