New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-08
rIID PpgsrDENIos PROCLAMATION.

sumo our readers will peruse It, and il they do not
arrive at the same conclusion respecting it to which
We have arrived, we shall be much mistaken, It is
The most humiating production that ever emanated
from any President, and Is alone calculated to cover
tie people Of the country with modification and
shame If there is redeeming point about it we have
been unable to discover it, Several Of its statements
are positively false, and most Of its conclusions are
wire drawn far.feched and illogical. The most that
can be said in its favor at the outside is that it is
rather ingenious justification for the exercise of arbi
trary power, in case determined and preiudged ia
put down all projects for the Amerieanzation Of
Central America and to subserve British interests al
the same time. The document will be read at the
Court of ST. James with profound satisfaction. Nc
wonder 1t proposes to do the work Of the British in
1 the most efficient and exemplary manner There will
/ be nothing for the English West India squadron ia
do at the mouth Of San Juan river or thereabouts
The mongrel government of Nicaragua will have no
occasion to avail itself Of the adi Of British fleets
British sailors, British soldiers as suggested by
Lord Napier to Gen. Cass There will be no neces-
sity for British interference to protect real or assumed
British interests. All these the President has taken
under his special care, and will see that they are
properly attended to, And as there are, as matter
OF course, neither American interests nor American
honor to protect anywhere on this continent, or on
any other continent under the canopy Of heaven the
employment Of the American navy and of American
sailors to toady TO foreign Influences and carry out
British purposes on this hemisphere in papable and
unqualified defiance Of the Monroe doctrine, is per.
feetly proper and altogether worthy the genius and
patriotism Of the present Administration!
The first paragraph Of the proclamation is formal,
and entitled to little or no comment. That it was
necessary to raise money" to equip and maintain
an emigration expedition no one doubts. That
moneyha been raised for that purpose no one Denies
Bat that illegal pledges have been made for the REIN.
! bursement Of moneys thus obtained, or that any
| thing Yiolative Of the laws has been done the
President vouchsafes little proof in the first para
graph as he does in the other paragraphs Of his
proclamation. Times have come to pretty pass, in
deed, when citizens Of the United States cannot do
nate, lend, or negotiate their own lawfully earned
money, to carry ont lawful purpose, without bring
ing upon their devoted heads the awful thunders of
Presidential pronuncamento.
| In the second paragraph the President assumes
that the proposed emigration has "hostile design
Bat he brings forward no proof to sustain his posi-.
tons. The assumption of the first paragraph is taken
for argument proof positive, in the second and the
remainder Of it is the merest filling out Because the
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentary"
Of an im6ecie and poweress government las issued
notice to emgrants and travellers crossing the Istbmus
Of Nicaragua, that they must provide themselves
with certain passports and obey certain regulations,
or else they will be stopped and compelled to return
by the same conveyance that took them TO the coun-
try'-when one hundred well armed men could upset
the entire government OF the greasersH Of Nicara.
gua-President Buchanan concludes that the infer.
enee is irresistible that persons engaged this expedi
ton will leave the United States with hostile purposes
against Nicaragua" What wretched logic is this or
rather, II i no logic at ALL Itisony giving utterance
toaforegone conclusion is only indicting trying
congicting and furnishing men on suspicion, before
they have committed any crime, or attempted to com
init any crime! That is all-and if it is not enough
to make the blood Of every true American citizen
boil in his veins then the fires of YesuviQs in full
blast would not Suffice
The alusion to the last expedition has neither fact
nor probability to sustain it. The steamer Fashion
obtained regular clearance from the collector of
the port Of Mobile, and if after careful examine
ton no arms munitions Of war were discovered on
board, where does the objection lie? Mr.. Buchanan
has not removed the collector Of Mobile as vet! And
it no argument against the expedition that as soon
as the members thereof arrived in Nicaragua, they
ately commenced hostilittes.7 Now, give Mr. Bach
anan the strongest claim be can ask for his position
and he is weak, worse than weak His argument il
SO puerle that if it did not come from President of
a great country it would he received with universal
Kisses and eers. In the first place the laws do not
extend beyond the limits of the United States and it
is none Of the Presidents business whether emgants
from this country obtain arms in Nicaragua or in tile
III f,n,, l,ny.
do not infringe the neutrality laws, he has no right
to NEEDLE in the matter. That the last expedition
did sail from the United States legally is virtually
admitted in the proclamation Hence, the reference
to their arming afterwards when they had reached
foreign country is simply absurd They could violate
no law of this country by arming there, and Mr..
buehanan has no right to decide on any point except
when the laws of his own country are broken. The
statement that they Immediately commenced hos
tities is false-notoriousi false. Chatard and
Paulding 1.-THE fattered yet soorned lacbeys of the
Enthusiastically Commenced hostiIities, and broke
up the expedition
The assertion in the third paragraph of the proca
nation that the leader Of previous expeditions "haS
already beentwice expelled from Nicaragua is SCUM
Yefsaly known to beuntrue that it's disgrace to the
land that It's chief magistrate should make it. Gen,
''tAANt - elAI Si4'H 4E&lSI hliuNu 10 American
Nicaragua expeditions, and he has never been lex.
PEELED" from that country He was forced out Of the
country notby its own citizens, however, first by the
miserable wretch, Davis, of the U. S. war vessel ST.
Mary, and second by those unspeakaby miserable
panderers to the Butish-Chatard and Pduding.
The people Of Nicaragua-the real people-neYer
"eSpelledn him. Besides the idea OF expellinr
man from any p1ace by outside instead Of inside
pressure is rather original, as it is set forth How
would steamboat boilers explode BY outside pres.
sure
We will here, owing to the crowded state Of our
columns, cut short the thread OF cur remarks. We
might go on at length, but what is the use Arbi.
trary power, in this case cannot be stayed in its
career Of oppression and besides it is not to our
taste to discuss topic that almost makes US feel
ashamed that we were born an American cit.
zen. The subjects Of other governments have
something, as q general thing, to be proud Of IT
there Is anything in the present administration Of the
executive department Of this country, that an honest
and intelligent suftfagau can take pride In we hope
some humane philanthropist will point it out at the
earliest practicable moment.
TINS DIN VERASpAH HorEL,--Who does not re.
meubar what comfortable and sumpuous plaee the old We
rednh and regret that atelya pile should
destroyed by fire But time changes ali things and in good
many things Gre helps tme wonderfully The puiy
ton Is that human and progreSsiqenlss fellow
heels Of time and Gre and render the change sPee forgotten