Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-07-17

Sf'" "ouio hot Sell ner-Wnlcn lC was known
she would not. But that was going it too strong,
and the administration who sent them to make
1t disapproved the work, while approving their
conduct in doing it. By that time the chances
Tor war with Spain had ran out, and seemed
TO DO lost forever, when the chaparral govern
ment OF Walker offered new prospect more
encouraging than the other. 1t was simply to
acknowledge the government in the chaparrel,
let aid flow to Walker, foot hold be estab-
llsh in Nicaragua, and the invasion and con-
quest of Cuba be made by the United States
citizens under the chaparrul flag. That play
was just commencing when the nomination at
Cincinnati extinguished the political life of its
authors.
OUR QUARRELs WITH GREAT BRlTIAN-cENTRAL
AMERICAN AFFAIRS, &c.
But Great Britain is the power which our
belllcose Administration deem most worthy Of
their prowess. and with which the attempts to
pick qrarrel are most incessant She barely
escaped brush with us on account of the Af-
ricanization of Cuba and now we have the
Monroe doctrine, the Bulwer Treaty, the Mos.
quito coast, the Bay of Island, the Nicaragua
canal, the recruitment question, and the dis
mlssal of Mr.. Champion. Heavens, what list
and all the product of few months. in sea-
son of profound peace. The details of these
quarrels are too tedious to be gone over, but
notice of that most prominent will show the fol-
ly and insignifcance of the whole
And first, of the Monroe doctrine, SO in
cessantly quoted and so ignorantly and mis-
chelvousy applied. 1t is assumed 10 be doc
trino by virtue of which the United States are
bound to stand guard over the two Americans,
from Canada to Patagonia, and rcpulse all in
truding colonies from the boundaries of each
power. 1t is assumed to be doctrine of for
chile protection, and the United States the pro-
tector. Tho individual must know but little
OF Mr. Monroe, or his cabinet, to suppose such
doctrine could come from them No they
were not the men to meddle with other nations
affairs-not the Quixotes to regulate their
neighbors' concerns-by force of arms They
were men of reason, peace and justice. They
laid down the Monroe doctrine for themselves
and invited other American states of Spanish
origin to adopt it each for itself and to main,
tain it, each by ITSELF and by its own means
within its own limits.
This was the doctrine as laid down by Mr.
Adams in this instructions to our Panama min.
lister, as may be seen in the first volume of tht
Thirty Years View Far from standing guarC
over these American states, and protecting then
with our arms, they were not even allowed tt
expect assistance from US; and every assertion
of the doctrine to the contrary is libel upol
Mr. Monroe and his cabinet and, besides, i
an ignoranc, of our constitution, which woul'
not have allowed them to bind us to the wagin
of such wars, even if they bad been witles
enough to attempt it-which they were not.
Well, it is by virtue of this doctrine, thu
converted into an armed protectorate over til
J two Americans, that we must fight Great Brit
ain in Central America, and for what! VIII,
for the meaning of word in the Clayton Bu
wer treaty, which its authors cannot agr
about. The English proposed to leave it to a
bitration; our administration :efused, on Il
ground that no impartial arbitrator could
found. Then the English offer to leave tt
choice to ourselves, binding themselves to abi'
ABSOLUTELY the decision of our own arbitrator,
) it what it might. To this offer they had r
3 turned no answer at the last accounts. This
one of the causes of war-not only fit stu
iect for arbitration in itself, but even for chanc
u lot decision, q proper subject to be decided
lot,. by tossing quarter OF dollar into tt
air, with the cry" Heads, l win; tails, yt
. lose" for it is IL case, think in which u
' loser will be the winner, especially if We shou
l be the loser This is one of the causes of Il
cherished war
Then come the Bay of Islands, the Ruat,
: Island and the Mosquito coast. They are
t bone Of contention The British have the1
, and we propose to drive the British out. VIII
: for! To take them ourselves. l hope nc
d With respect to the Mosquito coast, God kno'
: we have mosquitoes enough in our countr
! without annexing whole kingdom of thel
l. And as for Ruatan and the Bay of Islands, W
n but good geographer can tell where they or
n All | knew about them is, that they are out
n wards the Equator, tho other side of Cuba, a
t might furnish point dappu to u 6llbus
q invation of that Island. Now, | am agaiI
l. fllbustering and annexing, and anu willing til
10 the British should remain forever in tn,
" places They were once the haunt of pirat
s. and might become so again if the British W.
v 10 leave them.
q NICARAGUA SHIP CANAL.
es But the canal of Nlcaragua-the ship cal
across the continent at that point-and the CT
" slruclion and protection Of which forms the
O. pie of the Bulwer-Clayton treaty, and subsid
le nv to which is the whole quarrel about Cent
of America. Now the canal in itself is GO
d. thing, and very desirable to be made, but by
t. mower in preference to ourselves. When ma
tn it is for public use, and the makers will have
r. care and expense, and no more use OF 1t II
IN others. would not own it-no more thai
as would own the Straits of Gibraltar, or the Is
,t mus Of Suez. | have two special objections
en- our ownership or guardianship over that cant
ne 1t would be a foreign work, requiring fleet
lie each end to guardn; and forts at each end
ed shelter the ships and troops at each end 70 P
or tect the forts.
,le Two powerful fleets, each strong enough
N. 6eh, Great Britain for that is the object
ok sets of forts to shelter grea, fleets, and
he nowerful armies to man the forts such is I
expensd point of view of this protectora'e a
oh guardianship over the ship canal at Nicarae
to | am against meddling with it, Let others N