The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1857-05-23
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~ ingenio,
extension Of slave
etl SO Insignificant
Tioy. 1t rests viii
EAgland to determine
The solemn enra acfnnnt I'M.

lofY. 1t rests wit
EIgland to determine
the solemn engagement int
tered with Honduras to be ign
station OF the Senate.
iii other words, more plainly, /.
entered into stipnlations with Iiol
guaranteeing tic perpetual abolition o.
iii the islands, and The Central Americ,
lron shall not be settled, unless tb
States consent to join III the guara
state the proposition is to expose its
and inadmissible character.
Great Britain has made o treaty wi
duras which stipuiates that slavery sh
ever (, be excluded the free te
the Bay Islands hat trea'
not undertaken to- YWe'
and intrusive we ri NE II
dlciated it. Engla makes q
with US, in which it becomes EXP
the Independence Of this free terri
be recognized by both Government.
Of material Importance to their relal.
each Other. We assent to the recogl
the fact-tle material point which aE
England aud the Cniled States !;
cline being o thifd party to the
between England and Honduras,
the domestic relations of the new
now, and for all time. We are copte,&
rycogn:ze the independence Of the new
ny, but we refuse to become parties 10 a
protectorate for the perpetual exclusion
slavery. a
Now, it is plain that il is not at all nee
ry, to the solution Of any pf the questions PEND
ing between the United States and Great
Britain in relation to Central America, that
his question Of slavery should be put fnrwar,
u this manner. The policy Of England va
sufficiently effected, for, oil present purposes, b,
The cnml,nc, with Honduras. She had oblaiucl
a stipulation that slavery should never exist,
and this would be obligatory while Honduras
exssls as an independent government. Why
should the Uni. I'd States he asked. or expected.
10 become a third purity to the comincty VIII
should we be called upon to enter into obiig
tons to prevent tic existence Of slavery il, III. I
country. Under any change Of circumstances.
even il it should, in the Course uf events, be-
come Incorporated INTO Territory, annexed to, ar
~ndjacen, 10. the slavehuldihg States Of The
Union The topic has no connection whateres I
with The subject OF u free passage Tor all latiU
across the lslhmus, and The apieasilg Is "
'tvnl indpe, es that are cun,etaaiig
which the British affect to-
lie interest they have in Ger jan az.
fairs. 1t is simply . demand shall in-
tertere, positively and directly, 10 dictate the
internal condition Vt another country, in T
manner to pronounce condemnation upon Ii
institutions aud character Of q great pnrtiont "
our own, and 10 create bitter d.ssensians amor
our own people. The aaimu- is that Of
chief The pretcnsion to dictate these terms ID
us Is iDadnissibse. and the manner, taking the
above extract as . specimen, is insufeIably
pIesumptuous. Lord Palmerston's organ as
sumes, with All air of insoIent superiority, that
!" it rests with the Government oil England to
determine whether it will permit the solemn
engagement which it has entered into WIZ
Honduras to be ignored d. the dictation of the
Sci,ate.'
Is II for Lord Palmerston to decide what We
shall do in the shaping OF our own policy, to
consider whether we shall be allowed to have
any, where he does not approve? Whether
we shalt not be required TO lake his, exactly as
he lays it down. without reserve or discussion j;
whether our Government, in determining its
own course towards Central America, shall he
.%..permitted to ignore the engagements which
England has entered into for the propagation
Of Abolitionism. or be compelled TO become
her ally and confederate. We rather think
that there will be, in the determination Of these
questions. other views than those of Lord Pal.
merston, or the England which he governs
views in this country Of the Government and
the people, which will repel the proposition of
England as %presumptuous iutermeddling, aud
the temper IN which it is made intolerably Of
lensive. This, We believe, will be the Judgment
OF the great body of our countrymen, if it
should appear, as is now all but officially an
" uncsd, that the Central American settlement,
has been lost, solely because the American,
Senate would not comply with its engagements
to participate in British schemes for propaga-
ting abolitionism. 1t is a speedy and Damaging
commentary upon the sincerity Of those hone,ed
expressions of national good will which Lord
Napier lately expressed with so much ~fervency
OF protes,ation aud elegance of diction. TRUE
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