New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-05-28
THE SETTLEMENT WITH ENGLAND


New England man to head it.
THE SETTLEMENT WITH ENGLAND.
Another triumph has been won by tn
administration of President Grant in tn
ways of peace. All our difficulties an
disputes with England have been quietl
and unostentatiously settled at Washing
ton City, and the republic is now withou
a single disturbing question to affect he
relations with Europe. The United State
is probably the only great nation in tn
world that is in a condition of absolut,
accord and friendship with all the famil.
of States. Whatever rivalries and ami
mosities exist between the powers of Eu
rope, whatever revolutions disturb the
lesser States of the American continent,
whatever quarrels vex the Western
world with Asia and the islands
of the sea, none of them affect
the United States. We stand alone in
our capacity to dismantle our ships OF
war and to disarm our soldiery. All
nations and all peoples respect u power
and venerate our institutions. Our ALI
ance is sought by none, because by COM
mon consent it has come to be an ad-
mitted principle with the governments of
every continent that the United States is
exempt from the ambition which leads
other nations to conspire for or against
their neighbors in order to advance their
fortunes. We neither Cypress the weak
nor threaten the great, because we have
no external policy that seeks its own
advantage at the expense of others.
When the Joint High Commission was
proposed to be held at Washington We
congratulated the country that there was
an imminent prospect that its labors would
end in a prompt and peaceful settlement.
The transfer of the negotiation from Lon
don to Washington was a happy event,
because it relieved our diplomats of the
suspicion that their efforts might be intiu-
enced by the Inequalities of the English
aristocracy. 1t gave Us the opportunity
to be more liberal in our settlement since
American could say that British diplo-
macy had overreached our commits
by the seductions of royal
and lordly banquetings. The
negotiation wa conducted under the eye
&c +ha DraciIanf onl a1e,ac& ur,%1,~ lao-
of Congress. The people took cog
of every act, and counseled about
every measure that was submitted for
debate. Senators and Representatives
consulted at every stage of the adj
'ustment. In fact, it may be said that
The treaty was made by the country itself,
the press, which represents the
discussed the negotiation from its
inception to its close.
Now that the end has been reached, as
ar as the United States is concerned, the
good effects of the settlement may be es-
imated in this way, that it has relieved
he country from all app~rehensions of a
oreign war, which is to say, that our en-
ire attention may now be directed to the
development of the national resources,
With a perfect assurance hat years of
,eace are to be allowed to us for the sue
essful completion of any enterprise upon
which the American people may enter.
credit of the nation will be confirmed,
ince we shall stand in no danger Of war
Ike extravaganza. The ~interoceanic
anal may be entered upon without any
uggestion of interference from abroad.
hat continental policy which points to
certain expansion of the republic may
e resumed since the rebellion at home
nd the threatened dist urbance from
urope are both laid at rest. The great
ctories which the Ameri cans won in war
ay o be initiated by those which are
ossible to them in peace; and the flag
hich partially disappeared from the sea
commerce before the fearful scourge of
e British privateers can again return to
sert its pre-eminence on every ocean.
be treaty of Washington has settled the
lestion of maritime responsibility, and
has o for the world an ac-
lowledgment that the nation which is
injured by the neglect of its
'ighbors car demand reparation from
e party at fault. ,
In all this the administration at Wash
gton has won a victory prompt and de-