Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-05-25
Com ~ on Sense View ofthe New s.renada Din
Culiie. iIh The q AlnI.-.

Ell BRISTOL .Ntns
Common Sense View of,he New Grenad" Din
cuisie- with the Z ~tats-.
From the London Times, May 6.
II would be aifrciaton not tn some sort
of unra>iness at the news that the United States
Hre going to carry 1t with high hand over the
mi SCRABBLE State Of New Grenada. The old cock
doe, not like to the young cock -truttng and
craving So near his own dnnghll, But, though
we care little for New Grenada or Central Amer
lea IN this country, and have other things TO think
Of. there is abundant provocatior to instructive
jealousy. First, there is one If the most impor
tant points in the world apparently involved in
the affair, that BimdIis CorinthUs Of the New
World, Panama, more important than the Is'h-
mus of Surz. or any other great meeting point
of nations Ii seems To be marked by nature for
the common property of mankind. As much as the
ooenns which II so slightly discovers. IL is true
that to oil appearances 1t may be- hundreds of
years before we shall ever make much use of the
1sthmus, and during all TINT time the United
States will be more concerned tn invite than TO
obstruct our passage. But there is the apparent
moral right and III this case it IL secured and
embodied in treaty. about which there happens
To have been some controversy. Then we have
in this country rather exaggerated iden Of
Brother Jonathans disposition to take the law in
hi own hands. The most outrageous incidents
aud The most offensive speeches are they that
come quickest aud are most repeated in this
country. We have heard of Lynch law we
have read Of Uucle Tom; our diners out, have,
nil Of them, n few bits of " stump" oratory to n
muse the ladies with, and 80 have the prevail
ing idea that the will Of Yankee is his only
law. Yet the more know of the Americans
the more satisfied are we of their resemblance to
ourselves. They are. perhap-.a little more fiery
n little more INTERPRETATION climate aud clrcum
stance will tell upon them; but the governing
classes" If the United States The very near
dcscendnnts--the grandchildren of our great
grandchildren our own yenmnnry, and inner
il The same strong elements of their character.
Compared with the grent interests of humoni
~. any jealousy might feel of American pro-
rrcss il, we frankly admit, petty consdera.
ton. 1t certainly Is for the interest of hu-
mnnty that civilization IN the common sense of
TINT word, comprising order. security of life
md property, ho- pitaty 10 strangers, and per-
manrnt institutions should prevail over disorder
anarchy. continual revolution aud mutual massa.
ere aud the general state of things described in
almost every letter from Central and great part
of South America The mongre races that peo-
pie those regions combine the Wees of ba,burisIn
with those of civilization. and under the names,
aud exteror4, and political pretensons of the
Spanish lIidaIgo or Republican arc in fact
tul bulent, cruel and iniracabe as the races sup
planted by their forefathers. But no country
ever had peace in which were various races that
refused to coalesce, and there i wanting that os
sential condition to order in Central America.
What changes may be effected by the new ele-
ment now introducing itself time only can show :;
hut rs things now are, The c cannot be peace and
order in central america, nor WH there be III
Il stronger hdnd Il NOR rial principle Of 0rdtr,
comes in. No doubt thai eH be Supplied by the
UHiied States, II is true-nnd here we are in
voluntarily revertng 10 our first misgivings
in this country neither know nor can learn the
rights of ihe quarrel between the United States
and Grenada. The Americans nlege conspi
rncy, but nothing is more unlikely than n con
certcd scheme by the population oi a weak state
t" get up ala incapable frud with one Infinitely
stronger.
II has all the look of i'll feeling. accident and
pm sion, like an Irish faction fight, only fought
out with knives aud rifles instend of clubs and
stones But il il 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 humnnl.
ty. Nov, between such people rs the citizens
| of the United States and the mixed populations
of Grenada, the former in the apparently weak
position Of strangers and travellers, yet each
representing in it, own person the whole power
aud genius # mighty commonwealth. and the
latter really cortemptble, but in possession of
the spot, there could not be but continual rup
lures. 1t is only n question of time If the
outbreak was not this year IT woold he the next.
Grenada should be strong enough to keep its
people in order, and to prevent Them from taking
tumutuous revenge for personal insults but II
every collision between resident and traveller :
to be followed by rising OF the whole popua
! ton, then Grenada becomes mine OF explosive
ingredients, which it Is dangerous 10 merely
! walk over A traveller may answer for himself,
| but he cannot answer for the 800 travellers who
may be with him at the port or on the passage
and the worid at large has The right 10 demand
some security that one o ITS great thorough fares
shall not be made a scene Of mutual carnage tret =
time drunken Traveller miseondacfS himself
Bot. in fact, nett ar the United States, nor
| England, nor any other government has 50
much voice in these changes are apt to as
sign to them. The change will take place and
all that statesmen and philanthropists can do
r'hches only t".hr time and the manner. A vast
| population Saxon we call it, for wan, at
"A better name, but mJch more British than
| Amerlcan-ls pouring into these regions, and
| acquiring that strength which is inseperablc
from superiority of numbers and breed. Moth
ing will prevent them from gaining the ascen-
dency over the debased races that decay.
hnguish, quarrel, and destroy ono an.
other in one of the finest countries as well
as most commanding situations in the world
There they are, and. though the gold discoveries
| ct Australia have diverted from California and
the routes thereto the Great European influx with
| which they were threatened still the Anglo
| Saxon" element is rapidly increasing in Central
| america and growing to its invnrable political
drvrlnpement. UhGtsrer The Government Of the
| United States does in these regions mU be better
than the cork Of Gdrenturers which, at the best,
will be only broken limb badly set, and will re-
qnire some day ar another a more painful ope.