The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-10

Sontrive to live, without finding any government
at all. The natural effect of all this has been
that just as objects through fog loom up in
misty grandeur far exceeding their proper dimen-
sions, the Central American imJroglio, as it is
called, has acquired in the popular mind, that of
congressman included, sort of vague and in
definite importance to which it is by no means
entitled
In the first place, therefore, let us premise what
everybody knows, that it is not with the Republics
OF Central America, that our difficulties have arisen
nor do they grow out of direct relations either
political commercial with those States. 1t is be
tween England and ourselves, that the questions
have sprung up which the Clayton-Buwer treaty
was designed to SETTLE but which, it unfortunately
appears, that it did not At no time during the
nearly forty years that have elapsed since the five
States of Guatemala, San Salvador, Honduras,
Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, threw off the yoke of
old Spain, and asserted their independence have
our relations with those Republics been deemed
OF sufficient consequence to attract the atten-
ton of statesmen, either at home or abroad. We
recognized them part of the family of nations,
and welcomed them into the sisterhood of Repub-
lies, but beyond the simple expression of our best
wishes for their welfare and prosperity, our inter-
est in them never seems to have gone. In 1922,
the Legislature of San Salvador passed formal
decree providing for the incorporation of that State
into the American Union, and commissioners were
sent to Washington to negotiate the terms of union.
Not the slightest notice appears to have been taken
either of the commissioners, of the application.
No communication was made to Congress on the
subject, nor does any official response appear to
have been made to the commissioners by the Presi-
dent. When, however, the acquisition of Califor-
MIA, and the discovery of its gold turned a
mighty tide of American trade and travel
across the narrow Isthmus which separates
the Atlantic from the Pacific Ocean, then a new
and extraordinary interest began to be felt in this
country in Central American affairs. The various
Central American routes to California were the
great highways over which thousands of American
emigrants hocked on their journey to the gold
fields of the Pacific, and millions of American
treasure found its way to the Atlantic coast In
pestilenta climate, and in the presence of an eete
and WORKOUT civilization, American enterprise
soon made itself felt. Towns, railroads. steam
boats, hotels, and newspapers marked the advent
of a new people. Another form of American enter
prise, less praseworthy in its character and less
beneficial in its effects was shown in the military
expeditions fitted out by American adventures,
whose predatory incursions into the territories
of the Central American States, aggravated the
disorders which are the natural result of that
chronic disease Of civil war and revolution with
which all Spanish American Republics are afflicted
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called to the revival of project not new, indeed
but as old almost as the days of Columbus, and of
that bold Spaniard, who first