The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-30

| papers can brlng two Americ au cases to match
these OF Anglesey and Lemoine, we IM,st main
tain that the best Of the argument reaains on
this side Of the Atlantic
The ANoLoGuATEMALA TREArY-THE BELIZE
BusiNEss.-We print elsewhere an article srom
the Gdceta Ofciai-an official gazette of Guate-
maia-which undertakes to justify the late
treaty between Guatemala and Great Britain
by the terms Of which the latter acquires the
right ofsovereignty over Belize and large
tract of country adjacent on the Bay of Hon.
duras
Among the reasons which the Guatemala
paper assigns as influencing its government to
enter into the negotiations there is one exceed
ingly amusing. 1t appears that it was sacri-
fee on the part Of that disinterested and SYM
pathiziDg government, from which the United
States has received so many proofs of friend
ship and good will, for the purpose of healing
up the differences between US and Great Bri.
tain. In other words, Guatemala surrendered
to England all that in her most grasping mood
she ever laid claim to, and all to which the
United States ever contested her pretensions,
towards the restoration of good understand
ing This is novel way of encouraging the
Intervention of friends, and will, perhaps, in
duce the United States to enter again into
the support of Guatemalan rights against
British or other aggressions We are quite
ready to agree with our astute Central American
contemporary, that Guatemala was not bound
in any direct way to the provisions of our con-
vention of 1850 with Great Britain. As that
convention, in part at least, was made in her
interests, she might have waited for its results;
for even if she never obtained any practical
benefits under it, she could never be put in a
worse position than that to which she has now
surrendered herself voluntarily
The strongest point in the article which we
translate is decidedly that which is supported
by the quotation of one of the additional arti-
cles to the treaty of 1856, negotiated between
Lord Clarendon and Mr. Dallas. That treaty,
fortunately, was not ratified by the Senate of
the United States and may be regarded as
repudiated and disgraced document It's Sc
cond additional article did concede, as Of right
to Great Britain, all to which she ever set up
pretensions, and all that her convention with
Guatemala secures. How Mr. Dallas ever came
to admit such an article is inexplicable. 1t
was in entire opposition to the expressed and
oftrepeated views and instructions of every
administration, as also opposed to the unani-
nous opinions of the statesmen and people of
this country, and was furthermore, without
doubt, an influential reason for the rejection of
his treaty. We have yet to find the authority, in
any document emanatiDg from this govern
ment for the insertion of such an article, and its
admission can only be characterized as blum
der or weakness on the part of the American
negotiator. The Gazette of Guatemala may,
therefore, rest assured, that the treaty of Its
government with Great Britain, surrendering
Belize and its surrounding territories, was
never contemplated by any competent au-
| thority in the United States. The carelessness
or weakness Of the American Minister in Lon
don cannot be taken as ON Interpretation Of the
views of the American government, especially
when we find that his acts were not only in
to tns se R2f IF that
| by the constitutional tribunal to which they
had to be submitted, and the sanction of which
they had to receive, before they could become
| Of the slightest vital force or effect.
tits said that the protest of Mr.. Clark, the Ame-
rican Minister in Guatemala, was made without
instruction or authority; buthewever that may
be, we are sure that it is better exposition of
American sentiment and policy than the article
| in Mr.. Dallas treaty, by which the government
Of Guatemala seeks to justify its shameful sur
render Of its rights to British arrogance and
pretension.
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