Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-04-20
ENGLAND.
Lord Stanley ON the Alabama Claims
Treaty,

Treaty.
LONDON, April 19.-Lord Stanley 10 .
recent speech at Glasgow said in Telerene;
to the Alabama treaty. = Noiwithstand
ing the failure of the late negotiations,
l do not think can bring myself to take
a gloomy view of these relations. For nv
part, L have very great faith in the good
sense Of the American people. l do moi
think they can wish TO Increase their
difficulties by getting into any
fresh quarrels. Whatever happens we
have secured the main point; we
have satisfied our own conscience, and We
have put our country Immediately in the
right will only add that to my mind
questions affecting the external relations
Of the country-queslions which ia their
ultimate results may involve the Issues Of
var or peaee-are incompsrably greater
than others with which the politicians in
our day have TO deal with.
Eve may quarrel among Ourselves
and make il up again, but ii is
the wish of all Of us as regards the
outside world 10 show united front. Ger
tainly, if any diplomatic difficulty should
arise, | should feel il my duty, 80 far as l
conscientiously could, TO endeavor to
strengthen the hands of whoever might be
the foreign minister of the day"
The London Times in an article on the
appointment of Mr.. Motley to England
says: Ii is likely, assuming the present
Alabama Convention TO be aside,
MIR. Motley will be instructed to
open negotiations for another, differ
Ing somewhat in machinery, but en-
hnHuTnn piuaflar f,riunfr,lao phnnlI
this be The case, our government will be
ready to give the proposals fair consider
alton. Should il, on the other hand, be
the desire of the Americans TO keep the
question still unsettled, the British
nation, having fully manifested their
good disposition, will not feel bound
10 initiate fresh negotiations. In any case
she shall welcome Mr. Motley, not only as
an old friend, but as one who has the con-
fdence of really powerful Executive and
Of the most powerful party in the URited
States. The country has gone to the
extreme of concession in the matter
of the Alabama claims. 1t has
agreed to refer every thing except IFS own
honor to arbitration and the Judgment of q
mixed commission; it has agreed to give
Americans who profess to have been
wronged every opportunity TO as.
sert their claims by providing thai
commission shall hold its sittings at
Washington except absolute submission
10 every demand the Americans may
choose 10 make. There is nothing fur
Their TO be considered. Tg Conyen-
tion in which all this is stipulated
has been the work OF their own Minister
and Secretary Of State, and has received
the assent Of their own President. If |
they should be set aside, our duty will |
simply be to abstain altogether from fur
Their overture, and let any proposals |
for renewal Of negotiations
proceed from the American government. |
As for that downright demand of payment |
which our Philadelphia correspond |
ent describes as being advocated in |
the United States, this country would, of |
course, know how to treat it. But We have |
not the smallest belief that Presient
Grants government concentrates a course |
of action 80 untriendly and offensive.