The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-06-30
From the New York Express, June 81.
Central America.


We have at different times set before our rem RI
the ef1orta made to form federal government out
of the five Central American States to which Mr.
ex-senator Borland has been appointed minister
by General Pierce; an especial mission crea ted
Tor some especial purpose, the reasons of which we
have never been able to appreciate; but now we
have to inform readers that all these efforts for
a Central American government have failed. In
deed, the projectors of this Central government
were not moved by any particular desire to sub.
serve the interests of the States, but the men
moving in it were revoIusionists in their respective
States, and made use of the cry for federal gov
eminent in order to obtain exterior power, which
would better enable them to further their views of
revolution at home, in their respective States.
Guatemala, the leading Siate never took any pa TT
| in the movement, and the only States that did
were San Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
We have before US now decree from the State
| OF Nicaragua, signed by Rocha, Minister of For
Ell Affairs, in which, by the authority of the Su-
preme Director and Assembly, dated Mana qua,
| April 80, 1853, it is resolved:
| Arr L. That Nicaragua does not accept the
constitution submitted by the Federal Convention
| in October, 1852, any Of its provisions.
| Art. 2 That the act of November S, lS49, is in
| sufficient, and Nicaragua resumes, from the pub
| cation OF this law, all its sovereignty and abso
lutte independence, both as to the exterior and her
| interior.
| We have before us document thirty pages
long, given out from Managua Capital of Nicara-
gua) by the Minister of the Interior, in behalf of
the government, which enters:at length into the
| affairs of Nicaragua. All attempts at federation
have not only failed, he says, but have resulted in
mischief and civil war; and such are the hetero-
| goneous elements of the country that he almost
despars OF success in any future attempts
This document then dwes upon some of the
interior difficulties OF Nicaragua, and the neces-
| sity of some constitutional reforms to make the
! constitution work well The federal government
| failing, Nicaragua was obliged to receive foreign
ministers. Don Diego Ramon was received from
Spain, "a kindred nation in tongue and reli-
| gion." Hon. j. Bozman Kerr was thus accredited
from the United States of North America. Mr.
kerr's course IN Nlcarsgua IL spoken of in high
terms of appreciation. Without yielding to fac
! tons or treason in Nicaragua, or projecting trea
souabe adventures, he has saved the country
| from many evils, and inspired the government
with the highest respect for him and his well
merited reputation. minister from Prussia has
also been recognised, with whom treaty of com
merce and navigation has been concluded.
| San Juan del Norie (Greytown) is then dwet
on The municipal government created there in
derogaton of the rights Of Nicaragua il protested
against as a new aggression. The treaty of Wash
| ington between the United States and Great Bri
tain failed we told, not only to meet with favor
| in Nicaragua, but with some of the .sgrand nota.
bities" 1.-THE Little Giant, % supposed in ''the
| grand Republic"
| Marcoleta's services to Nicaragua are spoken of
| in the very CHEST terms. He is, it seems, sort
| OF omnipreseut and omnipotent Minister being
| Charge to Great Britain, France, Belgium, Hoi
| land, and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
| Plenpotentiary to the United States-having all
THE weight OF honors His resistance to the treaty
of Washington is highly commended, and be is
| at last commended to the very favorable consde-
| NlCaraUuan
theless, we hear that, in order to have minister
! in the United States who will be recognised Senior
Casteiion will be sent there
This document then enters upon the relations
| Nicaragua has with the other Central American
/ States. With San Salvador there has been some
difficulty about the home she has given to the exile
| Nunos, who, driven from Leon promised to go to
Peru, but did not. Speaking of Costa RIGA, Messrs
! Champion and Webster censured for the part
| they took in awarding Nicaragua territory to
! that State. The "rudeness'' of Mr. Walsh, the
Commissioner sent out from the United States is
then spoken of, and there ia slap at his "diplo
matte manners in Hayti." [Mr. Walsh's reports
to bis Government, especially the Hayti reports,
uagua
Other parts of this long document treat of the
"roads," (of which there do not seem to be any)
'the administration Of JUSTICE ''public instruc
tom ''codifcaon of the lave" and 'secclesias-
teal affairs" The State religion is the Roman
Catholic Apostolic. but other religions not pro
hibited. The Catholic religion is highly e1tolied
bat concordat with the Holy See is demanded
by which the rights of the State and the rights of
the church, which seem TO be coming into conflict,
shall be established.
San Salvador had sent Don Luis Molina to con :.
graduate the Director of Nicaragua, and in the
Of his speech Molina expresses his disbelief
in the Of all the efforts attempted for fede
ration, but hopes to very friendly relations ex-
i5iing, especially between Nicaragua, San Saliva
dor. and Honduras.