The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-02-13


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the people Of the United States.
These desperate among the most brave enter
prsng and blood-thrsy recordn order give some
color to their nroads deyastaous and what
was then known the isthmus Of Panama assumed the
Of the Indians that quarter whom they called
the true lords of the SOIL and thus, under the mask
since adopted by Great Britain committed the most horr
Bile outrages the Spanish settlements To those who
desire to have their blood chilled and their hearts thrilled
by pictures of human erociy and human suffering, we
commend the perusa of "Ths History of the Buccaneers
of America which is still extant among the treasures OF
British literature.
These philanthropic eebooters having thus assumed
the protectorae of the Mosquitoes las point Of honor
is to be presumed after punderng and burning the cities
of Panama New Granada and almost every town on the
Spanish MAN. and massacrng all the Spaniards that fell
in their way, at length gradually disappeared, leaving
nothing behind them but the record Of their atrocities and
the point of honor of which my Lord Palmerson has 1t
seems become the resduary legatee This is the sole
foundation of the proectorae of the Mosquitoes aud we
challenge his lordshp to produce any other Because
gang of outlaws pirates and eebooters never acknowi-
edged however they may have been winked at by the
British governmen in order to justify their outrages on
the Spanar pretended to become the protectors of the
Indians the true lords of the so that government for
sooth is bound in honor the same obligation
comes forward the representative of the ancient and
honorable buccaneers it has inherited all their rights
duties and obligations not forgetting the point OF honor
and bound to sustain them at all hazards This the
ground for the unusfabe inroads committed on the
territory Of Nicaragua State with which Great Britain
has been at more than with the neghbor
ing republic of Honduras, which she has in like manner
despoled of its possessions The mere naked statement
of such claim would seem sufficient to demonstrate its
papabe absurdty and preclude the necessity of all argu
ment
Great Britain, then, at the time the Clayton-Bulwer
treaty concluded had in fact Legitimate right un-
less forcibe possession constitutes right to single foot
of land any part of Central America By that treaty
the contracting parties mutually covenanted that "ncither
will ever occupy, or fory, colonze assume or
ercse any dominion over Nicaragua Costa Rca the Mos
quito coast any part of Central America will either
make use of any protection which either affords may
afford or any alliance which either has may have for
the purpose of erecting maintaining any such forca
TONS of occupying fortyng colonzng Nicaragua
Costa Rca, the Mosquito coast any part of Central
America"
guage and we will venture say there citizen of
the United States who read it that did understand it to
be REIMBURSEMENT only the Mosquito prefecture but
Of all petenson the possession of the Republic of the
Isles or any other portion of Central America and yet
according the Interpretation given to this article by two
British Foreign Secretaries in succession it directly
the contrary They assert that this treaty exclusively
prospective in its operation that 1t had no reference to the
past or even tho present. that it did not contemplate the
REIMBURSEMENT of any territory in actual possession of
Great Britain however acquired and that in short SO
far from this ii actually amounted 70 recognition the
part the United States of rights which they understood
were by this treaty, forever abandoned.
On this suppositon it was that the government of the
United States n opinion, most nudicousy) pledged
itself policy which may day. if rgidy adhered to-
enable Great Britain eventually to obtain the entire con-
troll of Central America simply by means OF her maritime
ascendency, and without actually occupying, foring or
colonzng" any portion Of that region bnt what she at this
possesses and which according to hernepetaon
of this treaty the United States have all but guaranteed to
her Thus if this Interpretation is acquesced in, while
Great Britain freed from all obligations TO renqush her
usurpaons the United States restricted by the same
article and in the words from making any acquisi-
ton or accepting any cession taking any steps in that
quarter which may in future be necessary to counteract
the policy of the British government which is sufficiently
obvious
This radical difference between the contracting parties
with respect to by far the important stpuations Of
the treaty gives rise TO question Of great moment Are
the United States under any obligation to observe treaty
from which Great Britain has thus exonerated herself?
Certainly the United States have equal right with Great
Britain put their Interpretation treaty which
they are equal parties and in which they equally
cerned and certainly IL interpret words accord
ing their ordinary acceptation they have to say the
least quite good grounds for their Interpretation the
British Foreign Secretary has for his Bot however this
nary construction of the ClayouBuwer treaty. the United
States IL would SEEM freed from all the obligations il
imposes upon them and full liberty TO erect orti
fcations coouze exercise dominion aRy part Of
Central America" without any violation Of faith to Great
Britain.
When to the uniform policy of Great Britain In
obtaining possession of the great of
throughout the world, suppose she will lose
sight of the important of all When her plant
ing herself Gibraltar Malta and the Tonan isles in the
Mediterranean the Cape Of Good Hope and Singapore
at the entrance of the Indian ocean Aden at the mouth
of the Red sea the Falkland islands of Cape Horn md
at every point from which she watch the commerce Of
the world in time of peace prey upon it in time of war;
her policy in Central America cannot be mistaken II is to
obtain the control Of this great thoroughre of nations
Ia baru