American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-06-24
Hu1ertcat1 Eepnbltcan,
AND BALTIMORE CLIPPER,
TUESDAY MORNING, JrNE ~, is4a'

yet tllt event IS pi'-'uCl '''A ''' ''~- .'' 49, ~
curreuc,. there can be no doubt that letters o.
ml-oae will be issued by Mexico, and that the
subjects OF other powers will, under cover OF
thu Mexican llg, seize the occasion to prey
upon our commerce. This is to be anttcjPatcd
aud cannot be prevented. We see that the
l'aion, the official organ of our government,
has assumed the extraordinary and Indetens'bIe
position, that, in case letters OF maEqne be Is
sued by Mexico, our government VIII at once
tissue orders to the commanders OF our sqIa-
Grons-lf they have not already been issued
10 treat a, pirates any ,oreiga vessel that Is
pleased to sail with foreign crews under those
letters of mprqno." Mexico being al indepen-
dent power, has a right to prescribe the cond-
tons upon which foreigners shall have and en-
10y the rights and privileges o.! Mexican citizens,
and hence she may issue projections, (as we
formerly did, by wholesale 70 foreign seamen
whD may seek employment in her service
And will our government undertake TO treat
Individuals thus circumstaAccd as pirates, and
sing them up to the yard arm: 1t would be
hazardous business, besides being in direct OPP
position to the principles which we have here
to.o-e uniformly maintained. The doctrine of
the United States is, that the flag protects all
who sail under it, and so strictly do We adhere
10 this position, that we even refuse to other
powers the privilege Of searching any vessel
bearing the American Rag, for the purpose of
ascertainjng if she be not pirate who has i'm
properly assumed that flag. Were our govern
nient to issue ORDERS AS ntimated by the Union,
and proceed to put them into execution, the
seycrest retaliation might be expected, and
scenes Of the greatest blrbarity would be wit
messed. 1t would introduce a new feature into
warfare, entirely Inconsistent with the spirit of
the age 1t would not be tolerated by civilized
nations, nor would it receive the sanction of
the citizens of the United States. flour ambi
ton to annex Texas to the Union should bring
Us into war with Mexico, it mast be conducted
~ the spirit and upon the principles which
govern modern warfare among Christian ma
&ons. We cannot believe that, in this instance,
the Union speaks the sentiments, or expresses
he intentions Of the general government-and
certain we are that were our commanders to
attempt to treat as pirates foreigners who might
be found on board Of Mexican prva;eers, this
country would soon find itself engaged in more
serious conflicts than that with Mexico. We
repeat, that we do not believe that we shall
hare war-but if it come, let us do nothing
that will a!ii1 stain to the American character.
JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AND Pacific
This is an age of stupendous projects and OF ex
traordinary performance. The successful APP
plication of steam, on land and water appears
to have enlarged the Inventive faculties and to
have increased the ambition Of mankind; and
hence there seems to be general determine
hon to reach every thing and every place by
short cut. We are to have a Railroad to Ore
gon and a Canal from the Atlantic to the Paci-
nc. The latter project, if successful, would
produce a wonderful change in the commerce
Of the world, by the facilities which it would
afford to communications with Asia, Sc. The
Liverpool Times has an article upon this sub
Jet, from which it appears, that the route has
been surveyed, and the project pronounced fea-
sbe by NJ. Arago, Of Paris. at seems" SAYS
the Tlmes,) "that Don Jose de Garay, with
some Mexican officers, and an Italian engineer.
Don G.. Moro, have been employed upwards Of
year in surveying the district of 1ehuantepec
and that the result of their Investigations has
satisfied the great French authority Arago,
and other eminent scientific men in this coun-
Try and on the continent, that the new scheme
is feasible, and may be successfully carried out.
Garay is guaranteed by the Government, for
period Of fifty years, two-thrds Of the tolls ars-
M from the transit, commencing with the
opening of the communication between the two
oceans; and for the fourth ofthe receipts, which
the Government takes, the shareholders are to
have an interest to the same amount for sixty
years after the expiration Of Garay's teral.--
Breadth of land, to the extent Of thirty miles,
OIL each side of the line, is ceded to him in fee
simple, with the privilege Of purchasing lands
ana establishing colonies to the extent OF one
hundred and fifty miles more. This, in sub
stance, is the proposition which is now before
the capitalists Of London aud its purport we
have gathered from circular addressed 10 many
o. the leading commercial houses"
II the project be practicable, it appears to US
that it would have been more proper to have
had the work undstaken by the governments
Of commercial nations than by individuals, as
being more certain Of completion and of being
placed under just and impartial regulations
when finished. 1t would certainly be Of i'm
mense Importance to the United States, to have
20 short cut to the Pacific, and we presume
that our government would have readily con-
lrbuted to the construction ofthe work