New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-19
soUrRR AND THR RILLIBUsTRRs.

District The vote was unanimous.
s0UIRR AND THR RILLIBUsTRRs.
In another part of to-days paper will be found
letter from Mr.. Z. G. SQUIER, author of "NOtes
:. on Central America" This letter bitterly COM
plains Of and makes an attempt to refute, the
comments which we thought it our duty to make
some weeks since, upon certain doctrines set
forth in Mr. Squier's book, the propagation
and carrying out Of which appear to have been q
leading object of its publication. When Mr..
Squier comes to see his face in the faithful mirror
which we hold up to him, he starts back
in as much horror and alright az
the unAardened are apt to show at the
first realization of what they are coming to. He
yeciferousy denies the truth of the likeness; but
that 10 point which we shall willingly refer to
the decision Of every judiciOus and unprejudiced
reader who will take the trouble to examine with
care the extract from Mr. SFiiers book of which
he has asked the publication, and which we have
appended to his letter.
Mr.. Squier is pleased to refer to "certan egreg
GUS blunders" into which, he alleges, The TRIB!
UNE has fallen in the statement ofcts pre61ed to its
exposure of his philosophy of fllibusterism But he
does not condescend to inform us what those blum
ders are, and indeed expressly declares that he
does not consider himself called upon to set US
right. Now, considering that the said bunders, if
such there are, relate to Central America, coun-
try very little known, and as to which Mr.. Squier
has enjoyed peculiar facilities of information; con-
sidering, too the great pains have taken to set
,cbt tho ulativ ivp pointa a
between us-it does appear to us that if we have
fallen into any serious errors of fact, 1t was Mr.
Squiers duty to us and the public to have pointed
them out In consideration, however of the many
"bunders" of his own, both in fact and speculation
which still need to be set right" he is perhaps
excusable for not spending much of his strength
upon others.
Mr.. Squier complains that we charge him with
justifyng plunder on philosophical principles;
with proposing to reenorcethe white blood of Cen
tra America with a liberal infusion of North
American fillibusters, and so to reestabsh the
arstOcracy of caste, overthrown by the revolution
which separated Central America from SPAIN and
finally with hating and malgning the mixed
races of that country; whereas, according to bis
own account, he has merely urged upon the people
of Central America to encourage emigration, and to
adopt an intelligent system of colonization as the
only means, in his judgment, "Of correcting many
"Of the evils which prevail among them, and Of
"averting those more violent means which among
"men, as in the material world, often anticipate
the slower operation of natural laws-that is to
"say, foreign invasion, or what THE TRIBUNE
"would call 'fllibusterism.
Now, suppose that a gentleman of here
ditary property, walking up Broadway at
midnight, on arriving at his house meets on
the doorstep a we-dressed, gentlemanly in
diydual with his hands in his pockets-n
fact fellow who has serious thoughts of emigrat
ing to Nicaragua-and suppose this fellow tells
him, in the blandest and gentlest terms in the
world, that he is making very absurd and ridicu-
lOus use Of the worldly goods inherited from bis
father; that be, the speaker, is man of ten times
greater natural capacity and energy, and that to
save further trouble and the use of disagreeable
force, the best thing the Broadway gentleman can
do is to invite him in, give him bed and sup
per, and the next day resign to him the general
superintendency Of his affairs and suppose that by
| way Of enforcing the argument the speaker
discloses in one pocket a revolver and in the
other bowie-knife. And suppose further,
| that the Broadway gentleman not fully appreci-
atipg the kind intentions of his friend the fill.
buster, complains the next day to the Police Court
and all these things come out in evidence-doe;
Mr.. Squer suppose that even with all his ingenuity
of argument he could save his brother fillibustei
| from going to the Tombs And is his course to-
ward Central America, according to his own &C
count of it, in the slightest degree different in prin
ciplei
With strange infatuation, or singular blind
ness, in the very letter in which Mr. Squer under
undertakes to charge us with misrepresenting biz
positions, he goes on as if to clinch the nail We
had driven) to re-occupy the very positions we had
charged upon him, namely: that the mixed race
and in fact the entire existing population of Gen.
tral America are without the capacity to take care
Of themselves, and that they and their country must
be taken care Of by guardians from North America
in the shape either of immigrants or fllibusters
1t strikes us as very odd way of exhibiting ''un
" bounded sympathy" for the people Of Centra
America; as . very strange way of defending him
self sgainst the charge of " hate" and malig
| nitv " 70 break ont "a Mr. Snuier does in this