New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-06-27

for war with Spain had ran out, and seemed % b.
Loot forever, when the chsparrL Government Of
Walker Offer Q new propect moro encouraging than
the oher It was simply TO acknowledge The t'ovsn-
inert in the chsPsrsl, let aid aow to Walker foot
hold Be md Of cSSs 5: made Ss
United States citizens under the chsprd hag.
That play was just commencing when the nosni-
nation sCincnsst extinguished The polifisi Me of
i,s sutboia. In the meanwhile easrr-' we.
beng picked With Denmark shout thoes : :"
Dues which Europe paid befsfo AreriH
discovered, and which America has psie c r .ioo.
her independence, and by virtue Of treesies v bv
ouy most approved admbistrs ions SETTING
for the Iberstor Of the Baltic Sea, chis Adminsts
,ave orders 10 our merchants to cease paying tho
dues otter the 18th Of April last assuming the night u
sbrogate the existing treaty; the Danish Government
gave notice that it would collect them IS usus under
the treaty and the Administration hpding OUT that it
had no right to abrogste the treaty. and besides that
Copenbsgtn was not Greytown, gave oruess 20 the
merchants to pay but to make Ps9estGstoa 70 .ne
would Try to get back the money; and 20 sands this
affair, which would be RIDICULOUS if il did not threaten
tie pt ace Of two most erdy nations And nov,
why this Quxotic attempt to hbefate the bauc sea-
II is not our tea it is not sppueDsnt to our CONT
nent it is wholly European; and Europe, which pays
the dues hes precisely two hundred times - much in-
t.rest in it as the United States has-sendng e1sSy
this Qui1otismi Simply for a fuss-sos notori;
power. How different the conduct Of real
Statesmen in times pat Mr.. Adams administration ,t
improved it when Secretary Of State under Tyler,
getting the dues reduced our staple aric'ee, AMI
oot aiming stipulation to place US on the iooong o.
the favored ration ana 10 give US tee oeneh OF
eyery reduction which should be made in favor OF any
other naiiop ibis was statemsnshi p-confrashng as
A. Use with foyas justice with rapDe-witb the co1-
dutt of this sdmibstr ation, picking quarrel with
Denmark to hbeiste European ss g. ana rss"y II
-, ia nt m
ketpipg I'D enormous duties at home, contrary TO q
public pledge to reduce them: But enough OF ,hls
folly Q, madness and those who may wish 70 under
stand the whole subject will find 1t fully nut oreny;
st forth in the second volume of The Thirty Yeen'
View" But Great Britain is the power WHICH
our bellicOse Administration deem most worthy Of
their proves, and With witch the attempts 70 PEG
barely escaped brush with US on account OF the
Authorization of Cuba; and now we have the Non
re Doctrine, the Bulwer Treaty the Mosquito Coast,
the Bay of IrlaI d. the Ruatan Island the Ncar4gus
Canal the Recruitment Question and the Dismissal Of
MIR. Champion. Heavens, what a. list and al the
piodutt of few months in season OF profound peace
The detail OF these quarre is too tedious TO be gone
folly ano insigDfcance of the whole Aud hrst Of the
Monroe Doctrine so necessarily quoted and 20 gno.
ruDtiy al mische vousy ap Jlied. It Is ASSUMED to
be doctrine BY virtue OF which the Unrea st s
Canada to Patagonia, and repulse all intrudng COL
ones from the boundaries Of each power. Il is as
sumed to be doctrine OF OfclDe anu
United States the protector. TIE individual must
know but little Of Mr. Monroe or his Cabinet, tn sup
pose such doctrine could come from them. No they
Dot the TO NEEDLE with other nations affair."
not the QoxOtes to regulate their neg bors concerns
by fwcr of arms. They were men OF reason, peace
and justice. They laid down the Monroe Doctrine
for themselves and invited other American States Of
Spanish origin to adopt 1t each for ITSELF and TO main
tain it. each by ITSELF an by its means, within its
own limit. This the doctrine as laid down by Mr..
Adams in his instruction to our Panama Ministers, as
msy be in the flint volume OF the Thirty Years
View" Far from standing guard over these American
States, and protecting them with arms, they
not even allowed to expect assistance from u.s. amt
every assertion Of the doctrine to the contrary libel
upon Mr.. Monroe and his Cabinet; and. besces, Is an
ighorsrce Of our Constitution, which would no, have
allowed them to bind to the waging Of such war;,
even if they had been witess enough to attempt it
which they were not. Vel, it is by virtue Of tas doc
trne thus converted into armed protectorae over
the two Americas, that we NUT fight Great Britain
in Central America. And for What Why, for
the meaning Of a word in the Clayton bulwer
treaty, which its authors cannot agree about
The Eng lish proposed to leave it to arbitration;
Administration refused, on the ground that
no impartial arbiter could be found. Thu the English
offer TO leave the choice to ourselves, bindiDg them
selves TO abide absolutely the oecsion Of own arb-
traitor be what it might. To this offer they had re-
turned at the last accounts This one OF
the causes of war-not only fit subject for arbitre-
proper subject to be decided by lot by tossing guar
tar Of dollar into the air WITH the cry, Heals
g. you w,n-tails lose for it is a case, think, in
which the lOser will be the winLer, especially If we
should be the Oser This is one of the causes Of the
cherished war. Then come the Bay of lslands, the
RuataD Island and the Moequ,o Coast. They are a
bore of cOpte ntion. The British baye them and we
propose to drive the British out What for to take
EN- Gun evtsl / hope not. With resi- ect TO the
Mosquito Goa (, God know we have musketoes enough
in our country without annexiDg whole Kingdom
of them. And as for the Ruatan and the Bay isand'
who but a good gecgrapher tell where they
are? All know about them Is, that they are OUT
toward the equator the other side ofCubs and might
FUR, ish p0inte f0ppui to busfer invasion OF that
islaI d. Now, am against ilbustering and annex-
irg and am willing that the Brtsh should remain for
ever in these places Thu were once the haunt OF
pirats and might become 30 again If the Bitish
TO leave hem. But the Caos Of Nicarsgua-tbe ship
canal across the continent, at that pOnt-and the con-
srucn and protection of which forms the stspe Of the
Treaty. and subsi 1iary to which IS the
whole quarrel about Central America. Now the canal
in is good thing and very desirable to be made
but by any power in preferen to ourselves. When
made it is for public use and the makers will have its
and expt nse, and more use OF II than otber'
| would not own il, more than | w0nld own
the Straits of Gibraltar or the Isthmus Of
ownership guardianship over that canal. l.
would be foreign work, requiring fleet az
each end to guard it, and fonts at each end TO
shelter the ships and troops at each end " protecthe
os Two pow erful fleets, each strong enough To light
Gre Britain for that il the ohjec two sets Of sorts
to tier great ees, an two powerful armies to man
the forts such is the expense point Of view Of this pro-
T. ctoIae and aJdisnshp Ogertbe chip canal At Mica
raeus. ] ON against needing with It. Let Others
make II. We sba have the Of il in time Of peace,
wiboutthe cost of its care in time VI war. But am
against m. dd)iDg with for another reason. That
sbip canal is the antagonist of road to tbs Pa
cfc IL is the antagonist of national road through
cur own land to our own California. is the sntigo