Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1856-05-31
Nicaragua Recognized.

The intelligence conveyed in tho dispatches In
tuday's paper announcing the official recosnl'
ton and reception at Washington Of the accred-
tied Minister of the Republic of Nicaragua, Pa
Dire Vigil, will send II thrill Of joy through the
hearts of the friends of republican progress and
liberty, not only throughout the length and
breadth of of this country, hut in every cline
and nation where freedom has yotarics. 1t is
by far the most important move that has been
made by our government on the political chess
board, so fur us regards our extensive and COM
picatod foreign relations, and we doubt not will
lead in the end whatever may be the immediate
results, TO the most important and salutary con-
sequences. The President in our opinion, has
taken the step required by the urgent exigencies
of the case, demanded by the importunatc voice
of his countrymCn, and fully justified by interna-
tonal law and usage. However governments,
whose schemes of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT may be inter
fcrcd with by this timely recognition, may be
diOconrci ted, the course adopted by the Presi-
dent is fully warranted by the usage Of all the
great powers of the Earth in similar cases, and
will in it's good time receive the sanction Of
christendom. Indeed, the step now taken, it is
believed, might with great propricty have been
adopted by the President several months ago when
Nicaragua first present ed herself under the aus
pieces of the Walker government for recdgnt ion
as government de tacto If she might then have
been acknowledged without giving offence to
other powers orwithout violence to the established
usage of enlightened nations, there can be no
reasonable ground to challenge the legitimacy of
acknowledging her now. Since that time the
government has become consolidated and firmly
established; order has been to great degree res
tored in all the departments. The government
has gradually emerged from the uncertainty and
instability of its beginning, and has assumed
form, regularity and stability. The administra-
ton of law has become established the internal
national polity regulated and enforced, and above
all the integrity of the government maintained,
not only against traitors at home but against
armed enemies abroad on their own soil The
glorious battle of Rivas has solved the problem,
if any existed in incredulous minds, and demon
strated the fact that Walkers Republic is de-
tdctO government.
1t 10 said that the recognition of the Nlcarn-
guam government by the President will cause an
immediate rupture with Great Britain. We hope
not But we say if she desires war on that is
sue let it come, let it come. There cnn be no
more suspicious time, no more glorious field to
decide the question of whether the governments of
this hemisphere are to manage and regulate their
own affairs, or whether they are to submit to the
mpertinent interference and intermeddling Of
the nations of the other hemisphere. There can
be no more fitting field than the soil Of Central
America to test the great question of whether
of towards. or whether it is the settled and de-
termined policy of n great people, If the red
tape dynasty of Downing street want to transfer
the question from the discussion of her willy di-
plomats to the stcrner arbitrament of the sword,
this country will not decline the issue, however
she may deprecate it for humanity's sake
In any event the Central American question
that has given rise to so much discussion, ques-
ton that sprang from the provibial faithlessness
and duplicity of British diplomacy, will NOV be
definitely settled. We will have no further oc-
CASTOR to engage in learned diatribes to prove this
or disparage that construction upon plain Eng
lish words used in the treaty We shall have
no occasion to refer to ponderous folos of lexco-
graphers, to learn whether ''not occupy y "hol d
possession - &C., mean this thing or that. The
question is now left to Gen Walker and his lit
tie nation of heroes and their enemies. With a.
fair field and an open fight they viii soon demon
strato who has the right to {" hold, possess, for
tify," Sc, Nicaragua If Great Britain is not
content for them to settle the question, let her
bring odt her lion, and send forth his whelps TO
protect her mock satellite Of Mosquito. She
will find million OF unerring rifles in this coun-
'.,, -oodv to leap from their racks, aud ocea
Of transports ready to bear them to the succor
of Walker
20 What will the American party of Texas,
who have been in the habit of swearing by Gen,
Houston do now that the Ge neral has become q
candidate for the presidency in opposition to
Fillmore. Whatever may be the case with the
latter, whether he actually took ''the degrees
rom the immortal Scroggs in his private par
or, " or not, there can he no doubt that General
Houston is a thorough proficient in all the grips,
signs passwords, &c. of the mysterious hocus
oocus of the order.
"Under which king, Benzonian, speak or die y
l5y' Hons g. A. Warren and a. B. Greenwood
have been nominated for Congress by the Demo-
cratic District Conventions in Arkansas. Col.
Warren received the nomination by close vote
over Col Albert Rust, tie present incumbent.---l
The opposing candidate against Greenwood wasi
I. C. Hindman. Under the operation ofthe two
third rule 276 ballots were had witlont effect
Zach ballet showing The same result, when Hind
nan inaonauIiuntislv came forward and Withdrew