Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1858-12-23
OUR FOREIGN RELATIONS,

The important documents submitted to Con-
gress by the President, says the Baltimore Anseri-
can, cannot but be satisfactory to the country,
however they may disappoint the wishes and
Expectations of that small class of sensationists
who seem never to be happy except when the
public mind is excited by crude fabrications of
the designs of other nations against the policy
and progress of the United States These docu-
ments prove, if the fullest and most explicit de-
clarations of the cabinets of England and Spain
can be relied upon that there is neither the wish
nor intention to interfere in the affairs of this
Continent in any way to which we have the
smallest right to take exception. The Mosquito
protectorate, that long gnawed yet most meat
to be voluntarily abandoned by England; the
Ruatan island, the occupancy of which we have
held to be a violation of the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty, is to be delivered over to Honduras the
explanations and declarations of Capt Aldham
and OF Sir VIM Gore Ouseleys secretary in re-
lation to the boarding of the steamer Washing
ton are so full frank and satisfactory that all
the dlsagreeable features of that proceeding are
obliterated and even should the schooner Susan,
with her runaway filibusters, fall into the hands
of the British cruisers, it is evident that they
would be Immediately delivered to the American
naval authorities, an act which should demand
thanks rather than evoke fault-fnding; whilst
from Spain we have the most unreserved declara-
tons that her efforts against Mexico are only
directed to the safety of the lives and property
of her own citizens resident in that country,
right which is one of the most sacred belonging
to nations, and which we have always claimed
to the fullest degree for ourselves. Indirectly
from France we also have denial of the canard
which reported a joint purpose, inimical towards
the United States, between that power and Eng
land in sending their fleets into the Gulf of Mexi-
CO, and final explosion of the undue conse-
quence attempted to be given to the absurd
Belly contract.
We hope this general refutation of the absurd
stories that have excited the country with anti
cipations of trouble from variety of sources,
and the official explanations which show that
the existing relations between our Government
and those of England, France and Spain are of
the most suspicious character, will have it's effect
in checking the public credulity which has now
been so often taken advantage of to get up
windy, wordy, baseless agitation in connection
with our foreign relations This fippant and
repeated talk of war is not only foolish but dis
graceful, and positively hurtful to the national
character. Such displays of unmanly and irri-
table loneliness must give other people the
worst estimation of our character, and the pro-
clivity to bluster and bravado, to go off into
spasms of belligerent indignation, be generally
taken as indications of conscious weakness that
sees danger and fears conflict where GOODNESS and
prudence would find only an ordinary emergen-
Icy to be overcome by quiet firmness and reli-
ance upon the Justice of its cause.