The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-12-22


the right path.
rAe Nicarsg~~ Meeting on Saturday Wight
The Neutrality Act ard the Presidents
Orders.
The gathering at the Tabernacle on Saturday
night-a full report Of which we gave in yesser-
days HERALD-for the purpose Of devising the
proper manner and seeking the means TO send
material aid 10 Walker, thus assisting the Court
OF Directors for our new Indian empire, was not
only respectable one az 70 numbers, bat also in
the character aud social positio Of a large
number Of the persons present. The amount
and manner of the contributions, too, exhibit a
peculiar fact in relation to this new movement
among the rotten republics south of us. 1t is a
singular evidence Of the tone and tendency Of
popular opinion among the better classes Of
society here, that several Of the most fashiona-
bic and leading hotels should have come pub
lcly forward with contributions The ST. Nicbo-
las Hotel sends one hundred barrels of bread;
The Metropolitan Hotel, five thousand pounds OF
bacon; and the guests of several other popular
houses send in contributions OF money. As the
purpose of the latter is not particularly stated,
we recommend that it be invested in shoes, be-
cause we think that with bread, bacon and
shoes, the rascais can get along pretty well in
that hot climate
There is another contribution that has rather
an ominous look: One thousand rifles. This,
too, directly in the face of poor Pierces orders
to the government officers here, to stop all ship
ments Of men, arms and provisions to Walker.
We fear there is some one individual in our COM
munity-for the thousand rifles look as though
they came from some one person-who does not
entertain proper high regard for the opinions
Of poor Pierce. We advise Marcy to instruct
John McKeon to look up the individual imme-
diately and to have proceedings commenced
against him at once. We have been trying to
understand this matter of the instructions to the
government officers, and TO find logical con-
nection between it and poor Pierce's Message,
but it is not TO be found. Pierce tells us that he
refuses TO recognize either OF the contendiDg
governments in Nicaragua; yet certainly his in
s.-uctops, If they could be carried out would
operate against one party and in favor of the other
Bat can they be carried out? There is the rub.
We will not argue the question on the rifles.
That poin. we will leave to be settled at the
time with the question Of Colts sending pistols to
Russia and our shipowners sending their feetest
clippers TO England and France for the purpose
Of carrying on the late war in the East. There
fore we viii leave the rife question for the pre-
sent. But the bread, bacon and shoes. We don't
see what right Pierce, Marcy, orMcKecn, have TO
intercept bread. bacon ard shoes anywhere. On
the bacon point, Vattel is expressly clear, aud be
is quite a. good authority as poor Pierce. He
states that he cannot take it amiss that nation
sells such things to his enemy, provided it does
not refuse 10 sell them TO him also. Now, no one
doabts that We are JUS. as ready TO sell bread,
bacon and shoes to the allies 10 Central America,
provided Joe White, or any one else, will come
forward and raise the means TO pay for them.
We shall, therefore, back Vattel against poor
Pierce, and advise that the bread, bacon and
shoes be sent at once by The steamship Tennessee,
70 our new Indian empire.
in giving this advice we have not the slightest
idea that We are Infringing the Neutrality act
We have great respect for this act because it Is
the law Of tie land, whatever We may think Of its
several provisions 1. il true that Henry Cay
was strongly opposed 70 its passage, because IN
X provisions It went beyond the obligations q
the United States to other Powers, and was un-
precedeDted in any nation; but Clay is dead now,
ard the moral philosophers Of the presos day do
not care much Tor what he said. We have seen
poor Pierce IN the past four years, on several
occasions, stretching is provisions to IN unyet-
rantablc degree, bal We have yet 10 learn OF tie
6rst conviction ne has obtained under IT, in
every seizure here he has burnt bis fingers, and
come os with a damaged reputation as a
lawyer
On the whole, therefore, we say 10 the Court
Of Directors, that there is no danger in sending
forward the hog and hominy" TO their new en-
pire. so, by az means, let them have something
70 eat.
INFoEMAuoE WANTED or STOCK GAHBLEEs.--
Any person having correct information OF the
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