Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-02-19

small tribe OF Mosquitoes, but TO establish HaeT
o,on empire over the Atlantic extremity OF the
line, by which canal connecting the two oceans
is most practicable insuring to them the prepon-
derance on the American continent, as well as
direct relations with Asia, the East Indies, and
other important countries in the world" 7h,s
letter answered.
Again, the President and Supreme Director OF
the State of Nicaragua Don JOSE GUERRERO,
on the 18th day of the same month, addressed
communication to President POLK in which ne says !:
+" NV desire was carried to the utmost on seeing IN
your message, at the opening of the 18th Con-
gress of your Republic sincere profession Of po-
litical faith (meaning the Monroe declaration) IN
all respects conformabe with the principles pro-
fessed by these States determined as they are to
sustain with firmness the continental cause, the
rights of America in general, and the non-inter-
ference of European Powers in their concerns"
He also announces the critical situation in which
Nicaragua was then placed, and charges upon the
Court of ST. James ga well-known design to estab-
lish colonies on the coast of Nicaragua and to
render itself master Of the interoceanc canal for
which so many facilities are presented by the
isthmus in that State' No notice acas euer taken
of dtis communication by President POLK. Mr..
PoLK's Administration slumbered over the Monroe
doctrine he had announced in his message to Con
gress even after he had been reminded of it by the
President of Nicaragua. The doctrine was not APP
piled by Mr.. Polk, after it was loudly called for by
Nicaragua, in her distress
Again, JOSEPH w. LIVINGSTON, Consul for the
port of San Juan de Nicaragua, thus wrote to Mr..
BUCHANAN on the 10th of December, 1S47 "On
my arrival at this port | am informed that the
English Government aoW take possession of this
place on the 1st proximo, in the name of the King
Of the Mosquito coast. As have read the cor
respondence which has passed between the Gov
eminent of Nicaragua and the British Consul
General for Central America, CYRUS CHATFIELD
Esq, there can be no doubt Of the truth Of the
report" And on the. 9Th of April, 184S, Mr..
Livingston thus wrote to Mr.. Buchanan, after the
British forces had seized San Juan: " AT the re-
quest of the Government of Nicaragua, have for
warded to your Department package Of papers
containing the correspondence relative to the oc-
cupation of the port of San Juan by the British
forces in the name of the Mosquito nation" Not
aoitsanding all these notices, Mr.. Polk neuer noecd
IN the matter
And, further, the Nicaraguan Minister CAsTEL-
LoN on the 5th of November, 1S4S, addressed
letter to Mr.. BUCHANAN, while here in Washing
ton, asking this Government to "nstructts Minister
in London to sustain the rights of Nicaragua to her
territory and especially to the port of San Juan,
claimed by Mosquito" expressing " the hope that
the Government of the Union, firmly adhering to its
principle of resisting foreign Intervention IN Ane-
rica would not hesitate to order such steps to be
taken might be effective, before things reached
a point IN iohich the Intervention Of the United
States ,oould prove Of no acaa." To this letter
no answer appears to have been made, nor were any
instructions given to our Minister in London, in
pursuance of the request which it contained.
These are among the many and abundant proofs
which will satisfy the Union that Mr.. Polk not
only kracw but acguiesced in the British expedition
which, under Captain Lock, commanding the Bri-
fish ships-of-war Alarm" and " Vixen" conquer
ed and took possession of the greater part of Nj
caragua just sic days after the treaty Of Gaada-
tupe Hidalgo, by which we acquired California.
Neither Mr.. Polk nor Mr.. BUCHANAN ever made
RIGA, or to prevent the expedition of Captain LOCK
The Administration acquiesced in the British at
tack after being fully and repeatedly apprized of
the intention of the British Government to make it.
The Union considers our statement as Gan
atrocious charge against the memory of Mr.. POLK"
to wit, that " he knew and acquesced in the British
expedition" However atrocious the charge may
be, it is now completely proved, and the Union
not disprove it. After stating that we had made
such charge, the Union adds, "and this, too, nth
the Instructions Of Mr.. Buchanan to Mr.. .Hise be-
fore u.s." The instructions of Mr.. BUCHANAN to
Mr.. HIsE, SO far from mendng the natter made it
worse. They quote the Monroe declaration, and
make the following apology for not enforcing it !:
"But what can the United States do to resist such
European interference, whilst the Spanish Ameri-
can Republics continue to weaken themselves by
division and civil war, and deprive themselves of
the ability of doing any thing for their own pro-
lection p Such is the reason rendered for not
applying the Monroe doctrine 1t appears that it is
never to be enforced in favor of States which are
unable to do any thing for their own protection
But in this non-nterference Mr.. BUCHANAN was
perfectly consistent with himself, and so was Mr.
Polk, for in the debate on the Panama mission in
1896 both those gentlemen repudiated the Monroe
declaration as thing which, having performed its
office" was to be considered as a dead letter
: President TAYLOR never made proclamation of
any doctrine such as Mr. Polk made about the