Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-05-12
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

the late speech of Mr.. Clingman upon our for
egn relations are attracting no little attention
from the press of the country, the result, evil
IDENTIFY, of the fact that he was, when delivering
it, the chairman of the House Committee ON
Foreign Relations. The opposition press Of
course seek to make the Administration re-
sponsible for all the peculiarities of the tai
ented North Carolinian's views upon the fill
buster question, though they are VIGOROUSLY
contrary to what has been President Buchan-
an invariable record on the subject since the
delivery OF his inaugural, and have also been
voted down by the Democrats of both Houses
whenever gentlemen sharing his idiosyncracies
on the subject have ventured to bring them
before either branch of Congress in shape in
which such an expression of Congressional SEN
timent upon them could be obtained. Most
gentlemen long in Congress mount hobbies
| it's a way they have had since the foundation
OF the Government; and so long as our Govern
ment lasts veteran members will in nine cases
out oil ten be found mounted on particular
hobbies
This fact is so well understood here, as that
no one In Washington dreamed of entertaining
the idea of attributng to the Administration
sympathy with Mr.. Clingman and afew other
alteration members and the well known fill
buster lobby in Washington, in their sentiments
anu views with reference to our country's
iuture relations with and rights in and to
Central America set forth with 90 much talent
and enthusiasm by the distinguished and worthy
gentleman from North Carolina. This fact.
| (Which embraces a settler in the way of a refu-
nf rha rNIa nf q
the strength of Mr.. Clingman's speech. that
President Buchanan has turned filibuster, and
is now bent on aiding the spectators in Walk
ers grants of mines and tho lands in Mica
ragua of which he for the time being plundered
| the natives of that country he murdered,) is so
capitally set forth in a late article in the New
York Herald, as that we quote it for the edii-
cation Of the Stars readers, as follows:
| Upon the Cass-Irisarri treaty Mr.. CIingman,
| we apprehehd. speaks rather the sympathies OF a
| southern Propagandist Of the General Walker
| school than the views of the administration He
holds that We ought to exercise our influence over
| Nicaragua to secure the right Of way and he
hopes that the treaty making power of the l. niIed
| states Will not allow any regulation to be made
| oy which our interests will be damaged IL was
| stated, he said, that steamship company of
| New Ok, under the late arrangements entered
| lnt" secured the sole right to carry passengers
by the Nicaragua Transit route, and that Irjsarr,
| has issued proclamation that Transit p,ssen
gers shall travel by no other line nd then AR
| ClinSman asks, somewhat Indignantly ssCan
| any such restrictions be placed on American cit
| izens and are they To submit to an enormous
| monopoly, granted by the government OF A conn
| Try containing not more than half a million of
| people, and they mostly negroes and Indians -,
! VOW these we think, are very silly questions
| eIrP+GIaily when put forward by the chairman of
| the House Committee on Foreign Affairs w.
| can hardly account for tue apparent ignorance of
| Mr.. Ciingman on this suhjrct. Considering his
| ofhclal position on this commttee-uslIaliy ac-
copied on all hands as the licia exponent Of the
| Administration was his duty, ii he wished
| 10 be understood AS representing the Admins
| udtlon, 10 hold a preliminary talk or two with
| The Secretary of State upon this lrsarri treaty
Had he done so. We have no dCub, that General
| Cass would have informed him that the treaty
| was made with Senior Irisarri as the recoUnizsd
| representative at Washington of sovereign and
| independent State and that i'm thus RECOGNIZING
| The Independence and sovereignty of Nicaragus
| our government could not assume any powers Of
| jurisdiction over those local matters which are
| suhJect 10 the exclusive jursdcto of the local
government Of Nicaragua Thus Informed We
| presume that MIR. Clingman would have discov-
ereu THAT the Limitations of International law i'm
This case are very clear and that the large pro
portion of Indians and negroes ENTERING int th.
population Of Nicaragua have no more to do with
me merits OF the question than Billy Bowleys or
the negroes of North Carolina
| Thus, on the subject of the Cass-Iris,rri
| treaty we may safely assert that Mr. CInpman
mas spoken neither for the Administration nor i'm
/ itu tue nGSt principles OF ui DlOmdcy
| or common sense His views and objections ar.
simply those Of u political svmpathiaer with the
Nlcaraguan hlibusters and their lobby conf-der
ares, ana are wholly incompatible with his posi-
| Ton az Chairman Of the House Committee ON
| foTelrh Anairs Ii is d position which should
| never be degraded Ia the fiihust-riny and fac
nous notions OF the mere individual politician
| But throughout this remarkable SPEECH of IN.
gentleman from North Carolina the same tlibus.
| terihS proclivties, more or less SHARPLY d,.tn.J
| may b- detected -
| The GAME OF HE FILIBUsTERs extra
dlt'on Of Walker from Nicaragua was a tre-
| mendOus blow TO the spectators in Nicaragua
scrip mines, steamship projects &c. &c Many
| millions Ell such securities" the value of
which was Of course contingent upon the sue
cess oil " aiker S schemes Of murder arson and
| rapine In Central America were in the hand,
oil those people, who had sold as much of them
as persons could be found to buy them at from
| two to twenty cents on the dollar These 'sope-
rators find their dreams Of making money out
| OF the success of Walkers peculiar system of
operations 8 squashed up" if the Nicaragua
treaty be ratified, and are therefore seeking to
| compass its defeat, with mi ght and main Their
IDEA Is, that If Nicaragua can once more be
opened to the tender merces of the class Of per-
sons of whom Walker, his followers with arms
IN their hands, and the operators in his scrips
and confscatiOns. they will finally succeed i'm
| ciutching the privileges Of the transit route,
that have SO long been a bone Of contention be-
tween those knnwn "a tho ofa.nh,o, o,.,...