The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1857-01-28

i occasions approved and defended the policy
S the Pierce administration, in an article, heade
0 the Conspiracy reviewing the new treaty n
: gotated by Mr.. Dallas with the government
t Great Britain, and the recent attitude taken
S the president and his secretary of state in r
S gard to Nicaragua, says: ave cannot, we mu
: say, imagine that anything SO monstrous coul
: happen as that Mr.. Marcy should directly {
f indirectly, by secret compact or open and pro
t claimed Indifference, encourage the British GOV
! eminent in its designs upon Central America
and as preliminary, permit gang of N. Yor
spectators to carry out, under English auspice
and stimulation, purpose long since proclaim
, ed of destroying the American forces unde
Walker, which, in conjunction with the peopl
of Nicaragua have established a firm and sta
Bile system in that republic. The recent new
from San Juan does, however, seem to warran
the belief that American interests in Contra
America are in most serious danger, and tina
unless the southern States of this Union evince
more interest in the contest than they have We
done, or appear inclined to do, nothing short Of
the utter destruction of Walkers forces and gov
eminent need be looked for. x
The secretary of state appears to understand
very clearly, and apparently very accurately
also, that southern fire eating is mere ante
election ruse, or office getting pretence, having
neither substance nor sincerity about it, and
therefore that there is neither risk or accounta-
bIity incurred when, as in the present instance
in the Caribbean sea, the rights, interests and
dignity of these United States must give away
to the demands of New York jobbers and spe-
culators, backed up by the naval power of Great
Britain, the last afforded for very different rea-
sons and objects to those of the Transit compa-
ny and its abolition allies We are fast earn
ing for ourselves the reputation of being the
greatest braggarts upon earth; our foreign pol
icy entities us to that distinction as, for the last
four years, it is only a continued exhibition Of
weakness, procrastination and back out. five
are afraid to assert the Monroe doctrine in Cen
trail America if the American eagle has to fly
screaming from the sharpened fangs of the Bri-
ush lion IN the waters of Nicaragua, let it at
once be understood that it is so, and we shall |
lower our claims accordingly, but let US not ex-
st by sufferance on our own continent, nor sub
nit, until necessity compels US, to the domina-
ion OF a forei On master, least of all to that of
'he British government which, in the past days
of the republic, was taught decency and mod
grafton by this people. The indgnity of the
Dallas Clarendon treaty is hard enough to bear,
'ut to hear that our intercourse with Nicara-
qua is to be regulated by orders from British
rlgate anchored in the track Of our commerce.
n the very highway from our Atlantic to our
'acltic territory, is depth of degradation for
'hIch we were, we confess, wholly unprepared
s there congress in Washington, OF south
existence?''
So much for the policy of an administration
hich has been so highly extolled, and was I
W weeks ago endorsed by the democracy of
e south.
The Lynchburg Virginian, speaking of the |
heme recently preached in the Legislature of =
orlda, and which since that time has become .
law in Mississippi, to exempt from levy and I
lie in that State, by execution or attachments J
other process, one slave" says: a
1t would be well for southern LEGISLATORS to d
INK long before adopting, as law, such mea- u
re as this. The fact is that very large pro- s
'rtlon OF the southern people if all their world I!
goods were converted into money, could not q
rchase slave worth havng-and it would e e
the worst sort of class legislation that would y
AXE their effects amenabIe for their debts =
llIe the slave OF Weather man would be q
empt. Such law would Justly arouse a re
ep and general discomfort with the poorer ,e
sses, and co more to awaken a prejudice =.
anst slavery than anything we can imagine. d. d.
e trust that no such scheme will find favor in ~
the south, and especially in Virginia. o1 el
There is deal of sound sense in the fore sa
ng. Equal justice demands that if the law wi
smpts from seizure $1,000 worth of the slave to
ner's property, it should likewise exempt of
m seizure like amount of the effects of the ID
chanc, the tracer, and laborer. Otherwise w;
exemption law would prove partial and to
ust, where it should make no distinction pa
Abiding to the question of slavery in the ter
ries, the Pennsylvania, edited by Fornev, Nj
Buchanan's special and confidential ORGAN Ur
axis ''of that 'iew' of the subject (which be
been So widely asserted in the north, and lro
generously endorsed in the south, that local ~
ected territorial legislature has tile yigIt 10 lin1
E'6a slaoery in a territory' Here is SQUAT. gre
for you, pure and unde6led. ma
e is the doctrine openly preached by Mr.. e
hanan S own organ, and which it solemn|v ia
ares has been $50 generously endorsed in ne7
South.' We call the attention, saws the bor
lmond Wing, of the Enquirer to the heres hot
teachings of old Bucks confidential oroan the
now shown to be more than probable that re, TERI
tor Blgler interpreted Mr. Buchanan's mar an ~
ar views on this subject correctly. In fact prs
almost certain that he did. And this no. int
o. we call upon all our southern democratic VIII
nPoral'es to open their batteries upon the 90 a
southern Views of the new president at 8,