The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-17
the movements in Utah, and eclines TO unbosom

! the movements in Utah, and declines TO unbosom
himself to any one.
| We should rather think he would II strikes
us that If the law officers of the government
were as alert as they ought to be, they should
already have gratifed Mr.. Bernhisel's discre-
ton by placing him under arrest Ms conspira-
tor of Brigham Young's and spy. To let such
man go at large when the Mormons are muir
dering our people, and perhaps starving our
troops to death, seems odd enough.
| True View OF the Centred American Move
| ment-The Moral Il Involves.
Our advices from Washington to-day show
| that there is a curious imbrOgliO there in re-
gard to Central American affairs, and that the
return of Walker to Nicaragua has not only
checkmated the schemes of half dozen diplo-
matists, but has set them all by the ears
Such a result is very natural consequence
where different schemes are being pursued with
vigor and some one of the parties suddenly
makes break and gets start of the whole
quarry. The administration, contemplating
the whole Central American question from a
national stand point, was steadily taking its
measures in view of the coming future, and
| preparing to remove such obstacles a. the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, and sundry others that
stood in the path of our progress; Lord Napier
| and Sir VIM Gore Ouseley were striving to
prevent this; the Count de Sartiges was work
| ing to give France hand in the establishing
of balance of power on this continent !;
the Costa Rican Ministers were endeavoring
| to secure their new line of boundary on the
| San Juan; Senior Yrsarri was laboring
to secure the position of Nicaragua by a
| treaty with our government; and Walker and
Henningsen were looked upon merely as brave
fellows who had been utterly defeated, and
upon whom little personal sympathy might
therefore be safely expended
1t is these conflicting positions that are leading
| to such wide and varied comment on the part
| of the journals, and to the suspicious that are
mutually entertained of each other by the
varied interests. In their ire at Walker for
| getting the start Of them, they pour upon his
| head all kinds of accusations of bad faith and
deceit and enlarge particularly upon the alb
sence of all moral right in his proceedings. All
this is mere fudge. Without entering upon the
| evident right of Castillon to invite him to un-
| dertake his first, or Martinez his second exped-
ton to Nicaragua-just as Gandara invited him,
ard Pesqueira invited Crabbe to Sonora, the
Cubans Lopez to Cuba, and Carvajal the Texas
tlibusters to Tamaulipas, which may be de-
Tended on high moral grounds, and all of
which expeditions would have been pronounced
morally right had they succeeded--we take a
more enlarged view of the whole subject, and
| look upon it as an indication of great move
Ment on the part of the people of this CONT
nent, entirely similar in character to many that
mark the periods of European history, and
others that are now going on in the Old World.
Walker is simply forerunner in the march
| of races that is going on here, and this march
involves all the moral right that exists in the
present march of France in Northern Africa,
England in India, and Russia in Central and
| Northern Asia. 1t stands upon precisely the
same ground with the advent Of the Normans,
and before them of the Saxons, into England; of
the Romans into Gaul and Spain; and Of all the
millions of men that have descended from the
high plateau Of Asia, and extended themselves
| throughout the East. Between the Asatic and
| the modern European and American march OF
races there is one great difference. The latter
are carrying with them The lights of superior
civilization, and more perfect political, social
| and industrial Development. England is sub
| shutting civilized for a barbarous rule in In
dia; France is restoring Northern Africa to the
| domain Of civilization; Russia Is giving to
Northern Asia an organization far superior to
the former nomadic habits of its population, and
we in America are carrying moral and mater ial
well being to the disintegrating communities
! and decaying races of Spanish America.
This is the greater movement, before which
all minor moral rights disappear. Who in
| England talks of the moral rights of the Sc.
| poyss What Frenchman defends the moral
rights of the KabylesY Where in Europe are
| the defenders Of the moral rights of the Tar
tars? Not that we would compare the hetero-
| gcneous races Of Central America to either Sc
| poys, Kabyles or Tartars. They are above
them in many things; and in nothing do they
show this superiority more than in the fact that
| they invite the advent among them of the race
that is exhibiting such wonderful progress in
| this country. This is the movement that throbs
in the mind Of the people, and which nothing
can root out OF destroy. We have almost found
our western limit. The shores of the Pacific
and the great central desert of North America
already bound our development westward, and
| il must turn southwark, where decaying nations
and races invite our coming. Small philoso-
piers may harp upon moral rights here, as
they do in Europe, but it will produce no more
effect upon the march Of races in America,
Europe, Africa or Asia than whistling has
upon the wind.
SUSPENSION or THE BANK or FRANcE.-lt
seems that after all the f1ourishes we have read
in the French papers about the recovery in the
financial world, and the ability Of the bank to
| roduce tho rate of discount the Rank of France