The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-10-30
THE. WASHINGTON UNION.

States and we were fettered In political intetcourse
with those States by obligations thus incurred TO the gov
eminent of Great Britain By difference OF construc
ton of the terms of the Treaty, Great Britain had pro
gressed In extending her influence, whilst the United
States had felt morally bound TO stand still At the adj
vent of Mr. PeTces administration ii apparent that
the treaty had worked and working reuls in Central
America which would finally destroy the influence OF
the United States and leave Great Britain In possession OF
all save nominal dominion To abrogate the treaty would
not be 10 restore the parties 10 their original position but
TO leave Great Britain in the possession OF all which she had
gained by unfair construction OF the treaty IL would,
therefore, be that hequeston not be dealt with
original proposition In this view of the nego-
tations opened 10 determine the true construction
of the treaty and after long and htess discussion
Mr. Buchanan retired from the mission and his successor
Mr. Dallas, arranged supplemental treaty which, as
amended by the Senate made he thought the best Of
very bad case Great Britain has however, appended
conditions that have been promptly rejected by our
government and the controversy still remains open
Col d. took the occasion to say that he had opposed
the st treaty with all the power he possessed from its
inception to its adoption then he considered IL viola.
ton OF the Monroe doctrine and then as now, he held
that the United States should assume the position oi int
controlling power this continent, and the mother
of American republics should lend her directing and
protecting hand TO guide and sustain the infant steps of
those governments on our continent which should seec'
institutions model whereon TO form their own
IL was time that there should be American policy and
that European interference with American republics
should cease, ....-.
of the United States TO unite with them, and 10y
making common cause to have a common country, 1t
great misuse of language TO denounce those who
accepted that invitation volator of the neutrality OF
the United States Their act of expatriation,
their right to perform which complete under our
theory of government they went not as an army TO
make upon State but volunteers to unite their
fortunes with of the parties to existing With
their subsequent acts i'm Nicaragua government had
proper connection they had voluntarily surrendered
their right to its protection and were exempt IRON re-
sponsbty to it, But when it asserted that, for the
benefit of of the belgerents and against the party
with which the Americans identified, Great Brit
ain cooperating with Costa RIGA to prevent men
and supplies from passing the transit OF Mica
ragua, our government promptly ordered portion
of its navy to the harbors Mt the two ends OF the
transit route prevent such unwarantabe interference
1t by that that Lockridge enabled to en-
ter the San Juan river why he returned 1t was not APP
proprate to this occasion TO inquire BY the measure
the isolated and beeagucred garrison of Rvas were enab
led to leave the country in safety OF the minor details
of those transactions he forbore to speak He always
CURED with pride to the history of counys tefron
al acquisitions by fraud unmarked by violence
they had all been the result of purchase in the case
of Texas Of voluntary annexation the territory
qured from Mexico by treaty of purchase, although
it and much more had been previously conquered. He
could not be expected then to approve OF expeditions
for the conquest of territory and had sought in his
remarks to relieve portion of former telow-ctzens
from that stereotyped accusation.
Did time permit or did their doubts require that he
minsration he felt unqualified confidence that, through
out its whole course both at home and abroad, he should
have little difficulty in sustaining its claims to the credit
of having steadily chung to the constitution and main
tanned the equal rights of the minority section far
the power was possessed BY the direct issues and the
energetic execution of the fugtvesave law by the last
administration and by the wide discussion and thorough
investigation which had followed the legislation OF 1880
the questions involved in the last presidential campaign
had acquired dstinctness and gravity which he had
not equaed If the discussions by the canvass
and through the press had not slenced our enc
mics, they had at least conferred one beneht-they
had relieved of southern apologists who prayed
for liberation to African slavery admitted evil
but one for the introduction Of which
not responsible, and of which could not get rid
admission which not only excused aboltonists, but
which, if true, demanded of every honest man among us
that he should cooperate in all directed efforts for its
abatement That this relation Of labor TO capital had de-
fects he would not deny that it subject to abuse by
the vicious the ignorant and the wayward true; but
co. too, the tender relations of parent and
child of husband and wife, But when he compared it
TO conditions somewhat simaro that of apprentices
and dayaborcrs to the inmates of asylums houses
and penentiares where task masters and policeoceB
take the place of the domestic government of the plan
tatonhe turned from the humiliation and suffering Of
his race when reduced to that low estate to the
comfort and content which the usual lot of African
slaves in country and thankful to the universal prin
ciple of selfnercst which makes the master usually
kind and attentive to the wants of his slave who in the
language of Holy Writ sis his money" he Col d.
Ognlseu In the most
humane relations of labor to capital which perma
nently subsist between them, and the most benccen
form of government that has been applied to those who
morally and intellectually unable to take of
themselves He held that after making all the reduc
tons whce justice and candor required if measured by
the standard of the practicable and real, African slavery
it exists in the United States, u moral social
and political blessing. 1t had transferred the slave
from barbarian to civilized master, had taught him
the useful arts, and shed upon him the divine light of
Christianity The presence of these labores of nfe
rior elevated the white man, and gave social
condition that freedom from humiliatng discrimination
and dependence among individuals of our race
which, where they existed would leave but the of
political equality. &.a. sa
When at the last presidential election the northern
section OF the Union presuming on its numerical strength
nomcated sectional ticket and commenced move
men the of which would have been equivalent 20
the destruction of constitutional Union and of all the
dependent upon it, when the political
temple of fathers beaten by the surgng of IA
natcism rocked from turet to foundation stonen that
hour of anguish and apprehension the eye of the patriot
turned with hope and confidence to the South the cloud
of doubt hung not upon its horizon and nobly did the
southern democracy maintain its character OF the Old
Guard who knew how to die but not to surrender The
party of strict construction of the constitution and of
equality and Independence of the States lost but of
the southern States and il riumphed in enough of the
Others to the election and through democratic
administration to give truce for the next four years
That could hardly be called victory which left
mics upon the field with flag flying, defiant and army
ready for attack whenever an opportunity present
ed. TN
The next occasion for probable collision would be
the application of Kansas to be admitted State into
the Union and this therefore the issue which at this