The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-12-16
No. 1851.

e tary to Lima, in August last. No ap-
}, preparation having been made BY
# Congress for this purpose, it is now
asked that one be made, covering the
= past and future expenses of the com
: mission.
= The good Offices Of the United
: States to bring about peace between
= Spain and the South American Re
/ publics, with which she is at war,
] having been accepted by Spain, Peru
2 and Chill, a Congress has been invit-
. ed to be held in Washington during
the present winter.
D A grant has been made to Europe
= ans Of an exclusive right to transit
over the Territory of Nicaragua, to
which Costa Rica has given its assent.
which, it is alleged, conflicts with the
vested rights of citizens of the United
States. The Department of State has
now this subject under consideration.
The Minister of Peru having made
representations that there was a state
OF war between Peru 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 naval force at
Cuba, so as to operate against Peru,
orders were given to prevent their de
IParture. No further steps having
been taken by the representative OIL
the Peruvian Government to prevent
the departure Of these vessels, and l,
not feeling authorized to detain the
property of a nation with which we
are at peace, on a mere Executive or
der, the matter has been referred to
the Courts to decide.
The conduct of the allies and the
Republic OF Paraguay has made the
! intercourse with that country 50 diff
cult that it has been deemed advisa-
bic to withdraw our representative
! from there.
Toward the close of the last Admin
istratiOn, Convention was signed at
London for the settlement of all out
standing claims. between Great Brit !
ain and the United States, which fail |
ed to receive the advice and consent
of the Senate to its ratification. The |
! time and the circumstances attending |
] the negotiation of the treaty were un-
favorable to its acceptance by the peo-
pie of the United States, and its pro-
visions were wholly inadequate for
the settlement of the grave wrongs
that had been sustained by this Gov
ernment, as well as by its citizens
The injuries resulting to the United
States by reason Of the course adopt
ed by Great Britain during the late
civil war, in increased rates of insur-
ance; in the diminutiOn of exports and
imports, and other distractions to do
nestle industry and production; in its
effect upon the foreign commerce Of
the country; in the decrease and trans
fer to Great Britain of our CONNER
cial marine; in the prOlOngatiOn of
the war, and the increased cost, both
in treasure and lives, of its suppress
sion, could not be adjusted and salts
fled as ordinary commercial claims
which continually arise between COM
mercial nations; and yet the COnven-
ton treated them simply as such Ordi-
nary claims, from which they differ
more widely in the gravity of their
character than in tho magnitude of
their amount, great even as is that
difference. Not a word was found in
the treaty, and not an inference could
be drawn from it, to remove the sense
Of the unfriendliness of the course ofI
Great Britain in our struggle for exis-
tence, which had SO deeply and uni
versally impressed itself on the people
of this country. Believing that a con-
ventiOn thus miscOnceived in its
scope, and inadequate in its provis-
ions, would not have produced the
hearty, cordial settlement of pending
questions which alone is consistent
with the relations which I desire to
have established between the United
States and Great Britain, l T garded
the action Of the Senate in rejecting
the treaty to have been wisely taken,
in the interest of peace, and as a nee
esSary step in. the direction of a per-
feet and cordial friendship between
the two countries. Sensitive people,
conscious of their power, are more at
ease under a great wrong wholly un-
atOned, than under the restraint of a
which satisfies neither
their ideas of justice nor their grave
sense Of the grievance they have sus-
tanned.
The rejection of the treaty was fol-
lowed by a state of public feeling on
both sides which / thought not favor
able to an immediate attempt at re-
npwed negotiations. 1 accordingly 80 /
instructed the Minister of the United {
States to Great Britain, and found ,
that my views in this regard were .
shared by Her Majesty's Minister. / |
hope the time will soon arrive when ,
the two governments can approach =
the solution of this momentous ques-
tiOn with an assurance of what is due [
to the rights, dignity and honor of {
each, and with the determination not {
only to remove the causes OF com t
plant in the past, but to lay the fOun- {
datiOn of a broad principle of public ,
law, which will prevent future differ {
enCes, and tend to firm and continued /
peace and friendship This is now {
the only grave question which the &
United States have with any foreign i
nation.
The question of a treaty for re i
between the United States ,
and the British Provinces on this con- ,
tinent, has not been favorably consid-
cred by the Administration. The ad :
vantage of such a treaty would be
wholly in favor of the British produc- /
er, except possibly, a few engaged in S
the trade between the two sections. ,
No citizen of the United States would |
be benefited by reciprocity. Our in
ternal taxation would prove a protec- ,
ton to the British producer, almost {
equal to the protection of the tariff. I
Some arrangement, however, for the
regulation of commercial intercourse
between the United States and the ,
Dominion of Canada may be desirable. I
The Commission for adjusting the ,
claims Of the Hudsou's Bay and Pug {
et's Sound Agricultural Company up {
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