New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-14
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We find the following in the columns OF CO.
temporary, among its telegraphic dispatches
ha.dsa 90 Interesting from WasbnptOu:"

beaded " Interesting from washington
al am credibly informed that the conflicting inter.
ests of Sloo and company on one hand. and Oaray
and HsrgOus the other relative to the IehuanePec
route have been eettled and adjusted through tne
mediation Of the Administration 1t has been one Oh
the most difficult and perplexiDg questions that mas
been before them. The basis of this settlement am
not at liberty at present to DISCLOSE but unders'ahu
is satisfactory to both parties"
What business, we should like to know, has our
Government with the conflicting interests OF
two rival gangs of SPECTATORS, who each claim 70
have bought or bullied the grant of right OF way
across Mexico from the Government OF that coun'
try? Where does tie Cabinet find, in the Federal
Constitution, "the Resolutions Of 80, or even the
Cincinnati Platform, any warrant for informed
ding with or coddling up this private quarrel
We have lot the least Ilwill to the Soo gang, or
their Garay comprehensive know no evil OF ana
wish no harm to one set or the Other-but we pro-
test against any mixing up of the United STATES
with the claims aspirations or fortunes OF either
the one or the other. If they have interests IN
Mexico, grants from Mexico, dealings with Mexico,
Jobs in Mexico let them betske themselves TO
Mexico and there make the best Of them; but this
hanging about Washington and ear-wigging Secre-
tary after Secretary into bullying demonstrations
against the weak Government of Mexico in order
to enforce their dubious pretensiODs-for this Is
Just what these gentlemen are after-we most en-
phatically protest against.
Thirty years ago. our country and countymen
we're regarded with pride and affection as their
elder brethren by the Republics and Republicans OF
Spanish America. Hence we were invited to meet
them in friendly conference at Panama to concert
and adopt me assures looking to perpetual concord,
sympathy and mutual good Offices among all the
Republics ef the Western continent. The idea was
a noble one, the opportunity for doing good and
extending our legitimate influence and power such
as seldom presents itself John Quincy Adams
was then President, Henry Clay Secretary of State,
ard they embraced the opportunity with the zeal
of patriots, Statesmen and philanthropists. But
powerful opposition was then forming, of which
the chiefs were in coed part in the Senate and they
made this Panama Congress chief focus OF attack.
Messrs. Van Buren,, Benton and Buchanan were
among the leaders Of the assault. Though no
" eBtsDgling alliance" was contemplated, the
simple meeting Of Plenipotentares from the several
American Republics at designated point in order
to take counsel together, was magni6ed and dis
torted into violation Of our Constitution and an
alliance offensive and defensive with feeble South
America against armed Europe. And yet, had
"the Monroe doctrine been anything but
rhetorical flourish, there was never presented
before nor since half so good an opportunity to
give it practical validity at the least possible risk or
cost. However, European intrigue stepped in to
the aid of American faction, and the Panama Mia-
sion was rendered abortiye.
Since then, the seizure Of Texas and raid on
Mexico, and the various 6llibustering expeditions
launched from our territory against COahuila, So
nora, Nicaragua, &c, with the ravage, slaughter
and desOlation which have marked their footsteps,
have changed the feelings of the Spanish Americans
with regard to our Government aud People. We
are regarded by thea with apprehension and aver.
sion, aud the British have gained to the signal ad
vantage of their trade and enterprise, the prestige
we have so foolishy, crimiDalfy lost. We are now
on the brink of war with New Granada growing
out of this steadily increasing aversion between the
Spanish Americans and that portion of our people
who mainly visit the Isthmus, the two shareholders
to whom the settlement of the Panama difficulty
was intrusted having succeeded only in aggravating
if to the verge of hostilities. Nothing but the in
terposition of the friendly Offices of European
powers can now save US, apparently from col
lsion which cannot fail in any event, to increase
the dread of and aversion to us which is peryadng-
" felt from the Rio del NOrte to the Amazon. This
aversion was the proximate cause Of the Pansma
Riots the blame of provoking which is by no means
all on one eide, yet for which our Government
haughtily insists on exacting from New-Granads
the most complete and humiliating reparatiOn. And
BY the time this quarrel is settled, the TehCante
pee the Nicaragua or the Honduras route will have
furnished the raw material for another, so that
are likely to be kept in perpetual hot water with
one Spanish American power after another on &C
count of these rival transit routes to the Pacific.
We protest against the whole business. WeprO-
test especially against the importance and the as
pect given to it in certain leading Journals We
mean no impeachment of the integrity or patriot
ism Of their conductors when We say that persons
interested in one or another of these routes or
grants continue to gain access to their columns and
use them for lister ends. We protest against
any and every assumption that this country has
legitimate and vital interest in this Tehuantepec or
any other projected route through foreign territory
from the Gulf to the Pacific. Our proper way to
our Pacific frontier lies direct and plain across
own coil. We have no objection to all the Rail-
roads, Transit Routes and Ship Canals across the
Istbmus that foreign States or private capital may
SEE fit to construct; but none Of them can ever be
so expeditions, so convenient, so secure, or so
advantageous to this country as that Railroad from
the Mississippi to the Pacific which men now gray