Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-16
Bile to her than the empty honors of a Pro.

1s"ah0u vi ilstll IN tue clcCtlOu OF BUCHANAN
!. O., an Administrator conducted up, ultra
Southern principlcs-luUk beyond and over all the
possibilities OF Federal Union. She is not threat
ening, but actively pre- pairing for the establish
ment OF "a Southern Republic upon military prin.
ciples." William Walker, though a BAD man, a
poor orator. q feeble writer aud a perpetually
defeated soldier, is at present moving On the great
wave of Southern sentiment, and may ask any
thing Tor himself, as a martyr Of the long, low,
black" system.
Abont the middle Of the eighteenth century, a
party of English slave owners from Jamaica made
q settlement ut Black River, with their negroes, on
The Mosquito shore. THIS settlement was not lar
below Truxillo, on the coas, OF the Caribbean.
The colonists erected u fort, with twelve pieces Ut
artillery, and considered themselves secure under
the protection Of the mother country.
Settlements at Blewliolds, San Juan and ether
places, the names Of whice have escaped mo, were
established upon the sites of the old buccaneer
villages, along the coast. There were in all nine
settlements, or plantations, OF white men Eng
lish) on this coast in the year III.
But her treaty with Spain, made in 1856 (see
Z. u, Squier's account Of the Mosquito shoreD
Great Britain was obliged to abandon her enter
prise Of slave colonization by sugar planters,
The planters Withdrew SLOWLY and reluctantly =
as they found the climate admirably suited 10 the
labor and constitution OF the negro in u state Of
slavery"
''From the year 1910" says Mr.. Squier, "Great
Britain had exercised absolute domiHiOn over the
Mosquito shore" and great were the regrets and
lamentations ct the Colonial Government ON being
compelled to abandon 50 fine Il territory.
The population of the Mosquito shore at this
time did not reach, ! 500, OF which only a small
proportion were white English slave owners,
The Humber of slaves Ras 252 distributed over
thirteen plantations. This number was rapidly
increasing, by ad .itions from the interior Ut
Poyas tribes Ut Indians. The Mosquitoes and
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with the Poyas. and being undor British protec-
tion, aud well supplied with arms and ammuni-
ton, they made slaves Of their PUyas prisoners or
sold them to the white residents. a promising
slave business was growing up, which might III
time have rivaled that Of Africa had it not been
for the Spanish treaty OF lIoG, by which the en-
tire enterprise was nipped in the bad.
The Puyas resemble the aborigines Of Yucatan
and Mexico, aud are much handsomer than the
Caribs, Sambos and Mosquitoes OF the coast.
They make good house-ser>ants, aud though not
Equal to the negro in physical strength aud endur-
auce, are q"ite as easily governed aud more intel
ligens. Fifty years Of undisturUed possession
would have enabled the English Shareholders, t.
reduce the entire coast and extend their dominion
inland 10 the foothills NJ the Coldlliefas. BY
continual wars with the Poyas Indians, who lay
between the English on the coast aud the Span
iards of the interior, u steady supply OF slaves
would have been obtained, as well iUr expectation
as for home consumption. a due mixture Of
negroes, when these could be had at reasonable
prices, would have gwen the requisite African
character to the settlements and proved the more
com plete suhjugation of the Indian races.
After the year 1921, the Republics of Central
America, having declared their independence, and
the prUtecusn vi the mother country being VITA
drawn from them, Great Britain began to revive
her preteusluhs. A few British settlers remained
on the Mosquito shore. The Indians, WHO had
formerly been employed as slave.hunters by the
British colonies, were encouraged tO resist the
authority Of Nicaragua and Costa Riea. Gradual
" English influence was restored. There was
nothing to prevent colonization but the change
that took place in the colonial system Of Great
Britain, by which Slavery was abolished.
Negro and Indian slavery on the Mosquito shore
having been once established, and its advantages
tested 10y Greae Britain, there is nothing to pre-
vent its establishment 10y the Southern bucca-
neers but the interference OF England and the
United States. The political relations OF Great
Britain with this Government, at the present time,
render her interference in the highest degree I'M
polite and dangerous for herself. She must be
aware that the present Administration, represent
ing almost exclusively the Slave Power, is not
only willing but anxious to forward tue designs o.
the extreme South, it it can do so without excit'
ing civil war, or bringing about al immediate
dissolution of the Union. Her secret offers Of
protection and commerce to the agitators OF the
Nashville Convention, many years ago, show that
o strong party III lue aTlslOCTdtlC Government VI
England would favor the establishment Of an in
deoenden. Slave Rcpubli; OF this continent. Her
present em barrasements In ludla, and her COM
merciul dependence upon the South for a supply
Of cotton, and upon the entire Union as \ market
for her manufactures, together with the necessity
of fostering the free-trade principles of the South,
not only increase her dependence upon US, but
render her essentially and really the ally and sup
porter OF the Southern system.
England would not lend herself openly to the
establishment OF negro Slavery in Central Ameri-
ca but if it favOrs the dissolution OF the political
boads between the North and South. or secures "a
powerful influence for her at WdshingtOn against
the Northern ProtectiOnis. party, her aristocracy
would shut their eyes while the work was being
done by others.
We are now able to understand the true import
of the Yrissarri contract and treaty. Great Brit
ain had set the example of ignoring the American
construction Of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty by
concluding a separate treaty with Honduras, IN
which sue guarantees the protection of Squier's
Honduras interoceanic Railroad. This treaty
protesting to be in the spirit OF the Clayton ant
Bulwer treaty, aud really adopting the British
construction Of that instrument, guarantees thu
grants Of Squier Il Co. which cover the best land
of Honduras, and pledge alternate and complet'
protection to the enterprise against all interrrp
ton "frum any quarter whatsoever"
Honduras, guaranteed by British protection
against the Transit buccaneers, rests for the pres
ent in security. The Yrissarri treaty. which i
reported to have been ratified by the Constituen
Assembly, or Representative Government o
Nicaragua, is an imitation of Squier's treaty be
tween Great Britain and Honduras, which wa
ingeniously worded by him. 30 as to have the ell
feet and value of a defensive alliance.
Although the Yrissarri treaty is made with
government Of which President Martinez is tn,
Head, ii is. IN effect. a treaty NTH the buccaneers, an
sas got up and wOrded JOr their benefit and pro
lection.
The managers of the complicated i~ntrigues o
the Nicaragua Transit-at the head Of whom
stand C. X. Garrison of California, now of you
city and of Stamford, COnn.-having failed T.
establish the validity of the original Walker
Rivas contract, affected to retire altogether iron
their buceaneer operations, ana opened apparent
ly peaceful negotiations with Costa Rica, througl
Webster and Harris, and with Nicaragua through
III. White. aud Yrissarri. the Nicaraguan Min
ia.a. hAre alraudu exnlniLel Iha snhlleties b,