The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-10-02
NICARAGUAN AFFAIRS.

praise then bestowed upon it, of being "'the most
beautiful book of the season."
NICARAGUAN AFFAIRS.
! From the Neac York Herald
| On the oath of August General Lamar, the Uni
ted States Minister, asked, in a very short smart
sharp and essentially substantial note of Minister
Cortes, Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Nicaragua
''whether the manifesto; declaration, published
by the New York Herald and other papers of the
! United States, purporting to be signed by Thomas
| Martinez and Juan Rafael Mora. Supreme chiefs of
the Republics of Nicaragua and Costa Rica and an
pended to a certain contract with a certain Mon
sieur Belly, &C., &C., a genuine document or
not ~ He required a prompt and categorical an
swer. Next day august o. having received
none he urged for categorical and immediate one
as one single word was desired ''yes or no." At
last the answer was given, but, of course, nothing
categorical in it.
This letter, after stating that the document allu
ded to was copy of "proiet manifesto, signed
! by General Don Tomas Martinez, while he had left
the executive power in order to go to the CITY of
Rivas, and meet there his Excellency Don Rafael
| Mora, who came for the purpose of settling the
boundary question between the two countries pro-
ceeds to an explanation of Martinez conduct and
says that the document was the ''thOught of Mic
araguan citizen, written and signed in the same
terms as it could have been officially written and
signed if it was approved by the legislative power
OF Nicaragua and authorized by the executive
should it be convenient to the interests of the
country"
"That document, therefore," goes on Minister
Cortes, sis not an act of my government. is not
public official document, but a private one
and reveals the desire of citizen to liberate his
own country from the devastation of the libuster-
ism which desolaed the fields burnt the cities, de-
stroyed the property, and took by hundreds the
lives of the inhabitants of this hospable soil, the
friend of the great republic of North America
Minister Cortes concludes by SAYING that he is
ordered to answer thus by his government; and, as
you know the head, heart and soul of CHS govern
ment' is General Don Tomas Martinez, the very
same "Nicaraguan citizen" who privately signed
the appeal to Europe against the United States.
According to his instructiOns-savs the American
Minister to this government, the Goth of Au-
gust-he is obliged to call its attention to the many
and Just claims of American citizens AGAINST Mica
ragua. The atrocious robbery and murder commit
ted on Mr.. Lawlcss, the murder of MANY Others
the persecution and prescription of some American
citizens, and many other wrongs alluded to, and
the government of Nicaragua is cOnciselv but ser-
ously admonshed to make its preparations to meet
the demand for reparation and indemnity due by
this country to citizens of the United States.
General Lamar accompanies his short, though
exceedingly significant, farewell communication
with copy of dispatch from his own government.
Mr.. Cass reminds the American Minister in Mic
aragua of the proprety and necessity of urging the
claims OF American citizens against Nicaragua and
still more against Costa Rica. He refers on this
subject to former and very energetic Instructions
After this general recommendation he speaks of the
contract with Belly and of the appended manifesto
puDllSleu DE lnc newspapers ana signed, as 1t
said, by Tomas MARTINEZ and }. Rafael Nora. He
states, that although the authenticity of those doc
uments-espcciallv the manlesto-s not officially
known to him at that date 25th of Junel, the pub
LEGATION alluded to bears such character of faith
uness to almost justify the belief that these doc
uments are genuine. The first thought of the Pres
ldent, adds the Secretary of State, to ascertain
the authenticity of the manifesto and to proceed at
once to the dismissal of the Nicaraguan and Costa
Rican Ministers at Washington and the recalling of
the American Minister resident in said republics
He insists strongly on the gravity of the offanca
and says afterwards
"And had such of offence been given by
France or England or by any nation with a we'll
established government, properly approaching its
duties towards foreign powers, this course would
at once have been adopted
After some other remarks referring to the same
subject, he says:
'And still animated with these sentiments, the
United States will deal with forbearance with this
uncourteous provocation, having no fear that their
moderation will be misunderstood. BIT you seW
9tUe these governments distinctly to understand that
suitable PREPARATION ,rU be insisted on or the United
States tcW longer be restrained By the considera
tons hare adrertedto, from seeking Jy more ebfca
cious means proper redress for these un,cothy inpu
