The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-28


p.ease), put their wise heads together and gave
us this treaty of 1850. What has followed?
Ever since the ratification Mr.. Clayton has been
diligently employed in expounding the American
Interpretation of that treaty. He appears to
have been returned to the Senate from Delaware
for no other purpose than to explain that treaty
as the occasion, from time to time, might re-
quire. He has made perhaps twenty, perhaps
thirty speeches upon that treaty They would
fill volume as large, We suspect, as
the two volumes of the Debates in
Convention upon the adoption Of the
constitution of the United States" And
with every call upon the honorable Senator
these internlinable speeches lengthen and
strengthen. They grow with his growth and
strengthen with his strength !" and still we cry
will there never be an end of this? On the other
side the letters of Sir Henry Buwer, the speeches
OF Palmerston, the notes of Clarendon, and Others
are like the ping of Ossa upon Pelion, still con-
tributing to make the confusion worse COMPOUNDED
In one of our Protestant elementary school books
it is stated that when John Rogers was burnt at
The stake, his poor wife was present among
the spectators, "with nine small children
and one at the breast - but it has remained
mooted question to this day whether
the one at the breast was one of the nine
or made the tenth. So with this Clayton
Bulwer trcaty-its provisions respecting coloni-
cation, occupation and fertilization will still
remain debatable question, short of some addi-
tionai codcn explaining its real intentions, or
some act which will abolish it from the recollec-
ton of mankind.
Mr.. Marcy, it now appears, is not to be behind
his Industrious predecessor in diplomatic petit
Jogging. His ambition is to split hairs and chop
logic upon nice distinctions. Eudibras could
scarcely excel him in this. lie is willing to sub
nit certain geographical points to ALTERATION
leaving real troubles in the case untouched and
still open to more serious complications. He has
read, perhaps, all the speeches of Clayton, and
is convinced that the claims Of England
to her pre-existing colonies are abolished
by this e. post .tacto law. But if it were really
intended by the treaty TO GUST Great Britain
from the Mosquito coast aud her logwood dis
tricts Of Honduras Why did not Mr., Clayton
see to it that The wr Of ejectment should not be
misunderstood or cvaded? The simple truth is,
that the juggle Of two diplomatic charlatans
each silly working and shutting to overrcach
tbe other-should have been repudiated in the
Senate The consequences Of the ratification Of
their trckery are before US in the critical extre-
nifty to which the bungling administration Of Mr.
Pierce and the fussy government Of Palmerston
have brought this ridiculous Central American
imtroglD.
We have no expectation that Marcy's instruc-
tons to Mr.. Dallas will result in settlement
Our only hope is that after this Pierce and Marcy
dynasty shall have been driven out Of Washing
ton by new administration Of men acting from
The dictates Of common sense and common ho-
nesty, the way to a satisfactory and pacific ad-
ius.ment will be opened before us. But stu the
work Of smooth and peaceable settlement will
he retarded with the continuance in power Of the
fdgety prejudiced, hectoring and mischievous
government of Palmerston on the other side. The
first oiier in behalf of peace from the American
people is the expulsion OF this Pierce admnstra-
ton. In the same spirit Of happy accord :" the
people IF England should demand the displace
ment Of Palmerston and lis ministry. With this
preliminary movement carried out. bona jfde. on
both sides, there viii be no difficulty in lisposng
Of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty.