New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-20
THE NEW GRAnADIAN DIFFICULTY.

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We have not altogether abandoned the hope that
the requirements Of honor and justice may be salts
fed BY the rigid enforcement Of our very moderate
demands upon New Granada Of redress for the Pana-
ma outrage. But, however earnestly such result
may be desired by the country, nobody is justified in
INDUCING sanguine expectations that it will be
brought about. is true that Immediately after the
demands of our Government were rejected. and our
representatives almost driven ignominously out OF
the sostyled republic of New Granada naval forces
were sent to Aspinwall and Panama, but this is the
last we hear Of the matter from official source, nor
is it possible to even form plausible conjecture re-
garding the character of the demonstration to be
made.
We NAV indeed, as the letter writers do, indulge in
speculatons and surmses as to the expected opera
tions, but there is nothing whereby we may know
when we are on the right track. Some pretend to be-
ieve that indemnity for the past and security for the
future will be obtained Immediately and vigorously
by Selling the transit route and appropriating
sonable strip Of the territory through which it
others that our vessels of war are merely sent to
cruise about in the tropical waters or lie at in
those sunny harbors for the innocent purpose ofsecur
ing bloodless concession of terms by display of
physical force and others that the Administration
will cautiously temporze until the disposition Of the
new Government of Granada, already or about to be
inaugurated shall be ascertained or until diplomacy
threats and importantly shall succeed or until Mr.
Micawber has it, g something turns up" The latter
would be pretty strictly accordance with the policy
which our Government has pursued in similar cases
for many years.
The do-nothsng- but-write policy-of which Marcy
was the greatest high priest and scribe we have yet
had, and thus far made himself immorta-sets aside
as secondary the demands of Justice ignores redress
of individual wrongs, dsregards the blacklist stains
upon the national honor and humanely settles all diff
fculties with paper pellets of the brain. 1t was the
practice of this policy which maintained the peace
after the " ffty-four forty or fight proclamation,
and when British cruisers captured our fishing soops
in the North redinto unarmed ships in the South
and played the tyrant and bully at San Juan In this
latter connection we alude to succession OF acts
which we presume were in strict accordance with in
sructions Of the British Government and for which,
it must be admitted, great amends were made, in
equitable sense, by the humane and noble conduct of
Capt. Dunlop of the frgate Tartar, towards the un
fortunate remnants of the Lockridge expedition. But
that must he set down to the account Of individual
generosity and will not excuse Government from
boarded and searched and its citizens continually
molested and interfered with.
1t is the donothing policy on our part which has
rendered the valuable transit through Nicaragua
worthless ever since Costa RIGA took up arms for
selfaggrandizement against neighbor who had not
offended her, but sought her friendship; it is that
policy which has cost the lives of many of country
men, not only of those fighting in Walkers ranks,
hut IF tbars ytn bo5 IN 1n
and followed their peaceful ayocations in the vain re-
lance that their quality of American citizenship
would afford ample protection it is that policy which
has over and again caused American citizens in
almost every quarter of the globe to seek under the
British flag that protection from nsolence and oppres
sion, or awess violence, which they found it impos
sbe to obtain under their own: for while John Bull
will menace and Cypress, and coerce if he eau, in the
pursuit of his interests, he is shocked and ex-
ceedingy wrathful when others do it, and his brave
tars, when they meet the American in the ports Of
remote countries, drawn to him by a common
language and common lineage
And finally if the donothing policy is still an in
cubus upon our General Government, it will in all
probability be responsible for disgraceful failure
obtain redress from petty, despcable State for
of the most uonstrous and bloody outrages per
petrated.
For, we feel well assured that the proper settle
ment of this affair depends entirely upon two cond
tons, viz: that the new Administration of Granada
will prove more reasonable, and concede the terms
demanded, or that our Government will, without
wasting time in useless negotiations, or making
vain display of ships, resort Immediately to the arbi
trament of arms regardless of the interference of any
power whatever. The former is hardly probable after