New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-08-02

in him otherwise. Still on this MAS simple asseve
ration that he has been nsulted trucuent honor
aveneing President concludes that the nati dig
nifty is injured and that com nercial town with some
Thousand Inhabitants and million or so OF property
must be destroyed By wsy OF reparatiOn. No account
il taken Of the fact that BOrsnd had forfeited ali
official privileges by protecting an &C used murderer
from lawful arrest and that be had done ton mlser-
able legal bubble Nor is any account taken OF the
other fsct-which can be proved AMI was well known
TO both Fabens and BOrsnd-that the Mayor OF the
town apologsed BOrand the spot for tue bottle
thrown at his nose and that the City Attorney re-
newed the apology in writing next morning also ask
ing Mr Fabens for sny information he possessed as to
who was the guilty person in order that he might be
punished. OF all these Circumstances and s1tece'
dents, OF the murder before of Borlsnds interference
with weapon to prevent the arrest of the murderer
Of biz subsequent provoking speeches in front OF Fa-
bens house. where with pistol in hand he diplomatic
ally assured the assembled people that they were
"the off securing of hell of the repeated apology TOR
the insult Of the bottle well OF the excited and
exaggerated feeling natural 20 scenes so e1traord
nary and predominant through the whole, SO as neces
sarily 10 colo. his narrs tive matter how he might
try TO tell the truth and Of the cloud of witnesses on
the other side-of all these the Executive takes no
notice. BOrland and the Transit Company are alone
in the right-they are infaible; they alone tell the
truth there is no need of other Information they must
be avenged. and thereupon an important place Ia
laid in ashes hundreds of industrious and useful men
are ruined and an ineaceable blot is cast upon the
reputation of the country
Mr. Marcy AlsO makes A DOint against the authOri-
ties of san Juan that they had not punished those who
insuled Mr. Borland. Butt they could not be allowed
toexercse the most functions 1.-THE arrest
Of murderers without the permission of the extraor
binary ENJOYS of the American Government or il they
were TO have an armed force raised against them on
their soil by such fellow as this Bo.land, why
clearly they super6uous, aud could properly do
nothing but abandon all nominal power and RESPONSE
bllity. This they did the next day and accordingly
there longer any authorities there to receive
the montiOns of the Secretary of State as 10 the duty
of INJECTING exemplary punishment Oh lawless indi-
vidusls. This is pity, for these montiOns must
have had a singular weight with them, coming thus
from an elevated and consistent functonary, whose
representative had forbidden the authorities from tab
ing murderers into custody, and who, in the same
breath justified that act But they had resigned after
making great deal more of an apology than BOrland
bad any right to: and yet Secretary is not
Of their resignation but writes away debating what
they must do, as if they were still in Office. Why,
any subeditor or prooi-reader on a New-YOrk news
paper could have informed him of the fact.
One thing beside the features we have already ex-
posed il particularly worthy of notice in the letter of
Mr. Marcy to Mr.. Fabens, as coming from dis
tiDguished Democrat and advocate of popular SOW
eregnty. This is the contempt with which he speaks
of the Municipality OF San Juan. He describes them
wearing Ian assumed political character, as
"the pretended authorities of the town, the
pretended political ard civil authorities and the
nominal magistrates there The truth is that
these sgtrates held Office directly from the people,
by regular election under constitution, which is
striking proof of American good sense, and is far
peror to any made by European nations in 1913, and
that if there truly legitimate authorities,
they were those Of that unlucky town. According to
the best evidence too, they had justly administered
the excellent constitution and laws they had adopted.
They had protected property and life they had intro
duced and enforced good order among the swless
the river; they had rendered frequent and efficient
assistance to Americans in distress; and never that
We are aware Wy "clc VIC! OonPiahcu W. eACcPI U!
the Transit Company OF its agents. among whom
we suspect Mr.. Faoens the late L. ;. Commercial
Agent at the port ought really to be included. With
that Company their difficulty grew out of question
of jurisdiction and IN unwngness TO be used az the
instruments of its managers speculative purposes. In
that controversy the town has finally persisted. 1t
was TO all purposes an American town, and the Amer
icsn Government has wantony and wickedy destroyed
it to suit the ends and crafty the hostility of corpO
ration created by the stale of Nicaragua This is the
simple truth of the matter and we trust the American
people will ponder it deeply.