New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-27

WITH mean, Of ttao,port. ara COW preparing for 90
attack upon the private property 0! al American
eoupsny. Can thsrs be ths lssst doubt Of what,
under such circumstances, decent self respect &C.
msra. Of our Government These robbers and
pirates collected, in defiance Of the laws OF tue
United States at Punta Arenas, are quite a' much
within the reach AID uzder tie co1trcl Of our Gov
emmett st least 30 far az the prosecution Of their
pe1nioious designs is concerned-as if they were
collected on Sandy Hook. angle ship-oi-w1
stationed in the haTbor Of San Jusn with orders 70
prevent them from ascending the San Juan kTer'
and to take possession Of any boats apparently IN
tended for that purpose, would put an eaectaai
stopper on the whole enterprise.
That it is time for our Government to interfere
surely no man Of common sense can question
The consequences Of non-intereTence during the
vesr past baye been Of the most amentabls charac-
ter. Some FIVE thousand persons frem the United
States have already miserably persisted IN this en-
terprige. as bottles as it is criminal, By far the
greater part OF them young and enterptsing men
enticed to Nicaragua by the most false and ffaudu-
lent representations The Transit route acro's the
Isthmus has teen broken up involving The annihi-
laiion Of an American commercial Investment OF
some two millions Of dollars, and closing our short
est route of communicate with California; and
what is vet worse, we are fast becoming objects Of
suspicion and hatred, and our name by-word, and
most deseryedly 50, among the entire population OF
Spanish America. This famous pretended expert
meut for the SPREAD Of Anglo-Ssxon enterprise and
civilization a. the point Of the bayonet. and for in
Producing free institutions into Central America
through The medium of military despotism, has
ended in blood MURDER rapne, the seizure Oh every
thing movable, even 10 crucifxes and earrings,
and the obstruction Of everything which it was not
possible TO carry away. The burning of Granada
appears to have been pure act Of spite and re-
venee one Of the most malignant recorded 10
history. There is no longer the slightest ground
for pretending that Walker and his associates
are ANYTHING more than mere band Ct robbers on
a large scale; and for our Government to stand by
and to allow this body of highwaymen to be con-
tinuay RI cruited from the United States, to make
Themselves hardly less active parties to their crimes
and psrtcipatCrs in them than some of our great
steam boat owners have all along been. decent
respect for the rights of others and fer oar own
character imperativey requires that ships of
war should be stationed both at San
Juan del Norte and San Juan del Sur,
with express orders to prevent the landing of
apy more filhbusters at either end Of the Transit
route; and as things stand at present. anybody at
tempting to land at either end Of it may be safely
set down as fllibuster, since there is at present
no means of passage across the Isthmu', and no
possible rducement of honest business or industry
to carry anybody to Nicaragua. Let an efectual
stop be put to the further entry into that country
Of fresh robbers from the United States, and the
Central Americans themselves will, we apprehend,
speedily find the means Of disposing Of those already
Alora