Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-05-27
Common sense view of the New Grana-
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From the London fines, May 81

Il would be sffectation not to own some sort Of
uueasiness at the news that the United States are
going TO carry it with high hand over the misera-
Die Site of New Grenada The old cock does not
ike to see the young cock strntting and Growing so
nesr his own dunghill But, though We care little
for New Granada o. Central America in this coun-
try, ard have other things to think Of, there is
abundant provocaton to instructive jealousy First,
there Is one of the most important points in the
world apparently involved in the affair, that BIN
arts Coriantus Of the New World, Panama, more
important than the lsthmus of Suez, or any other
great meeting point of nations 1t seems to be
marked by nature for the.common property of
mankind ss much as the oceans which it so slightly
discovers
1t is true that to all appearance it may be hun
dreds of years before we shall ever make much use
of the Isthmus, and during all that time the Uni
ted States will be more concerned TO invite than to
obstruct our passage But there is the apparent
moral right aud in this case it is secured and en-
bodied ia treaty, about which there happens to
have been some controversy. Then we have in
this country a rather exaggerated idea Of Brother
Jonathau's ii position to take the law Into bis own
hands. The most outrageous incidents and the
most offensive speeches are they that come quick
est and are most repeated in this country. We
have heard Of Lynch law we have read Uncle
Tom; our dinners out have all of them a few bits
and so we have prevailing IDEA that the will of a
Yankee is his only law. Yet the more we know
OF the Americans the more satisfied are we of their
resemblance to ourselves. They are, perhaps, a
little fiery, little more independent for eli
mate and circumstances will tell upon them but
the governing classes" of the United States are
the very near descendants-the grandchildren or
the great grandchildren-of our own yeomanry,
and inherit the same strong elements of their
character.
WHAT changes may be effected by the new ele-
ment now introducing itself time only can show :;
but, as things now are, there cannot be peace and
order iR Central America, nor UW there be till
a stronger hand, more Uitql principle of order
comes IN. No doubt that nil be Supplied By tie
Ujeitea States. 1t is true-and here we are in
voluntarily reverting to our first misgivings-we
| IN this country neither know nor can learn the
rights of the quarrel between the States aud
| Granada. The Americans allege a conspiracy hut
nothing is more unlikely than a concerted scheme
by the population of weak State to get up an ill.,
expiabe feud with one infinitely stronger. 1t had
all the look Of ilfeeing accident and passion, like
al Irish faction fight, only fought out with knives
and Tihes instead of clu0s and stones. But it is
not our business to decide or to form any opinion
as to the origin of the quarrel. What we have to
consider rather is the bearing Of the affair on the
general interests of humanity.
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United States and the mixed populations of Ora
NADIA, the former in the apparently weak position
of strangers and travellers, yet each representing
IN its own person the whole power and genius Of
a mighty commonwealth, and the latter really con-
temptible, but in possession of the spot, there
could not but be continued ruptures. IL is only a
question of time. II the outbreak was not this
year it would be the next. OF course il would be
far better that the State of Granada should be
strong enough to keep its people in order, and to
prevent them from taking a tumutuOus revenge
for personal insults; but if every collision between
resident aud traveller is to be followed by rising
OF the whole population, then Granada becomes a
mine OF explosive ingredients, which it is DANCE
rous 10 merely walk over. A traveller may an
swer for himself but he connot answer for the
500 travellers who may be with him at port or on
the passage, and the Cord at large has the right to
demand some security that one of its great thor
Ougofdres shall not be made scene of mutual car
mage every tame drunken traUeier mtScOndactS him
self
But, in fact neither the United States, nor
England, nor any other government has so much
voice in these changes as we are apt to assign to
them The change will take place, and all that
statesmen and philanthropists 90 reaches only
to the time and the manner. A vast population
Anglo-Saxon we call it, for want of better name,
but much more British than American-is pouring
into these regions, and acquiring that strength
which is inseparable from superiority of members
aud breed. Nothing will prevent them from gain
ing the ascendency over the debased races that
decay, anguish, quarrel, and destroy one another
in one of the finest countries as well as most COM
handing situations in the world. There they are,
and, though the gold discoveries of Australia have
diverted from California and tue routes thereto the
great European influx with which they were
threatened, still the "ADglo-SaxOn" element is
rapidly increasing in Central America and growing
to its invariabe political development. Whatever
the government of the United States does ia these
regions OiH be better than tie tsork Of adUentrerS
which, at the best, will be only broken limb badly
set, and will require some day or other a more
painful operation. The only point at PreseD; in
volved in this quarrel is the country Immediately
about the isthmus.
The government of Washington will consult its
own peace, at all events its resources by advanc-
ing as little possible southwark into the State of
Granada-a vast mountainous region, directly un-
der the equator We presume that, at the utmost
it will conhne its ambition TO the perfect security
OF It's route to the Pacific States. Time may or
may not call il tempt it to the path of Pizarro
and into the heart OF that southern continent
which has never yet known repose. But for the
present the States can do little more, aud de-
sire little more, than to substitute their own au-
thorities for those which have been found ineect-
ual at the Isthmus Even if we frequented the
region much more than We do, we should have bit
smell reason 10 regret tie change, aud can only de-
s're that AZ should take place quietly possible