Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-01-30
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

"AonlNSIua NEWS AND GOSSIP
Inc Central American Expedition. This
enterprise it strikes US will never leave the
shores Of the United States No matter how
many professors may have been made of :
design Tor peaceful occupation under good
nts' II Is apparent to US that good title
has never bssn held, and that a peaceful
o'cuPasfon' is not contemplated, for the very
SIMPLE reason that such an occupation is i'm
possible.
The gran. under which the author. of the
Scheme claim, il as follows: The Father of
the present Mosquito King, in considera,ien
OF services, real or maginary, granted to two
British subjects named Sheppard. aud Stan.
isiaus haiy, also British subject tract Of
Hand then considered valusless, amounting =,
about 100000 600 of acres That the The,
hing leo called vas drunk whom he made the
grant il to be inferred from the fact that hs
was never known to be sober. After the title
mad been granted, the Sheppards applied to
the British Government for a confirmation Of
IT, That Government, after having examined
al the circumstances connected with thu
grant, not only refused to confirm, bat for
msily repudiated 1t. The grantees never en-.
tefed into possession Of it; and after the
accession OF the present King, one of his frs.
acts was to snnul the " Sheppard and Ha.v
grant" This occsrred some years since and
without opposition on the part of the gr aptes,
Nicaragua, who has never abandoned her
claim or jurisdiction over the territory en-
prsced In the grant has never recognised. but
always protested, and still protests, not only
against the validity of the grant. bat also
against the firmed sovereignty Of tn. Mo-.
quito King Her claim of sovereignty and
Jurisdiction over this territory has been t,oiee
recognised, formally, by the United States
Government, and our Government still ad
heres 20 this recognition
ne claim OF the expeditionists is then de
MED by the Mosquito King-by Great b itain-
Dy me united States, and by Ni:aragua-and
yet, IN the face Of the protests of ALL and
'son Oh tnese doVernments, The sssiguees OF
The grantees contend that their title is good
ana their intention is peaceful occupation!
Ii ibis Is truly their design, why is it that
60 many young gentlemen sre figuring around
"HI military commissions in the proposed
army IL Is simply absurd to contend that
me object Of the expeditionists Is peaceful
Insy must mean, If they mean anything, to
act on the principle Of let him take who ha,
the power, and let him hold who can Now
THIS Tanton violation of our neutrality laws
mat must provoke the interference of tb.
United States Government to pat an end 70
this expedition, If it becomes at ali for midable
We nave said that We believed 1t (the pro.
posed expedition) will never leave the United
StSes; because We believe-frst, that tn,
Central mericsn Land and Mining Company
have no means TO carry out fllibustering in.
tentiSns against a ghboriDg and friendI =
power; secondly, because no sensible man car
De found 10 embark, as q mere subordinate
AoVenturer, In an enterprise 80 wild and profit
IsSs; and, thirdly, because this Goyerpmen,
must, In obedience to it's duties, interior. !,
necessary, to prevent so unnecessary and in
human an assault on the sovereign rights of
neighbOring Power. :
The 'act that each adventurer who ;o;ns =
this crusade against the liberties and SOW.
rsignty Ct friendly nation, is required q
pay thirty 1--WE dollars for the privilege, is o.
itself sufficient to show that the money neces
sary to carry out the benevolent gns of tn,
sxpeditioaisss has yet to BE- raised.
That the expedition will be speedily shan
doned We have not the slightest doubt. The
idea, TO a rejecting mind, Is madness, that the,
should without means, AMI almost withou
men, enter Into . combat With Great Britain