Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-07-21


them ourselves? / hope not. With respect 70
the Mosquito Coast, God knows We have mu-ke
| toes enough in our country without annexing
| whole Kingdom Of them. And for the Ruatan
and the Bay Islands, who but good geographer
can tell where they are! All know about them
is that they are out toward the equator, the other
| side Of Cuba, and might furnish pOinte ddppUi
| to fllibuster invasion Of that island. Now, am
| against fibustering and annexing and am willing
that the British should remain forever in these
| places. They were once the haunt OF pirates, and
might become so again il the British were to leave
! them But the Canal of Ncsragua-the ship canal
across the continent at that point-and the con-
structon and protection of which forms the staple
of the Bulwer-Cayton Treaty. and subsidiary to
which is the whole quarrel about Central America
Now the canal in itself is good thing, and very
desirable to be made, but By any power in prefer
| ence to ourselves. When made it is for public
USE and the makers will have its care and expense
| and no more use of it than others. l would not
own it, no more than would own the Straits OF
Gibraltar or the Isthmus Of Suez. l have t~O
| special objections 10 ownership and guardian
ship over that canal. 1t would be foreign work,
requiring feet at each end to guard it, and forts
| at each end to shelter the ships and troops
at each end to protect the forts Two powerful
fleets each strong enough to fight Great Britain
flor that is the ObectG two sets OF forts to shelter
great fleets, and TWO powerful armies to man the
|
tectorate and guardianship over the ship canal at
| Nicaragua am against meddling with it Let
! others make it. We shall have the OF
il in time OF peace, without the cost of its in
! time of war. But am against our meddling with
it for another reason. That ship canal is the an
tagOnist of our own road to the Pacific! 1t is the
antagonist of national road through own land
to our own California 1t is the antagonist of that
road, and intended to make the high the only,
and the perpetual line of communication with Call
ifornia-to make the Atlantic ports continue to be
| forever what they now are-the entrepOts of Cali
fornia trade and travel-the sole points OF depart
ure and for all trade and travel between the
| two sides OF our continrnt-between the thirty
States on the Atlantic and in the valley of the Mis-,
sissppi and the golden State of California Now,
am against all that monopoly Fair play is pretty
play.
| Let the Atlantic States have all the advantages
which the sea gives them; let them continue to 90
to California by sea, on any route they pease-by
Panama, by Cape Horn, by the Nicaragu lake, and
the ship canal when it is made. Let them use all
these routes, and have prosperous VOYAGES all
TIE routes But let US who live inland and own
land all the way TO California, and are almost half
way there-let US have q road on the land; and not
| for ourselves only but for all-iOr the Atlantic
cities as well as for the interior-for the north aud
,ouIh well for the centre; for central road
suits The present Administration is the deadly
! u
preference to this route-for outside road north,
along the frozen latitude OF forty nine; tor an out
side road south, along the burning sands OF Sonora
and Sinaloa; for foreign water route through Cen
trail America, seven thousand miles round; and il IL
tor this foreign route that have all the QUAR-
with England about the Bulwer-Clayton treaty, the
Mosquito coast the Ruatan Island, the Bay of Isl
ands and he Nicaragua canal and it is for tuis al
so that we have the libelous perverson of the Mon
roe doctrine
Enmity to this road, and prostituting the powers
of the government to defeat it, is of the great
offcuses of this administraton-an offence against
the whole Union, but especially against the STATE
! OF Missouri, the natural route for the road, and
along which it is already one third bult-frum tn
Atlantic coast the centre OF this state and where
il would be in communication with all thirty States
Oh this side of the Rocky Mountains But this is
a large subject, and will require full speech to it.
self which il shall receive.
The browning of all these attempts to pick
| quarrel with Great Britain, is in the recruitment
! question and in the dismissal of Mr.. Champion
| This crown to the work is the labor of Mr.. Cush-
! ing whose fitness to make foreign war, or to
! guard domestic rights, may be seen in his own
account of the mission to China, and in his
speeches in Congress justfyng the British attack
upon the steamboat Caroline, under the flag of
| the Union, and moOred to our shOre-bOarded by
stealth, her crew slaughtered in their sleep, and
the vessel, set on fire and wrapt in flames sent
! pungng over the Falls of Niagara, with the
! dead and dying on board. All that Gushing
! justified; for which he sCOurged upon the
spot by William o. Butler, of Kentucky, and who
took scOurging as man would who knew he
| deserved all he got, and was thankful he got no
| more: all which may be seen in the second vol
ume of the Thirty Years View" This is the
! man TO stand guard over American Tights-to
| nick a quarrel with Great Britain when she has
! a har and haS mad no Oryiao for
/ the mere technical Otfense which she may have
committed. The case was this: Our Atlantic
| cities were full of unnaturalzed foreigners, most
| of them her former subjects. She wished to re-
! crut them for the Crimea war-but to do it with
! out violating our laws-getting them to go to
! her own territories, and there enlist. Afterward
! objection was made; and Instantly the practice
was stopped, and apology made for any uniten-
! tOnal wrong. There was no harm done US. The
| only danger of harm that Russia might re-
! sent it as aiding her enemy, in violation Of our
neutrality. That would have been a serious
! complaint; but Russia never made it; the war
was over before the recruits (f any could get to
! the Crimea; and now peace has been long made
Russia and England are friends, and we must
| pick quarrel with England on account of Rus
| sia-Russa herself having no quarrel with Great
! Britain and no complaint against us. That was
the only harm apprehended, and it never occur
! red As for taking such people away as she was
|
! dGmage to us; and that, irrespective OF their
foreign birth. | hold that any man, native born
| or foreign, who would quit the United States
| where good wages, comfortable living and inde
| pendence are in the reach of all-and go six
! thousand miles to the Crmea to lead the life of
| a British soldier for siXpence day; hold that
! the loss of any such men would be no damage to
our country. go as many of them as might For
this Mr.. Champion is dismissed No, not Mr..
! Champion, but the British Government; for he
! only did what his Government directed, and what
! it has justified and assumed This is very differ
! ent from dismissing a Minister for an act OF his
own; il is an insult to the British Government; il
is a challenge and defiance to it. 1t is just cause
| of resentment; but the danger is passed. The
| Administration which dismissed Mr.. Champion
have themselves been Observation-Disclosures
so-by their own party-that is to say, the sound
men in their own party, and the whole power OF
/ the country. The whole country has dismissed
/ that Administration. They have no party, no
/ adherents no support. Their own janssary
! guard-the venal otiice-hOlders-have deserted
them-'trOm their Oton ruined fortunes SUNK
| all atcav'-and crouched at the feet Of the con-
qurror and to finish this universal desertion, they
! have deserted themselyes-hed from their own
! sOlitude-and given in their adhesion to the peO-
! pie that whipped them. This must satisfy Great
/ Britain and restrain her feelings until the new
Administration can restore peace and friendship
/ with her She has been greatly outraged not
only in the act of dismissng Mr.. Champion, just
| done in the nick of time for the Cincinnati Con-
, venton, where (mauger the presence of the two
! Administration champions, Capt. Rynders and
| Tom Hyer), it had contrary effect beside this
act the official papers, even including the Pres-
I dents messages TO Congress all contained insult
/ ing expressions toward Mr. Champion aud his
! Governmental dictated by Cushing. Shame
| that such "A man should have been placed in
situation to insult gentleman, much less to
pick national quarrel with great nation, and