The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-11-30


As we predicted when Mr.. Barclays protest
against the exercise Of their rights BY the Amer.4
can. Navigation Company first Appeared the dif- |
6culties between Great Britain and the United
States in regard to their relations with Nicaragua,
become every day more and more serious. We
have before stated that any compromise Of the re-
speative claims Of the two governments would be
difficult ifnot impossible and the latest news we
ave received confirms the opinions we have pre-
viously expressed The telegraph informs us that
Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, the new English Min
ister has instructions to prevent any interference
Of the United States with the relations Of Great
Britain and Nicaragua and vet we have but
the other day heard that Charge to Guate-
mala, Mr.. SquieT, has negotiated a treaty by which
the Island Of Tigre is ceded to the United States.
At the same time we are told that British fleet
was in full sail towards the Gulf Of Fonseca, in
order to take possession Of this very Island OF Tgre
Imagine the rage Of real John Bull Admiral,
when he gets to the island and finds those ever
lasting Stars and Stripes waving where he thought
to see fort manned by none but Spanish Ameri-
cans and Indians. How the old gentleman or the
young gentleman, as the case may be, will gnash
his teeth with very wrath, and curse the internal
Yankees who always get ahead of all creation.
No matter what may be the wish or disposition
Of the President and his Secretary Of State it will
be impossible for them, under present circumstan-
ees, to retreat from the position assumed by Mr.
Monroe, and maintained by his successors, that
European governments will not be permitted by
the United States to interfere with the rights oil
any Of the people on this continent. The feeling
] Of which Mr. Monroe the exponent, and which
Gen. Jackson so faithfully represented is becoming
J, every year stronger and stronger in the American
S people. With a sense Of their growing and now
almost irresistible power, comes sense of the
e duties they owe to their weaker brethren in the
: way Of protection and support. Wrongs to oui
d North American neighbOrs, which twenty year,
7 ago would have been passed by without notice o.
n remonstranee, now call forth from the Untet
n States protests which are imperative and iniunc
2 tons which are decisive. No longer mere colo
MES emerging into independence, and struggling
as il for life and death to maintain our own posio,
honorably and well, we have arrived at that highe
state of power when we give assistance to on
friends who may be struggling with stronger, ant
tyrannieal nations.
The people Of the United States will not, then
be disposed to give up any of the rights they ma,
have acquired in Nicaragua-nay, they will not b,
disposed even to forsake weak and friendly conn
/ - 80 u guy OH9e4uences that may ensut
from British wrath or British enmity. That VIC
have rights in Nicaragua, no one can be Ignorant
Of. Even had our citizens not received a grant
from the Niearaguan government still; as a neigh
Dor of the United States, we have right to see
that power inmcal to ours is introduced into an
adjacent territory. Great Britain is, from all ap-
Pearanees, attempting to gain an authority in Cen
trail America, which is not only dangerous to the
present occupants of that region, but may in the
end prove highly detrimental to the interests of the
people of the United States. II behooves US to
take a stand in the matter before the danger be-
comes too urgent If we delay, it may be the
work Of years to re-eonquer what we have lost ;
and it is only by timely action that we can hope
to forestal the energetic efforts England is making
for the supremacy of the Isthmns of san Juan de
4 Niearagua