New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-04-18
The Nicaragua Affair.

letter o.. mine or the Nicaragua altar, Ia tha
4Jgny f,I4s Of the 18Th inst. The saUect az much
a.d severe commca: ia TIE Tujune yesterday
I CLAIM. a .w words in reply. aid further cxpe-.
shat yo- - give ,h.s answer % Jour structures as
coaspioao., place as they occupied in your
paper
ssogery seldom that 7 feel obliged . take
Exception 20 shat appears u Tic Iltrae and s.
very often uatI Zee. both pleased and instructed
with is teachings that il is With the utinos. regret
feel completes 10 differ with IL oscas .oneli y- j.
.-l.h. do not ba8v any subject Of importance
upon which T1c IajrHe and N. self are not agreed,
excepting the inv.ncib.Aty Of Gen. Taylor and The
infsl,bit. OF Mr Clayton s1rt of halilc..ai.ol
90 which ihiuk IT. Ii7'tHe Is oecasiona-t $40.
iect ..
You say that am w.,'e.y y. iuezc1sah'y wrong
In saving that your cores ponicut ALMA stated
In Tie Irbsue of the 5th INST. that The frltecto-
rate OF England in Mosquito has been admitted
ty Cen Tag 0fs Cabaet ms Tie bass % tie Leso
ta'ous '0- tie settlement OF tie Nicaragua affair.
! viii now quote from ALFHAs article iu M
YrIufc Oh. the 9Th inst and leave o % your read
els tolec.de whether or not was warranted IT,
coming to that conclusion.
.Tls Acri1.sradon require ill iho Iresly sAs con
tain sigI al0u tal Under her fuga'i - ifj1rtl s'r
d.
nor aienpi 10 r i'Tre any i.ui % an5 81 rs
ofrlf Ptoftcfrefe or 10 lr name oi me Mls4-o hnE
hat She has c'HcEfd % a0sHdon nHfer her 5H Hie and
ia her ora 'iy'f'
Now admitting that AITHA Is in the confidence
of the Administration and has stated what he
Knows 10 be the facts ia th., matter, infer from
lis statement as quoted above, that England Pro
tectorale IS ally cd lis NfS4Hi'2 MycHy IS not oaly
admitted bat that Englalds Sovereignty 70 a
u ia.4 Hr- :
Cabinet, otherwise why talk Of certain rights
England has consented 20 abandon under her own
name
As regards the avemcut-ldmittngi it . bo
true-of III. polks abandonment Of the Monroe po
hcy m Central America, this will ia no wise excuse
the sam, policy on the part Of the present Admins
tration who proclaim and affect 20 deplore bis er
rors 10 this respect-more particularly as the 10
dependence Of Central America IS one Thousand
times m0-e important - the United states since
the acquisition OF IIorla. than L was previously
The holding up the power Of England as al
excuse Cor submitting t. luSu.t and wronc-as Do
tie Tgra Island affair, when our lag was iusuIted
our rights violated, and our allies outraged con
consider anything Bat wise or patriotic course.
When America was stripping. she dared that
POWER and eventually n acc il bite the dust. Now
that America Is come 10 manhood, shall craven
fear of England decsy,d power induce US TO sub
nit 10 whatever wrong she chooses to inhct on
ourselves. or outrage she thinks 1T to perpetrato
against our allies Yours, very respectfully,
l-.Ea., B-..is.y s-- lgr, Arrl ID. ~
Remarks.
l. Nj Dugsau begins 10y asserting thatwc labor
under the hailuciuation Of es,eeming Gen Tayorin-
vincibe and Mr.. Clayton n'alhble In the politest
phrase we can oonjarc up, We assure him tia; his
assertion is uuvarrautcd.
.. Great Britain stpu.aies with the United
States that she Will not set up certain claims nor
commi, certain acts in Central America Our
Government requires her further to agree that what
she has sip ulated cot to do o. and for herself she
viii not do the ally Of the King OF Mosquito, Or
enable him to DO Though her aid Mr. Dueean
SAYS this is admitting the Protectoraie Of Mosquito
by Great Britain Admitting what That such
Protectora,e is legitimate and rightiui That it
ooniers any rights on either party Certainly not.
Ii IS a subject with which We have no concern fur
therihan it may be BY Great Britain to cover
uch acts OF aggression as the seizure Of San Juan
lie Nicaragua. AID this, It vii BE- lound Gen Tay-
lor has required pledge shall not be done The
relations between Great Britain aud Mosquito are
only subjects Of soci,ude and inquiry by other
powers as til e. affect the rights and interests OF
those powers And here il will be found that the
Administration is fully alive to its duties. We re
pea, that Gen Taylor has not admitted the right
fitness nor validity Of the British Protectorate OF
No squto, but has simply taken care that it shall
not be used TO obnoxious claims or Preiudica
aggressons.
3 Mr.. Dugesn proceeds ca the superstition thsiin
Fore ign Affairs an Administration is distinct from
and independent Of It's predecessor, and 50 may
deny what that predecessor admitted and reclaim
what II conceded. The lac, is quite otherwise
The American Government Of 1850 is in the con
temptation Of Diplomacy and international Law,
identical with the American Government, o.
ls47-s and bound by tie acts of that Government
To resist now the seizure u San Juan de Nicara
qua for instance, when the last Administr alton,
with ample notice Of the intent, refused TO remon-
srAte AgAns, il beforehand or to protes. against i,
upJn notice that it had taken place, would by DO
means be 50 straight forward and easy matter as
or correspondent imagines.
Tigre Island was seized by tie British Consul
or pretexi OF debt-s very poor one for such an
act IN our judgment though i does not become our
Cover nment 70 say sc-bUt Il was promptly given
up again. Nicaragua offered u cede i. to Us, and
Mr. Sqaier ssreed 70 take IT, but the Cabinet most
Wis ely declined. What there Is in ali this that
looks hAe insg.t 10 our Gag We cAlno; imagine.
We declined the eift q that petty island. when
We might have had it BY merely saying the word.
because remote acquisitions are cou,-ary TO our
settled AID uniform policy. Great Britain bad
l. -r.,l
5. Most people have already heard bow severe
Is and repeatedly we have thrAshed the British,
and how easy We can Do i sgain- /; Is kind of
tax that III beseeus brave and strouy people
though not qoite 50 absurd as ordering Great Bri-
tain to clear oct OF Central America IN forty