The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-16

tator Mora then, in conjunction with the Dictator Of
Guatemala and the other Spanish American allies.
knowing that If the liberal or democratic party con-
tnued in powerin Nicaragua the country would soon
be swarming with Americans, and advance rapidly
to Importance and influence, and spread that niu-
ence far and wide, and open the eyes Of their own
poor, half civilized natives and Indians, and thereby
endanger their despOtc rule, strained every
nerve. and after long time succeeded, with some
underhapd English assistance in collecting together
in Nicaragua such q number of half savages az to
crush out the liberal party in Nicaragua to great
extent, and prevent them from rendering assistance
to any great amount to the government Of Walker,
and even forced them in chains, to assist their old
est ard bitterest enemies. Any one who knows any
thing Of the feelings Of the people there knows well
the impossibility of ever reconciling the liberal
party to the rule of the services and that without
the presence of the enemies of Nicaragua such a
government as even the present Martinez one could
never have been organized nor sustained. Tn,
Costa Rcans and their allies put him there
ard kept him there for their own base purposes
The fact is self evident; for they had the mos
remote idea OF again withdrawing their troops from
the soil OF Nicaragua, or that their bastard offspring
would dare TO raise its voice against their quietly alb
sobing the airest and most valuable portion of the
SOIL Not that they came there lion in sleeps
clothing, or serpent, insinuating his coils around
them slyy and quietly, under pretence of guarding
them from foreign foe-those horrible ilibusters-
only the more surely to crush every bone in their
body. The facts speak for themselves who are the
real filibusters in Nicaragua-who came unlimited
under the guse of friendship and seized the Transit
route of Nicaragua and made sale of it first to one,
then to another Commodore-to anybody who would
make haste and pay them the gold; for. stolen
it was, they anxious to dispose of it to the
first conner and 20 implcate somebody else in the
transaction, and throw the onus and the loss upon
them when the property should be restored to its
owners! VINO murdered the poor mechanics at
work building the wharf at Virgin Bay-honest
Americans, earning support for their families at
home, by working to complete great highway for
American commerce, and whose unhappy families
now mourn their awful and untimely end, and whose
blood calls for vengeance at the hands of American
freemen? Who murdered Mr. Iawless, an American
merchant of long standing in Granada, and poor Mr..
Wheeler, the meek apostle of Christ, and mission
ary? They were taken and shot in cold blood by the
mongre, barbarians, for daring to be Americans
base Yankees and heretics. Who robbed the Ame-
ricans doing business on the Transit under the
supposed protection of the far.famed Clayton
and Bulwer treaty, and the panoply of protec-
Pierce? And finally, who is now in possession of
the whole transit route of Nicaragua, and destroying
its property-the property of Americans using
its steamers to make war upon Nicaragua?
Plainly, then the Walker government of Nicara-
qua not the flibusters, for they were invited
there, and came under emigration laws enacted by a
legally constituted and recognized government, and
became adopted citizens, and all their interests were
identical with those of the country, but the foreign
ers-the invaders of the soil-who crushed Nicar-
qua and who now so tenaciously cling to her vitals,
and whose interests are all foreign to the country
they ruthlessly trample under foot. These-these,
say, branded filibusters; and want further
proof of this than the fact of their own appointed
chief, Martinez, declaring war against them, and
calling on the people to drive the invaders from
the SOIL Who, then, ] ask, il entitled TO the
sympathy of the American people, and, if needs be,
Of the assistance Of our government? Certainly the
Americans who adopted Nicaragua as their future
home, under the laws of the country, and by she'd
ding their blood achieved glorious triumph for de-
mocratic principles, and acquired rights of landed
property in the country and became identified with
all its interests and were deprived of those rights
not by the people of Nicaragua, but by those who
have proven themselves its worst enemies foreigners
not in any way interested in its real prosperity
These say, entitled to the sympathy Of all de
mocrats at heart and all who love Justice in theil
struggle to regain their lost rights; and lastly, the
assistance of government If all its naval forces
occupied industriously To protect the natives
of Central America half vigilant in obtaining
redress for the wrongs inflicted upon our own citi-
by these very people, the whole people of this
country would applaud the justice Of the act and up
hold the administration which used its strong right
arm in giving to the world practical proof that
American protection abroad shall no longer be a
by word. PROGRESS.