The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-01-17
Gems Of every practicable route Tor European traffic

between The two ocebDs.
II is not our int+phon TO en|r any further into
MIR. Squief's Say Inos and dougs on hts arrival at
Leon, Than as nay Arrc,ly tend to prove, that the
night 10 the exclusive disposal Of events In tnis
quarter, and the power 10 decide as TO the nature
al The Ioue which shall be made, and the terms
ulon which IL shall b< enjoyed, are the objects At
which his language md acts are pertnaciously,
but not skiUly, Directed Mr.. S9uier beIays
the purpose and oveFkhoots the mark, and this mis-.
sion promises to be u failure for all useful and
practical ends.
MI Squer, in addressing The President of the
State Of Nicaragua, ~ his pubic presentation on
The 9th OF July, declared the two republics TO pos-
sess common interestA" and that ''to secure the
should pursue system Of policy exclusively Ame-
rlcan"-t that, 10 the language Of an American
statesman, .'s foundations must be land prlncl-
ciples Of politics and morals new and dlstastetul
10 The thrones and domnions OF the elder
world" and Mr.: Squier then proceeded to
designate "a acknowledgements In This policy
To be total exclusion OF all foreign Influence from
the domestic and Internal affairs Of the American
republcs'-that "AmeTica belongs 10 Americans,
and is sacred to republican ireedom:" he con-
cluded this modest declaration Of a new interna-
tional doctrine, at which the maritime powers of
Europe, having trading interests or territorial pos
sessions The coasts and islands Of either Ame-
rca, viii sOmew hat stare, by declaring himself to
''have been led to indulge the belief that the time
Is not far distant when the commerce OF two he
mlspheres shall find, within your territories, an
easy ass8ge from sea to sea. Ii Is one OF the
objects Of my mission TO assist In enterprise SO
important to The whole world-an enterprise, the
successful prosecution Of which must enable this
country to obtain degree OF prosperity second to
that Of no other on lbf globe"
Thus the promoting OF "a passage from sea to
sea" is one OF the Objects of his mission. and If we
were TO take this speech as significant of what the
others are, we should deem the csbinet OF WASH
iDgton TO have taken to knight errantIy, as Mr..
Squier does no less than throw down the gauntlet
OF defiance 10 Europe at large.
Mr.. Squier next went to business The Steam
Company had failed, Ut was aleged,) to ratlfy the
contract made with DR. Brown, and, therefore, on
the 9th of August following, within little more
than month after the above expression of Mr..
Squiers viewera new contract was duly executed,
under The influence and direct intervention of Mr..
Squler himself, in favor OF Mr.. White, said to
have been deputed by some parties, proposing to
form a company in the United States, to run a ca.
nal between the seas of dimensions sufficient for
ships Of the largest burthen.
One of the chief clauses In the contract with Mr..
White, Is that the enterprise shall be possessed by
American citizens, and the majority of its stock be
held by them.
Another, that they shall possess the exclusive
right to inland steam navigation.
Powers are likewise accorded for constructing a
ship canal from any one OF their ports on the At
lantlc, 10 any one deemed feasible on the Pacific;
the remarkable part OF this clause being, that the
State Of Nicaragua possessed any port at all
on the Atlantic
But this is nothing, when compared with the
cool hardihood and efirontery with which the ma
tons of the world informed that the canal will
be open 10 their ships, products and people, on
equal terms with those of the United States ''pro-
vded such nations shall first enter into such trea-
ties, supulations, and guarantees respecting SAD
canal as may hereafter be entered into between
the State of Nicaragua and the United States ~
This II neilher more nor less than proclama-
non otjont.sovereignty towards the world OF that
portion OF the lsthmus, arrogated to itself since
1856, and since then only by the State of Nicara-
qua. IL Is impossible the United States govern
ment could Tor one moment support so mOnstrous
an assumption. Nor could Great Britain, or those
other maritime powers interested with herself IN
the securing some independent shipping channel
across the lsihmus, for one moment tolerate such
a stipulation, which Is even too absurd TO be re-
garded as insolent. What an imprOvlsed Charge
dAfiaires from the United States, and the igno-
rant but presumpuous government TO which he
has been accredited, may deem a very SIMPLE,
straight, go-ahead decision, to be accepted pro-
nounced, the President and statesmen Of the Uni-
vovng the ridiculous requirement, that all nations
should bhndly contract 10 submit TO the perpetual
dictaiion Of the State Of Nicaragua and the Uni
ted States" But, if we were TO allow it even
possible for the government OF the United States TO
adopt such clause, then We should have to attri.
butte TO her policy and designs even more exclu-
slve and dangerous than we can at present, for
single moment, contemplate. In reference TO this
contract, IL has been well remarked, by the New
York correspondent of orniDg papers, that "this
Transit Will be, or may be, made, one peculiarly and
exclusively tending TO give privileges to American
Interests. The vague clause above Is capable OF
application 10 any sort OF subsequent arran cement
by which foreign commerce may in the end iud
itself mulcted."
Unquesuonably this may be so, and this IN many
ways which II Is impossible TO foresee beforehand;
but We think we can come TO conclusion OF what
will be done in that way for America, TO the de-
trment of European and British interests, on the
highest possible authority. We advert to bull
reported by committee OF Congress, and accord
k.tA r.
annual grant for the Panama railroad IL having
been stipulated In such bill, behalf OF the United
States government, that Its troops and munitions Of
war should be transported across the lsthmus, and
warehouses erected at each end, free OF cost, for
It's own stores, and also that the tolls to be raised
on goods belonging TO American citizens, and
coming in enrolled vessels OF the United States,
and the fares Of American citizens and passengers
arriving IN United States vessels, should be con-
veyed at a cost fixed by the government; and fur
ther, that all passengers arriving IN United States
chips should be transported, # required, In the or
der of their arrival
This bill cid not pass last session. simply because
project for Tthuantepec shipping route claimed
10 be examined first but n contains indications OF
the utmost importance 10 British trade and ship
ping, Of the Kind Of Z" treaties and stipulations"
which " may hereafter be entered into between the
State OF Nicaragua and the United States," under
this Iowe post. fnfMrpm clause, and warning Of
how much u concerns the most esseotlal interests
OF this country, that this shipping route should not
But, Inasmuch as Mr.. Squer and the State OF
Nicaragua require that all nations shall, as con-
dition Ut The admission of their products and ship
ping through the canal, contract to sccede TO all
treaties which may hereafter be entered into be-
tween the State OF Nicaragua and the United
States, what ~ 10 prevent them (were the British
protecioraie over Mosquito withdrawn, and the
rights OF COSTA Rica extinguished) from making a
treaty, whereby Notifications should be erected
along the canal route, TO be occupied by the
toope OF the Unit d States, with the night to
close such passage TO the shipping Of any power
with whom they might be at wsrl We are much
mistaken, or this ~ one ot the very things to which
accredited agent Of the United States has al
ready obtained the assent Of the State Of Mica
rugua
The assumption upon which this contract has
been made, and upon which alone II can for a
MON, nj be sustained. IL, that in Nicaragua alone
ale vested sovereign rights OF territorial Juris-
dictIon and possession over the whole OF the line
over which her grants extend. The contract with
DR.. Brown was confined To the line Of the River
81 John only, and the port at It's entrances by the
present contract, however, Nicaragua Is made, I'M
der Mr. Squier's auspices, to extend such rIght 10
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