New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-12-18

srneS force should l4Gd, seize the offenders, SOD
il American. hand them over TO the nearest autoo'
ties Of the United States aud then forthwith 70
retire. Mr.. Cas-, it appears. objects to these or
ders that they sre in violation Of the Clayton BaH
yer Treaty; though be did not find in that treaty
any objection TO the arrangement which he aiuseu
neeo,isted with Mr. Yrisssrri, by virtue OF which
the United States without waiting for any request
from Nicaragua, were to land SO armed force in the
country, whenever they conceived it necessary for
TIE protection of the isthnus route.
The truth evidently is, ths. Dir. Cas- very
anxlous-and, II il cannot be Gone II any other
WY, he would seem ready to employ fllbutter'-
70 defeat the present attempt OF the Brtsh
70 remove The objections which We have SCI up
TO the Clayton .Bulwer Treaty. That treaty binds
u. not 70 undertake the conquest of aug part of
Central Americs, or to attempt to hold it as $
acknowledgements; and to that obligation the
British SEEM determined TO hold us, even at the
cost Of reliLquskipg their own territorial claims to
portions Of Central America-claims of an origin
lcrg antecsdent to the treaty, and with which 1t
seems pretty certain that the negotiators OF the
treaty cid notiatend to NEEDLE. Bot in truth, sill
tlssclsmor made BY our Government about the
Mosquito proteetorate ana the Bay Islands has
see but mere cover TO their real object, which
is psthiDs Jess than to get rid entirely of the obi
CATIONS Of q treaty which restIains US from at.
,A&PtiDg the conquest Of Central America.
As to the visitation of the Washington in the
port Of San Juap, that seems to have been made
urder co7er Of the protectorate claimed by Great
Britain over the republic Of Greytown as still,
notw outstanding the self government guaranteed
to il, part ofthe Mosquito Territory, and as such,
We suppose, included In the cession which it is pro-
posed to make TO Nicaraeus.
Along with these papers respecting Nicaragua
some others were also submitted in reference to
the pending difficulties between Ne1ico and Spain.
Certainly there is something at once in the highest
degree presumptuous and ridiculous for Mr. Cass
TO b. sending word to the Spanish Government that
the United States will not consent to the sutJu-
"gation Of any Of the independent States OF this
" continent by European powers, nor to the exer-
else of prOtectOrate over them, nor to any other
" direct political iIfaence to control their policy
- or institutions" While at the very same uue,
the President proposes in his Message to seize aud
protect two Of the States of the Mexican Republic,
the establishment Of protectorate on our part
over the whole Of it being also openly advocated
and warmly urged both in Congress and out
Of il, and that too, with the aTowed
design of oyerturnlpg the religious establishment
of that country, and of stripping the Catholic
Church of her possessions and her power. To set
Ourselves up as the chsupon of the independence
and sefgoyernment Of the various States Of
America is one thing. That We can understand.
But, 10 set ourselves up the exclusive monopost
Of the right TO protect, conquer and Subjugate is
quite another thing-one that we do not under
stand. ard one for which We do not perceive any
foundation whatever, except in the ipse dirt Of
M. Cass. Fire guardians we OK national inde-
pendepce, protecting it Against "th"r- only p" No.
tiuguisn II ourselves