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had not set up pretensions, in regard to
the territorial rights of the Mosquito king,
which interposed serious obstacle to the
execution of the project by a company OF
the citizens of the United States. But,
if our Government can induce Great Bri-
tain, by the force of reason and argument,
to yield such pretensions, and unite with
us in carrying out the JACKSON policy Of
1885, in regard to this identical canal,
where is the harm of it3 Would that not
be far better than that the people Of the
United States should, in order to effect the
same object, pledge their faith and honor
to protect in all time to come, from the
interference of any European power, the
territorial rights of the Emperor of Brazil,
of the republics of Peru, and Bolivia,
of Uruguay and Paraguay, of Chill and
Buenos Ayres, Venezuela, Ecuador, &c.,
Sc, &c.s For, this is what the putting
into practice of the MONROE principle
means, and ''nothing shorter" In no
other possible way can our Government
interpose that principle for the protection
of Nicaragua, than by saying, in effect, to
| Great Britain: 'sYou must abandon your
pretensions in Nicaragua, because the peo-
Pile ofMe United States haze solemaly and
deliberately determined that NEVER hereafter
shall any portion Of the tho continents of
.America be subject to colonization by any
European poacer." But, if we say to Great
Britain: sect out Of Nicaragua; you haze
no right to be there; in consideration Of
certain erclusive privileges granted to
oar citizens By Nicaragua, we have
guaranteed her territorial rights and in
dependence, and we will drive you out,
by force of arms, if you won't 60 peace
ably;;"-if, we repeat, we say this to
Great Britain, that will not be reading the
MONROE declaration to her; that would
not have even the s'odor' of the Mon
ROE principle about it. And it is precise
ly that issue which the Union demands of
our Government to make with Great Brit
ian! In proof of this, we quote the follow
ing passage from an editorial article in the
Union of the 9th instant:
'sIt will be noticed" says the Union, ''that Mr.
HlsE's arrangement (which it insists shall be
ried out by our Government not based upon
or procured by any assurance from him, or by
the United States, with respect to the mainte-
nance of the MONROE declaration; for the grant
to the United States of the exclusive right with Nj
caragua of the navigation and of the canal,
carried with it the absolute duty TO maintain the
principle and policy of that declaration, as to the
territory Of Nicaragua, in order to secure rights
acquired by us in that State''
Carrying out the MONROE declaration,
without ever breathing, either to Nicara-
qua or to Great Britain, whisper about
| it! Our maintenance of the exclusive
right with Nicaragua, acquired under Mr..
HIsE's treaty, to the navigation and use of
the canal, maintenance of the MONROE
principle, which prohibits any future col
onization on any portion of the two con-
tinents of America by any European pow
err Has the Union lost its reasonl Can
it not see that this issue, which it insists
shall be made by our Government with
Great Britain, and which, it alleges, in
wolves the MONROE principle, as to Mica
ragua, involves merely question of ter
ritorial rights, in the first place, between
the State Of Nicaragua and the Mosquito
king, and, in the second place, question
between Great Britain and the United
States, for the acquisition and enjoyment
of exclusive commercial privileges-she,
for that purpose, interfering in behalf of
the Mosquito king, and we in behalf of
Nicaragua Cannot the Union see that in
adopting this issue, and in insisting that it
shall be adopted by the present Admins
tration, it has itself abandoned the Mon
ROE principle, about which it has been
blattering for some weeks past9 Nothing
can be clearer to any man of ordinary in
telligence who reads these remarks, than
that the Union, after heaping the most
outrageous abuse upon the Administration
for not asserting, and not meaning to as
sert, as il alleges, the MONROE principle,
has, in effect, abandoned it-entirely
abandoned it. Taking the Union'S account
of Mr.. HIsE's treaty to be correct, we un-
dertake to predict that no Senator of Con-
gress will be found stupid or reckless
enough to pretend that the Monroe princi-
pie is either carried ont by 1t or any ,oay
involved an it, On this point, however,
more hereafter. We are by no means
done with the subject. The Union's i'm
potent attempt of yesterday to escape from
the tolls which we have woven around it
will be noticed in due time.
tn. Fifteenth District OF Virginia.
The arrogance and contempt of the PEG.
| pie BETRAYED by the senior editor of the