Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1869-12-10

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msreial and otherwise. The subject Of
a canal to connect the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans, through the Isthmus OF
Darien. is one in which commerce IS
greatly interested. Instructions have
been given to our Minister to the Re
public of the United States Of Column
bia to endeaYoF to obtain authority Ior
a survey by this Government IN order
to determine the practica bidty OF sueh
an undertaking, and a charter for the
right of way to build, by private en-
terprise, such a work, If the survey
proves it to be practicable.
/ In order to comply with the agree
ment of the United States as to mixed
/ commission at Lima for the adjust
/ ment of claims. it became necessary to
send a Commissioner and Secretary to
Lima in August last. No appropria-
ton having been made by Congress for
l this purpose, it is now asked that one
be made covering the past and future
expenses of the Commission.
The good offices Of the United states
| to bring about a peace between Spain
and the South American Republics
i with which she is at war, having been
accepted by Spain, Peru and Chilli,
Congress has been invited to be held in
Washington during the present winter.
A grant has been given to Europeans
of an exclusive right Of transit over the
Territory of Nicaragua, to which Costa
Rica has given its assent, which, il is
/ alleged, conflicts with vested rights of
/ citizens Of the United States. The De-
partment Of State has now this subject
under consideration.
The minister of Peru, having made
representations that there was 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 way
as to relieve the naval force at Cuba, 50
as to operate against Peru, orders were
| given 70 prevent their departure. Nc
] further steps having been taken by the
/ representative Of the Peruvian Govern
{ uaent to prevent the departure OfsGhese
vessels, and I not feeling authorized to
retain the property Of nation with
which we are at peace, on mere exc
salive order, the matter has been re-
fPrred 10 the courts to decide.
The conduct of the war between the
Allies and Republic OF Paraguay has
made the intercourse with that cOuntry
so difficult that it has been deemed ad-
7visable TO withdraw our representative
from there.
Toward the close of the last adminis-
/ tratiOn q convention was signed at Lon
don for the close OF all outstanding
claims between Great Britain and the
/ United States. " ilich failed to receive
/ 6lke advice and consent of the Senate to
It's ratification The time and circum-
stances attending The negotiation of the
II AACd+bg ~ GAN Ad%N VI 10AC W AAE aEGCNJAauEG
by the people of the United States, but
its provisions were wholly inadequate
for the setl lement of the grave wrongs
that had been sustained by the govern
ment as well as by its citizens. The in
4 Juries resulting to the United States by
L reason of the course adopted by Great
Britain during our late civil war, in
the increased rates OF insurance, in the
dimiuution of exports and imports, and
other distractions to domestic industry
and production, in its effect upon the
4 foreign commerce of the country in the
decrease and transfer to Great Britain
1 of our commercial marine, in the pro-
iOngation of war, and increased cost
( both in treasure ana in life, for its sup
4 preston, could not be adjusted and
satisfied as ordinary commercial claims
which eontinalIv arise between. COM
mercial nations, and yet the conEen-
zion treated them simply as such ordi-
8 nary claims from which they differ
more widely in the gravity of their
character than ia the magnitude of their
amount, great even as is that difference.
! Not word was found in that treaty
and not an inference could be drawn
from il to remove the sense of unfriend-
illness of the course of Great Britain in
our struggle for existence, which had
so deeply and inevitably impressed it
self upon the people of this country.
/ Believing that a convention thus mis-
conceived in its scope and made quite
in its provisions, would not have pro-
-dueed the hearty, cordial settlement of
pending questions which alone is con-
sisteut with the relations which / desire
to have established between the United
states aud Great Bqitain, / regarded
the action of the Senate in rejecting 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 A sensitive people, conscious
OF their power are, more at ease under
"A great wrong wholly matured, than
under the restraint of a settlement
which satisfies neither their ideas of
Justice nor their grave sense of the
grievances 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 i'm
mediate attempt at renewal of negotia-
tiOEs, and I accordingly so instructed
the Minister of the United States to
Great Britain, and found that nv views
in this regard were shared by her Ma
jestY's Minister'S. I hope that the time
may soon arrive when the two govern
ments can approach the solution o. this /
m momentOus question with an assurance
of what is due TO the rights, dignity and
honor OF each, and with the determines
ton not only to remove the causes of
complaint in the past, but to lay the
foundation of a broad principle of pub
lie law which viii prevent future diff
ferences and tend to firm and eontinu-
ed peace and friendship. This is now
the only grave question which the
United States have with any foreign |
nation.
The question of treaty for reciprocitv
between the United States and the
British provinces on this continent has |
not been faYorablY considered by the |
administration. The advantage of such I
treaty would be wholly in favor of /
the British producers, except possibly |
a few engaged in the trade between the |
two sections.
No citizen of the United States wonld /
be benefited by reciprocity. Our in
ternal taxation would prove u protecL
tion to the British producer almost !
equal to the protection from the tariff.
Some arrangement, however, for the /
regulation OF commercial intercourse
between the United States and the do
minion of Canada may be desirable.
The commission for adjusting the
claims of the Hudson, Bay q Pugets's
Sound Agricultural Co., upon the Uni
ted States, has terminatedits labor. The
award OF $3.50, 900 has been made. and |
all right and titles of Company on The
territory of the United States have been
extingujshed, and deeds for the DroDer-
ty of the Company have been received
An appropriation by Congress to meet
this sum is asked. The Commissioners
AlA rA~NSA AAAAA4t1S AAAG NOEth western
land boundary, between the United
States and the British possessions, I'M
der the treaty of 1856, have comp lefed /,
their labors and the commission has
dissolved,
In conformity with the recommenda-
ton of Congress a proposition Wasrecent-
ly made to the British Government To
abolish the mixed courts created under
the treaty of April 9TH, 1862, for the
suppression OF the slave trade. The sub
ject is still under negotiation,
1t having come to my knowledge that
a cooperate company, organized under
British laws, proposed to land upon
the shores of the United States, and to
operate there submarine cable under ]
a concession from his Majesty, the Ep1-
peror of the French, of an exclusive
right for twenty years of telegraphic Z
communication between the shores of {
France and the United States, with the
very objectionable feature of subject I
ing all messages conveyed thereby TO :
the sovereignty and control of The s
French Government, I caused the !
French and British Legations at Wash Z
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