The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-21

! PRIDE thought II would be good opportunity
ofventing her time-treaxured spleen against the
Yankees. The case is one that calls for an early
and earnest attention on the part of our govern
ment, and il is to be hoped THAT it will receive
it from our experienced Secretary of State
General Cass.
The National March south and vvest-Fliibus-
terism and Squatter Sovereignty.
We have frequently alluded to and published
numerous proofs of the unanimity in public
sentiment that prevails at the South regarding
General Walker and his return to Nicaragua;
and could we afford the space in our columns,
we might present day after day evidences of
this fact, as complete and conclusive as those
we gave yesterday. But this is not necessary.
1t is with the fact itself that we have to deal,
and to examine its influence upon our national
progress.
There must be some great cause for its ex-
istence, for it is simply ridiculous to ascribe it,
as the British journals, and some Of our own
abolition prints do, to widespread and uni
versal moral regeneration. Where whole
people are animated by one sentiment-and that
people moral and highly cultivated one. as
the people of our Southern States are-there is
some general impulse pervading them that gives
rise to such unanimity of sentiment. And
moreover it is not alone men of Southern birth
and Southern education that are ready to take
part, and even the leadership in enterprises
similar to that of Walker. Men from
the North, even from the cold re-
gion of New England are just as
ready to become filibusters as those of South
Carolina or hardy Texas. This great cause
does exist; and it is none other than the ma
tional impulse of selfdevelopement, as flibus-
terism and squatter sovereignty, that pervades
our whole people. In the North it carries them
westward, and urges them to build up new
States with magic rapidity. But there is an
isothermal line that crowds our Northern peo-
pie, and north of which they will not flow
This and the great sterile plateau few degrees
west of the Mississippi is crowding them down
upon Missouri, Kansas and New Mexico.
The South holds the same impulse as the
North, and in obedience to it has built up the
States of Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and
Texas. Her emigration, pressed southwark by
! the advancing northern column, and checked
| by the reservations of the civilised Cherokees
and Choctaws, and the great sandy desert is
seeking the only outlet open to it, and that is
southwark and s0uthwestward. In this she
obeys the natural law of her expansion, just as
the North obeys its law in extending into Kan
sas; and being driven from this Territory, it is
most natural that she should turn her hopes in
the direction that seems to promise the earliest
relief That promise is held forth by Walker
and Nicaragua, and thither all her hopes con-
centrate. Any violent action, therefore, that
shall tend to destroy the centre of these hopes
will produce great sectional irritation at home
and fan anew the flames of discord.
1t is these great truths that should lead the
Southern people and their representative men
to reflect upon their true position and their
evident duty. They should at once weigh the
great difference that exists between movement
national in its character, and developed under
the protecting wing Of the federal government,
and one purely sectional and individual in its
form. This is the true point at issue between
the administration and the fire-eating admirers
Of Gen. Walker. The course that Mr.. Buchanan
has recommended in his Message will make the
Americanization movement southwark and
westward one Of national character, and give
a far greater impulse to our progress in that
direction than can the most unrestricted private
flibusterism. Let them move at once in the
abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer hunbug and
pass the laws authorizing the President to use
| the land and naval forces, under treaties of
guarantee and protection, like that he has just
made with Nicaragua. This is all that il wanted
| to make the whole movement national one,
and this is what the South should do.
| The London Post, Palmcrston organ, com
menting upon the new treaty of the United
| States and Nicaragua. which we give elsewhere
| in our columns. sees at once the whole gst of
| that treaty. and truly says that "if the United
| States government IL to he empowered to send
troops to Nicaragua in case of foreign invasion,
civil insurrection or other domestic causes the
Central American republics will. we suspect re-
main but short time without the assistance of
their powerful northern neighbor." II urges
4 the British government to obtain like treaties;
but We care little if IL does. When it comes to
question of what Lord Clarendon smoothly
calls spontaneous settlement" under the ma
tonal sanction. We shall have little cause to
fear the result. All Of these things indicate
the true course that should be pursued by the
! representative men of the South. and We hope
TO see them take hold Of IL at once.
As for the tales that are banded about in re-
gard to joint blockade of the San Juan river
or the harbor of Greytown. and the preventing
Of emigrants from joining Walker in Nicaragua,
Ia a.
order to induce the hot bloods from the South
to secede from their more sober but equally
true companions and bolt for the wrong track.