The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-06-13
The Administration and our Rights on this
Continent

The organs OF the present administration hard on
this country. They vince whenever they hear an Amer
lean right named with respect; and if they find man
who has any idea of so modifying the policy Of our
country more fully to protect American interests
against foreign invasion rapacy they very apt
denounce him as "a fast man." if not "fibuster"
On the other hand, nothing exceed the compa.
cency with which these same organs our govern
ment in whig hands bued outwiied by foreign
powers. The administration gets up treaty with Great
Britain which, in the plain import OF its terms, it means
anything, that Great Britain shall uRloose the
grasp OF her proiecorate jurisdiction Central America
So FAR from complying with this treaty stipulation, Great
Britain holds on upon that territory, stations mano
in its single good habor and collects heavy port du
ties from American steamship al the cannon's mouth
Then comes up boundary question between Costa Rca
and Nicaragua Great Britain has no rghul interest in
the premises But after her fashion, in such cases. she
places herself behind Costa Rica, and Is said that with
the full concurrence, il moi under The mediation OF the
United States, boundary treaty between these two Cen
trail American States has been determined on, il not ex
ecuted, which will place the transit that shmus
under the control of England, acting through Costa
Rican agents It's also stated, in the newspapers
that American rights Of transit the shmus OF Tehu.
antepec are in very bad way Mr. Letcher went out
to TO that matter. We hear nothing from him; but
do hear that Mexico declines TO confirm her pre-
vous grants to American citizens, and is about making
adverse grantto parties, and has here, in
the first instance, 10 the of this gov
eminent The upshot OF the business may not mproba
bly, turn ont TO be indefinite delay if not final defeat
of the right of way our citizens this nearest route
TO our Pacific territory.
All this in the Republics judgment, is perfectly we'll
We hear from that journal word Of complaint about
it, II is only foreign nations who going ahead in the
teeth Of our vital interests this continent, while
fold our and stand still and the Republic has
not single 10 throw away upon the "fast men"
But let an American senator intimate that we have any
rights worth looking after in the southern waters of this
North American continent, and the Republic is down
upon him for his love OF The seas ADD his annexation
OF oceans" Nor should such tone from the Republic
at all surprise those who remember how manfu.
~ il stood by the Cuban proclamation which, in the
first instance, only stripped deluded American citizens
Of all the rights guaranteed by treaty to them, as Of.
fenders-so that they were butchered in cold blood
and which then invited, or was understood to invite,
British and French cruisers to keep watch and ward on
our coast to execute our neutrality laws There were
those who thought that the administration proved them
that only their speed" in quite the wrong direction.
But the Republic clearly that all the zeal displayed
zeal for something else than American rights and
honor, and so its loud bravo ready for the men
who had been FAST in the abrogaon Of treaties and
in the causing Of American blood to flow without re-
dress and without protection
But before the Republic gets TO the end of its notice Of
Senator Douglass late speech the real reason OF its al
tack upon him is made clear enough. Not what Nj.
Douglas said about the " oceans" but what he saa
about the wings, raised the Republics bile. He told home
truths about wing mal-admDsraton and the causes
thereof and the direct tendency OF wing doctrine thereto
He pointed out the reason why every whig sdminisua
ton heretofore has been disastrous failure, and why 'no
people have yet consented to put two wing admin
straons in succession in power These were the WORDS
which woke the Republics wrath. They were WORDS o
power, because they were the words Of truth yerhed
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