The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-04-22
For the Lancaster Ledger.
CENTRAL AMERICA AND GEN
WALKER

COSTA Rica, Nicaragua, and Mosquito mel.
Their Of the above Governments being sta.
BILE for any length of time.
Ii will be remembered that in June 1855.
VIM. Walker, a native OF Tennessee, but
residing in CALIFORNIA, was iavited to TIE
shores OF Nicaragua by the liberals of that
Republic. Said Republic was then in a
state Of civil war, growing from two divis-
ions or factions, servile and liberal, who
were each struggling for the mastery. The
History Of Central America, will bear me
out in the assertion, that her government
has never been stable since her dismember-
ment from Spanish RUE, that she has ever
been engaged in strife, contending factions
spraying uP,1ttempung to asurp her powers.
How could it be otherwise with n mixed
Race OF Indians, Spaniards and foreigners of
every hue and cline, n het erogencous mass
OF ignorance and selishness. Walker, the
young, bold and daring adventurcr, struck
with the idea of making Nicaragua n free
and independent Government and placing it
upon n basis similar to that of the United
States, at once gathered 4 party of 40 or SO
men and landed on her shore.
He was hailed by the native liberals and
given an important post, and after severe
struggling and hard fighting, secured for
his party and his adopted country their in
dependence, which independence appears to
have been recognised by the United States
Government, liz Nov. 1855. by the r~ecogni-
ton of their minister Padre Vigil the Rep.
resentauve of the Walker Rivas Govern
ment for the Republic of Nicaragua, which
was the only Government d~efarto, then in
existence in that State. Rivas being declar-
Cd President for = specific time, resigns and
throws the election to the people. Walker
was then chosen President by over a two
thirds vote, from which Rivas turns traitor
and forms an alliance with the sister States
OF Nicaragua to break down her Republic
and strike out her individuality, divide her
Territory and distribute it equally among
them. Having men and means, they are
now making a powerful attemptto overthrow
that Government and confiscate her Terri
tory.
NhENaaS u 10 CNCI "dtCUIuI ana lcal-
Gus OF American power and fearful of Re-
publican forms ofgovernmrpt becoming pop
ular, sallies forth to aid the Allies by secret
munitions and means TO crush at once the
young Republic, and drive Americans from
the soil chosen by them for their future
homes. She cries protection to British
subjects and gives this as n reason for her
Interference.
And at this crisis Of affairs, what is the
United States Government doing? folding
her arms as the sluggard' No, worse |!
ceasing to hold further communications
with the Republic If Nicaragua, withdraw
ing her Minister from thence and ceasino 10
acknowledge her independence and leaving
her own citizens unprotected in a foreign
country, where not only hostility is shown,
nut actual brrharity practissd -npon them.
Did any country ever prove so recreabt to
her citizens The weakest nation on the
face Of The habitable Globe protects its cit
zens, and why not the United States? She
Is vascillatiDg and inert, 80 much so, that
her interests are about to suffer loss, inter-
ests Of magnitude TO her as a notion. Now,
in my humble opinion, she should have kept
up friendly relations with Nicaragua, SYM
pathised with her as 4 sister Republic, kept
her eons9l Ii he pos; ard at least given
snazs eSNtSsIauns 20 :ae Effort to establish
sNassaall ESvssnpspesrt. .5-iiSr 10 her own,
she has tnuet " DO VITA thsm and their
tnaSfs @aiieh il " pasa ralss and importance
% les, The Orisnisi markets is scarcely
accessible 10 her by any other Route, thar
through the Central American States. Cal
ens.e, South America, Japan, China, ant
the whole of the South American Island
are Of en- to oar trade. How shall we reaci
them-by the Cape Of Good Hopel tn,
Distance, thereby, destroying, or nearly SO
the whole of our tTade with those nations
in fact destroying the usefulness of n larg,
scope Of our wi Territory, to wit: Cal.
fornia, or a portion Of the same. No
friendly relations with Nicaragua youlC
have secured TO us a right to a Transj
Route across the Isthmus with probably
right to cut a Canal across the same, there
byseonneciiDg the Atlantic with the Pacifu
Ocean, which if affected would prove of in
caleuIai 10 value to the United States, b
connecting the Oriental world with our,
and ~forsOoth, in ths course Of time tn
whole Central American States would su
for apexation. However, as matters stan
with our present milk and water foreig
policy, in fact pon-aciing and imbecile, an
the stretching ont Of our Neutrality law
like India Rubber strands, nothing can b
achieved. 1t is time our county shout,
speak, and IL in no other way as individual
and In a manner not to be mistaken. N,
foreign power should be allowed to inter
fore with the Affairs Of this Continent, no