The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-26

the South.
From the Mobile Register, Dec II
The official report of the proceedings Of the Mica
raguan meeting In this city on Tuesday night Is
given in our columns this morning. The results OF
sn,s great popular demonstration IN favor s OF ,ne
are ain to hope and believe the initiation OF gene
raj and emphatic movement throughout the whole
South in behalf of q cause that so evidently and
directly concerns the interests OF our section There
is no doubt that the doctrines and sentiments ex-
pressed ia the resolutions adopted by the meeting,
and in the speeches of the various distinguished
tors on the occasion, reflect the universal opinion
and feeling Of the Southern people the questions
involved. II is time that the South should rise up
in the majesty of its united acclaim, and make its
voice heard in the federal Capital on these ques-
tions.
The policy of our government for several success
sive administrations, with respect to Central Ameri-
has not been satisfactory to the national senti
ment of the American people, nor especially to that
OF the South. The lofty position announced by Pre-
sident Monroe policy with respect to the North
American continent, and which has ever since been
cherished and sustained by the most ardent and de-
tcrmned sentiment of our people, has been compro-
missed and virtually relinquished. While every
Mderaton of interest and national pride required that
we should exercise the exclusive political control and
influence with respect to European nations in that
important part of this continent, our government, in
stead OF boldly indicating our claims in this re-
gard has continued to temporize in disgraceful and
compromising negotiations with Great Britain. It
has even yielded to the nsolent pretensons of that
rapacious Power advantages most detrimental and
perous to national interest. II is time for the
South. at least whose interests are most directly
concerned in the destiny Of Central America to de-
mand that the policy of our government with respect
20 that region be redeemed from the ignominious
compromises in which it has been involved and ele-
waited once more to the high and becoming ground
intimated in the Monroe doctrine
The present administration has given some earnest
of its disposition to accomplish this desirable object,
at least to the extent OF abrogating, if possible, the
Clayton Bulwer treaty. The public opinion of the
whole nation demands that that odious engagement
be cancelled ut once, and at all hazards If the
British government will not consent to peaceful
abrogaon of it, and that without the substitution of
any other engagement calculated to trammel our 60
vernment in its policy, or our people in their expan
sion let us resolve to get rid OF it at any cost-et
our government proclaim that it will no longer be
bound by this treaty and that it will abide the pc
nalties of a withdrawal from its engagements. We
sincerely hope that President Buchanan will not, as
1t might be inferred from certain words in his mes
sage he is disposed to do, enter into any obligation
continuing the engagements Of the Clayton Bulwer
treaty against our acquisitions OF territory in Central
America.
The portion Of the message from which this in
ference might be drawn is in these words, while
entertaining these sentiments lin favor of abro
CATION of the Clayton 3ulwer treaty. 81 shall never
tneless not refuse to contribute to any reasonable
adjustment Of the Central American question which
N not inconsistent with the American Interpretation
of the treaty. From this language the inference
continue the engagement to which our government
was committed by the Cayton-Bulwe treaty, never
TO occupy or COLOMBO or exercise any authority
any pant of Central America. If such is his meaning,
at once for part protest against such policy
The South never be satisfied with, or acquesce
in policy which thus interposes bar to her natural
expansion. This il altogether at war with every
thing she has had right to expect from the admins
tration We trust there is no real foundation for the
apprehension which the language of the message
recited is calculated TO suggest and that in relieving
us from the complications of the Clayton Bulwer
treaty, Mr. Buchanan will free from any odious
restraint upon our liberty to extend benefcent
institutions and our rcgenerating population TO every
quarter OF this Western hemisphere.
With respect to the enterprise OF Gen. Walker
We hope that the views and sentiments manifested
in the resolutions of the meeting on Tuesday night
and in the speeches on the occasion, as distracted
N the proceedings which we publish, will have the
effect OF inducing the administration to reconsider
its conclusions in this connection. We trust that
President Buchanan will, upon a consideration OF
the points suggested in this intelligent utterance of
Southern opinion. be convinced that he has taken
an erroneous view of the matter in regarding the
late movement Of Gen. Walker from our shores
in violation Of our neutrality laws. We hope that
If he shall not be persuaded that il Is the duty Of
our government TO renstate Gen. Walker in the posi-
tion whence he was compelled to withdraw by the
unlawful interference Of one of its officers, he win
st least conclude that il behoovcs il To orbear the
intorpostion of any obstacle in his way towards
himself regaining that position.
VI.
The laws that govern the rise, the progress and
the decadence of races-that determine the pre-
dominance and the subordinaton Of particular ma
tios and that regulate the currents of emigration in
the great commerce OF the world, will AZ certainly
settle the future destiny OF Mexico and the States of
Central America. as they have heretofore operated
10 fix the scale Of national ascendency and order in
the Old World. Might is not necessarily right any
more than II il necessarily wrong; but right
wrong in the affairs Of this world, IL must from the
very nature Of things always maintain supreme con-
troll II il Just much established law Of nature
that the weak, moncrel races, south OF rs, should
gradually give way to Others of a superior order and
OF higher endowments. that the inferior tribes Of
the lower animals should become the legitimate prey
to the superior
very large proportion, therefore, OF what We
hear and Of what we In the Northern papers in
dcnuncaton or "fibusterism," NJ applied 10 the
endeavor Of citizens Of the Southern section Of this
count ry to Americanisc Ncaragua-when such en-
deavors are untainted with premeditated wrong-we
must look the prejudice Of gross ignorance
and part OF the Irrational morbid and false
philanthropy that has been for so many years past
agonizng over African slavery-that has upset the
inteects of so many weak minded men and wo-
men, and made Of abolitionism a great national
nuisance
We believe Of Nicaragua, as Mr.. Calhoun believed
OF Cuba. that when the pear IL ripe IL will fall into
our hands, or, II not into hands, into the hands
Of some other Power. But there are various and
very powerful reasons why Southern men should en-.
deavor TO insure the certainty Of its falling into
hands and into no others.
Judge Hopkins. Judge Meek. and other speakers
at the meeting the other night proved that the right
of Gen. Walker to return TO Nicaragua was beyond
question and that his claims 10 authority were equal
ly undoubted. If 80, then there can he no doubt
whatever, that on the invitation Of General Walker
NJ many citizens OF the United States may 20 there
armed and equipped as may please TO go, without
let or hndrance from any quarter whatever.
Gen. Walker, then, being clothed with the rights
and power just mentioned the hostility TO him mani
tested by President Buchanan and his administration
il uncalled for. arrogant, despotic Outrageous and
most infamous; and IL should receive not only the
execrations of all true Southeners but II should he
publicly and most severely rebukcd and denounced
by the people In conventions and by the press
throughout the length and breadth Of the Southern
States.
Suppose Fillmore had been President, and had
done this the very first night after the reception Of
the news Mobile would have been all blaze with
Tar barrels 10 call out the Dem n c-rac.v for the