Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-12-10

lands, by the Spanish authorities, lis more
the subject Of correspondence between
this Government and those OF Spain and
Great Britain. The Captain General of
Cuba, about May last issued n proelHma-
ton authorizing search 10 be n1adc Of Vesl
sells on the high seas Immediate remon:
sifanSe was made against this, whereupon
the Captain General issued a new procla.
natiopyl ylimitnGtherFight Of ,seepeh,ef Sesa
els thlhnkihg y thS United Stsles D. f9l
. ssuf hprlzed 4hderfthe trkSsy Of l7DSl
THIS prbd daha6bn However, WAS fhme1
aYtsly WI thdaTS .,IkLE,k,l
mate relations should be cultivated be-
tween the Republic of the United States
ahd al independeht nations on this conti-
'nent II may be well worth considering
whether the treaties between the United
entered ihtS, t0 secuFt more intimate re-
latipns, friendly commercial intercourse,
and otherwise.
!. The subject of an inter-oceanic, canal TO
Annneet the ktlAbiic and PacinSl oeesaia
Through tile 1sthnHs or Dafieh rs one m
which commerce is greatly interested. In
strueti0ns have beenEireRto our Minister
to the Republic Of the United States of
Columbia to endeavor TO obtain authority
for A survey by this Government in order
to determine the practicability Of such an
undertaking, and a charter for the right of
way to build by private enterprise such
goEEy.t .:sNs, the surEey proves \ 2 be- prac-
In order to comply with the agreement
of the United States as to mixed COM
mission at Lima, for the adjustment of the
claims, it became necessary to send Com
missioner to, Lima in August last. No ap=
preparation having been made for this
purpose, itiis,pow asked that one be made
covering the past and future expenses Of
the Commission. 1T
The good offices of the United States,
to bring about peace between Spain and
tha South 4Ametidh Republics with
which she is at war, having been accepted
By Spain, Peru and Chill, q congress- has
during the present winter.
Q A grant has been given the Europeans
Of an exclusive right of transit over the
territory Of Nicaragua, to which Costa
Rica has given its assent, which, it is al
legged, conflicts with vested rights of citi-
zens of the United States. The Depart
ment of State has now this subject under
consideration.
The Minister of Peru having made
representations thstr-there was. a state of
war between 1Pefn and Spain, and that
Spain was constructing in and near New
York thirty gunboats, which might be
used by Spain In such a way as to relieve
the nayal force at Cuba SO as to operate
against PERT, orders mere given to prevent
their departure. No further steps having
been taken by the representatives Of the
Peruvian Government to prevent the de-
parture of these vessels, and not feel
ing authorized to detain the property of
q nation with which we are at peace on a
mere Executive order, the matter has
been referred to the courts to decide.
The conduct of the war between the
allies and the Republic of Paraguay has
made the intercourse with that country
30 difficult that it has been deemed ad-
visable to withdraw our representative
from there. ,--..
Totard the close Of tho last AdpipEIs-
tration a convention was signed at tIJon-
don for the settlement of all outstanding
claims between Great Britain and the
United States, which failed to receive the
ratification. The time and the circum-
stances attending the negotiation of the
treaty were favorable to its acceptance by
the people of the United States, and it's
provisions were wholly inadequate for the
settlement of the gross wrongs that had
been sustained by this Government, as
well as by itS, citizens The injuries result
ingto the United Statea by reaSonfof the
course adopted by Great Britain during
our late civil war, in increased rates of in
surance, in the diminution of exports and
imports, and other distractions to domes.
tic industry and production, in its effect
upon the foreign commerce of the country,
in the decrease and transfer to Great
Britain Of our commercial marine, in the
prololgatiQp of wal. and increased cost,
aud ~ lives, of its sup
preston could not be adjusted and salts
fed as ordinary commercial claims which
continually arise between commercial ma
tions, and yet the Convention treated them
simply asspch ordinary claims from which
they differ more widely in the gravity of
their character than in the magnitude of
their amount. Great even as is that diff
ference, not word was found in the treaty
and not an inference could be drawn from
it, to remove the sense of the.unfriendli.
ness Of the course of Great Britain Ia our
struggle for existence, which had 50 deep
ly and universally impressed itself upon
the people of this country. Believing
scope and made quite different in its pro-
visions would not have produced the
hearty, cordial settlement Of the pending
questions which alone is consistent with
the relations which desire to have estab-
lished betYeen the United States and
GreaS Btifisn, IIegarded the aetion ofthe
Senate, m rejecting the treaty, to have
been wisely taken in the interest of peace,
and as necessary step in the direction
of "A, perfect and cordial friendship be-
tween The two countries. A SEN
sitive people, conscious of their power,
are more at ease under a great wrong
wholly unatoned than under the restraint
of a settlement which satisfies neither their
ideas of justice nor their grave sense of
the grievance they have sustained. The
rejection of the treaty was followed by a
state of public feeling on both sides, which
thought not favorable TO an immediate
attempt at renewing negotiation. / ac-
cordingly 80 instructed the Minister OF
the United States to Great Britain, and
fO0na fhat myivieEs IN this regard were
shArsdiby herMAjestgb Minister! 1 hope
that the time may soon arrive when the
two Governments can approach the solu-
ton OF this momentous question with an
assurance Of what is due to the rights, dig
ultJ anu hOuOA vi CdCl, anu WIN tue Q6-
termination, not only TO remove the causes
Of complaint in the past, bat to lay the
foundation Of broad principle of pdblic
laws, which will prevent future differ
ences, and tend to firm and continued
peace and friendship. This is now the
only grand question which the United
States have with any foreign nation. .
j The question of treaty for Reciprocity
haSuaan the TTnitad Sfataa and tho Rritieb l.
-Pfovinces on ti1is continent has
mot ban faTorailly considered byI the
Adpinislration. The advantage pf such
"A ttsatY would be wholly in hypr OF the
British producer except possibly few en-
gAgaien the Eads Rsk8een uatwo sec
tions. No citizen of the United States
would be benefted by rseipfocltyX Z Our
internal taxation would prOveA prediction
TO the British producer almost equal to
the projection which our manufacturers
now receive, from, the tarih- Some ar