The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-02-20

aftsr time have snunciations Eons forth te
our olIoers, similar to those which wenl
forth from General Casa, calling upon ths
police Of ne high seas to check the 'adven-
turers which are going thereon. Yet many
expeditions bare been got ups in broad day;
many times have they announced the calling
of the roll and the embarkation of troops
from our shores, and they have been per
mitted to go ON without let or hinderance.
although our Government could not have
been ignorant Of their repeated departures.
But, If we had been in doubt % to the in
difference or acquiescence Of the, officers OF
our Government, the proof has been disclo-
sed in correspondence between Gen. Wool
and the Secretary of War;, 1t appears, that
when that officer, then in command upon the
Pacific coast, expressed determination 70
check such an expedition, he was informed,
BY the Secretary Of War, that such an act
on his part was deemed unnecessary, and
that he had better attend to matters more
pertinent to military affairs, and leave the
civil authorities to control the 6llibustering
operations OF the country. II we add to
this act OF the Secretary Of War the fact
that expedition after expedition has escaped
the official vigilance, it is clear that it has
been the policy of the Government for years
past, to blink or conniyc at the 6llibustering
operations that have been going on in the
country; and i therefore charge this, our
present difficulty, az the legitimate result OF
the policy OF a former Naturalization, which
seems to conflict in some respects, with the
conduct of the present. 1t has been sup
posed by former Administration, and BY
q new party, which now appears in this
that the operations Of private en-
terprise in the way of tfillibustering, and q
general system BY way Of national treaty,
national mail contracts, and other national
by the public authorities Of
the country, all tending to the same end ~
the acquisition of Southern dominion
might harmonize and operate successfully
together, But now, as you perceive by the
Presidents late message, and also by the
argument of gentlemen upon this floor, it is
found that the two kinds of fllibustering
conflict; and that the attempt to get domin-
ion by the Government in its action, and the
attempt upon the part of Walker, are either
take in playing the game. However this
may be, the plain, blunt manners Of Com.
Paulding have brought upon the Admins.
tration the necessity of silencing, for the
present, the cooperation or interruption of
the fllibuster, Walker.
Is this not the argument you find in the
Presidents late message, and in his annual
message for this year Does not he, over
and over again, reiterate the idea that it is
necessary for this Government to occupy, to
protect, and to maintain by power the vari-
Gus transit routes Of that Central American
And when he says he will take
all those routes, comprising the long dis
lance of one thousand miles; and when he
speaks of further treaties which are being
made between US and the Central American
States, am not right in presuming this Ad-
ministration is engaged also in different
but efficient way to carry on national in
stead Of private species of acquisition,
which may properly be defined as national
ask you what remains to
The dominion Of those Central American
States? If we can 60 on and take that pro-
lection and guarantee of neutrality upon
ourselves, ask you how much power re-
mains to the feeble States Of Central Amer
ca, when We have control of their lines Of
travel, and the requisite force which the
President thinks should be at his command
10 sustain the "perfect neutrality 2" We
then become really the power of Central
control Of their transit lines in.
cludes all their lines Of industry; for it is
upon these lines that all wealth and settle
ments in that country will inevitably con-
gregate. l deprecate the policy Of this
Government going thousand miles away
from its own soil, for the purpose of engag-
ing in this kind Of entanglement with other
1t is against the wise counsels
in the Farewell Address of
Washington, against the principles taught
by Jefferson, and all the patriots of this
country, who have spoken of the policy to be
observed towards other nations with whom
We have intercourse. Let US therefore leave
.hese Central American States to build their
own railroads, open their own ways, take
,are Of their own neutrality; and let us alb
stain from both national and private fill
oustering, and turn our attention to the de-
7elopment Of our own vast interior, where
,ur enterprise and energies will find ample
ield, ,and where The capital expended will re-
main among our own people. Such policy
will give employment to our people, activi-
y to our industrial pursuits, and tend to pre-
'erve the continuance Of peace and pros
,erity among the independent States Of this
continent. 80 -.
RIGHTS OF WALKER.
The question has been raised here, what
ire the rights Of Walker in reference to his
position in Central America? What right
lad he there? If, in former expeditions,
lie had acquired rights Of property, they had
,een wrested from him and he therefore
lad no rights, contend, but those which
proceed from mere assumption. His rights
here were fiction Of law, too transparent
% stand before this or any other audience
90 faint and fimsy for officers Of the navy
,r of the army to be deceived by. They
'ould not conceive that he had any and the
accredited authorities of Nicaragua would
hardly accord to him on their soil fraction
# domain equal to six feet by three.
What is the attitude Of the Government
# Nicaragua? That Government had i'm
,lored you. to restrain your citizens from
awless acts against her territory !; and that,
90, in view Of the expedition of Walker
himself, which he, was then getting up
lgainst this unoffending State. Having
hus representation Of the Government de
acto, we are estopped from excusing the
lcts of Walker on the ground Of any rights
# sovereignty. If he ever did have rights
o domain, they were given for purposes of
like those acquired by Austin
n Texas. But any one acquainted with
spanish customs knows that all such grants
re dependent on the peachble settlement
md cultivation of the soil, all of which
Walker forfeited by his assumption of pow
II and subsequent repulse by force Of war.
{ is said Of some Of the blue laws of Con-
lecticut, that the council voted that ssthe
arth and the fulness thereof belong to the
aints . and, secondly, s'resolved, that We
Ire the saints.'' This, it is eaid, eased the
onscicnces Of those who were in great need
# Indian lands. lsuggest a resort Of this
ind to my friend from Massachusetts, (Nir.
rhayer,l who informs US that s'the Puritan
are in tight place."
do not deny that Walker went, there
,oldly and brnvely, and usurped a position
yhich he held for short time. But that
POSITION was lost by the efforts of the, citi-
ems Of Central America, and he has no
onger any right there, for he lost what he
lad by the fortune of war. How, then, is
| that It can be maintained or held here,
hat he had rights, or that he is entitled to
higher position than that Of the. officer
rho, on being called upon by his Govern
aent, arrested and brought him back to these