The Feliciana Democrat., 1858-12-04
COMING ISSUES.

tOMlNG ISS y l.o.
The West, South and Southwest, are al
most unanimously demanding that some metes-
and bounds shall be set to this wholesale and
indiscriminate war against American emigra-
ton to Nicaragua. France claims pre.eminent
or pre- cmption rights over the opening Of the
Transit under the Belly contract and England
sends down the plant many-faced Sir William
Gore Onscly TO offer the use Of the British
marines to capture and hand over to Sambo
Martinez any considerable body Of Americans
coming to eoonize or flibuster Nicaragua.
Here We have the direct Issue No con
siderable body Of American colonists will be
permitted to land or settle in Nicaragua
Single families or small parties of dozen or
twenty colonists, cannot safely establish them
selves in the lawless and ever conyulsed anar
chcs Of the isthmus Attempts Of that kind
have never succeeded and expeditions on q
larger scale are prohibited by the British min.
isters We must therefore abandon our 18th
mus highways to the Samboes and their Euro
pcan masters, or our people must be allowed
to 90 in sufficient force and organization for
mutual pootection 1t is the veriest nonsense
if it is not something much worse, to talk OF
any other alternative, for there ssno other
Our Government must maintain the freedom
of our citizens to domiciliate on the isthmus,
whenever they choose to 90 with peaceful in
tent or it must confess before all men, that it
| is the obcdient servant Of my Lord Napier'%
British policy Of exclusion.
\ This antagonism between tile Anglo-French
policy Of " checking Yankee progress" by ta-
king command Of our fleets and custom house
ccarances, and the exercise Of our inherent
and inalenablc rights, now openly assailed by
this foreign policy, is an issue Of formidable
dimensions
Our Cabinet members seem to be struck with
mental paralysis rs soon rs they put on official
harness They come to dead stop and forget
that the popular mind does not stop with them
exactly mt the point of their elevation, and this
incompetcncy, to keep up with the march Of
the people is their destruction. They are left
behind on the shoals.
The people have in this year Of 1858, out
run Cabinet and Congress in heir determine
tion to oppose foreign domination, Oh the 18th.
mus. They will soon reach all the political
cobweb spinnerS who are trying to cheat the
masses out Of their will, that our own people
are not to be sold or sacrificed for messes OF.
diplomatic pottage, be they French or English.
In 1880, these acute politicians disgraced
the country by accepting the Clayton Bulwcr
stupidity.
In 1882 they virtually subscribed to the AT,
ricanization Of Cuba by refusing to insist on
satisfactory explanations while England was
!, garrisonng the Island with sayages from At
rica. Our Cabinet was serving rs SPY aud in
former for the Spanish despots at the very mo
4 a,,p
people as well rs the Gnban5.
In 1854 they submitted to the dictatoriaI
: interference of France and England when those
Powers proclaimed u treaty with the Dominic.
an Goycrnmcu,.
In lo5t they successfully opposed every mea-
sure Of redress when our citizens were murder
ed on the Panama and Nicaragua transit
In 1888 the same class Of /" subscryeuts to
European domination refused to abrogate the
Clayton-B Bulwcr fraud they refused to notice
the insults and injuries Oh the Transit they re-
fused to investigate the European movement
for making Cuba free negro State and snbiu,
eating the Dominican Republic to the negroes
Of Ilayt they refused to meet the Liberals
OF Mexico in their proposition to open to u
the transit and ports of Tehauntepec the,
refused to ask honorable satisfaction for th
arrest of fifty of our merchant vessels by Brit
ish cruisers but in all this time they neye
, refused to do the bidding of the British minis
isters in Nicaragua. Our Navy, our Cabinet
and our Senate, have been far more willing tt
serve foreign interests than our people have
{, been pleased to witness, ana this craven neg
ect of the national sentiment and the natlona
honor has done the work The public heart
is throbbng with fierce determination tt
e break this long thrall and the politician wh'
d thinks to stem it, will meet the fate Of his To
l. ry and Federal predecessors.