The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1862-12-09
TIE coAs. BLOCKADE.

"A blockade OF 5000 miles ui sea coast could
not bc established and vigorously enforced in
season of great commercial activity like The
present without committing occ sl'nal mis-.
takes, and inflicting unintentiona injuries up
on foreign nations and their subjects. A civil
war, occurring IN country where foreigners
reside and cary on a trade under treaty st'p
ulations, is necessarily fruitful source of com
plants Of the olstitns of neutral rights
All such collisions tend to excite tnisapprchen
sions aud possibly TO produce national recla-
matiens between nations which have a com
mon interest in preserving peace aud friend
ship.
In Gear cases of these kinds, | have so far
as possible, heard and redresscd complaints
which have been preferred 10y friendly powers.
There il, however, a large and augmcning
number Of doubtful eases upon which the Gov
ermcnt is unable TO agree with tho Govern
ment whose protection is demanded by the
claimants. There are, moreover, many eases
in which the Unitcd States or their citiz rs
suffer rongs lr m naval or military authori.
tics of foreign nations, which The government
Of these States are not prepared to redress.
AN INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION.
have propos d to some Of the foreign
States thus Interested, mutual conventions 10
examine and adjust such complaints. This
proposition Las been made especially TO Great
Britain, to France, 10 Spain and to Prussia I,
In each case it has been kindly received, bni
has not yet been formally accepted.
TSE CASE OF A NORWEGIAN BARK.
deem il my ,lnty to recommend an appro
pliatiou in behalf of the owners of the Norwo
gisn bark Admiral p. ForcieHs Roa, which
vessel was in May 1861, prevented by tho
commander Of the blockading force off CI.ar
lesion, from leaving that port with a cargo
Notwithstanding a similar privilege had short
ly before been granted to an English vessel
have directed the Secretary of State to cause
the papers in the case TO be communicated ic
the proper committee.
AFRICAN EMIGRATION.
Applications have been made to me by ma
ny free Americans Of African descent TO favo
their emigration, with a view to such coloni
zation as was contemplated 10 recent acts o.
Congress. Other parties at home and abroad
some from interested motives, others Lpor
patriotic principles, and still others Influenced
by pbianthropc sentiments, have suggesteT
similar measures; while on tho other hand
several Of the Spanish American Republics
hare protested against the sem ling of sucl
colonies to their respective territories.
Under these circumstances, have declined
TO move any such colony to any State wi;nou
first obtaining the consci Of its Government
with an agreement on its part to receive anC
protect such emgrants in all their rights ~
freemen, and / have, at the same time, Offered
10 the several States situated in the tropics, o
having colonies there, TO negotiate with them
subject TO the advice and consent Of tho Sen
ate, to favor the voluntary emigration Of por
lions Of that class TO their respective Terrific
Iics, upon conditions which shall be equal, jus
and humane
Liberia and Hayti, arc yet the only countrie
10 which colonists Of African descent frou
here, could 60 With a certainty Of bciog rccev'
ed and adopted as citizens, aud rcgiet TO say
that such persons, contemplating colonization
do not seem SO willing 10 emigrste to tbes,
countries as to somc others, nor so willing ~
| think their interest demands. j believe
however, that the opinion is improving, aud
that, ere loag, there will be an augmented
and considerable emigration 10 both these
countries from The United States.