New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-03-05

been passed declaring tbeee atts ulHi,Na 'N' ""
mower Of enforcing that law against what called tue
bopulsr feelng-in other words against the canor ana
agitation got up BY interested busybodles oy pohlcA
refugees and adventurers, by bot parsans OF az
ner Of extreme opinions, and BY eecton spTcuaeo7.
In more than half the territory ofthe mon tnete no
police or government machinery OF any KIND 20 pre-
serve order. Judge Lynch administers the GUY NV
recognized and the population u armed, ana elnooAes
Itself for purposes OF Oense well 81 OF defense III
the primitive way we may imagine our ancestors =,
Gaul and Germany 10 have done IN the ua!s VI 'NV
Casars and CoIstantines 1T,
The international law OF Europe has grown up 10 tuo
eourse of ages and II now recognized a. ESTABLISHING
principles for the guidance OF States ana nations Rs
sessing Governments and dealing with one another
through theIn-each Government beng understOOl 10
represent and being answerable for, lis subjects.
the United States does not come within ths Category
that l., If the population, being suGu DO y, "a"
neither be controlled nor bound by the acts and en-
gagements Of it, GovemmeDt-h0w deal with taai
State ar such II has different notions OF rgh, ana
wrong and is much without the pale OF European
principles China or Japan or the Aircan ooInnlu'
njties which do not recognize our international Jaw
and toward which therefore, special course OF pro-
ceediDg is necessary and justlha6e. when we MAKE
a treaty with kaffr chiefs, We know whom IL oins
and whom il does not bind, and ACT acco,uihgy'
Wbat We ace passing on the other side of the Atlantic
threatens equal uncertainty in the dealings ana nplO-
matte relations Of well-ordered States with the popgs-
tons located in the North American Union, and they
must be dealt with differently from European commu-
mite. whose Governments fully represent them.
Our readers will understand that we are led INTO
these obsery atons and are brought 10 THIS Sohcluson
bv the manner in which hhbustenng expeditions aIc
GOT upon in the United States of America Heretofore
4 was Canada that was 20 b. annexed-ned II was
Texas and other parts of hexco-then 1t was Cuoa.
Now il Nicaragua that Is the object oi appe'ehce
and attack We have heard, too, oil TAX IN soule
parts of the Union of getting up an.expeuon OF the
kind against Ireland We may well ask i. TINS peace
or war Then such things occur daily! Everybody
knows ~ way in which the thing Is managed. some
adveuturer of reckless character and desperate fortune
i designated leader OF an enterprise; emisSane'
are then sent to the country intended TO De attScHe
10 intrigue with mac0ntents and to get up grievances
and if thew cannot produce local nSurecuon, they
conriye at least to get some strong proceeding 70 DC
taken against themselves or their fellow
which will Justify or may be used to justify, the at
tempt TO night themselves.
Their local newspapers are bnbed to write up the
cause; committee is formed to work II by suoscrlp-
lions and 10 issue bonds repayabe with enormous
motif 10 case of success: volunteers invited from
the backwoOds and hunting grounds OF the ne" states
all with the connivance, though Of course WIN no
o-tensble countenance, OF the state
and local Government officers, the expedition Is or
yanized II proves successful the conquered terri
tory votes itself into the Union. II fail II IL formal
" dsavowed; but punishment falls on the leaders
and Organizers of the expedition. The United states
functionarcs at Washington sometimes tender SER
vices of their Aforementioned TO prosecute Bu let
the evidence be never so perfect neither Judge nor
iurv dare convict That is thoroughly understood ana
felt throughout the states lIpul Ndlu' AZ
The mob would never suffer and the mob Is the ru
ING power everywhere.
History has many precedents Tor hlhDusterihS eAFe
ditions out of Europe as elsewhere The earliest on
record WAS that of Jason to the seacoast OF Ccassa
In search of the Golden Fleece. But the most signal
were the crusades of the middle ages The latest out
of England was that of Sir Walter Raleigh to the RI
Dorado of South America which, failing, was not with
out responsibility like the similar expeditions from
New Orleans OF the present day. Our transatlantic
friends however will not seek their justification in
such preCedens of the olden time when the relations
and rights of nations were little understood. They are
more likely 10 refer to the iaterDZing proceedings OF
the revolutionary Government of France, at the end OF
the last century, by means OF which that Government
extended its dominion Italy and Holland, aud the
Swiss Cantons and elsewhere. There, no doubt, was
in these proceedings some family likeness to the recent
flhbustering enterprises of North America But were
they justified and approved in the eyes of Europe
Let us only understand that the people of the United
States claim to do all that the French did during the
Revolution and we shall know what have to ex-
pect and when and where to resist, and how to deal
with them.
II concerns, we say the general interest ana the
peace OF Europe that it natons-and, indeed taat all
States possessing Governments really representing and
responeible for their subects-shOud have common
understanding how to treat and deal with Govern
men that is not de facO. France and England are
now in that position relatively to another and to
the rest of Europe that they may take the lead in con-
sidering this question: and in agreeing TO JOINT acton
in the matter which they can settle they may invite
the rest of Europe to accede to- and TO JON them IN
| enforcing. A commencement has already been made
in this course by steps recently taken by these
two GOvenmen s, and by the assurances OF ald gwen
by them to Spain for the protection of Cuba from h
clustering enterprises. But the ntrgues carried on by
United States agents in Central America, and espe-
ciay Walkers recent expedition against Nicaragua
Ito cOuntenance and support which an nted States
vessel OF war lies convenient at San Juan whose ma
rnes have been employed in dispensing body of W al
kers enemies are proceedings 30 entirely opposed TO
rapoOnized and acted by EurODpaD
nations that il both fitting and necessary to extend
the consideration given to the subject in It's bearing on
Cuba, and to agree upon course OF acton Tor repres~
sion OF this crooked policy OF aggression wherever IL
displayed in the West the same ground, ard for
the same ressODs that it deemed necessary to stop
Russias course of aggression in the East. II IL fatal
to peace and good fellowship that one party should be
sincere in the desire not TO offend and scrupuos TO do
nothing aggressive and unjust while the other is known
10 have opposite views and to be swayed by opposite
| principle. Until this aggressive wiufuly offending
disposition is corrected and repressed peace Is worse
| condition than Every concession made TO pre-
serve peace is encouragement TO further injury, and
each step gained makes more difficult future resistance,
when il becomes unavoidable, as II will be sure to 90
| sooner or later under that encouragement.
Therefore We say that it is especially lndhpen-
sable that France and England should concert dec
aration and of action bearing especially on
these flbustering expeditions The Monroe doctrine
which insoently assumes that no state OF Europe,
whether possessing colonies and territories IN America
and the West Indies not, shall have right OF in
terferne with the States and Territories of that conti-
nentis the rst thing TO be dealt with in the confer
ences on this point. That doctrine has been put forth
in yaporng addresses and state papers addressed 70
the population Of the United States but never yet has
| been declared as principle of action in her dpIon-
acy It il 20 directly offensive that every State Ct
Europe would be warranted in regarding the official
announcement of any intention 10 act upon such q
principle as declaration Of war, and in delivering
passports TO the ambassadors of the United States,
| in token Of the suspension of further diplomatic