Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-05-26
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It would be affectation not to own some sort Of
uneasness at the news that the United States are
going to carry il with high hand over the misera-
Die state Of New Grenada. The old cock does not
like to see the young cock strutting and growing So
near his own dunghill. But, though we care little
for New Grenada OF Central America in this coun-
try and have other things think Of there is abun-
dant provooation to instructive jealousy.
First, there is one Of the most important points
in the world apparently involved in the affair." that
Bimaris Corinthas Of the New World, Panama, more
important than the Isthmus Of Suez, or any other
great meeting point Of nations 1t seems to be mark
ed by Nature for the common property Of mankind
as much the oceans which il SO lightly discovers
It is true that to all appearances may be hundreds
of years before we shall ever make much Of the
Isthmus, and during all that time the United States
will be more concerned to invite than to obstruot
passage But there is the apparent moral right; and
in this case il is secured and embodied in treaty.
about which there happens to have been some con-
trOversy. Then we have in this country rather
exaggerated idea Of Brother JOnathan's disposition
to take the Law in his own hands. The most outra-
geous incidents and the most offensive speeches are
they that come quickest and are most repeated in
this country. We have heard Of Lynch law; we have
read Uncle Tom; our diners-OUt, have, all Of them
a few bits Of stump oratOry to amuse the ladies
with; and We have the prevailing idea that the will
of a Yankee is his only law. Yet the more we kRSw
of the Americans the satisfied are we Of their
resemblance to ourselves. They are, perhaps
little more fiery, little more independent for eli
mate and circumstances will tell upon thsm: but the
" governing classes Of the United States are the
very near deseendats-the grandchildren of our
great grandchildren-of our own yeomanry and
inherit the same strong elements Of their eharac-
ter.
Compared with the great interests Of humanity,
and jealousy we might feel of American progress is
we frankly admit, petty consideration. It is GER
tainly for the interest Of humanity that civilization
in the common sense Of the word, comprising order
security Of life and property hospitality to strang
ers and permanent Institutions should prevail over
disorder, anarchy, continual revolution and mutual
massacre and the general state of things described
in almost every letter from Central and great part
Of South America. The mongrel races that people
those regions combine the vices Of barbarism with
those Of civilizations and under the names and ex-
terors and political pretentiOns Of the Spanish Hi
dalgo or Republican, are, in fact as turbulent as
cruel, and intractable as the races supplauted by
their forefathers But no country ever had peace in
which were various races that refused to coalesce
and there is wanting that essential condition to or
der in Central America. What changes may be eff
fected by the new element now introducing itself
time only can show; but, as things now are, there
e1n9tbs peace and order az Central Amerca nor lyH
there 5s nh stronger hand more UtqL principle ofor
der, cones IN. No doubt that VH be supplied 5V the
United States. 1t is true-and here we are volunta
ElLY E6TeTLuE 10 our ufsb 4ulsglflugS-We IN THIS
country neither know learn the rights of the
quarrel Jetwoen the United States and Grenada
The Americans allege conspiracy, but no thing is
more unlikely than concerted scheme by the pop
ulation Of weak state to get up incapable feud
| with one infinitely stronger.
1t has all the look of n-feeling accident and pas
sion like Irish faction fight, only fought out with
knives and rifles instead Of clubs and stones. But
it is not business to decide or 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. Now, between such
people of the United States and the mixed popula-
ton of Grenada the former in the apparently weak
position of strangers and Travellers yet each repre-
senting in its own person the whole power and gent
us of mighty commonwealth, and the latter really
| contemplate, but in possession Of the spot, there
could not be but continual ruptures. It is only a
question of time If the outbreak was not this year
| it would be the next Of course it would be far
better that the State Of Grenada should be strong
enough to keep its people in order and to prevent
them from taking a tumultOus revenge for personal
insults but if every collision between resident and
traveller is to be followed by rising of the whole
population, then Grenada becomes mine of explo-
! sive Ingredients, which it is dangerous to merely
| walk over. A traveller may answer for himself but
he cannot answer for the 500 travellers who NAV be
with him at the port the passage and the uorZl
at large has the right to demand some security that one
Us great hOroHghfaTes shall mol Be made sesRs Of u
tuaI carnage egery time drunken tvaUeller misconduct
himself
But, in fact, neither the United States, nor Eng
| land, nor any other government has so much voice
in these changes as we apt to assign to them
The change will take place, and all that statesmen
and phianthropiss do, reaches only to the time
| and the manner. a vast Observation-Disclosures
we call it. for want Of better name but much more
| British than Americans pouring into these re
gions, and acquiring that strength which is insepa
rable from superiority Of members and breed. Moth
ing will prevent them from gaining the ascendency
over the debased races that decay anguish quarre
and destroy one another in one Of the finest cOuntrie,
as well as most commanding situations in the world
| There they are and though the gold discoveries Of
| Australia have diverted from California and the
routes there to the Great European influx with which
they were threatened still the Anglo Saxon ele.
ment is rapidly increasing in Central America and
| growing to its invariable political Development
Whaerer the government Of the United States does n
these regions lr be better than the zv0rE of adreafrsra
which, at the best, will be only broken limb badly
set, and viii require some day or another a more
painful operation. The only point at present in
yolded in this quarrel is the country immediately
about the lsthmus. The government Of Washington
will consult its own peace, at all events its resources
! by advancing as little as possible sOuthWards into
the States Of Grenada-a vast mountainous region,
! directly under the equator. We presume that al
the utmost it will cOntne its ambition to the perfect
security Of its route to the Pacific States Time NAV
or may call it 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 do little MORE and can desire little
MORE than to substitute their own authorities for
those which have been found Intellectual at the 18th
mus. Event. 7Ce JreqasHsd the region much more than
0s d0 should have but snail reason to Tegret The
change and only desire that Il should take place as
| quietly as possible.