. The fisheries dispute : a suggestion for its adjustment by abrogating the convention of 1818 and resting on the rights and liberties defined in the treaty of 1783 [microform] : a letter to the Honourable William M. Evarts of the United States Senate. Fisheries; Pêche commerciale. Ai â IV 1; 1 ; 1 â .â . i t â i 50 THE FISHERIES DISPUTE, Concluding Suggestions. It is not at all to be presumed that Lord Salisbury to whom, I may say in passing that we are all indebted for the ready courtesy with which he has permitted us to gather from the State-Paper Office of London the most interesting and
. The fisheries dispute : a suggestion for its adjustment by abrogating the convention of 1818 and resting on the rights and liberties defined in the treaty of 1783 [microform] : a letter to the Honourable William M. Evarts of the United States Senate. Fisheries; Pêche commerciale. Ai â IV 1; 1 ; 1 â .â . i t â i 50 THE FISHERIES DISPUTE, Concluding Suggestions. It is not at all to be presumed that Lord Salisbury to whom, I may say in passing that we are all indebted for the ready courtesy with which he has permitted us to gather from the State-Paper Office of London the most interesting and important papers bearing on the peace negotiations, papers whose value we appreciate anew as we observe their bearing on the questions af to-dayâit is not to be presumed that Lord Salisbury will decline to look at the right, we claim, not as privileges conceded to colonists, but as anci'?ut rights won for Gr^at Britain by American valour, of which we retained our share on the division of the empire, and of which, by well-established rules, we lost not an iota by the war. Nor is it to be presumed that Lord Salisbury will submit a questi'or. tl«at so nearly concerns the honotsr and the interest of the British people to the decision of the Canadians, whose unwisdom has strained our relations, and who, even since the Halifax award, are not content; cr that Lord Salisbury will on this occasi >n adopt the principle or the method which Mr. Greville attributes to Lord Pakners- ton, when he says that , in speaking of Lord Ashburton and his treaty with Webster, remarked : " We are all right, and the Americans all wrong. Never give up anything ; insist on having the thing settled your own way, and if they won't consent, let it remain ; In view of the rights of our fishermen we cannot afford to let this thing remain unsettled ; and it would seem as if the Canadians, unchecked by the Home Government, had put it in our power to end the grievan
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