The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1854-09-06

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army for the year ending on the 3oth of jun
1884, and which passed both houses ofcongre:
by an almost unanimous vote:
'Section s. And be it further enacted, TIL;
the Joint resolution entitled ga resolution e.
- planatory of the act appropriating money f1
the removal of the raft of Red River" approx
! ed January 7, 1858, be and hereby is repea
ed, and that the secretary Of war be authorize
to expend the appropriation in reference to tn
Red River raft in such way and for such pu
poses as he may approve, having in view tn
Improvement of the navigation of Red River
/ and around the said raft
As the president could not veto this section {
the bill, without at the same time rejecting a
the appropriations made for the maintenance
of the army, bounties to the Indians, ETC., h
signed it and it is now law. We are given
understand that there are already before the de
partment three bids for the contract, viz: on
- by colonel Gilmer, one from gcntlemenin Con
cordia, and one from parties in Louisville, Ky
The latter propose to remove the raft and kee
the navigation open for four years. It was con
sidcred doubtful whether secretary Davis woul'
, approve ofeither ofthc offers; but we hope tina
the work will now be commenced at the earies
possible Gay.
As we censured judge Jones for his vot
against the river and harbour bill, which con
tanned appropriations to improve the Missssip
pi and Red River, we take pleasure in stating
that he gave the section above quoted an arden
and cheerful support.
The Washington correspondent of the Plea
yunc and Baltimore Sun writes that on the 10th
ult., the cabinet held protracted meeting on
the subjects of the bombardment of Greytown,
and the Mosquito protectorate; and it is evident
that the question is to form diplomatic issue
between the United States and the British GOV
eminent The course ofthe English naval Of
ficer in taking possession of Greytown, and ex-
pressing his determination to hold it and Puen-
ia Arenas until the affair has been adjusted be-
tween his soverei On and our own government,
is a positive assertion of the protec;orate, such
as will compel review of the whole question,
and settle it forever, either by president Pierce
backing out of his Monroe doctrine position and
acknowledging the right and existence of the
British protectorate, its entire abandonment
The writer says that Mr. Buchanan has been
for some time past negotiating with reference to
this very question Of the protectorate, and that
the prevailing opinion is that Great Britain is
sick of it, and will be glad to get rid of her sa-
Bile charge the moment she can do so withouta
sacrifice of her pride. So far as the question
of territorial right is concerned, the American
is so clear one against Great Bril-
tain that she will be compelled to abandon her
pretensons. He most pertinently remarks,
where did Great Britain ever get title to one
foot of territory in Central America? The his
tory Of her uSurpations and encroachments is
an old one, but the present condition of affairs
warrants reference to it again. By three dis
inct treaties with Spain and Mexico, she acquir-
ID the right to cut dyc-wood at the Belize; but
he same instruments which conceded this pri-
ege expressly stipulated, in the most guarded
ernos, that she should acquire no territorial
ghts, no eminent domain. It was not long $
efore British subjects began to overstep the t
mits ofBelzc. The British lion began to as /
1me not only sort of imperial air towards O
re natives, but sought to increase the bounds b
the district assigned by treaty stipulations. a
| little while we find the Belize marked d
'wn on their maps by the royal geographers c
"Britsh Honduras fraud clear as the I
oon-day sun, because it was in no sense .sBri- Q
sh,' and could not possibly be Honduras, t
hlch was two provinces off; but, on the con- t
airy, was in Yucatan, peninsular province of d
exlco. British encroachment steadily pur a
ed its way southwark along the coast, at the
tie of 900 miles during some years, until it
I'd entirely skirtcd the province of Vera Paz,
I'd SO reached Honduras, when it undertook
obtain some sort of territorial SOVEREIGNTY
'er that portion of if now known as the Mos :
tito territory, valuable only because it con- :.
ms the key to the most favorable iner-oceanic i
Zip canal route yet discovered. Having thus !,
7 series of acts obtained position where, :.
7 dint of much impudence, she could pretend 1
some shadow of authority, and whence the u
ovcrnment on whom she had encroacbed were 81
'werless to drive her, Great Britain picked u
1t poor miserable mongrel negro and Indi- L
|, and set him up as a king, under her pro- VI VI
ctlon! And that's the Mosquito protectorate. Il
American, or any other person, will or can "
e much respect forit. d
The letterwrters continue that whatever u
? may think ofthe bombardment of Grevtovn: q
'wever much humanity land we may add a IL
ock and sckly philanthropy may revolt at
wholesale destruction of the huts and other p
Operty of miserable, unprotected town, the Of
lole country will unite against British inter- IT,
ence. If the British government sustains CT
naval officers now at Greytown, that fact tie
Il satisfy the American people that the Grey til
Sn authorities were sham, and that the 10
'sIdent was entirely right when, in issuing ST.
tructions to captain Holins, he looked be- &C
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