The daily gazette., 1881-12-19
From the N. Y. World.
England and the Clay ton. RuIwer
Treaty.

The tone in which, as our cable
dispatches day inform us, English
journals of the most different shades
OF politics are discussing the temperate
and moderate declarations of President
Arthur 10 regard to the Clayton Bull
wer treaty, sUrikingly illustrates the
wisdom OF such thoroughly American
statesmen as President Buchanan and
| Secretary Cass, who q quarter of a
| century ago denounced that treaty as
mischieyous iii itself and calculated to
| inflame rather than TO allay the diff
cultles it Was supposed by its few
friends IN this country to have been
framed to meet. 1t is quite natural
/ that the London Standard should de
! sire to see the United States reduced
to the humiliating and dangerous ne
eesslty of intriguing for such control
over the lsthmus Of Panama as Eng
land has for the ten years past been
seeking by hook and by crook to ae.
quire over the lsthmus of Suez, But
England s policy in the matter of tue
Suez Canal sets us an example to be
avoided, not one 10 be initiated. At
this moment the action of Great
Britain in the East is paralyzed by the
position INTO which she has allowed
herself to drift, of negotiating and
contriying some practicable method
by which she may convert Joint pro-
tectorate with France of Egypt INTO a
virtual English conorol of Egypt. And
if the United States are not to be
sednGed by iair words into duph-
eating at Panama the blunders of Eng
land at Port said aud Suez, still less
arc the United States to be deferred.
as he London News seems to fancy
they may be, from asserting their
own absolute pred0minance, both as
4 a matter OF right and as a matter oi ip-
, terest, IN this part Of the world, by any
attempt on the part Of Great Britain to
: renew in this year OF our Lord 1881
e those ptetenslons which underlay the
artfui aud INSCRIPTIONS diplomat acy o
Sir Henry Bui8er aud Sir Gore Ouseley
aquafter OF century ago. So far az
J. the substance of the American call upor
% Great britain for an abrogation OF the
ClaYton-BalWer treaty is concerned
- there is nothing in it either new or un
IS reasonable. The English Government
q was repeatedly notified by the Untet
il States during the long and tedious at
tempt OF the two countries to come Il
ie an understanding Of the terms OF In
IN treaty during the negotiations whjcl
as preceded the special mission of Sir Cor,
Ouseley TO Central America, that al
7e abrogation OF the treaty by act of Con
lg gress would be preferred by the Unite
40 states to any recognition Of the accurac
- of the Interpretation attempted 10 h
~ put upon it by Her Msiesiy's Cover
th ment; and within a decade from IN
date OF the treaty the Earl of Maine.
bury informed Lord Napier in a speca
80 despatch that the British Goyernmer
rather than assent to the American in
he depreciation would be prepared to ente
Il into arrangements for less peremptor
to diplomatic abrogalion of 1t. II the re
=. quest now made-n9t by the Secretar
OF State al all, who In all matters is bt
he the voice and head of the Executive ,bl
I'd by President Arthur, is to be refused b
ps. Earl Granville, it will simply becom
proper for this Government TO exerci,
ice It's unqueslionable right of abrogatir
In the treaty by an act of Congress. Tn
he would remit both countries to the cor
an dilion in which they stood relatively
~ one another aud tc all the auestjo,
OF touched by the Treaty before the sign,
ture oi the treaty in April, 1850.