The Nevada journal., 1856-11-28

report of Amos B. Corwine on the 18th
mus question.
Mr.. Corwine, acting as Commissioner
on the part of the United States to in
vestigate the facts of the Panama masa-
ere, CHANGED to recommend to his gov
ernment that unless satisfaction should
be given by New Grenada for the cut
RACES perpetrated on the lives and prop
erty of American citizens, the United
States should take forcible possession of
the Isthmus of Darien, from ocean to
ocean, proposition not at all likely to
be put in execution by even the fllibus-
ter administration of Franklin Pierce
But Johnny Bull, through his organ. the
London Times, must indulge in the or
dinary threats on such occasions. The
British Government, of course, could by
no means allow such step to be taken
The British Government, having, of
course, all the right on its side, out of
pure magnanimity and desire for peace
with the United States, had withdrawn
from the occupancy of Central American
territory. The island of Ruatan, and
the Mosquito Protectorate had been mag
unanimously surrendered, and now the
Central American ghost is conjured up
little farther south. And the Times is
horror stricken at the presumption of
the American people
Now, it may all be true, that the
American nation by its fillibuster pro-
clivities as evidenced on more than one
occasion, and its probable popular in
dorsement of the Ostend Manifesto in
the person of its author, has put itself
without the pale of enlightened nations,
as enlightened nations should be, but it
comes with an exceeding bad grace from
power notorious for its unscrupulous
absorptions of territory to chide and
threaten us for proposing to dothe sane.
If the United States is to make her.
self to civilized powers OF the globe,
what Arabs and Gipseys are to good
society, she will not be alone if national
justice is impartially meted out. Rus
sia, Austria and France, will come un-
der the ban of condemnation, and as for
Great Britain she will be doubly damned.
The American people have always
regarded the extension of British sway
in India as so much more territory open
ed up to civilization, Christianity and
commerce, and they have never looked
with jealousy upon the vast acquisitions
to the British Empire in the East. I'm
like our rival across the water, we mind
our own business in that respect, and
seek not to interfere in matterin which
we are rot concerned. But with stolen
goods piled mountains high all around,
Great Britain, snugly ensconced within,
assumes the virtue, lectures on morality,
justice and propriety, and threatens ven
geance with her righteous arm on a
neighbor who proposes to steal a little
too.
But it does not require argument
to prove that the occupation of the
Isthmus by our government for the pro-
lection of the lives and property of
American citizens is justified by a higher
code of national morality than that on
which any kingdom of Indostan was
attached to the British Empire. We
have, at least, petext for occupying
the Isthmus. The British can offer none
tor their conquests in the East.
We have been exceedingly greedy of
territorial acquisitions, and Great Britain
is jealous of our success. Like two.
thieves returned from midnight expo
dition, one has been lucky, the other is
envious of his superior fortune. The
territorial spoils of Britain, however, are
vast and ought to satisfy the most in
satiable. During the eight years ad-
ministration of Lord Dalhousie in India,
which closed about year since, more
than 100000 square miles of territory
and II 100000 of inhabitants were an
nexed to the British Empire. -Four en-
tire Kingdoms were overthrown to give
way to the overshadowing power of the
English, and the only pretext was that
of Jack Cade or William Walker-the
right of the strongest and most unscru-
pulous. Yet the London Times works
itself into paroxysm of horror at the
monstrous proposition of a Commissioner
of the United States government, to OBJ
tain redress for the butchery of Ameri-
can citizens by forcible occupancy of
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