The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-02 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1856.

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Another element of disturbance has been intro-
duced into the complicated account between the
rival branches of the Anglo-Saxon race. As if
the Central American and Enlistment questions
were not quite sufficient to maintain the excite-
ment from which the Government at Washing-
ton hopes to gain political capital at the forth-
coming Presidential election, Messrs. pn:ReE)
MARCY, and GUSHING have flung down another
apple of discord, by means whereof they hope to
gain a few more votes from the " Hannibal
Ohollops," and other striking specimens of the raw
material of Yankeedow—the men " half-horse,
half•alligator"_..who chuckle as they chew, respect-
ing the necessity of " taming the British Lion,"
and expectorate their bile against the Britisher 3
and tobacco juice with a lavish profuseness very
unpleasing to the unfortunate bystanders. We
wholly acquit the groat body of the American
people from any participation in time dis•

gusting proceedings. They are, as we have
already stated, nothing but electioneering
tricks., attempted for the most degrading
aid uel fish purposes, but still they are of such a
charm -ter as to endanger the friendship and cor-
diality that ought to be maintained between
inemb ers of the same great family—men using
the ss tme language, and having blood derived
from tone common stock, circulating through their
veins.

The present step is one that cannot be de-
fended. It is simply the recognitien by the
Cabinet of Washington, of the " Walker" piratical
invasion of Nicaragua—and the " filibustering
martial law thereby established, as a de facto
Government with which they will enter into
friendly relations. They profess to be peculiarly
sensitive as to any interference with the complete
neutrality of the States, and yet they not merely
sanction but lend the most powerful aid to a gang
of buccaneers, enlisted in their own territories,
in violation of the law, for which they are so
solicitous.

The specious pretext under which they attempt
to justify this monstrous precedent is, that they
" recognise all Governments without question as
to their source or organisation, or the means
by which the governing powers attain their power,
provided there be a Government, de facto, ac-
cepted by the people of this country."
The acceptance by the people is a point on
which very slender evidence will be received and
acted on. It is a matter of profound indifference
whether " a successful revolution has been aided
by foreign intervention or not," or, in other
words, whether the change has been effected by
the people of the country, or by a party of buc-
caneers, organised within their own territories,
who, if they failed, should be garotted, but, if
they held their ground for a short time,
might be recognised, sustained, and supported by
the government of the United States.
Never before was a doctrine in every respect
so atrocious formally promulgated by a powerful
Government. It encourages robbery of the worst
description. It is the practical profession of—
" The good old rule, the simple plan,
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can."
General PIERCE in his Message shows that he is
fully aware of the illegal source from whence this
power which he recognises as a Government de
facto is derived. While declaring that he has
never failed sternly to use all the authority vested
in him to repress unlawful enterprises, for divers
good reasons duly stated and set forth, he adds
that in Nicaragua, "in their struggles and
troubles, neither being strong enough to overcome
the other, one of the parties invited the assistance
of a small body of citizens of the United States,
whose presence apparently put an end to the struggle,
and restored quiet by placing at the head of the
Government a distinguished individual, as its
provisional president."
Was there ever such a flimsy pretext, such a
flagrant disregard of every principle of right and
justice, so decided an encouragement to the worst
speci3s of piracy ? WALKER and his marauding
gang were reduced to the last extremity. They
could not possibly have maintained their position
without the direct aid of the United States Go-
vernment, and that will be afforded. The sharp
end of the wedge has been introduced, and if the
filibustering parties, who will now be encouraged
to try their hands in the new "spec.," be not
sufficient to sustain the original aggressors, there
will be the direct interference of the Government
at Washington, and direct hostilities with Guate-
mala and Costa Rica.
It would be playing the game of PIERCE and
MiRCY to adopt the measures which we would
be fully justified in taking. Whatever the
Rowdy journals may assert, bullying is not an
English attribute ; nor do we desire to resort to
threats that will not, in case of need, be followed
up to the extreme point. We prefer to leave the
matter to the good sense of the people themselves,
satisfied that they will inflict the heaviest censure
on those who have so grossly abused the power '
entrusted to their hands.

The holiday and the fireworks are over. Go-
vernment has given us its peace, and amused us,
and still more our nursemaids and our children,
by its skill in pyrotechny. We are bound to
confess that time was kept on this occasion, and
the only complaint was that of Colonel Tul,well,
of the " want of ingenuity ;" the four parks, for
an hour and a half, poured forth flights of rockets,
tourbillons, &c., but group was so like to group
that the monotony of the splendour at last be-
came wearisome. The interest even of children
flagged, and they wearily exclaimed, after a few
discharges, "Oh ! that is just like the others."
Yes, it was a brilliant monotony. But what else
was the peace itself ? Looking back at, the mo-
dern series of such events, however varied their
hues, however splendid some of the victories
which led to them, one characteristic has per-
vaded them all—they have been like the wars
which preceded them, affairs of Crowns, not or
Peoples ; compacts of despots, making each the
best bargain they could for themselves ; and
generally, as in this case, however guilty a despot,
his fellows' sympathy with the order was tco
strong to admit of his receiving his deserts. Ele
was a despot, "he must not be humiliated."
Millions of once free people might groan for their
rights beneath his hoof, but they must not even
be named, lest one of the accursed brotherhood
should feel " humiliated."

The peace fireworks have hardly vanished, be-
fore the mournful yet manly cry of Poland
reminds the Allies of their infamy. The memo-
rial of the Poles to Count WALEWSKI appears in
the very papers which describe the Government
rejoicings, and it is a document which the histo-
rian will most certainly consider in connection
with the protocols and articles of the Plenipoten-
tiaries. Its demands are so moderate, and its lan-
guage so restrained, that its testimony to the moral
cowardice and consequent injustice of the Plenipo-
tentiaries is unanswerable. It is addressed to a noble-
man, bearing a Polish name, who was, virtually,
the representative of a conqueror, who might have
died in Franco instead of a prisoner on the rock
of St. Helena, had he but fulfilled his promises to
Poland. How probable that, if NAPOLEON 111.
had consulted European justice instead of the sup-
Posed interests of his infant, he too might have
gained a position, from which revolution could
net have
displaced him, and have associated with
a Napoleonic dynasty the memory of deliverance
oppressed.
for the
Believing, 8,
we have done, from the com-
mencement of the War, that au attack on Russian
tyranny in Poland was the true flank march for
the salvation of Turkey and of all Europe, we
also frequently urged that the least the Conaresi
of Paris could do was to demand for the Poles
what they were guaranteed by the Treaty of
Vienna, but what NlcsoLes deprived them of
in 1831, with a fiendish savagery and
glee, which
made all Europe shudder—and, to its la4ting
shame, shudder at in silence. The miquityl,wa,
completed by handing over the free republic of
Cracow to Austria in 1846. Now, what' the
Poles_ 4.6 k is merely the constitutiop, territory,.