The New York herald., 1871-03-09
Tho Joint High Commandments Question
Of the Cessiou Of Territory.


Of the Cession or Territory.
We have special despatch by the Atlantic
cable from our correspondent at London, CIV
ing pretty full epitome of the tone of the
London Times on the present prospects Of the
discussion before the Joint High Commission.
The Times, in commenting upon the possible
failure of the negotiations, owing to alleged
Incorporate demands on the part Of some
of our Senator'S, says:-'Hf cession OF
territory is mooted the English Commits
sioners will take care that 1t Is not
mentioned twice." These are brave words.
Bombastes Furioso could not have expressed
himself more fiercely if he had come in actual
contact with the enemy who ''would his boots
displace" They have that schoolboy ring
about them which usually precedes juvenile
fsticuffs in tho playground. But, considering
that the government for whom the Times
speaks has within the past few months sold
out her ancient ally for mess of neutrality
pottage, and has eaten Russian humble pie
at the fierce call of her ancient enemy, it
i'll becomes her to put on so clustering an
air in her dealings with us-another ancient
enemy-who never came out of war with
her, even in our infant days, except as
the victor. The Joint High Commission
was formed at England's own request, as a
tender of peace and good will, and as such 1t
has been received by the American people.
The members are even now dining and wining
one another with an avidity that would long
ago have foored Reverdy Johnson, and the
goose that represents peace and harmony
is popularity supposed to hang high. 1t is no
time, therefore, for the big Waddilove Of the
school, whom all the smaller boys fag, to
make any such playground threats.
The fact in regard to the cession Of territory
in payment of the Alabama claims is that we
don't want any unwilling people annexed to
us, and will not take and never have taken an
inch of territory by conquest. The cession Of
any portion of the British dominions under the
pressure of our demands would be as much a
conquest as the cesson of Alsace to Germany
under the pressure of her demands upon
France. We want no such cession, and there
has been nothing in the conduct Of the Ameri-
can people to justify the London Times in such
bullying demurrer. Such highAyers as
Chandler in the Senate may have let their
spread eagle fly too high, but they do not
aspire to anything moro dignified or sig
nificant than buncombe. We believe, as
everyone else on this Continent believes,
the people of the New Dominion included,
that all the British possessions are gravi-
tating toward the United States, and that
eventually every inch of territory in North
America will rejoice under the one flag Of the
Union. We can wait if the British possessions
can. II is no prime necessity for us to have
Canada, but it is doubtful whether 1t is not al
ready becoming prime necessity for Canada
to have ", Ths Espiaa Eaids: tas isaasr fishery
troubles, the non-reciprocity of commerce,
the disa6ection Of the anti Confederates, are
burdens and sores that have rendered
Canada tender to the touch, and her only
remedy for all these is comprised in the one
| word-annexation. But we are not the ones
to feel CALLED. We have no need to vince
| Our withers are unwrung; and as for us Of
! our Commissioners insisting upon the cessior
| of Canadian or any other territory, the Lon
don Times may rest assured that Canada will
do the insisting before we take her.
No; we don't want Canada for our Alabama
claims. We want cash-money down-and
enough of it to replace every cent of damage
that was done to us by the Alabama and tht
| Shenandoah and the Florida, and all that fee
of pirates which England, following up hel
old game of money-making neutrality, bull
and launched and manned and sent to sea
| She thought, with Lord John Russell, tha
1.-THE Union was dissolved sine die" when she
clinched us. But the Union was not dissolved
It il stronger now than ever. 1t has showr
what it could do, and 1t demands satisfaction
for these Alabama losscs-satisfactio in full
without any offsets in Fenian raids or cottor
loans.
PARIS STILL DIsoRDERLY.-Our special and
general advices from Paris agree in represent.
ing affairs in that city as unfavorable to order
The National Guards seem bent upon row
They have formed camps, supported by artil
lery, at Montmartre, Belleville, La villettt
and other quarters of the city, with the evi-
dent purpose of resisting any attempt to dis
arm them. Our dispatches refer to deplora