New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-02-11

should now send to Central America, IN
stead of Charge d'Affaires to some parti-
cular State, or one to each State, Minis
ter Plenipotentiary of the very first cha
racter, fully accredited to and empowered
to treat with all the States formerly COM
posing the Federation, with the avowed
purpose of counseling and laboring for its
reconstruction. The man who should first
be designated for that mission is HENRY
CLAY; and, in case the weight of years
should compel him to decline, either Mr..
CRITTRNDEN, or possibly an Embassy con-
sisting of Mr.. CRITTENDEN, Col. BENTON
and Gen. ScOTT, might be deemed more
advisable. Such an Embassy, conveyed
in one of our largest and most effective
National vessels, and combining its atten-
ton to the one great object Of uniting the
States of Central America afresh in the
bonds of Federal Union, under COnstltu-
ton possessing a vigor and tenacity OF
life equal to ours, could hardly fail of sig
nal and speedy success. And the reunion
of those States, under the direct auspices
of our Government, would be a guaranty of
their future independence and freedom from
insult. 1t would dispose of the British
cavil against giving up San Juan de Nj
caragua to the State of Nicaragua since,
whether that port belongs to this State or
not, it would undoubtedly belong to the
Central Federation. 1t would guaranty to
all the States internal tranquility and Sc
curity, and enable them to give proper at
tention to their external relations and inte-
rests. 1t would remove all remaining OBJ
stacles to the construction of the Nicara-
qua Ship Canal. 1t would give new i'm
pulse and wider diffusion to Yankee emf
grafton to Central America, which is des-
tined surely and speedily to transform and
reinvigorate that inviting country. In
short, it would secure us all the advan-
tages of an annexation of that country
without its evils.
AS to the matters in controversy be-
tween Mr. Chatfield and some of the Cen
trail American States, we think it far from
advisable that our Government should di-
rectly interfere with them. Judging from
our countrymen's experience in the seve-
raj maritime portions of Spanish America,
it is quite likely that he has plausible
grounds of complaint of injury and wrong
to British subjects to excuse his blockades
and other highhanded measure. We do
not hear his side of the story, nor is it ma
terial that we should. Enough for US that
Great Britain is solemnly bound to us by
Treaty, as we are to her, to make no con-
quests or other acquisitions of territory
within the limits of Central America, and
to relinquish any she may now possess.
This compact we shall require her to full
fill, and she will fulfill it. The modera-
ton of our Government will yet be seen to
have been impelled by something quite
other than inattention or indifference.
Those who have united in the current
denunciations of Mr.. Webster's diplomacy
will yet acknowledge that they judged
hastily and rashly. The influence of the
United States is morally certain soon to
predominate in Central America, without
a resort to bloodshed or buster to uphold
it. The surest means of establishing it
are those consistent with Patience and
Peace.