Smyrna times., 1856-01-09
The Weapons OF q Manifest Destiny"

OF tue fFebueht, III sedrCh oi CCHCedleu WSaPohe'
The Philadelphia Sun says, there were several
suspicious boxes on board, and the Custom House
officers expected to find muskets, cannon and
ammunition, but when opened they contained a ?
printing press, font of type and some plough
shares. They were allowed to pass, but we
think the federal officers committed great
error in not stopping these weapons of mani
fest destiny. If Nicaragua is not to be med
died with by Anglo-Saxon energy; if we are
to wait until the Central American States ask
to be received in the great family of republics
and not interfere till then, it is the very worst
of il!ibus:erng to send types, presses and
ploughshares, instead of Colts six shooters and
Minnie rifles Why-newspapers and agri-
culture will work revolution in Nicaragua
quicker than al the charcoal, sulphur and nitre
ever compounded into gun-powder. There is
no sprer mode of absorbing Central America
than by sending such weapons there, and if Par
ker II. French was the means of shipping these |
types and ploughshares, he has shown himself
the greatest diplomatist alive. In the progress !
of " manifest destiny" Nicaragua and all her
surroundings must come to us; We want elbow
rOom--the boundless west is too pent up for our
increasing population-down to the equator is
the course of republican empire. An anecdote
in point is now before us. A pure minded
Jonathan, in warm argument with a John
Bull on our national institutions, was endeav-
oring to floor his antagonist, who had sneering-
ly remarked that "Iortunately the Americans
! couldn't GO farther Westward than the Pacific
. Shore" Yankee searched his pregnant brain
e for an instant, and triumphantly replied" why,
. good gracious, they're already levelling the
Rocky Mountains, and carting the dirt out
o west; had letter, last week, from my cou-
sin, who is living two hundred miles west OF
e the Pacific shore-On made Land." When we
S are put to such shifts, what can overcome the
+ necessity of acquiring Nicaragua! "For-
y ward is the word sOf command, and it must be
t obeyed.
e Upon this subject the New York Express
says, the American spreading system OR in
N other words, " territorial extension, in other
n words, annexation, in other words, " mani
'e fest Destiny" is going ahead swimmingly-
re Not only Nicaragua, but Central America en-.
Or se, it is easy to see, is to be subjected soon to
u that " tumu!tuous invasions," from the United
:" States, which Santa Anna once predicted
). would swallow up all the minor nationalite.
unless resisted in it's (then only contemplated
annexation of Texas. Santa Anna was pro-
phet enough to foresee, years ago. what is now
ItoL ,Dlo NT..i: Al
: have not only taken Texas to our embrace, bu
: the vast territory reaching from the Rio Grandt
to the Pacific, comprising Utah, New Mexico
and California large strip south of this
y" known as the Gadsden Purchase-almost doubt
' ing, within that time, the extent of our domin
= ion. The Sandwich Islands are not annexe
'''' just yef it is true, but we have made a Reci
"0 procIty Treaty, which is in effect annexation
~ and prepares the people of both countries fo
" the accomplishment of that measure at som
''' future day. Then again, the Filllbusters fror
this side Of the RIO Grande are operating o
,as the border States of chihuahua and Tamaul
m. pas, in such way as to bid us look out for
he sister to Texas. asking admission into the Unio
IN. by and by. Walker and his Calilornians wi
,st take care of Central America. His Ncaragua
Ike Republic, being an an fat accOmpIi, Cost
Rica, Honduras, San Salvador, and Guatemal;
ent will be looked after next Nay, the signs, eve
now. are that "mantest destiny" has alread,
Il IN good earnest, set about finishing I'D III
i, whole Central American Job at once! Kinne
mas an immense grant in Honduras, aud is usin
every endeavOr to establish upon it an Amer
ear can colony. Honduras is at war with Guat,
siIs mala, and Walker, as the representative
lck Nicaragua, has sent small army to assist h
AXE ally against the Guatemalans. The issue is n,
IN a difficult to foresee. 1t is thus foreshadowed t
a asanguine California editor, who To lks as thoug
- he were officially posted up in the programme
7 TO "The Americans will gain a footing in Gu
tenala, and the dnsnombered fragments of ii
:, ), old Central American CJnfederacy will be r
- united. Still further South we end the Amer
iiY can ieaven at work in the Isthmian States
Grehdda. railroad has been but-a tel
graph stablIshed-cUmmercial houses opeu,
this -Ouslncss created-a rush of immipratio
zan transltory though it be, attracted ali by d
Americans. The inhabitants themselves. Sc
'"s ing the evils arising from their isolation fro
'ent the rest OF the Republic, and the conseoue
efuI neglect of their interests by the Central ca
be- ernment' nave several times endeavored to o
talh the consent ofGrenada to peaceable sep
ration. Should that be effected, they won
vent naturally be absorbed by the new Cent?
with American Republic, and united would exte
S. the limits of that confederacy from Yucatan
the lsthmus Of Darien Within that spa
there s room for the formation ofa first ella
PEN power, and within that space we may look
a.. the uprising ofa new and vigorous nation, CO
'h's troiied by the American race, within the nc
ated 10 years!'' .aa aH..lo9 -"
iains Walker is already enIarging his sphere
and operations he is paramount already in Mica
edy qua, and has commanding influence in two
DC. three other Central American States. 7
send Now York Times says il is not probable d
the he will attemDt the Immediate ,n n;I;t,r,, ,l .