The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1849-11-01
Preparations for u Rupture with England
On the Mosquito Question.

Preparations for Rupture with England
On the Mosquito Question.
From the Philadelphia North American and Gazette,
(Mr. Clayton's own paperD Oct. 80
THE NICARAGUA QUESTION.
Ii Is a long lane that has no turning and Great
Britain, the proud and rapacious who has made it,
in manner, her boast that, in her march of power
she never yielded point or surrendered preten-
sion, has at length-happy fruit of her own over
cunnng-reached that solid barrier of an impassa-
BILE stone wall, from which, if for the first
TINE, a retreat is inevitable. She finds this diff
Guilty in the little State of Nicaragua, which she
had contrived wonderfully ingenious plan to get
within her grasp-and, with IT, that talisman of
worlds wealth and power hereaiter-the key and
great gate of the Pacitic-the most availabe-and
perhaps the only availabe-route for ship canal
between the two oceans; and the obstacle appears
in The shape of the United States which, with equal
right and superior interest, and justice and huma-
nifty to back them, are there before her, resolved,
and, what Is harder, from the very force of things,
compelled to make that opposition, in the face of
winch the project collapses, and the whole scheme
OF ambition must be abandoned. Right and reason,
common justice, common sense, and common de-
cency, in this controversy, all arrsyed against
| the pretensIons OF Great Britain; and fate Itself
conspires agans; her, since, in the prevailing
diton of things IN Europe and in her colonies, II is
utterly impossb BILE she should ever think OF main
tanning them Ivy arms. There is more British
honor staked upon the preservation, OF Canada
than the acquisition OF Nicaragua; and the Ameri-
can trade and tariff of 1916, in immediate value
or necessy-would weigh down all the prospec-
tive advantages of the South Sea Canal.
Yet the real origin of this difficulty, as well as
Of the whele disreputabe ministerial scheme OF the
Mosquito PrOtectOrae, is natural rivalry, last
threatening 10 become conflict OF interests In that
quarter, between Great Britain and the United
States The commerce and future empire OF the
Pacific Ocean are the prizes Ii is emily the repub-
lie and the old parent monarchy which can be
competitors for them The Asatc and Australia
static possessions Of England on the West and the
presence OF the United States, In Oregon and Cali
foma, the East place them in natural anita
gonism TO each other, and the question OF final su
periority depends upon that of the occupation and
control of the lsthmus routes OF inter-communica-
ton. The London Neics Is right in declaring that
there is greater interest at stake than that in
yolved between the Mosquitoes and Nlcaraguans !;
but 1t Is wrong in intenlng-for it seems to infer
an equality OF interest on the part of Great Britain
and the United States. Ii may be necessary TO
British commerce to clam possession of the Mica
raguan lsthmus; but commanding position there
for the United States Is political necesslty-it is
essential TO the security of Oregon and California,
and, therefore, TO the integrity of the Union This
is fact which cannot now be hidden from the
meanest intellect In the course OF time, we shall
have railroad binding together the valley OF the
Mississippi and the far-off western slopes of the
Sierra Nevada; but in the meanwhile, the Union is
cut two by the vast deser. of the prairIes and
Rocky Mountains, and the link that connects them
Is in Central America That link cannot safely
be permitted to be in the hands under the rule
OF Great Britain.
In view of this great and never to be forgotten
fact, II Is most fortunate thing tor us that our
clam is lar Juster and stronger one than that OF
cur rival We already occupy the vantage ground,
and occupy II fairly and honorably. The argu-
ment and the justice are both with us. After all
the fine devices and the bold aggressions of the
English at the expense OF Nlcaragua-after all the
trouble taken by them in building up the pageant of
Mosquito kingdom, and the violence done, and
the blood shed by them, In seizng the port OF San
Juan, il is satisfactory TO remember that a more
| unto uulp ed nd w act ID
than that asserted, and that IL cannot stand for
one moment before the serious opposition of the
United States The British journals may argue
| British functionarles IN Nicaragua may talk like
! Roman proconsus-a British consular agent In
| New York may write letters, under instructions,
ayowDg the inyalldiy Of grants from the State of
| Nicaragua TO American ctizens-and even Bril-
tish Minister for Foreign Affairs may proclaim the
/ rights Of the Mosquito chief and the duty OF Eng
land TO protect hun IN their enjoyment but all Is
still hollow farce; the house OF policy is house
| OF cards and the moment trlth comes TO the in
vesugation, IL is found that there is no right-no
clan-no duty there, on the part of England, ad.
verse to the title OF Nicaragua, and that England
| has no ground whatever to stand upon, except the
brptun1 fuinien OF her own imperlous WILL
All this our readers may understand from the
| following simple propositions, which we now lay
| down, intending to sustain them, or rather make
the truth Itself sustain them; for each one In
| wolves a fact which neither can be disguised nor
denied. One cannot read them without being
| struck with the amazing injustice and effrontery
| of wrong, at which the government of England is
guilty in pursuing her game ct The Mosquito hing,
at the expense OF "a poor feeble State like thai OF
| Nicaragua, utterly incapable OF resisting her
iIown Or resenting her tyranny, When would she
| have dreamed Of playing such a game at the ex-
pense Of a powerful nationl The following are the
| positions -
Ist Great Britain has no right or claims Of her
own in Nicaragua, or to the navigation OF the San
| Juan nver.
ID She does not assert, and never has asserted,
any such rights or claims Of her own; all that she
asserts is the alleged rights and claims Of the So
called, King Of Mosquito
| 3D. The King of Mosquito has rights OF
| claims OF his own, as above.
18th He does not assert, and never has asserted
| any such nights or claims.
9th Great Britain has no right, whether as
| protector, or Otherwise, TO assert such rights and
claims IN his behalf, II they even existed.
9th All the right and title in the Nicaragua soil
and the port, nyer, and navigation OF the San
Juan, are IN the State OF Nicaragua alone and her
/ grant is d good and valid enc against the world.
These positions we shall take up and examine
in detail, quite satisfied that ever one of them will
| Re found n declaration OF PLAIN and naked facts.
| We know that they cannot be questioned by Eng
land with any truth OF decency. In the mean
while, as our aIucle is already sufficiently long,
| we leave them awhile for the consideration Of our
! readers.
prom the New York Courier Enquirer, Oct IS
TIE MOSQUITO QUESTION.
/ Thee Is 10 part Of the globe 10 which we can
iook for proceeding similar TO that OF the Eng
| lisb government towards the Mosquito chief, ex-
/ cept IN Brush India. There the civilized world
has seen England exhibit system OF rapacity and
terTitorisl absorption such as has been well cacu-
lated to belle every pretension TO honesty, huma-
nifty and famess, ever put forward by her people in
| behalf Of th,u government There, We have seen
one native chief after another deposed, and entire
| Kingdoms swallowed up and absorbed, until nearly
TIE whole 81 The East has been stolen IRON It's e-
! gitlmste masters, and annexed to the British
crown. There, the very worst species Of slavery,
and the most degtadbg and demOrallzing despot-
ism, have been practically introduced aud fOstered;
while, IN WesteIa Europe, thus same gigantic
power has pretended to rebuke Aincan slavery
| IN America, and been loud-mouihsd IN her pro
fessions al liberty aud philanthropy.
And how hos all this been accomplished How,
except under The spccIOys Plea OF protection to
the native chieisl Such "wOtecion" A. the vul-
ture gives 90 the GUye-such protection ~ England
! Chicl--aDd such "proi,rtion" as she will have a
InlL In nl-nL amy LnlL-n nhLnL lILln own