The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-08-09

After all the hubbub respecting the Greytowa affair tn,
facts disclose the chasement of awless set of sca who
have squaed upon territory which does belong them
and under the proteeorate of Great Britain, have done
pretty much as they pleased for number Of years This
protectorae fraud Of most disgracefu character
the part Great Britain That government had designs
accomplish in countenanong the pretended eam
of the lawess authorities of Grey town. She wished get
into her own possession and control the port river
San Juan which the most feasible and shortest route Il
California probably the only practicable for
canal Not being able to get possession from the gov
eminent of Nicaragua up the miserable mposture
Mosquito kng-a breeehless and drunken negro who had
right the territory called the Mosquito
ritory than Great Britain herself had and then she assumed
| a 'protectorate' over this savage.
'Under such auspices and with such views il is not
strange that the intense bitterness should be exhibited
in Greytown towards the American Transit Company which
successfully opened that route to American emigration TO the
Pacific If the inhabitants have been severely punished it il
their fault they should not have meed the chastise
ment by their lawess When demonstrated WITH
only repeated their insults Our government treated them
their awlessnes deservedbroke up their settlement
of their depedaons and constant annoynces of Amer
lean travellers and citizens engaged in the lawful pursuit
their business 1t served them serves the avages of the
western plains whenever their acts make their negborhood
dangerous peace and safety of American citizens
broke up their village, and drove them off other
place. where their pracal propense may be INDUCED with
less mischief to society.
at is said that it was poor miserable weak village and
that beneath the dignity of the United States
pend its strength upon such insignificant power So
the Indian villages the plain insignificant and weak
pared with the fortified towns of civilized nations yet
body doubts the justice of chassng these marauders when
they fall upon the dncees emrants seeking homes in the
distant wilderness If Great Britain has the protectoate
she Grcytown is the time step and
it, Nobody will doubt that she is power sufficiently
exalted to give dignity to quarrel which she may seek
with the United States arising Of this contempt of her
pretended authority.
Some of the newspapers to argue that because Mr.
Borand, the American minister, had fracas the
floor of the Senate therefore his character is bad and
the Greyown authorities justified in treating him.
though accredited American minister with the contumely
and dsgraceful violence they visited upon him. This is
doctrine entirely in international obligations His char
acter not too bad in the opinion of his
allow him to be ntrusted with important diplomatic mis-
sion and whether his appointment proper not
nrused with that duty he invested with the nvola
BILE privileges of minister penpoenary An insult to hin
insult to the government which sent him. for which
there just for asking apology, and ncting
emplary punishment if refused
And the Boston Post appropriately adds:
The sympathy of the opposition is all with the Mosquito
gentlemen of San Juan just That these cebooters
have been routed and taught they beyond the
OF accountability is matter of griefmourning sackcoth
and asheswith class of politicians in the United States who
always side against their nation in all its foreign conro
versies who declared at time that the country could
not be kicked into war; and then proclaimed unbecomng
moral and religious people to rejoice at their victories
who declared that the acquisition of Louisiana but col
lection of salt mountains mammohs, gulls, and bull frogs
and then the garden Of the Union given
slavery who prayed that troops in Mexico might
hospabe graves with bloody hands, and then select
ed the commanding general there the representative
their principles who denounced California worthless except
aordng Pacific squadron harbor at San Francisco
then filled it with emgrans; who declared the annexation
Texas grossly illegal and unjust that the act would have
mo binding force and then claimed great consideration fol
their assent to its admission into the Union These
among the class of consistent who shocked tina
insolence to their counymen and outrage upon then
have been rebukcd and who frightened and greved les
British property may have been injured Capt Jolly
not sufficiently respected They could not wait for oica
Of the affair before making up and pronouncng the
Judgment hs would be too hazardous for the truth gen
orally destroys the plausibty of their complaints, bu
strained every faculty prejudice against their
in the that when it before the grea
jury of the people the verdict might be influenced by an
just bias"