Daily American telegraph., 1852-01-05
Iron the Philadelphia American and Gazette I
interyention---When and wheres

ihtervention---When and wheres
The name OF the Prometheus-a name not likely
10 De soon iorgotten-hgures prominently al
though Very innocently, in our news columns
this morning. That now celebrated American
steam packet returns from another visit to San
Juan de Nicaragua, whereas we do not find
any United States vessels of war reported as
being in the harbor, and hear nothing of the
prometheus having been fired upon again by her
Drltahnic Majesty brig Express, employed there
On cohstaDuiary duty--we feel bound to infer
uat the former has this time yielded to necessity
ana PAID tribute to his sublime high mightiness
,he Ming OF the Mosquitoes. This is a fact, if it
DC 50, Which u would be doubtless agreeable to
American readers to be informed about and
meanwhile the temperance of the prometbeus
reyiyes an idea which we have heretofore several
times alluded to as being very directly and very
grayely connected with the great doctrine of in
terycnton against Intervention, so earnestly
urged by the iustrious Kossuth upon the people
Of the United States in behalf of his beloved Hun
gary.
We have stated, in regard to this doctrine, that
IL involves question: not Of right, but of policy
admitting that the United States may rightfully
intervene against Intervention where it is expe-
dient for them to do so and arguing that expe-
diency, In such matter, must be more or less
dependent upon interest. The distinguished ex-
dovernor OF the Magyars thinks that we have
great interest IN protesting against the interfer
ence OF Great Britain in the affairs of Central
America. In the one case, a principle may be in-
VOWED, appealing to our sympathies as republi-
cans, the friends and advocates Of popular free
dom and national right throughout the world
In the other, besides the principle, which is pre-
cisely the same, we have the stronger incentive of
q direct interest of our own, involving considera-
tlons OF national right, honor and necessity. To
intervene against the Russian Emperor in Hun
gary on behalf of the Hungarians, without having
first intcrvencd in Central America on behalf of
the Central Americans and ourselees would be
an act of Quixotism which would want the merit
OF chivalry, and perhaps that of common sense.
We shall have a better right to adopt the policy
of intervention for the benefit of others-at least
the world will think scatter wehaye shown our
ability to assert it for our own.
There can be no question that the policy pur-
sued by England in Nicaragua, while adverse to
all the planest rights of the people of that feeble
and deeply injured State, is founded upon, as it
originated in, hostility to the United States.
Other countries, including England, may have an
interest, which is of commercial character, in
the project Of inter oceanic communication at
Nicaragua but the right of way across that 18TH
mus is to the United States absolute political
necessity; and it became so the moment the ac-
QUESTION of California extended the stride Of the
republic to the golden shores of the Pacific. Can
our legislators be blind to the fact that as things
are the territories of the United States beyond
the Rocky Mountains, now rapidly growing in
strength and Importance, and capable of an inde-
pendent existence, are cut off from the rest Of
the Confederacy, and that the free passage of the
isthmus is necessary as bond Of come xion, and
Will remain necessary at least until the whole vast
intermediate expanse of prairie and mountain is
filled with population and pierced by the rail-
roads which, ultimately-if California and Ore
gon be not lost to us-will unite them to us by
still better and closer bonds?
Every day of Englands interference against
us--tor it is against us-on the isthmus is day
of loss and peril to the United States. But for
her wrongful presence there the projected canal
would have been now under way; and American
travellers and merchandise, with government
messengers, mails, troops, and munitions of war,
would be perhaps already passing TO and fro on
temporary railroads on the route. Her machina-
uons paralyze enterprise, defeat our hopes,
endangcr our interests. We sit still, allowing her,
in defiance of solemn treaty stpulatons, to thwart
and battle us in a vital point We sit still, per-
mittng her to array the pitiful fiction of her
Mosquito protectorate against the right and ma
Jesty of the United States when we should sweep
that ridiculous impediment-if it be an impedi-
ment-out of our way, a lion brushes the
threads OF the gossamer spider from his path
Shall the United States be cut in twain, because
there is n Sambo chief whom Lord Palmerston
calls the King Of Mosquito, and whom he upholds
in forced political existence upon Nicaraguan
soil, at the expense equally of the Nicaraguans
and the American people! The Emperor of Rus
sia outrages the Hungarians but not the people
of the United States Great Britain outrages the
Nicaraguans and the people of the United States.
What folly to talk of intervening against interyen-
ton in Hungary, when we have so excellent an
occasion and so urgent demand first to intervene
against intervention in Nicaragua. To protest
against Russia intermeddling the banks of the
Danube, if offered Ivy us, we are sure Nicholas
would politely answer, Gentlemen Of the Ameri-
can republic, go and protest against the inter
mcddling of England on the banks of the San
Juan, and we will listen to what you have to say
about Hungary afterwards" At such an answer
as that, we are afraid the world would laugh
And VIC are afraid that Lord Palmerston-with
all his griefs growing out Of his present critical
position in the British mnstry-would laugh
with it. There is but one step between the
wise and the foolish, as well as between the sub
lime and the ridiculous. Let us be just at home
before we are generous abroad.
Presidential Dinner TO Kossuth.
Wa nd md 4bot N riv IN