Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-10-21

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a"I never doubted that Mr.. Buchanan wa.
right On the Niearagua question on the start
and have Just Is little doubt that he il IL
wrong now. That Walker hsd the sympa-
thy Of the President when he set out for
Central America, I think is certain tina,
he ought to hsve retained il, is just ss Ger.
tain. lam not saying that Walker is the
man of destiny his friends have claimed hin
to be. I think he is not do not say he
is the most proper nan to conduct an ex.
pedltion such as he act on foot. IL is very
likely be 10 not Buthe was doing US Z
good service, and he ought to have been lei
alone. Under his lead, before this, Nicara
qua would have been a thriving and prosper.
ous State out of the Unio7. But in an evi
hour the President listened to evil counsels
and Walkers expedition was broken up
and himself brosght back prisoner Of
State. expressed myself pretty freely
about this transaction NJ the time, and
shsil not now repest what said then; bu'
there is branch OF the subject to which
want to call your specisl attention.
q "About the time Walker was fitting ou
his expedition, and while he Ielt very Ger
taie it he did not vioiste the laws he woult
not be snolested, the Secretary Of State
entered into sstreaty with Mr.. Yrissarri
the stipulsfious of which assume, for do
nes pretend 10 this connection to have seer
the sreaty, were inconsissetf with any con
itinued sympathy or countenancs to Walk
or on the part Of the Government. a7
.This brings me TO consider, 6rst, wha'
interest we had in Nicaragua question; ant
next, which pian--the Wslker plan or the
-Csss- Yrissarri pisn-rs most likely to sub
serve our purposes. First, ] assume that
we are directly interested, and to a deel
extent, in planting slaveholding State il
Nicarasus. We are SO, because SLAYER,
must 20 South If IL goes at all. If Waikel
had been allowed to succedd, he would have
planted such a State, and the Southern
States wosid have populated it. tits agains
our interest to have an anti-slave STATE
planted In our front. We all know tha
such State must sooner or later come into
the Union, and help to swell that hostile
power ut the North which has alreaGy giver
us 90 much trouble. And that being in ou
'front.', will stand ready st oil times TO arres
our progress. The plsn for colonizing
Cenral America, as' foreshadowed in thu
Gass.Yfisssrri treaty, is through the agsnc.
of the American Transit Company Tha
company has its headquarters in Wall stree
and State street. If Genital America i,
ever colonized through its agency, it will a
the same time be aboli;ienised. Of this
have no doubt. I was for Walker. becaus,
Izthoaght he was giving us a slaveholding
State. was against Cass and Yrissarri
because they were giving us an abolition
State.
aft nav seem strange to you that thu.
talk Of taking possession Of Central Amer:
ca, or any part of It, seeming, as you sup
pose that it belongs to seme on,
else, just ss this country once belonged 3,
the Choctsws. When we wanted thii
coun.rv, ~e came and took II. n we van
Central America, or any part Of t, woult
GO and take thst. II the inhabitants were
willing tn live under good Government
srrch al we would give Them, would hsse
them protected, and II they were not, they
might 60 somewhere else 4 suppose senti
ments like these viii stsrtle sli fogydom
end I shall be set down as d regular FIRE
eating :filibusses. Very we'll; I have hesrt
people whine ever the white mans cruelty
to the Indilns before, bat American states
men did not heed IL, snd the result rs, tina
ststely msasiUns hsve tsken the place %
Indian wigwanas, and railroads have obliter
sted the Indian war psth. s'S' sA5 'sfs3'
ait ID said, I know, that these Centra
American semi.bsfbarians conglom srate o
Indian, Negro. sad Celt, have been recog
Missed by some Of the Powers Of Europe al
independent States. Well, suppose they
have. Would not the same Powers hav,
recognised the Choctsws Chickssaws, and
every other Indian tribe, as independent, i
our Government hsd not interposed 10 pre-.
vent ito We have treaties ourselves will
the Central American Ststes. SO we hav.
with the Indian trihes., But these treaties
no odds how worded. have never stood il
the way Of our taking their land, when th,
expansion OF our people and the spread o
civilization required Us to have il. No, no
this is sli fudge and fustian. signifying no
thing. five want Central America, tn,
cheapest, essiest, and quickest way to 'ge
il. 10 to GO end take II; rnd if-Frsnce am
England insefere. read the Monroe doctrin'
to them. T-l 80 E1fi 1+ sI-'1 t''H
ali any one desires to know why wan
foothold in Central America, I avos
frankly. il is becsuse | want to plant Slsv
cry there; think Slavery is good thin.
per,se; believe il to be great moral
social. and political blessings blessing tt
the master and q blessing to the slave; ant
| believe. moreover, that il is of divin,
origin. ] said so in the House of Repre-
seDisiives ut Washington, on the 3Oth o
January, 1850, and I say so now-I said SC
then, because thought SO them say sc
nov. becsuse think 90 yet. aT-1 o. is7f
.That Slavery is q blessing to the master
is shown by simply constrasting Southern
gentleman with q Northesn ebolitionist =
One is courageous, high bred, and manly
The other is cowardly, low.flung, and sneak.
ing. The slave 10 blessed with sound heslth
sleek skin, and Christian instruction.
fee African In dwarfsd by disease, scorful.
ous from hunger, and is q barbarian and q
cannibsl That n is Of divine origin, ID
proven by the Bible; in no lins of that
blessed book is Slavery reprobsted; in many
Plscsa Il 10 directly sanctioned. The angel
Of the Lord. we are told, captured Hagar
and took her home to her mistress One.