The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-06-09
LORD PALMERsToN's TREAcHERY

Lord Napier is in terrible state of vexa-
ton and discontinue. He cannot obtain
even the shadow of promise from Mr.. Buch-
anan on which he can hope to inveigle this
government into an alliance either to dis
member a Central American State or help
England to carve new colonies ont of
! China.
Palmerston's plan is to appeal to the
ultra abolition and disunion elements, by
pretending to reject the amendments to
the Marcy Clarendon treaty, solely and
purely because the Senate would not guar
antee the treaty between England and
Honduras, in which the Bay Islands were
to be restored to their rightful owner upon
condition that slavery should never be
established in them. This claim was one
of Palmerston's hypocritical tricks. He
knew the United States never enters into
those entangling guarantees. and was told
so personally long beforehand.
The United States had objected, and does
object to the usurpation by England rob-
bing the Central American States of the
ports on the 1sthmus transits, and has in
sisted on the restitution of these gateways
of American commerce to their American
owners. But although it was little strong
in the robber making any condition with
plundered Honduras in restoring the stolen
Islands, the United States did not interfere
to forbid the treaty the Senate only said
it would not entangle itself in guarantees
with government that had proved itself
so false and faithless as England done in
its bold evasions and shameless violations
of the Clayton-B ulwer Treaty. Even
Senator Seward disdained Palmerston's vile
and transparent trickery in pretending to
ask the United States to guarantee Eng
lands treaty with Honduras. Mason and
Hunter. of Virginia, amazed the Senate bv
defending the Marcy Clarendon Treaty as
MIR. Pierce sent 1t to the Senate but when
it was put TO them by a free State and free
soil Senator whether they acceded to this
principle of entangling offensive and de-
tansive alliances with England, they were
sienced.
The three points on which the treaty was |
amended were:
L. The Senate refused to sanction the |
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of an American State in |
form which implied formal and complete |
surrender of the Monroe doctrine.
=. 1t was objected that there was no real
and dehnitive protection offered to any of I
the lsthmus transits, and instead of remov-
ing it. intensified the worst features of the
odious Clayton Bulwer blunder.
3. 1t objected to grossly unequal and
fatally eptanging alliance, which accepted |
and guaranteed the right of England to
dispose of the ports and territories of the
feeble Central American States without
even consulting their will, their rights. or
their interests. I
The treaty was not cast out of the Sonata
on sectional vote and Palmerston under.
rates the common sense of our citizens. in
he can help his schemes for dis
union of the States by his flimsy anti slavery
pretences.
Lord Napier feels bitterly that his iesu;t;-
cal Premier has over-shot the mark; but
Buchanan and his Cabinet are well satisfied
to see our national policy cleared of This
specializing plot.
James B. Clay, Esq, son of the late
Henry Clay, though a Wing, advocated the
election of James Buchanan in the ra,o,,,
contest. He has received and accepted the !
for Congress, for the Ashland
Distinct asarepresentatiyeofthe Democratic
party.