New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-25
pFoM WASHINGTON.
Observation-Disclosures ISLANDS


wshcr will not be able to maintain permanently
the existing military government. There is reason
70 expect that Guatemala has alrssdy contributed
a force Of several thousand mill ia, to be concen-
tsa.ed at San Juan, president Pierce's Grey
tewr and tbst Costa Rica will also furnish
large military contribution, having msde reqh
sitiop upon the population for I'VE thousA9a men
The Central Amsricsn States are constrained from
the present exigency, wslcn threatens theit pohs
zeal existence equally with that of Nicaragua, to
make common cause In resisting this freeb ,oting
hyason-for such only can it be called.
Ifthe,e small Republics should now seek Eu-
ronesn albsnces and thus com plicate the Ons
sftte United States the iaal. will not be so much
tAsirs as our own. While protesting in a series
Of annual messages to regard the Monroe doctrine
a. vital American principle on this Continent,
We have allowed il TO be hsgrantly violated, and
these violations have directly and seriously dam.
aged such States as nicsrsgus, with which we had
q policy, as we'll as an impor'a ant interest to cul
tivstt the most friend y relations and 10 favor
with the most decided protection. Our treaties
have become farces. LsbOred and long cor
responsiveness have occurred and there the irri-
tstiDs issues which have arisen have Deen allo we'd
to rest. Whenever practic solution was pro.
posed, in plain terms, We have backed down. Mr..
fDlnlore's Administration was on the eve of dis
gracefully surrendeIiDg the whole matter invoiTed
in the tfalAmerican controversy, AMI nosnlng
but timely exposure through the press prevented
tie cOnsummati IN OF an arrangement concluded
between Mr.. Webster and Mr.. CHAMPION which
is equally a stigma upon the name OF
American Justice and American diplomacy.
Then followed General CAss's Interpretation
of the Clay ton. BulHer tresty-for which he voted
and which he approved ungualitedly before il was
submitted to the Senate-takiDg more positively
British view OF the question than has bsen assumed
by any statesman in En- land, and In direct contra
venti0n Of the admission by Lord joan Russell
when at the head of the Foreign Office, that the
Mosquito Pr0tectorate-the real point OF dispute
was fiction" Gen. Cass's speech was &C.
oepted as the text in England, from which sill the
sabse luent exposition has been made on that eide.
True il vas answered aud annnilsted by Mr..
Buchanan, under instructions from Gov. Marcy,
and true also 10 1t that the weak concessions of
Mr.. Tillmore's Administration We're wholly repu-
dated. Still We have not yet approached the
practical point, aud Great Britain still assumes
and asserts the very authority and Jurisdiction and
enjoys the very territorial possession which che
has held in offensive contrsge Dtion of the treaty
for the last five years. She robbed Nicaragua of
her principal port ON the AtlaDtc--San Juan
under pretense of bis wretched PrOtectorate, and
when Nicaragua proposed to make the issue, by
snyry and possession, we denied her the cOun-
tenance which was solicited, apprehending the
consequences of British remembrance.
We profess sympathy and friendship for Nicar-
aqua, which Of all these Cen raj American states
u m. st closely connected with us in commerce. and
In communication, and yet expedition after ex Do
dition s,is from the large cities on the Atlantic
an Pacific coasts equipped for unlawful invasion
and stimulated by ,Pni; of base cupi1ity. OF
What advantage are Executive prOclslnstons when
encias VIGOROUSLY wink at If they do not actually
encourage these armed organizations The Gov
eminent could put them down il it were
inclined to exercise the proper vigilance and
authority and to disregard the political con.
siderations urged by those who are and have
been connected with these specializing and
iawless enterprises. The fact is patent aud will
not be disputed that MIR. Minister Wheeler,
Of unenvisble fame, not Only disregarded his in
structions In all these recent proceedings in Mic
sraRua, but that he openly frateIniZed with Gen.
Walker and his fllibusters, stimulated them with
Dutch courage and finally recognized their ini-
quitous work with all the real and arti6c'-i son
sequence that any fsnctfonary OF this Government
could emplOy-yet he lie retained In Office. Is is
no wonder then, in the face OF such evidence,
emitting all reference TO that universally repro
kated ssfsult on Greytown, that Nicaragua and her
sister States, should endeayor to seek some more
acceptable alliance, one which at least will not
under the cover of amicabe professions, ALLOW
parsudipg bands e ruffians 10 defy all legal re.
sponsibility and to outrage all treaty obligations
Some surprise vas excited why Cen. Corral,
with Gen. Walker when he entered Grenada. IL
viii be lesstned somewhat when il is known reli.
able information has been received, representing
that Gen. Walker first seized forty or fifty OF the
principal heads Of families and then notified Gen.
Corral unless he surrendered Internationally, their
lives should be forfeited The dictates OF humanity
conceded what the policy of war might otherwise
have denied. And when Gen. Corral was subso-
queptly murdered in cold blood, under the d.
srissnce of dIumhead court martial, it was
sganst the entTeaty Of all classes and sexes,
backed by The appeals of the whole clergy, that
he might at least be allowed an asylum IN the
United States.
1t is well ascertsined here, that but for the
completely Of the Transit Company, in shording
to Gen Walkers troops the means of reaching
their destination as well as for its aid in supplying
the sinews Of war'-say $50 ,O00--since the sue
cess at Grenada, this expedition must have failed,
did that of Col. Kinney, to which it refused
sistnnce. That Company obtained the right of
way from Sicaragus for 80 years; but il is much
questioned, ifa civil GoverDmeu. should now be
restored, whether their contract would not be
declared null and void, after this wanton cOmbi-
aaton to destroy it's existence and to establish a
military despotism on its ruins. and if that day
should come, the Transit Company may find that
the Government OF the United States will decline
10 interfere-as 10 has done alresay--in any ad-
justment Of it's difficulties with the State of Nj
carsgua. II is by no meaus improbable, that one
of the first acts of the restoration Of civil author
ity would be to open the Transit bet Sesn the two
oceans, to free competition, at a nominal tax
Ard perhaps this retributiOn would be well merit
ed by those who have conspired to overthrow the
authority which conceded their monopoly
1t IDay be interesting to some Of the former
friends Of Mr.. Would be- Minister French who
have peculiar interest in his pecuniary concerns
tkpow that he came hero pretty we'll provided
with Z" material aid" rs iKoseuth calls it. Beside