The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-12-07


and In the lives Of its sup
porters could not be adjusted, and
satisfied as ordinary commercial
claims, which continually arise be-
tween commercial nations. Yet the
Convention elected them simply as
such 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 difference, not 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 of Great Britain in our strug-
gle for existence, which had SO deep
" and universally impressed itself
on the people of this country.
Believing that Convention,
thus misconceived In It's scope,
and made quite in its provisions,
would not have produced the hearty,
cordial settlement of pending ques-
tions, which alone is consistent with
the relations which I desire to have
established between the United States
and Great Britain, / regard the
action Of the Senate in the rejection
of the treaty, to have been wisely
taken, in the interest Of peace
and as a necessary step In the
direction Of a perfect and cordial
friendship between the two countries.
Sensitive people, conscious of their
power, ara more at ease under a great
wrong wholly unatoned, than under
the restorial of a settlement, which
satisfies neither their ideas of justice
nor their grave sense of the grew
ance they have sustained. The rejec-
ton of the treaty was followed by a
state of public feeling, on. both sides,
which. I thought not favorable
to an immediate attempt at re-
neWed negotiations. /, accord
ingly, so instructed the Minister
of the United States to Great Britain,
and found that my views in this re-
gard were shared by Her Majesty {
ministry. I hope the time may soon
arrive when the two Governments can
approach the solution of this mo-
mentous question with an assurance
of what is due to the rights, dignity
and honor of each, and with the de
termination not only to remove the
causes of complaint In the past
but to lay the foundation of Z
broad principal OF public law
which will prevent future difference.
aud secure their firm and continued
peace and friendship. This is now
the only grave question which th'
United States has with any foreign
nation.
The question Of treaty fol
reciprocity between the United States
and the British provinces on thi'
continent has not been favorably con
sidered by the administration. Th'
advantage of such treaty would b
wholly In favor of the British pro
Queer except, possibly. few
engaged IN the trade between the twt
sections. No citizen of the United
States would be benefited by recipro
city. Our Internal Revenue tax
alton would prove q protection to thu
British producer, almost equal to thu
protection which our manufacture
now receives from the tariff. Som
arrangement. however, for the regu
lation of commercial intercourse be
tween the United States and tn
Dominion Of Canada may be desira
BILE.
The commission for adjusting tn,
claims of the Hudson's Bay ant
Puget's Sound Agricultural Compa
ny upon the United States has ter
minated its labor. The award o
$650,0O0 has been made, and all tn,
rights and titles of the Company oil
| the territory of the United State
have been extipguished, and deeds TO
the property of the Company hav
been received. An appropriation
by Congress to meet this sum i
asked.
The Commissioner for determin
ing the northern land boGndar.
between the United States and tn
British possessions, under the treat.
Of 1856, have completed their labors
and the Commission has been dis
solved.
In conformity with the recon
mendation Of Congress. a propo
sition was early made to the British
Government to abolish the mixeC
courts created under the treaty O.
April z, 1862, for the suppression o
the slave trade. The subject is still
under negotiation.
1t having come TO my knowl
edge that a corporate company
organized under British laws, pro
posed to land upon the shores
of the United States, and to OPP
crate here, a submarine cable, un
der a concession from His Majesty
the Emperor of the French, o.
en- exclusive right, for twenty
years, of Geographic commu
nication between the shores o
France and the United States, will
the very Objectionable feature of sub
jecting all messages conveyed thereby
to the sovereignty and the control o
the French Government. caused
the British and French legations a
| Washington to be made acquainted
with the probable policy of Congress
on the subject, as foreshadowed b.
the bill which passed the Senate il
March last. This drew from the re
representatives. of the Company al
agreement to accept. as basis of then
operations, the provisions of the bill
or of such other enactment of thC
subject as might be passed during The
approaching session of Congress; alsC
to use their influence to secure from
the French Government a ratification
of their concessions, so as to permi
the landing upon French soil of AM
cable belonging to any company incor
porated by the authority of the UniteC
States, or of any State il
the Union, and on theil
part not to oppose the establishment
ofany such cable. In consideration
of this agreement I directed the with
draWal of all opposition By the United
States authorities to the landing o.
the cable, and to the working Of it
until the meeting Of Congress. I re
greet to say that there has been nc
modification in the companies con,
eession, nor, SO far as l can learn
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