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TiIE BRITISH oUTRAGES--SENATOR MAsON's
REPORT


TIE BRITISH oUTRAGES---SENATOR MAsON's
REPORT.
WAsuIHGToS, May 2S.
Mr.. Mason, from til" Senate Committee on For
"iHn l'"aticns r'p"r;. in effect iha, tn" o!licinl
statements show succession of acts of :nrrcs-
sion ',y British cruisers in the Gulf so marked
| and extraordinary to awaken inliuna'inn
t!,"nch"ut the country Vessels pur<,lin" lavvc
| c"In.mcrcc have been intcrroga,rd and fired into
Fifteen eases in ,h" Ilnthor of Sagna la Grand,.
had been officially reported, and each arrival
! brought more. lh. continued pcrscvcrnr char.
ac'"r" "i ih"s" "r'Tagcs Was such as To require lis
I" nrrrs; them at once, and end once aud forever
| such Indgntics. Ih" United States, though Of
Ten invoked, refuses /" recognize The right of po.
| lice on the high seas resting the principle
that til" marine under their flag cannot be visited
ar questioned wthtnt consent and the commit
tee rri;. rated the p:inciI" ,s one almiiiinr 10
! reserve ami qualification, and to bc maintained ut
! ANY cost oi blood and treasure Indignant as
! Ia" American people ar" and ought to he These.
! n:SI"s>'""S, Yet their occurrence will afford
opportunity to end them ;t once and for all time.
| The committee do not recommend further lnuis..I-
iinn, for the reason only that the Trcsidcn: has
| already ordered all the available" naval forces to
the Infested waters, with orders 10 protect our
| flag The subject had been brought Ia the notice
OF the offending power through tho proper chan
nc!s and nothing short of 4 guarantee against the
repetition Of such acts for the future will satisfy
| the American people
| The committee also reported resolutions in
effect, that the visitation OF American ships ut
sea. is an imiraction Of the sovereignty of the
| United States; that these ac"rrssirns demand
such mn"inivoch explanations from Great Bt-
! taim as viii prevent their recurrence; that the
C"mmi!tc: arpr"v" the action of the Executive
and are prepared to recommend such future leg
lsi:'t"n as circumstances may require.
| - -
| DrJ. ILn
N.~s has the following pilhy and pointed para
graph in relation to the recent Of visitation
and srarc:
1t has been suggested in the papers that one
| Of the motives for the visitation aud search of
our merchantmen in the G ulf of Mexico bv Brit
| i>l cruiZrrs. was to check the threatened re-
opening of the slave trade in the United States.
| We cannot admit This solution. 1t implies n
monstrous assumption. 1t would talk for gran, cd
| that ih" Cni:cd States are not competent TO en-
force their own laws. /, places lis on the same
level with imbccilc Spain. Great Britain in.
vadcs the sovereignty Of that country by order
| ing her officers not only to pass her maritime
frontier, but to invade her territory in search Of
| imported negroes. TO admit such an intcrpreta-
ton Of her conduct as regards the United States
! would amount to Il monstrous aggravation of
| that which is wrongful enough without such Il
| construction Of her motives. 1t would he adj
ding insult to our Nationality, besides injury TO
| our citizens indv du,ily
| We imagine that Il sufficient solution Of the
| mystery Of these agurrssios is to be the detem-
| nation TO carry out the English treaty with
Spain for the suppression of the slave trade, per
| ccivIng that she is incompetent or unwilling to
| do so by her own naval forces. But both Spain
| and Great Britain must he held to account lst.
| That the former permits these violations of the
| rights of third parties within her jurisdiction,
| I'd, That the latter commits the infrnciiun not
only within that jurisdiction. but outside of it,
thus arrogatng the Office Of Police of the Seas.
ns if this mission had been conferred by uuiver-
| sal consent.
Tile Much afflicted Sumncr.-Thc Richmond
| Wing charges insincerty upon the persecuted
| Sumner, and believes that he always has been
possu,ning. and will continue to do so up to the
meeting Of the Black Republican Convention, for
| the nomination of Presidential candidate. He
| hopes, by perssting in representing himself as an
| invalid 80 to work upon the synpatEies Of his
| party, rs to induce them to profer him the
| pliment of Il nomination to the Presidency. It's
surely not credible that llr soud be unable TO at.
tend to his duties in the Senate IN consequence
of the slight Gaming he received over two years
ago. The Wing is doubtless cct ir It's belief
Summers health at this lime is about much af.
fected by tho rasping given him in the Senate, rs
is old Greeley's by the thrashing received from
| Rust, of Arkansas a short time previous to the
caning of Sumner: And that old Greely is in
the perfect enjoyment of the "inesiimabe bless
| ing, his active participation in the Free Love
meetings at New York, and his repeated diatribes
against slavery, most individually attest. The
fact is, all those incorrigible ADolltionsls have
strong constitutions and cannot be seriously in
jured by anything in the shape Of Gaming n
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