New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-05-05

The time for action, on the part of the Untet
States Government, in reference to the Contra
American difficulties has arrived and if Presiden
Pierce and his administration are not prepared tt
perform the role of crayens and mbeciles, beside
subJecting their countrymento the eers and SCOTS
every brave nation upon the surface of the globe
prompt and decisive action will be taken It may be
necessaryto appeal to the God of Battles 1t may
be necessary to cover sea and land with the engines
OF destruction It may be necessary that struggle
shall be entered upon such as the earth has never
IFitnessedfor Wartnotc between the United States
and England would amount to that-but what of it?
No price is too high to pay for the preservation of
national honorno sacrifice too great for the protec-
ton Of American citizens. The honor of the one and
the life Of the other are now imperiled.
How it may be asked. Why, neutral port
San Juan--is now blockaded by British squadron
American ships, bearing the flag of their country,
have been all but searched. Passengers have been
impeded in their peaceful transit from place to
place; and the statement has been openly made
that the passengers by American steamers would
not be permitted, hereafter, to pass up the rive
The interference Of British officers at San Juan
has been as open as it has been intoIerable and
it has been backed by large naval force This, of
men, and affords clear evidence that the Admiral on
the station is acting under instructions. What those
instructions are is very apparent from the intercepted
dispatches of Lord Clarendon, wherin offers are
made to supply the Costa Ricans with arms and i'm.
plements of war on their own terms
AS we have often remarked, we have never doubted
that British gold British arms and British intrgues,
were the cause of the Of Costa RIGA upon Mica
ragua Costa RIGA had reason to go TO war against
Nicaragua. On the contrary all the inducements
tended towards friendship and peace. And peace
would have continued to bless that section of the con-
sinent but for the jealousy Of England, excited on
account Of her fear that the success of the Walker
movement would throw the whole of Central Amer
lea under American influences and deprive her, to
some extent, of the facilities she now enjoys in cross
ing over to the Pacific ocean. Hence, she has To-
mented disturbances and stimulated war; and now
her armed vessels are openly interfering with the
domestic matters Of this continent while her Minister
for Foreign Affairs is secretly proering aid to one of
the belligerent parties
Here is list Of grievances, which, although imper-
feet, is sufficient to justify ON Government in de-
manding instant explanation and redress. If the
Monroe doctrine is not miserable nonentity; if our
boosted nice sense of honor is not wretehed sham,
deceit, delusion and lie il we are not towards,
instead of being the brave we claim to be if our
National Administration has not lost all sense of de-
cency, and allconcepton of national chvary and if
we have not wofuly degenerated mentally and phys.
icay these outrageous nterferences and insults by
implication, will not be passed by moment longer
than is necessary, unexplained and unredressed.
We are advocates of peace and opposed to war
But if amicable relations cannot be maintained with
old mother England, except at the sacrifice of the
national character let us go to work and thrash her
for the third time And while our hands are in, let
us do the job so eectuay that she will not forget the
lesson in half century. She wants it and needs it,
and what instrument appropriate as her relation
Young America whom she boasts about. and then
strives to impose upon? ~