The daily union., 1852-12-28
.rh, POLICY OF the United states with Regard
10 Nicaragaa-


Prom the Guatemala Gsce,a
In our last number stated that the Congress o
Nesraxus had refused 10 sanction the treaty signed
Washington the ae,h OF April last, by the Secre.ar,
III Stale OF that l~public aud The minister OF Eng land
for the purpose OF terminating the questions OF Guiana
caste and M0squHo
We also, in The same number, inserted the petition o
the deputy Zapoi& 10 The government OF Nicaragua. In
which he brings serious charges The representative oil
the State ios having formally rendered the cession OF the
territories IN question.
The formal and explicit recognition by the United States
of the sovereignty OF ihe Mosquito nation. and the rgh
which England has claimed in iavor OF the aborgines
Il is not our inteaton to enter into this matter, non
even to express opinion with regard TO il; but
cannot do lees than notice the contradictory and illogical
course OF the United States in respect TO IT,
his notorious fact iha! many years ago the papers
sanity sought 10 persuade Nicaragua that the United
States would never acknowledgs the legal existence Of
the Mosquito country II is notorious fact that the
Americs and in England have done all IN their power 10
induce the government OF Nicaragua 10 refuse lis acqui
esesnos 70 the English pre.ecorate OF the Mosquitoes
We do not wish quote any OF the endless articles writ
tan in this spirit BY American editors We shall confne
ourseiyes 10 copying somc OF the official documents
which We have al hand, published by the government o
ss limited .sS Ss
Tge island and the blockadng Of the ports OF Salvador
and also some OF those be found in the recent work OF
Whis Review, an American paper.
Among the instructions given TO the Anglo American
delegates to the Panama congress was the following
nen single point in which European colony could sci
i,s foot wi,hou, violating the territorial rights OF come
American State. Any endeavor having this object in
view and every establishment for the purpose OF trans
mittns sovereign rights 10 European power, must be
regarded as an insdmissble usurpalion."
Secretary Clayton, on giving bis instructions to Squer,
anoag other things. says the following 1T Is evident
thai the rights claimed in favor of the King OF the Mos
quitos are founded on repeated usurpatons. Will the
other powers interested in the free canazaon of Mica
Tagua allow their interests TO suffer from such pre,en-
sons As far az the United States are concerned you
may confidently answer in the negative"
The same Secretary of State, in bis communication OF
My = Ban vii very ssory sdop,
The means requisite for extnguishing the title Of the
MOSQUITO Indians. We never have and shall
eognise The legal existence Or the sovereignty Of the
trary wodd be to deny the right OF the United
Sntes 10 their own continent" w
The correspondence between the government at Wash
neton and its ministers in LONDON Bancroft and Law
rcnce bears testimony to the constant efforts OF the Uni
ted States in this respect In conformity with such rent
Grated preensions the agents OF the United States abroad
always endeavored persuade those OF Nicaragua that
their government would consent to favor the clams
OF the Epgish with regard to the Mosquitoes and these
came agents, Hse and SQuie, succeeded in persuading
the government OF Nicaragua that should resist all DIS
memberment of its territory in favor OF that tribe
How is it. then, that the American government should
not only lend its cooperation 10 that which It always
declared that would oppose but should even enter into
treaty with England, whereby an important portion oil
Nicaragua is conveyed to that Indian tribe which has
been repeatedly called the farce OF the pretended Mos
quito nation Those who conveTsan with the man
navres that have caused the English and North Amerl
interests to harmonze explain this contradiction sat-
isfaciorily.
We have already said that the Congress OF Nicaragua
had refused accept the treaty. IN which the United
States have acted that Slate had reason TO expect
after the confidence which il had eposed IN them. But
we fear that whatever resolution may be adopted, it will
not avert the evils which threaten Nicaragua for The
na article OF the said treaty provides that, in case the
should not be accepted, then the contracting par
ties will take measures 10 cause the Clayton. Bulwer
treaty Of April 10Th. 1885, 10 be put into execution
This every knows, has been interpreted as ex-
tending the rights OF the Mosquitoes all the eastern
coaa OF Honduras and Nicaragua. So Lord Palmerston
declared in his Of April u.s. 1880 so the
English representative nj NICARAGUA declared the 18th
Of August OF the same year and so Mr. Bulwer states
in his communication to the American government
which last anayzed in the March number s5 OF the
Wing American Review.
The execution of the treaty of April 80. utmo. whe,b
accepted not by Nicaragua. is, we greve 10 say cal
calated to compcse affairs still further. But this j.
realy what the United States desire and therefore
have stated number OF the 9th ut that the history
Of the las, few years shows that only the diplomatic
agents. but the private citizens of the United States
are nothing 10th 70 seize every opportunity oil compca
Ting the affairs of those republics which they would ap
pear TO protect What matters IT, though If they de
rive lasting benefit ereirombeneft In the present. il
The canazaon, and benefit in the future in the event
probable annexation. #L @#
The United States Senate has made a call upon ih,
Secretary OF The Interior for information 10 the manne
In which &0o. .O00 40 generously granted by Congress
for the purchase OF a site and the erection unat
asylum in the District OF Columbia, have been expended
We learn through private from Washington tina
there are many strange afoat to the enormou
pos paid for the chosen ete and with reference TO ohe
details OF the transaction which demand the prompt
serious attention OF Congress. II only half OF what
sad be irue the persons 10 whom the expenditure OF thi
appropriation in,rused richly entitled 10 public