Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-01-09
Sunny SiIe, Bledsoe Co., Jan. SO.
The Clayton Ruiwer treaty.


AS it matter Of much interest at this time
TO know precisely what were the terms of the
Clayton Bulwer treaty, we publish below those
articles which refer particularly to the Cen
tral American question:
Article /. The government of the United
States and Great Britain hereby declare that
neither the one nor the other win ever obtain
the said ship canal agreeing that neither will
ever erect or maintain any Notifications COM
manding the same or in the vicinity thereof;
or occupy or fortify, or COLOMBO, or assume, or
exercise any dominion over Nicaragua, Costa
Rca, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Cen
tral America nor will either make use of any
protection which either affords or may afford,
or any alliance which either has or may have,
to or with any state or people, for the purpose
Of erecting or maintaining any such fOrtlica-
tons or Of occupying, terrifying or colonizing
Nicaragua, Cost0 Rica, the Mosquito coast,
or any part of Central America, or of as
Stunning or exercising dominion over the
same; nor will the United States or Great
Britain take advantage of any intimacy, or
use any alliance, connection or influence that
either may posses with any State or Govern
ment throughout whose territory the said
canal may pass, for the purpose of acquiring or
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or subjects OF the one, any rights or advan-
tages in regard TO commerce or navigation
throughout the said canal, which shall not be
offered on the same terms to the citizens or
be subjects of the other.
Art. ., Vessels of the United States or
Great Britain, traversing the said canal, shall,
in ease of war between the contracting parties,
b. exempt from blockade, detention, or cap
ture, by either of the belligerents; and this
provision shall extend to such distance from
the two ends of said canal as it may hereafter
found expedent to establish.
Art. 8. The governments of the United
States and Great Britain having not only de-
sired, in entering into this convention, to ac-
complish particular object, but also to es-
tsblish general principle, they hereby agree
to extend their protection by treaty stipula-
tions to any other practical communications,
whether by canal or railway, across the 18th
mus which connects North aud South Ameri-
ca, and especially to the inter oceanic commu-
nications, should the same prove to be practi-
cal, whether by canal or railway, which are
now proposed TO be established by the way OF
Tehuantepec or Panama. Ia granting, how
ever, their joint protection to any such canals
or railways as are by this article specified, it is
always understood by the United States and
Great Britain that the parties constructing or
owning the same shall impose no other
charges or conditions of traffic thereupon than
than the aforesaid governments shall approve
Of as just and equitable; and that the same
canals or railways, being open to the citizens
aud subjects of the United States and Great
Britain on equal terms, shall also be open on
like terms to the citizens and subjects of every
other State which is willing TO grant thereto
such protection as the United States and Great
Britain engage to afford.