The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1858-05-06
EMIGRATION To NICARAGUA.

The Legislature of Alabama ut its late session,
chartered the Mobile & Nicaraguan Steamship
Company, allowing il to commence business with
Il capital Of :2o,n00 and with the privilege of
increasing it to $50O,000. The object OF this
movement is TO establish IL line Of emigration
vessels between our Southern ports and the
ports OF Central America, with the view of
peaceful colonization, and of securing the COM
merce Of these Tropical States. The New Or.
leans Crcsc"ntin referring. to this matter saws:
'Thc men engaged in this enterprise are ,nen
OF capita', energy and resolution. While they
are desirons of enlarginc, their commercial one.
ratious and of adding to the trade and imuor
tancc Of their city Of Mobile, they are also
thoroughly devoted TO Southern interests and in
situations, and regard our own peculiar form of
society as that best suited for renovatinr The
tropical regions of this continent. As merchants,
they are not willing that New York capitalists
shall gather all the fruits Of Southern trade
AS Southern men. they are anxious to get the
! start Of the Northern Central American CoIoni.
zatiun Company, and to prevent abolition fanat.
'cism fro: getting the first foOthold in Nicaragua
AS phiiantropists, they seek some national meth.
od by which 10 heal the social and political dis.
order Of Spanish America, aud to restore the
choicest portions of the continent TO the uses
aud purposes of civilization.
"Surrly objects such as these are deserving
| the support and encouragement not only Of the
Alabama Legislature, but also Of the Federal
Government of the United States True. the
! present Administration has, so far, shown little
disposition to encourage Southern supremacy, in
Nicaragua. and has. to all intcnts and purposes,
| endorsed the acts Of an American Commodore
influenced BY Black Republican sentiments and
| European PREF judices. But at the same time
The President has declared so fully in favor OF
peaceful emigration 10 Central America that il il
now impossible for him TO oppose such u move
mcnl."
Again we quote from the same authority:
! The country is, ii is true. in very unsettled
condition, and in few weeks civil war NAV be
again wasting the Isthmus. Recent advccs ind
cate that the old parties, Legitimist and Demo.
cratic, arc more embttered in their quarrel than
ever The late decree of Martinez, aimed osten.
sibly at Walker and his associates, is really a
blow ut the native Democrats, for it annu!s all
Provisional Government Of Don Francisco Gas.
tillion. But in spite of the petty feuds whicl,
desolste tho country, there are regions remot
from strife where the peaceful colonist may set.
tie aud build up q home for himself and his pos
terity. Such are the districts of Chontales and
Matagalpha and the Eastern slopes of the main
range Of the Corderas. We hope the udvun.
tages which these regions offer to the settler vii
not be overlooked by the hardy pioneers of the
South and West, aud that the steamers of the
''Monilc and Nicaraguan Steamship Company u
may be crowded with enig,ants 10 the land o
enchantment which lies between the Lakes mud
the Caribbean Sea-"