Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (City of Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1853-1857, 1856-01-29

ilege for which tribute may be imposed upon
Those who have occasion 70 use 1t.
ga This government, on former occasion
not unlike the present, signaized It's deter
mination TO m ,intSin the freedom of the
seas, and Of 4 he great natural channels OF
The lBarnary States and, for
long time, coerced the payment of tribute
from all nations, whose ships frequeated the
Medlerranean. TO the last demand Of such
payment made by them, the United States,
although suffering less by their depredations
than many other nations returned the exp!i-
cit answer, that we preferred war to tribute,
ant thus opened the way TO the relietof the
commerce Of the world from an ignominious
tax, so lang submitted to by the more pew
erul nations Of Europe.
Ii the manner of the payment of the Sound
dues differ from that oil the tribute formerly
conceded TO the Barbary States, still their ex-
actionby Denmark has no better foundation
in right. Each was in its origin, nothing
but a tax on a common natural right, extort-
ed by those, who were at that time able to
obstruct the free and secure enjoyment of it,
but who DO longer possess that power.
Denmark, While resisting our assertion of
the freedom Vt the Baltic Sound and Belts,
has indicated readiness to make some new
peut ~ tho subject, and has invited
the governments interested, including the
United States, to be represented in conven-
ton to assemble for the purpose Of receiving
and considering u proposition, which she
intends to submit, for the capitalization of
the Sound dues, and the distribution OF the
sum TO be paid as Communication among the
governments, according t. the respective
proportions Of their maritime commerce to
and from the Baltic. have declined in be
hals of the United States to accept this invi-
tatipn for the most cogent reasons. One is,
that Denmark does not offer to submit To the
convention the question of her right 20 levy
the sound dues. 4 second Is, that, If the
convention were allowed to take coguizance
of that particular question:, still il would not
be competent TO deal with the great lnterna-
tonal principle involved whirh affects the
right in other csses Of navigation ard com
mercial freedom, as we'll as thae of access t.
the Baltic. Above all, by the express terms
Of the proposition it Is con;emi plated, that
/ tho consideration Of the sound dues shall be
commingled with, and made subordinate 10,
matter wholly extraneous, the balance Of
power among the governments of Europe.
While, however, rejecting this proposition,
and insisting Oh the right Of free transit into
and frnm The Baltic, have expressed to
Denmark Willingness on the part of the
! United States, TO share literally With other
powers IN compromising her for any adyaRta-
4 yes. which commerce shall hereafter derive
/ from expenditures made by her for the i'm
provement and safety of the navigation of
the Sound or Belts.
| lay before YOU, herewith, sundry docu-
ments on the subject in which my views are
NOR fully disclosed. Should no satisfactory
A rran cement be soon concluded shall again
"a Il yolr attention TO the subject, with rec
onll media 1ton Of such measures as may ap'
pear to be required in order to assert and
secure the rights of the of th3 Unitei States
80 far - thsy are affected by the preten-
ions of d ,nmark'
FRANCE
annouprA with much a,ifcati ion that since
he odiournme t Of The last Congress, the ques-
ii. vi then sSisti. efweeh thiS government ans
~, of France. r. spec:tng the French consul Al
San Francisco, ha been satisfactorily deter
80 and that the citations Of the two govern
,n.nts continues 10 b, Of the most friendly na-
ture.
GREECE
A oues.iou, also, vhich h IS been pending toT
several veA~s between tAe U. D ana the Ming
dom of Grease, growing ont T. Tue >eq 't''Fa
TN hv n1blic 4thorities of ia 1t county, oi
n,on-riv belonging the present American con
sut Al A hens, art W. aIch AL been Ih,' SUP CO. "
80 earnest llscu4;lou heretofore, has recently
hscn settled to the eats faction Of the arty III
terested and both goVrTnL 'ehts.
SPAIN.
,,...l ..l,t 1Dns orc ma l.
tanned, and some progress has been made m Sc
curing the redress of wrongs CO -uplained of by
this government Spain has not 'nly dsayow-
ed and disapproyed OF the conduct o. The officers
who illegally ssized and detained l. steamer
Black Warrior at HAVANA, bat has flso paid
the sum claimed is indemnity for tn los there
by inflicted on certain citizens of the u.
In consequence Of destructive hlrric me,
which visited Cuba in 1874, The supreme u
tAo.lty of that Island issued decree, permttiL.
the importation, for the period OF SIX months,
of certain building materials aud provisions
free OF duty. bat revoke il when about half the
period only had expired, to the inslry of the L.
S, who had proceeded To act on the fate of that
decree. The Spanish government refused in
Identification TO the parties agyrieved until re-
Gently. when it was assented to, payment being
promised to be made soon as the amount Can
be ascertained.
Satisfaction claimed for the arrest and search
of the steamer FL Dorsdo has not yet been ac
corded but there is no reason to belieye that it
will be, and that caN, wi h Others continues to
be urged on the attention Of the Spanish gov
ernmcut, do not abandon the hope of conclu-
ding with Spain some general arrangement,
which. il il do not wholly prevent the recur-
reacs Of titficults, in Cnba, will render them
less frequent. and whenever they shall occur ia
cilitate their more speedy settlement.
The intcrposition of this government has been
invoked BY many of its citizens, on account of
injuries done their persons and property, for
which the Mexican republic is responsible.
The unhappy situation of that country, for some
time past, has not allowed its government to
give due con liberation to claims OF private re-
paration and has appeared to call for, aud justify
some furbearance III such matters Oh the part of
this government. But the revolutionary move
nents, which have lately occurred in that re-
public, end in the organization of staple gov
eminent, urgent appeals to Ia, justice will then
ha n, 1dv and NAV be h0oed with Succession the