Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-01-02

neysr denied that the Congress Of the United
States has been eminently liberal in making sp.
populations for the wants of that country Out
You must bear I'm mind that what has been ap-
propriated for California demanded by an
eminent public necessity. and that section OF the
Union is not responsible for n, for she came into
the Union without being invited. IL was con-
auered You took possession of it,. The people
and Government Of the United States took pos
session of the country; and to get over the Idea
of conquest they subSeQ uently purchased It, IT.
was a conquered country and its people were
never consulted. All we ask Is, since you have
changed the Government bv force, and subse-
quenty to cover over the actual exercise OF power,
made a treaty of purchase with Mexico, that You
Will put us on equality with the rest OF The
Confederacy, and give us mails through our own
territory.
have sixteen times crossed the Istbmus. and
/ prefer the plains. | would rather take the emf
grant route as II is, and so would every man who
has tried il. No man takes the route on the 18th
mus without Tisking his life. This il pioneer
movement TO have 4 great emigrant route, on
which the people Of the rest of the Union can go
to California and come back without being sub
jected to the risks of the Isthmus route. We
need and must have, that kind of cOmmunica-
ton which will bring us in contact through our
own territory with other sections OF the Union
Gentlemen speak Of the peHse OF this route
We shall be- economising by establishing IT, We
cannot get there for less, no matter what route
take, II We have any mail at all. Ii Is a matter
of economy; and, as the Senator from Arkansas
said, we had better have a semi-weekly mail at
once at $500 600 than a semi monthly one at
S3OoOo Let us commence and make such
appropriation as will enable the contractors to
start this route successfully. We have now ap-
.-pTnpriated for military roads il is well known
this mail route will 90 one of these roeds
do not care whicb-either will suit me. All
ask is, that you will give one mail route TO
California, and have the mails regularly
over it. This bill will secure this great ben
eft. and earnestly hope it will pass.
SENSIBLE VIEws.-We republish from the
Il -
ing plain, straightforward views upon the Cen
trail American imbroglio as last complicated
by the Involuntary return of VIM. Walker and
his flibuster followers to the United States
We do so with great pleasure, because the
Stars readers know well, we entertain per
haps. more respect for the opinions of that
journal on all international questions than for
those of any other Of our numerous cotempo-
rarieS. Always conservative, the .JOHTnaI OF
Commerce is always for sound progress. and
cOmprehends more quickly and clearly than
any other newspaper in the land, perhaps, the
difference between true progress and old fogy-
ism-between reaction, on the one side, and go
aheadativeness' that ultimately plays hob and
''smashes things" on the other. We admire it
as the personifcation of the jnste miiien senti-
ment of the great substantial interests of edu-
cation, self-cOntrol. property legitimately ac-
quired, and conscience regulated by due sense
of the fact that all Of US are but instruments in
the hands of an all wise and ever benevolent
and just Providence, who shapes the aggregate
OF all things for the benefit Of US, his finite
creatures, who know not our own true interests
at times
Perhaps we may be Quixotic in our appre-
citation of the course and views of the journal
of Commerce. If so, it may be attributed to
the fact that though comparatively young
man, there is no other one of our age who has
had so long and intensely exciting expert
ence with the public affairs of the United
States, and who knows so intimately the psr-
SOHel OF the public men of the land of all par.
ties. As we grow older we grow hourly more
conservative. We have lived months at a
time on beef, without bread or even salt,
while engaged in flibustering, and were as
conscientiously honest in it as in our present
intense dislike of the idea of making private
war on nations with whom the United States
are at peace. But time, in pla cling gray hairs
upon our head, has greatly changed the tenor
Of our views on the fitness of such things, as
tue ctGT patrons all know
But let US to the sentiments Of the Journal
Of Commerce upon the act of Commodore
Paulding, as follows:
INF SURRENDER OF GENERAL WALxER-The
compulsory surrender of General Walker and his
nnouster army to Commodore Pauding Of the
nlted states Navy, at San Juan del Nofte will
doubtless be regarded by the friends of that ad-
Vehturer as very improper and UNJUST hable
erclse OF power on the part of the officer COM
handing the naval 50 uadTon of the United States;
while II will he considered by those who believe
that hl0usteIing in every shape is prejudicial to
tue honor and progress Of our country, to he the
fuihlInent of a solemn duty and an act of mercy
not only to the Nicaraguans, but to Walker him
self and his misguided companions. Apart from
the somewhat irrelevant and needless di.Dute Ak
10 Mr.. Walkers citizenship of Nicaragua and his
claims to the Presidency Of that Republic ii is
perfectly clear that the United States government
nave recognised the rule Of Martinez, and not
that OF w alker and that in fitting out an expedi-
tlon on the soil of the United States to invade a
country with which we are at peace the latter
has been guilty of gross violation Of our laws
which our GoveTnnPnt could not allow to pass
unpublished, without exposing themselves to the
lInputdtlon OF dishonesty and bad faith How
ever confident Mr.. Walker may be- that he is the
lawful ruler OF Nicaragua, there Is abundant
proof that the people do not so regard him and
do not want him; and 1t is plain that The only
way in which Ia: could establish his alleged
IIgn!s would be, by oyerthTowing the Govern
nent which tn President of the United States
had formally acknowledged, and by force con-
sisting chiefly Of American citizens engaged and
equipped FOR the purpose on American ground
IL NAV appear To Mr.. Walker and those who
symPathiZe with him, that this does not consti-
'ute breach or the neutrality laws and does not
alouht I" crime against the United States; but
we believe that very few will share their opin-
ions or defend Walkers proceedings Nobody
DENIES that he and his band had perfect rigb,
10 expatriate themselves, and proceed whittier
tncy pleased lt Is the undeniable rig hi OF every
cltiIen TO leave the country whenever be desires
TO do So and no one has the right To anrstIon hi,
privilege so long its exercise does not violate
any law OF the United States or any treaty which
our government may have made with foreign
country But the right Of expatriati0n for peace
Iul ana lawful purposes, does not include the
IIgnt 10 III Out armed expeditions against q coun-
Try NJ peace with our own, because one Of the
party claims to be "he lawful and consti tutionAI
rniet" oil that country, and desires to assert his
cIiilm by the sword. No one can DENY that the
Ohitcd states 6oVeTnInent had the power to ar
rest w alEer on the high seas prevent his inys-
SION VI Nicaragua, and send him back to this
IL may b" questioned whether they had the same