The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-13

THE PHILADELPHIA LEDGER AND GREYTOWN.
The truthful and patriotic sentiments expressed by the
Philadelphia Ledger few days SINCE respecting recent a
fairs in Greytown, and which copied extensively,
giving intense annoyance to the opposition press The
New York Tribune with its accustomed effrontery at
empts meet the facts of the Ledger with crafty
TONS the utter falsy Of which know well the
reckless editor who makes them Here is specimen Of the
most respectable of his absurdites and falsehoods
81 The great squaer at San juan under the sovereignty
the Mosquito King and the British protecorae the
Transit Company which not merely held its premises under
lease from that King but applied for and received the special
permission of that prince the river with its boas
Now to say nothing of the fact that important obsct
among Others equally important and more comprehensive
the Clayton and Bulwer convention
of communication, by ship-cana railroad otherwise
between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, including the
routes by Nicaragua Panama. and Tehuanepec of the
fact that the republic of Nicaragua granted permission
the company pass through and occupy its territory for
the purposes of the transit which permission of right
included portion of country occupied by the shrtess
Mosquito King backed by Great Britain it is clear that
the first part the Trbunes allegation contadcted by
the last for if the Transit Company "hed its premises
under lease" it certainly could not in law be @erea
squatteri"
Again. the Tribune says
If the British government had such outrageous designs
Greytown (Which the Ledger well said get into
her possession and control the port and river of San
JUAN which the feasible and shortest Cali
forna and probably the only practicable for ship
canal it singular that should have abandoned all control
there, allowing strictly American town to grow up and
govern ITSELF"
We do propose to spend time space in refuting
the allegations of the New York Tribune but simply desire
say in reply first every and boy who pretends
any information in Central American affairs knows that
Greytown not and has BEEN strictly Ameri-
town. The Tribune editor knows it, and knows he
was penning fasehood when he wrote that il was Sec
ond that the British have not and had not at the time of
the destruction of San Juan abandoned all control there
The record both prior and subsequent to the advent
the Mosquito coast of Commander Rollins, shows this
clusively
is the purpose of the opposition press by these and
other such paragraphs TO convey the impression at this
time that Great Britain has not interred in the matter of
the Mosquito coast that she has interests there that the
barbarous tribes of Indians who pomnay hold control
upon the not counselled and encouraged in
their determination not to afford PREPARATION for their
insults and outrages TO the persons and property Of Amer
citizens by Great Britain They desire to shield the
British government from the punishment which ought long
since to have been inflicted for the wrong she pepetrated
the felony she has consummaed, upon the territory of
feeble American republic without the shadow of
the semblance of decent pretext