Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-06


1t is unquestionably sat-
isfactory to find that the President
passing from generalities, declares it
20 be his conviction that the State
should pay to the uttermost farthing
all its obligations 1t will be gratis
tying to the creditors of the United
States to find that the Chief Magis~
trate and the Congress agree on this
important point. 1t could scarcely
be expected that the President would
refer, except in general terms, to the
foreign policy which he intends to
to pursue. To maintain the dignity
Of the State of which he is the Chief,
and to respect that of others, is very
commendable sentiment, and if acted
upon will promote that harmony
which at present exists between the
American Republic and other Powers.
One passage in the proclamation will,
however, probably arrest attention :
"If others depart from this rule in
dealing with us, we may be compelled
TO follow tho preoedent" We are
un willing to believe that this can
have any reference to the unfortunate
dispute which has arisen between the
Uuited States and Great Britain in
connection with the depredations
| committed by the Alabama and her
sister cruisers, and to convey an in
timation that, unless the claims adj
vanced by the American Government
are satisfied, American fitted priva-
teers will in the event of Great Brit
ain being engaged in war with any
European State, commit acts which
would be in the nature of reprisals
The President must be well aware
that we have done verything in oul
power to effect satisfactory settle
ment of those claims, and have rather
| gone beyond the line than otherwise
| in submitting the bona fides OF Oul
conduct to the decision of mlxec
tribunal. We may therefore be per.
mitted to hope that ere long the ad
lastment of this unhappy difference
| will be effected on the basis of the re
cent Convention, and that the IN
kind and, we may add, unjust feellns
entertained toward US by some q
lie ST of our American kinsmen will
totally disappear
From the Pail Mall Gazette, March &.
4 The foreign policy Indicate
in the proclamation is unexception
able so for as words go. The deter
mination to protect law abiding cit
lzens. whether Of native or toreigi
birth, wherever their rights arc jeop
ardized, can lead to no Ill will nov
that the Naturalization laws are ev
erywhere either revised, or in a fai
way to be revised, and. even apar
rom this consideration, the eplthe
'.law abiding" seems expressly de
signed TO exclude the Fenian visitor
to Ireland. Nor will any one quar-
rel with General Grant for his deter
mination to respect the rights of a
nations, and demand equal respect
for those Of the United States.
the sentence that follows-''If other
depart from this rule in dealing wit
us. we may be compelled to folio
the precedent'-has any occult re
erence to the Alabama case. Gre,
Britain will have no cause for alarm
provided that the reprisals limited ;
II are strictly limited to the reprodu'
ton of the wrongs from which II
United States has really suffere
:. British merchants will have no rigl
to complain if an enemy's cruis
: should hereafter escape from 6
American port merely through Il
accidental illness of one of the Unit,
= States law officers or through mi
4. conception on their part of Il
, weight of the evidence submitted
: them by the President.