New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-04

the other Spanish-Ameriean States were wasted
they dissolved their connection with the.mother
country in 1921. end established ccnfederacy
which thev called the Republic Of Contra!
America. This movement and the earlier govern
ment Of the country were wholly in the hands OF
tine whites. But they soon qusrreled among them
-elvez As in other Spsnsh-Anierican states,
hitter irud broke out between the born Spanisrds
End the white creoles. These latter. instigated
by the remembrance Of past wrongs, claimed the
exclusive government Of the country and from
sorpe Of the States they succeeded in expelng the
nstive.born Spaniards, who, under the colonial
rule. had been the sole masters and who though
few in numbers, still possessed large part OF the
wealth enterprise snd intelge nce of the country.
Another feud also broke ont between the
priesthood and the liberals. AT first, the
liberals prevailed but the priesthood. seeing
Themselves in danger Of being stripped OF their
power and property appealed to the half.breeds
and Indians, who were thus first led TO take part
in political affairs. They, however, were not sat
isfed With being mere tools. Under the leader
shin of the famous Carers. they made themselves
complete masters of Guatemala, the chief State OF
the Confederacy, where the priests were driven TO
the necessity Of initiating the policy of their Latin
predecessors toward the Goths, Franks, and other
barbarian invaders and yielding up the Govern
ment 10 those who had seized by the strong
hand. 10 preserve os much influence as they could
BY playing upon the superstition and religious feel
ines of these new rulers. Such is the present con-
dition Of Guatemala which after various viclsSi-
tudes of civil war; is still under the rule OF
Carers, whom Mr.. Squier is pleased to pronounce
a treacherous and INSCRIPTIONS half.breed,
1--WE had supposed he was pure lndian,( who
rules over a desooted country with irrespon'
{" sibe sway" Yet in the whole of his romantic
md diversified career We do not at present recOl-
lect any act quite so " treacherOus" or " unscru-
pulous" as Mr.. Walkers murder of the unfortu-
nate Corral by the pretended sentence of court
martial.
In Costa Rics, the southern province the whites
and the priesthood, acting in concert, have sue
ceeded in preserving their authority and that com
parativey prosperous province has never yet been
desolated by civil war. In the three central
States the liberal or ant-priest party Prev lled;
but the consequence Of these internal struggles
was that the Federal Government fell into abey-
ance, aud has at length entirely disappeared--the
five States now being governed as independent re-
publics.
A large part of the territory claimed by Hon.
duras-as vet a vast unnhabited forests claimed
also by the British appertaning TO their district
of Balize, or as belonging to their ally and feuda-
tory, the King of the Mosquitos-a mixed race OF
Indians and negroes, who as against the spanish
inhabitants have had relations with the English
ever since the time of the buccaneers This con-
troyersy with the British has led the rulers of
Honduras to court the favor of the United States,
to which they have even proposed annexation;
and in connection with proposed canals and rail-
roads from the Gulf to the Pacific, it had led to
violent struggles for influence with the Govern
ments of Honduras and Nicaragua between Brit
ish and American diplomats, in which our, Mr..
Souier has been very much mixed up; to the
Clayton Bulwer treaty, and to all our imbroglio
with Great Britain on the subject OF the Mosquito
sovereignty and Olrytown, which lies within the
disputed territory and which is claimed at once
by the Mosquitoes and the British in their name,
by Honduras. Nicarauga, aud even by Costa Rica-
the boundaries of all these States being yet very
indistinctly defined
The Republic of Nicaragua-Of WHICH, as of oil
the five States, the best inhabited portions are
toward the Pacific side-contalns two principal
cities-Leon, not far from the Pacific port of
Realejo, and Granada on the northwest shore of
Lake Nicaragua. These two rival cities BECAME
the nests of two political factions, one of which
affected conservative, and the other refcrmstory
or democratic leaning, and whose rivalry at length
involved the State in civil war, under which it
has been suffering for some time past The ex-
hauston of both partes and the sudden loss of their
leaders BY cholera, have enabled Walker, with his
band of desperadOes by affecting to side with one
OF the coutending parties, to make himself tempo
rarily master of the country.
Having laid this foundation Of facts, let us now
return to Mr. Squiers philosophy Of fllibustering.
Following in the footsteps Of Morton and some
other PSYCHOLOGISTS who have attempted to conceal
by pseudo scientific theories the nakedness of yul-
gar prejudices and ignorance, our philosopher lays
down the following tatS az having been determined
BY "anthropoogical' science: First: That ma
ture perpetustes no human hybrids, but that in
cases of amalgamation-which our philosopher
assumes always to take place against the warning
of natural instnct-the result il that one Of the
two races completely sbsorbs and annihates the
other Second: That all such hmalgamaticus are
attended by the most deporable results, intellect
ual moral and physical-the mixed race contrast
ing unfay Orably in all these respects with any Of