Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1858-01-02

SATURDAY, JANUARY 2. 1858.
The Invasion of Nicaragua and Cap
ture of walker.

The invasion of Nicaragua and the cap
ture of Gen. Walker by American marines
is creating, it would appear from our tele-
graphic dispatches, considerable feeling, in
New Orleans and Mobile particularly. The
| Indignation which this usurpation of au.
thority is calculated to arouse, should not
be confined to any particular locality
The whole country is vitality interested in
it; the people every where should en-,
ter their protest against it, and rebuke in
no equivocal language the Administration
under whose auspices, if not orders, the
inglorious achievement was consummated.
It will not do to permit the Administra-
ton to escape on the plea that Commodore
Paulding transcribed his Instructions 1t
is not denied that the Saratoga, and Full
ton, and Susquehanna were sent ont be-
yond the jurisdiction of the United States,
on the coast Of the Isthmus, to blockade
the entrances into Nicaragua, and to inter-
cept and bring back any persons who
might leave the United States on an ex-
petition to Nicaragua This was a stretch
of authority-an unwarrantable disposition
of American vessels of war. The foray into
Nicaragua and the capture of Walker, was
nothing more than consequence of this
assumption of authority; and as such there
sponsibility should fall upon the Administers
ton. The same steamer that brought the
news of the capture of Walker and portion
of his men, also brought the information
that Col. Anderson and fifty men had been
left behind in possession of Fort Castillo,
and that the Costa Ricans were marching
against them with force of four hundred
men. Now, if harm befal Anderson and
his men; if they shall be overpowered by
the superior force of the enemy and slain,
then will their murder be justly laid to the
charge of the Administration whose agents
have deprived them of their support. Up
on the guilty Administration will fall the
curses of the American people, who can
not behold unmoved the massacre of their
brethren, engaged in the holy cause of
spreading republican Institutions In this
position we are sustained by the course of
the sham democratic leaders and presses
in 1851, who denounced the President for
interfering against the Cuban expedition
OF Lopez, and held Mr. Fillmore guilty of
the blood of Crittenden and his compatri-
OTIS who were shot in Cuba. 1t will be
recollected how bitter and unrelenting
were the sham democracy in their denun-
Citations of the President and his Cabinet
then. How, even here in Nashville, Judge
CATRON was rebuked by the organ Of the
party for charging the grand jury to in
1uire into violations of our neutrality laws.
Nothing has happened since that day to
,xtend the jurisdiction OF the United States
nto foreign waters-to dwarf the United
States Navy into q petty police to protect
he serVile usurpers of power in Nicaragua :;
nor to lessen the responsibility Of the Adj
ministration for violation of its duties to
American citizens, or an unlawful exer-
Use of authority. The laws and constitu-
ion are the same. American citizens
ave the same rights of emigration and
xpatriation. 1t is yet their province to go
o whatsoever country they may select,
md to bear with them their trusty rifles.
Why, then, are the sham democratic lead
rs and presses, who pursued Mr.. Fillmore
With the ferocity of blood hounds, silent
'ow? If there were any doubts as to the
ustice and proprety of the conduct of
,ir. Fillmore, there can be none as to the
lsurpation and tyranny Of Mr.. Buchanan.
let the voice of condemnation, therefore,
De heard from every quarter; and let the
press with one voice demand the instanta-
leous restoration of Walker and his men
the position from which they were torn
y Com. Paulding and his marines. This
S but strictly just; and it ought to be
one. And when this has been done, let
american emigration have its full swing
Nicaragua was not made for the miserable
ace that people it. In the occupation OF
he anglo-saxon race, it will contribute
something to the comfort, happiness and
| prosperity of other nations At present
hough one of the brightest and most fer
| lie spots on the globe, it is as desert
waste to the balance of the world.