New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-10-09

| Ell Senior Don Maxine Jerez, Minister PlenipO-
Tertiary from Nicaragua, after having been kept
| cooling his heels for reasonable period, has at
length been rraciously admitted into the august
and benefcent presence Of Mr.. Secretary Cas- and
Mr.. President Buchanan. He was not admitted,
however, till he had first made an apology very
humble one, no dOubt-fOr the grievOus ofense
which the President of Nicaragua had given to these
two benefcent and amiable individuals, and to the
country at large, in having had the audacty to ap-
peal to Europe for protection against American
fillibusters. twas very provoking, and highly In
decent on the part of the President of Nicaragua,
no doubt-a the more so, almost objectionable,
in fact, because every word he said in the docu-
ment complained of was perfectly true. 1t Is
time. however, for Presidents of small republics,
especially those which lie convenient for annexa-
ton to be taught that the truth is not to be spoken
at all times: and we doubt not that under the
iudicious discipline of Gen. Cass-afectonate as
becomes the representative of the great protector
of weak States, but firm as is needfu in one who
speaks for the extender of the area-ths important
truth has been duly impressed on the mind OF
Senior Don Maxine Jerez, anu through him on the
President of Nicaragua, and, for that matter, all
other Presidents in that vicinity. We trust
however, that too much severity and strict
ness was not used on this important and
interesting occasion. 1t was to be expected that
the decorum inspired by the presence OF so
grave person as Gen. Cass, distinguished as
he always has been for preserving his gravity
under all possible circumstances, would require
that Senior Don Maxine Jerez, in making his recan-
taton and apology, should preserve grave sad and
solemn cOuntenance. To have burst out laughing
in Mr.. Cass's face, whatever outsiders may have
done or may do, would have been piece of rude
ness from which Don Jerez's Spanish nobleness
would no doubt have restrained him, letting alone
the necessity it might impose for supplementary
apology We trust, however, that MIR. Secretary
Cass was not harsher with Senior Jerez, than the
Inquisition was with Calico. We take it, Senior
Jerez had the privilege Of saying to himself, the
moment he got through his recantation and apology,
"its all true, for all that" At all events, if he
didn't say it, we take the liberty of saying it for
him, and that not merely in whisper aside, but
loud enough for Mr.. Cass himself to hear.
This most important matter of the recantation
and apology thus disposed of, and the honor OF the
country having been duly indicated, fnot against
the Fillibusters who have set our laws at defiance
and made us bug bear to all Spanish America, at
least as against that pestilent and ree-spoken fell
low, the President of Nicaragua, We hope Mr. Cass
will now set to work in good earnest to arrange
the Nicaraguan question on fair and reasonable
basis. We have already expressed the opinion
which we again repeat, that the notifications pro-
posed to the Cass- rissarr treaty by no means
unreasonable. The draft of treaty published
the other day in one of our city papers said tohave
been negotiated at Washington by Sir William
Gore Ouseey and Seniors Martinez and Jerez' may
have been, and probably was merely cOnjectural
document; but even in that case 1t Is SUM-
cient to show the unressonableness on our
part Of expecting to get the entire control OF the
overland route through Nicaragua. England has
precisely the same grounds that we have, to wit,
possessions in the Pacific for claiming right to
the control Of the Isthmus. AS to the nonsense
about the Monroe doctrine, that will do very
we'll for glorifcaton speeches and glorhca-
ton articles, but American diplomatlst
ever undertook yet to negotiate in the spirit
of that pretended doctrine, nor was it ever recOg-
nzed by foreign powers even by ourselves, as
anything more than mere piece OF buster. A
treaty for the benefit of the Nicaragua route to be
of practical utility, must be satisfactory to both
parties to it, The power of interfering to protect
it is of much less consequence than the putting the
route in such position that no such interference
will be necessary.