The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-22
I HI E r E P u B Lie
WASHINGTON:
MONDAY MORNING. OCTOBER %. lS4s.
Nicaragua.

ton becomes more generally and more
thoroughly understood, the people of the
United States will be convinced that the
Polk dynasty came to an end none too soon.
They will rejoice that an administration
which vibrated between bravado and sub
| mission has been replaced by one which
pursues an even, solid course between
these extremes of weakness. They will
learn that cabinet which claimed to be
the special prop and pillar of the "Mon-
| roe doctrine" abandoned, with heartless
apathy, the republic Of Nicaragua to usur-
patton and partition; and, whilst Boosting
its vigilance over the integrity of the Anne
rican soil, beheld, without murmur, the
forcible establishment of foreign. European
jurisdiction upon the most important coast
of the Gulf Of Mexico, south of the boun-
daries of the United States.
We have heretofore stated the condition
in which the Administration of General
TAYLOR found this question. We have
shown that, when the subject was taken
in hand by the present Cabinet, Nicaragua
had been driven, by the coldness and ne
glect of their predecessors, to seek in Eu
rope the sympathy and support she had
failed to find here We have shown that,
both before and after the dismemberment
of her territory, she had importuned the
Government of the United States for assist
ance against European aggression, and
| that her prayers had been unheeded and
despised We have asserted, upon evil
dence which has not been rebutted, that
| the Polk administration, although advised
of the purposes and objects of Great Bri-
tain, and appealed to before, during, and
after the ACKNOWLEDGMENT and occupation
of the territory of the State of Nicaragua,
had witnessed, without protest, the con-
summation of that gigantic outrage upon
the nationality Of neighboring republic.
We have cited facts showing that there
was no excuse for the surrender of the
"Monroe doctrine" by the last administra-
ton, which assumed to be its exclusive
champion, unless it be found in the truck
ling timidity which is the invariable sequel
to clustering pretension.
administration, furnishes evidence which
corroborates the declarations of the Su
preme Director of Nicaragua, and gives
point and significance to expressions which
might not otherwise be sufficiently under
stood On the 18th ult., when Mr.. Hise
was in this city, we find two letters pub
lished in the Union, purporting to have
been written at Guatemala in June last.
In one of these we find the following pas
sage:
| "a few months ago the government of Nicara-
| qua despatched minister to London, with ample
powers to contract with Europeans, or, in other
words TO barter away the ercitisiue right OF making
canal to the English" &c.
II should be borne in mind that the de-
spatch of this minister to barter away to
the English the erciusaue right to make a
canal across the territory of Nicaragua,
was long after that government had repeat
eddy applied to the Polk administration for
succor and assistance against European
aggression, and was disdained even re-
ply. And, moreover, il is understood
that this minister, under instructions from
his government, came to this city before
going to Europe, to urge upon the govern
ment the suit of Nicaragua by personal
importantly, and that the last administra-
ton treated him with the same super
cilious contempt and naughty neglect with
which it received the former applications of
his State.
The Union has prated, somewhat OBJ
securely, of Mr.. Hise's treaty in vindicat-
ing the course Of the last administration.
Yet we notice in the letter published in
that journal, from which we have taken
one extract already, this curious passage
Report says, for some unaccountablc reason or
other, Mr. Hise has not received any dispatches
whatever since he left Washington city, in May of
last year and having received his appointment of
charge d'affaires and departed from his own coun-
try prior TO the ratification Of the recently. made
treaty between the United States and Mexico, in
which California &c, IL ceded TO the United
States it is feared that he is pito special inst7c-
tiOns in reference 10 Nicaragua"
This publication was made in the Union
whilst Mr.. Hise was in this city after his
return from Nicaragua. The letters were
published simultaneously with his advent;
and if the report that he was without in
structions in reference to Nicaragua had
been an error, the Union would have been
first to find it out and correct it. "The un-
accountable reason" of his not having re-
ceived dispatches becomes expicable by
! the circumstance that none were prepared
for him by the last administration. The
: clustering and exclusive proprietors of the
! "Monroe doctrine" had abandoned it
II had done nothing to embarrass'
Great Britain in the inception, progress Oh
contamination of national wrong. which