The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-20
HERALD TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 90 5erRIPLE SHEET

promise.
The sending Of Gen. Scott to Puget Sound,
while it indicates a disposition on the part of
our government topursue moderate and pru-
dent course in the difficulty that has risen be-
tween the gallant Harvey and the hot headed
Douglas, should not be taken as an evidence Of
wish to compromise the present dispute with
Great Britain.
That Power has always exhibited grasping
disposition in regard to doubtful territory,
and on every occasion and in every part Of the
world has ever claimed more than it was Justly
entitled to. BY this systematic policy it has
been gamer, bullying the minor Powers into
concessions and obtaining them from the
greater ones by resorting to a compromise. In
the question of the island of San Juan no COM
promise of any kind should be admitted. If
clear and fair examination of the question
should show that we have logical right to the
territory that is in dispute, no consideration Of
policy should be permitted to swerve us from
the maintenance of that right, even to the Bit
ter end. The boundary treaty stipulates that
the line shall run along the forty-ninth parallel
of latitude to ''the middle of the chanael sepa-
rating the continent from Vancouvers island,
thence southerly through said channel and the
Straits of Fuca to the Pacific Ocean," This
language is sufficiently explicit, and an exami-
nation of the locality will easily determine
which is the channel that carries the line south
erly to the Straits of Fuca. Let that be insist
ed on at all hazards. The careful labors of our
Coast Survey establish clearly that the main
channel, both as regards breadth of extent and
depth of water lies west of San Jran, and be-
| tween that island and Vancouver narrow
I, winding passage between the minor islands
| cannot be taken as the channel in the sense
intended in the treaty.
| Since the return of Lord Palmerston to
power the policy that he initiated in ordering
the British cruisers to stop our ships in Ameri-
| can waters, and at our very gates, has been
| again adopted. Secret negotiations in Central
| American direct opposition to both the letter
and the spirit Of the Clayton-Bulwer foily-and
| cunning connivings in Costa RIGA, clearly
indicate the spirit that animates the pre-
sent British Cabinet in American tpes
tons. Every sentiments of national honor,
every impulse of national feeling. tell us that
we must meet this policy in a like spirit. Com
promise will not save us from dishonor, nor
will palliation engender spirit Of justice on
the part of the hereditary haters Of American
progress and influence. This is the position
that the Palmerstonan theory has always held
towards us.
The circumstances of the present time ane
propitious to us in conflict, if it must come
and when it does come, that conflict must never
cease till the last British soldier Is driven from
the American vvu,,nrut, either North Or South
of lis. Canada is already tired Of British rule.
| From Labrador to the lakes, and from the lakes
to the far ocean, it aspires to complete re-
moval of the political barriers that now inter-
cept the currents ofits trade and intercourse with
us and its own industrial Development. Many
! thousands of its citizens long for a political
union with us, and to become part of our great
system of self governed States; others seek for
an Independent organization, with unrestricted
interchange, while few indeed cling with any
sort of ardor to the present hybrid union
with England. In Jamaica the selfish policy of
the imperial rule has produced results far more
disastrous than in Canada. The teachings of
Exeter Hall have brought the negroes to the
eve of a war Of determination against the white
race there, which promises at no distant day to
rouse feeling of deep resentment throughout
this continent against the perfdious rulers who
have fostered the Ubiquitous policy. for the
purpose of striking blow at our social
system.
In Europe the position of England is such
| as to favor us also in contest with her. The
| entente cordiale with France is broken notwith-
standing the sycophantic efforts OF Palmerston
| to preserve it. in order to carry out his aims
| against us. Russia has beemsorely injured by
! Great Britain; Italy and the reform element
there betrayed and outraged; and the minor
Powers have ages of bullying to redress. India
is still terrible sore; and the maritime supre
macy Of England is now among the things that
have been. Her commercial system depends
| upon her recognition of the rights of
others as well as her jealous guard Of her own.
In any attempt to carry out her old policy of
coercion England could not find one friend
upon the Old Continent or the New to join
with her in a fray with us.
If we do not meet this difficulty now as man
ly feeling and our national honor dictate, we
shall have to meet it at later day, and perhaps
under more grave circumstances. Let there be
no compromise, then. Let England learn that
the day is past when she can obtain more than
she is justly entitled to by making enormous
claims and them in spirit Of seeming con-
cession, giving up part only. The mission of
Gen. Scott is one of prudence, but let it not in
augurate the idea of even one atom Of con-
cession.
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