The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-07-12
Commercial and Political Affairs In NJ


Commercial and Political Affairs In NJ
caraSua.
The Atlantic and Pacific Steam Navigat alton Com
pspy have sent out their first vessel for the port of
San Juan de Nicaragua which the British intriguers
and encreaehers delight to call Greytown. The
steamer Director is capable of carrying four hun
dred passengers, and is destined to navigate the
San Jusn river to a point about thirty-five miles
from Lake Nicaragua, where the steamer Nicara-
qua, formerly known as the Orus, will transport
the freight and passengers TO Nicaragua City ny
the first Of August, another steamer will be sent
out. Tomorrow, the schooner Enterprise VIII
sail with company of engineers, at the head OF
whom is Mr. Childs, formerly Chief Engineer oil
this State. They will proceed at once to mark out
the route of the proposed canal-that desirable
work, which is destined to have a tremendous
effect upon the commerce of the world. Little,
comparatively, is known by our government, by
the public, or by individuals, of the country IN
which this canal is to be located. 1t has been
sadly neglected. The British have been active
in it for twelve or fourteen years past but their in
trigues and encroachments will soon be at an end.
The sympathes of the people of Honduras, San
Salvador, and Mica ragua-the Central American
Union-are with the United States, and they are
ments, particularly as Great Britain has ridicu-
lousy attempted to claim for Costa RIGA and Mos
quitia twothirds of Nicaragua, and, in despite of
our treaty, keeps the British flag flying over the
custom house of port San Juan, where the United
States goods are entitled to pass free of duty, but
where duties are exacted in spite of us--our go
vernment never showing an ''iron mouth" in the
harbor, to protect our commerce.
This however u,ust come IN an end. If Lord
Palmerston will make himself ridiculous by un-
founded pretensions, and attempt to put all decen-
cy at defiance, our people will soon give the go
vernment at Washington reason to act in the pro-
lection of rights. We are bound to amcable
intercourse with the cOnfederated States of Mica
rsgua, Honduras, and San Salvador, and we shall
maintain our natural position The treaty nego-
tiated between Sir Henry L. Bulwer and Mr. Clay
ton has been officially proclaimed. In reference
to the proposed canal, it may perhaps, be all well
enough. So far as other matters concerned
the Mosquito business, for instance-we are appre-
hensive that il leaves thags in state than they
were before the treaty Does the document not
draw the United States into implied admission
of the validity of Anglo-Mosquitian pretensions!
1t has been called, very enormously, the Nicara-
guam treaty This it is not, any more than it is
Mexican or New Granadan treaty. Properly
speaking, it is general convention between Great
Britain and the United States, in reference to posi-
BILE railroads and canals. We doubt iii will bear
the praises which have been lavished upon it by
the recent cabinets organs. We have reason to
believe that it is very satisfactory to Palmerston;
and if we could see some of his recent dispatches
to Sir Henry L. Bulwer, we think we should read
his delight at the possibility of maintaining the
Nicaraguan Atlantic coast " rights which it never
posse ssed "--and, in the interior, territory which
Spain held, though Spanish forts are at every
available point, overgrown with the vegetation of
undsturbed years. If Lord Palmerston could see
trees growing up through piles Of cannon balls, he
might be inclined to revise his opinions, as to the
probability that Spain did occupy the territory
which the naked King of Mosquito would claim to
hold jurisdiction This point, however, will Be
settled at no very distant day. Our business Is
with the real Nicara guam tr eaty.
This is now before the Senate of the United
States. 1t is an important negotiation, and as Mr.
Squier, our able Charge d'Afaires, is at Washing
ton, we hope he will make the subject of il clear
to our Legislators. Ii is of vast importance, both
for the present and the future II should not be
allowed to stick in the Senate, for the purpose of
suiting lite conditions the temper Of Lord Palmer
British construction Of the Bulwer and Clayton
convention. We are perfectly well informed that
the clause in the Nicaraguan treaty which troubles
Mr. Bulwer, is that which recognises the right of
Nicaragua to the sovereignty over the port of San
Juan del sIorte concerning which much has been
said, and which the British will yield without
considerable share of cbagrin and reluctance. Now,
though like the duty on iron, modification Of this
ka hlssf IN he ,t,ah
cabinet, and to Lord Palmerston in particular, yet
we cannot consent TO it, without proving, in the
worst sense, treacherous to the Nicaraguan govern
ment and people. Sorry as we should be to give
any modification to the English, amiable
friends and enterprsing competitors, practical
surrender Of the only vital point at issue, our
part would re suit only in shame and infamy. This
is plain enough to the commonest apprehension,
and needs no explanation or illustration, by those
who know the history Of the active agents Of Great
Britain in the neghborhood Of the confederated
States Besides, it has been, it be, and il will
be demonstrated, beyond the shadow of doubt,
and beyond the crcumscripton of even a preten-
siop that Nicaragua right of sovereignty San
Juan, and the whole fthe so-called Mosquito shore,
is " clear and ndisputable," and that the claims Of
the British are the most gratui,ous fabiicatons in
every particular. We do not have to run over the
records Of many years, TO make this perfectly ap-
parent.
We shall be prepared, therefore, for the Senate
of the United States to maintain the honor Of the
country, TO study closely the merits Of the case, to
preserve the rights Of Nicaragua ia their fitness
and integrity, and to yield jot to the coaxng
policy sf the British minister They will certainly
never submit to modify important clause as
that which annoys Sir H. l.. Buwer, to he for
ever quoted by Great Britain az a recognition of
Mosquito, or rather, Of the justice Of those preten
sions which they have dared to set up.
MORALITY, PATRIOTISM, AND Coon FEELING
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