toons. Besides the reproaches which this effusion
of i'll feeling is made the medium of communication
to the world, it indicates line of policy looking to
European intervention with American affairs to
which the United States have long since avowed
their opposition and which they will resist under
all circumstances | refer to the protectorate de-
manded by this proclamation, and to the appeal to
the governments of France, England and Sardinia |
to assume the duties attached to that position
Mr.. Cass postpones the fuller development of his |
views with regard to this European protectOrate,
in order to rebuke the various mputations in the |
manifesto by the Presidents of Nicaragua and Costa
RIGA. Here is one of his paragraphs, ending this |
subject
"And subsequently, the American authorities, at
critical period, probably prevented by their in
terventon the accomplishment of another effort to
overthrow the existing government by military
INVASION 1t is little creditable to the candor of |
the President of Nicaragua that these circumstan-
ces have been entirely overlooked in his earnest de-
sire to cast reproach upon this country"
"The State OF Nicaragua owes its political exist
ence, or rather its present rulers the power
they exercise, to the laws of the United States as
executed by this government and the return for its
fidelity is the undgnifed denunciation which has
been given to the world. ''But the Presidents of
these republics" continues Mr.. Cass ''deal in spe-
cihc facts as in more general allegations" They
charge that the government Of the United States
has, according to official reports made to that of
Costa Rica, by its Minister Plenipotenary at Wash
lngton, declared it utterly powerless to pre-
vent past attempts by the tbusters, or to protect
the neutrality Of Central America, owing to the
lnsuiiiciency OF the laws of the United States
The Secretary gives his views as to this charge,
and then says;
"This accusation is wholly without foundation.
No such declaration was ever made by the govern
ment of the United States. 1t would have been an
act at once of faulty and of fasity As to the diff
fculties in the enforcement of these laws they are
not denied, and have given much trouble to the
in the efforts it has made to carry them
into effect but that they are powerless or have
proved So no one in out of the United States has
the right to assert. To these views connected with
this charge of acknowledged imbecilitv, have now
to add that have just had an interview with the
present Minister Plenipotentiary of Costa Rca in
this city, and have been assured by him that no such
was ever received by him from this
government, nor communicated to his own. If
SUCH a communication made by any onein
good faith, it must have been done under some
strange misapprehension.
"As to the protectorate,' he says, '' which is in
Voked Tor the independence and nationality of the
'epublics of Nicaragua and Costa Rica it is a sub
ect very easily disposed of, so far as the United
states have any concern in the question. The
resident has no belief that either of the Powers
mus puoheiy ana improperly appealed to, has ever
gwen the ieast encouragement to such a PROPOSE
non, nor mad any reason to anticipate it. The
french government has voluntarily disclamed any
connection with NJ. Belly, and has given assur-
ances that it has no designs upon Central America
but, on the contrary, has avoided any interference
Of that kind. ,
A guarantee for the general use and security IF
the Transit route, and also for its neutrality is
desirable measure, which would meet the heart
concurrence of the U. States. These views have
already been known to the governments of Costa Ri
ga "a; ana nicaragua, and they have been informed
that the President INDUCES the hope that these
routes may yet be considered BY general consent
as neutral highways for the world. not to be dis
turoed by the operations of war. These great ave
nues OF misrepresentation are vastly interesting
10 all commercial powers and all NAV well ioin in
securing their freedom and use against those dan
gers TO which they are exposed from aggrcsssons
". ousrages originating within without the ter
rltopy through which they pass )
h., Due Ine establishment of political protectorate
oy any OF the Powers of Europe over any of the {
independent States of this continent, or in other {
WORDS the introduction Of scheme of pollen ,,hich
''o"ed cdrrg ,oih right to interfere IN their con-
Germs, as measure to ,chich the United States hare
9ng s'nce aeoced their opposition, and vhich should
ne ooept De mGds they '0a resist by all the
hear po@er. The for the attitude thew have
assumed have been fully promulgated and are
everywhere well known. The years which have
passed by since this principle of separation was first
by the United States have served still
more to satisfy the people of this country of its