Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-12-13
NUMBER 4.

w ~ ia'o Sh.ei magfstrate from the Bey of Tupis
whose rule includes the old dominions of car.S,'
age, on the African coast. ~ VA W.
,ost Uur domestic contest now happily ended, has
ielt soine traces in our relations with one of
least OF the maritime Powers The formal ac'
ooloahce Ue OF beillgerent rights to the insurgent
Sal w -" 40 20 unprecedented and has not been Jus
tlhed by the issue. But in the systems of nen-
trailty pursued by the Power which made that
concession, there was marked difference :, The
ihateflal OF war for the insurgent states were in
great measure, furnished from the workshops
Rrtir ui1"s britain and British ships, manned by
Diltlsh subjects, and prepared for receiving Brit
ish arnaments sailed from the ports of Great
Drltaih TO make war on American commerce. nm
uer the sheiter OF commission from the insur
gent states These ships, having once escaped
iloll brltish ports ever afterward entered them
IN every part of the world, to refit and to renew
their depredations. The consequences of this
conquer were most disastrous to the States then
Ill iepelllon' increasing their desolation and mis-
cry by the prolongation of our civil contest. Ii
nau ~ .he eHect, to great extent, to drive the
f nag from the sea, and to transfer much
1i our shipping and and our commerc to the very
rover whose subjects had created the necessity
Tor such change. These events took nlace h..
lore was called to the administration OF the gov
eminent. Inc sincere desire for peace by which
an al anllllated LED me to approve the proposal,
already made, to submit the questions which
mad thus arisen between the countries to arbitra-
tion' lhese questions are of such moment that
they must nave commanded the attention of tbe
great Powres, and are so interviewer with the
peace ana interest of every one of them as to
nave ensured an impartial decision Ireqret to
inform you that Great Britain declined the arbi.
tiameht' but on the other hand, invited us to
the formation OF joint commission to settle mu.
tual claims between the two countries, from
Whlch those for the depredations before mention
eu sheulu oe eScluded. The proposition, in that
very unsatisfactory form, has been declined, -
The United States did not present the subject
as an impeachment of the good faith of Power
I Whlch was protesting the most friendly disposi.
tlons' but as involving questions of public law.
Vi Which the settlement is essential to the peace
th thd nations ana though pecuniary reparation to
Giielr injured citizens would have followed incl
dentally on decision against Great Britain,
such compensation was not their primary object.
They had higher motive, and it was in the in-
terests OF peace and justice to establish impor-
taht principles OF otinternational law. The ground
on which the British Minister rests his iustiica.
ton is, substantially, that the municipal law of
nation, and the domestic interpretations OF that
law, are the measure of its duty as q neutral;
and feel bound to declare my opinion, before
you and before the world that that justification
cannot be sustained before the tribunal of ma
tions. Al the same time do not advise to any
present attempt at redress by acts of egislation.
FOR the future, friendship between the two coun-
tries must rest on the basis Of mutual justice.
From the moment of the establishment of our
iiSe CohnelIutloH' Jne ClV1llZeQ world mas Deeu
lconVulsed by revolutions in the interests of de-
! mocracy or of monarchy but through all those
revolutions the United States have wisely and
llrmly refused to become propagandists of repub-
Ilcanism. 1t is the only government suited to
our condition but We have never sought to i'm
pose it on Others and we have consistently fol-
Owed the advice Of Washington to recommend
it only by careful preservation and prudent use
OF the blessing. During all the intervening Pc
rod, the policy OF European Powers and of the
United States has, on the whole, been harmoni-
Gus. Twice, indeed, rumors of the invasion Of
some part of America, in he interest of monar-
chy, have prevailed twice my predecessors have
had occasion to announce the views of this ma
ton III respect to such interference. On both
occasions the remonstrance of the United States
was respected, from deep conviction, on the
part OF European Governments, that the system
of non-interfetenCe and mutual abstinence from
propagandism was the true rule for the two hem
! Iispheres. Since those times, we have advanced
in wealth and power; bat we retain the same
purpose to leave the nations of Europe to choose
their own dynasties and form their own systems
OF government. This consistent moderation
may justly demand a corresponding moderation.
We should regard it as great calamity to our
selves, to the cause OF good government and to
the peace of the world, should any European
Power challenge the American people, as it were,
TO the defence of republcanism against foreign
interference. We cannot foiesee and are unWil.
sent themselves, what combinations might offer
to protect ourselves against designs inlmical to
our form Of government. The United States de.
sire to act in the future as they have ever acted
heretofore they never will be driven from that
course but by the aggression of European Pow-
ers and we rely on the wisdom and justice of
those Powers to respect the system of non nipter.
ference which has so long been sanctioned by
time, and which, by its good results, has approx.
ed itself to both continents. -....5 III .t.gt
b.
When, on the organization of our Government
under the Constitution, the President Of the
United States delivered his inaugural address to
the two Houses of Congress, he said to them.
and through them to the country and to man.
kind, that 1.-the preservation OF the sacred fire Of
liberty and the destiny OF the republican model
of government are justly considered as deeply,
perhaps as finally staked on the experiment ID.
trusted to the American people" And the
House of Representatives answered Washington
| by the voice of Madison ''We adore the invisi-
BILE hand which has led the American people (,
through SO many difficulties, to cheri' q con-
scious responsibility for the destiny of repubh.
can liberty More than seventy.six years have q
gided away since these words Were spoken the !,
United States have passed through seveIer trials
than were foreseen and now, at this new epoch
IN our existence as one nation with our Union q
purified 10y sorrow, and strengthened by conflict
I and established by the virtue OF the people, the
greatness of the occasion invites us once more to
repeat, with solemnty, the pledges of our faith.
ers to hold ourselves answerable before our fel-
lowmen for the success of the republican form Of
government Experience has proved its suffi-
cheney in peace and in war; it has vndicated Its
authority through dangers and Affections, and
sudden and terrible emergencies. which would
have crushed any system that had been less
firmly fixed in the heard OF the people. 4,f
At the Inauguration Of Washington, the for
eign relations of the country were few, and its
trade was repressed by hostile regulations; now
all the civilized nations of the globe welcome our
commerce, and their Governments profess to-
wards us amity Then our country felt its way
hestatingly along an untried path, with Statea
50 little bound together by rapid means Of conn., d
mupication as to be hardly known to one anoth,
er and with historic traditions extending over
very few Yeas now intercourse between tho 4
States is swift and intimate the experience stf
centuries has been crowded into few genera
tons, and has created an intense, indestfuctible
nationality. Then our jurisdiction did not reach
beyond the inconvenient boundaries Of the terri.
tory which HAD uchiavad