The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-02-05


cd. This pamphlet, translated into the
French, was sent to every member OF
the Chamber. In that pamphlet Genl
CSss refers to the fact that during TWEEN
tv.fiyO years, the British Government
had urged that Of the United States to
consent to this right of search. The ap,,
plication had been steadily refused and
pertinaciously refuted. In the mean
time treaties have been formed at varl-
GUS intervals between England and 9TH
or Powers, establishiDga mutual right OF
search in regulating the principles upon
which it shall be exercised. Within
short time five of the European Powers
have reciprocallY made themselves par.
ties to a similar convention. "Greet
Britain" SAYS tie London Times, hiss
managed, by great exertion, to aCcoIn
plish this object" "All our Govern
ment contends for (the Times says) is
the right to act merely as Constables on
the ocean, in boarding suspicious ships
bearing the American flag" And who,
asks Gen. Cass, made England the great
Prefect of Police of the ocean, searching
and seizing at pleasure, And the Unit.
ed States, who have been 30 long asked
to Weld this point, are now told that 1T ls
established without them and in spite OF
them; and, after defending this interpo-
lation into the Law of Nations, the great
Ministerial Government Of England
boasts that the European Powers, par
ties to the treaty, will not brook to be
thwarted by an ordinary restiveness;and
in support of this it says that a single
war with Great Britain, she 1.-THE United
States), has already tried; war on her
part with all Europe will be novelty"
The Quintuple Treaty in operation, it's
provisions would be the Law of Ma
tions, and arm all other Powers against
the Republic infracting it. The United
States can enter into no stipulation that
can even be tortured into a recognition
of the right claimed by Great Britain, to
impress American seamen. The United
States can only accept from the British
Government general declaration that
the American dag shall protect Ameri'
can seamen. Until this is done the
United States can not in any arrange
ment, giving reciprocally the right cf
search, even with prOfessed view to
the extinction of the slave trade, admit
a stipulation and the doctrine of con-
structive evidence, even by presumption
that their seamen should be seized, The
impressment of American seamen, Gen.
Cass said with the American people, 'is
a question of life and death. They went
to war to oppose it, thirty years ago, com
paratively young and weak; and now,
after having advanced in all the ele'
ments of power with arapidity unknown
in human history, they will not be want
ing in their duty and their honor when
the day of trial comes. An American,
at home or in Europe; may safely predict
that the first man impressed from a ship
of his country and detained, with an
ayowal of the right by order of the Brit
ish Government, will be the signal for
war. A war, too, which will be long,
bitter, and accompanied, it may be, with
many vicissitudes, for no citizen can
shut his eyes to the power of Great Brit
ain, nor to the gallantry Of her fleets and
armies. But twice the Republic has been
triumphant in similar contests, and with
just cause she would again hope for
success. At any rate she would try"
Gen. Cass then enters into long state
ment, showing the honest efforts of the
American Government to put down the
African slave trade, and contrasts it with
the efforts of Great Britain. That the
right of visit includes the right of deten.
tion and search. That if the vessel is
found all right in her papers, and with
out evidence of any kind to condemn
her, then under the right to impress sea-
men born in the British Empire, her
vessels can take by force any seamen
they please. If doubtful Of the nation
ality they took the trick, particularly
if the seaman looked like a good one. II
France confirmed the treaty, France be |
came party to the outrage, for then she |
would be bound to keep faith and aid in
enforcing its requirements on others. He
more than intimated France would be
to play the jackal to the Eng
lish lion.
The French Chamber of Deputies re.
jeCted the treaty, and it failed. With
out the concurrence of France it would |
be of no avail. And it was said that no
man reioiced more at its defeat than the
King of France, who had previously
signed it. The English opened their
sluices on Cass, and he was the best abu-
sed man at the time in Europe. Having
business in England soon after he was
warned that he would be mobbed-per.
haps murdered-if he landed in the
He went, but was not mob.
bed.
Mr.. Cass was sustained in all he did
by his home government, through the
Sec'y of State, Mr.. Clayton, and resigned
and Caine home. F.
n;1 Enn,,;noy