New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-27
sfke Washington correspondent of the Delta

sNA1ne NAslAg toH correspondent VI eIteD eiiat,
lislsr date Of the 18th inst, writes as follows
Z Mr Bosas the Minister from Mexico is to leave
XII refs,rn home As the correspondence
sni6sfsd bS the President gives information
he of Mr. Rosas in regard to the
questions pending between this government
IA Mesico rhave taken pains myself IN
" Rass has repfeseted that the Mexican Govern
nt M never assent to the occupation of the Tehuante
- or the building and management of any railroad
ss TINT Isthmus by power the citizens of
country The grant to Garay he says will
never he confirmed aslong Mexico has spark Of vitality
NATIONALITY left tehor The state Of the question will not
u ali altered he says by the catio Of the Teuan
tepec treaty Tint treaty according to the Mexican
tafypation Of it. comedies nothing but the neutrality of
lie hmus and the freedom Of the use of any road that
nI be built to all nations but it the question
10 proprietorshp of the road The road must
roriag tohis views be built, owned and managed by
4xieo calling III such aid she may please the en-
ferprise, and on such terms as she may propose.',
Ne know not what means Of information this
gentleman may possess, but we have had 50
much experience in Mexican character, that we
readily credit his representa- atoms. That is es-,
peciallys credible which shows Senior La Rosa
tnot Mr.. Rosas) declaring that g the Mexican
Government will never assent to the occupa-
ton of the Tehuantepec route, Or the building
and management Of any railroad across that
Istimus by any foreign power, or the citizens of
any foreign country That is saying that
there shall nepe, be any railroad across the
Isthmus, for we know the utter impossibility of
the construction Of such a road by Mexican en-
terprise But this is not all Senior La Rosa
inyoluntarily discloses to us a triok-too shrewd
to be Mexican-eonn with the Tehuante-
pee treaty, the ss,Mexican = Interpretation Of
which comedies nothing but the neutrality Of
the hthnus, reserving the question of the pro-.
@rriesership Of the road NC
We happen to know something of the influ-s
ences that mfest the political atmosphere Of the
city Of Mexico; we know that some foreign nations
send there d peculiar description Of representa-
tiiyes Aen Of little responsibility, and with
anime Of such small account that their acts
attract no attention; men whose duty is limited
toSdirty work-who are, in plain terms, the
scayengers of Sdiplomacy -and who, when they
in an ambitious moment, step above the line
secretly marked out for them, may be recalled,
md their acts disavowed, without involving any
serious consequences among friends and voters
at home. [
We're the things done openly, which have for
years been practiced secretly by the representa-
tiyes Of foreign Governments in Mexico, the
United States would have had, or would now
have, the pleasure Of whipping some of our good
friends over the water, while as it is, there is
no immediate chance at better game than poor |
pusillanimous Mexico.
If this dog in the manger policy, should be
persisted in, she ought to be served as a dog
would be. The Isthmus is a highway between
worlds, and size should be kicked out Of the
Il 3 If lo1 of
her from thus obstructing the path, and she
should not be permitted to violate it, But we
do not hesitate to say that Mexico has no such
design as to obstruct permanently this great
highway. Short-sighted as her government may
be, it does not fail to recognize the vast benefit
that would accrue to the country from an open
ing Of this channel of communication between
the Eastern and Western worlds The object is,
a4nder aauice, with this pretext to impose upon
the United States, the alternative of outraging
her assumed rights, or withdrawing all claims
based upon past negotiations, admissions, and
promises, we might add contracts. She has had
sufficient experience in the way of American
to assure her that all pretensions
would he Withdrawn rather than a suspicion of
wrong should attach to our character She is
taught to presume upon this. and she is doing so.
But let the United States withdraw, and what
shall we sees Why, in less than six months we
will find the bill granting privileged contract
70 the English Government to construct road
over the Isthmus, re-introduced in the Mexican
Congress, and passed. The doctrine of equal
rights to all Nations, in the premises, will be
forgotten, and nothing short Of a big fight would
ensure US any thing like a fair chance. We
have no idea that the Government at Washing
ton has allowed Senior La Rosa to make repre-
sensations of the character alleged in the para
graph that We have quoted, without intimating I
10 him the danger Of attempting to trife with 7
The United States. i