The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-05-16

seeking and has never been wholly acceptable
to US; yet, through the timidity or incapacity
of our diplomatic officers we are put on the
defensive instead of acting on the aggressive,
and instead of saying boldly to
the English government "There is our
case and by it we stand-fulfl
your obligations and go before the Geneva
Tribunal, or we tear the treaty into tatters,"
we find ourselves debating whether at the die
tation of Lord Granville we shall abandon our
case, confess that we advanced unjustfable
claims and acknowledge ourselves q nation Of
pettifogging triclSsters.
The question now under discussion in the
Senate is, Shall we accept or reject supple
mental rule to be embodied as one of the arti-
cles of the Treaty of Washington, which,
after setting forth the contentious of England,
first, that the indirect claims presented in
our case were not included in the treaty and
second, should not be admitted in principle
as growing out of the acts committed by the
Anglo Confederate privateers; and, after agree
ing on both sides that this principle shall govern
future similar cases, declares that, Sin con-
sideration thereof, the Presiden. of the United
States, by and with the advice and consent of
10 a1ra
no claim ON the part of the United States in
respect of indirect losses, as aforesaid, before
the Tribunal Of Arbitration at Geneva?" 1t
would not seem to require one instant's DELHI
Grafton in an American Senate to insure the
indignant rejection Of this disgraceful and
humiliating proposition. Yet there are
influences at work to induce tho ad-
ministraton to so degrade us in the
eyes of the world and in our
own self-respect as to yield to the insolent de-
mand of England, and abandon our case in
ests selfish enough-some trading Americans
unworthy enough to be willing to sacrifice the
honor of the nation for mercenary considera-
lions. The unwholesome bubble of Wall
street speculation, inflated now to an unnatu-
raj and dangerous size, and threatened at any
moment with q sudden collapse, clamors for
the infamous surrender in order to prevent the
simultaneous downfall of the treaty and the
market The claimants of direct dam
ages, who have been careful to
swell their demands to capacity
sufficient to cover the expenses of lobbyists
and to meet the necessities Of corruptionists,
are pressing on the Senate the contamination
of this national disgrace. Commercial fossils
and charlatans-not the bone and sinew Of
the commerce Of the country-meetin packed
convention, engineered by lobby agents in the
pay of the direct claimants, and dsplore the
loss of the treaty as q great public calamity,
but have no word to say in depreciation of the
loss Of our national honor: The patriotism Of
such men is in their money chests, and
the President and the Senate know
what value to put upon their
advice. Because the rejection of the sup
Elemental treaty might for the moment de-
would cast the government down in the dust
under the heels of England. They have not
the courage to feel that we are growing to be
independent of the English market, nor the
sense to remember that ever since the termi-
nation of the rebellion, although the Alabama
claims have been unsettled and under agita-
ton, our securieties have been steadily ad-
vancng We have good and true friends in
Germany, and the intrinsic value of
our bonds defes the intrigues of
English capitalists The destruction of the
Treaty Of Washington will not lead to
war, and while we are at peace Englishmen
have sufficient avarice to secure our five and
six per cents for their money and sufficient
Judgment to know that our national wealth is
increasing with every succeeding year. The
selfish arguments Of these interested advocates
of the supplemental infamy will not prevail
with President Grant, and should not be
needed by the Senate Behind the Wall street
spectators, the direct claimants, the lobbyists
and the commercial fossils, stand watchful
and jealous people-a people who care moth
ing for the Washington Treaty or the English
threats but much for the national honor and
self-respect-a people who demand from the
administration the immediate and uncon-