The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-03-30

The Republicans of the United States
Senate have assumed weighty response
bility ia defeating the treaty negotiated be-
tween Nicaragua and the United States.
For years the whole country has been in
sistirg upon the establishment of just and
fair pacific relations with Nicaragua. Mob
law in that country has more than once
destroyed the lives and property of Amer
lean citizens lawfully within its limits, and
Invading marauders from our own shores
have spread havoc and desolation over its
plains. A treaty has finally been conclud~
ed by which all these differences are closed,
and the future relations of the two countries
placed upon a friendly and mutually adj
vantageous footing. 1t was made in the
interest Of peace, of commerce and of civil.
zation, and was calculated, as it was designed
to promote the permanent welfare of both
countries. Yet it has been hastily and
fippantly rejected, by Republican votes, in
Senate, and our relations with Nicaragua
are again thrown back into their former
condition of lawlessness and force. The
treaty failed to receive the votes of the Re-
publican Senators, on account of two pro-
visions which it contains, one giving the
American Government the right of protect
ing the transit route, at the request of the
Nicaraguan Government or its representa-
tive, and the other giving US the same right
in case of special exigency, in the absence of
such request.
Both these provisos are just and expedi-
ent, and absolutely necessary to the preser-
walton of the lives and property of Ameri>
cans crossing the Isthmus to California and
Oregon; but such was the hostility of the
Republicans to any thing looking like
progress, or an extension of American in
Auence in Central America, that they op-
posed, and by their votes rejected the treaty.
Senator WILKINSON voted with his party,
on the anti-American position it assumed
on this question.
What makes the rejection of this treaty
completely inexcusable, is the fact tina Eng
land has concluded precisely similar ar
rangement with Nicaragua. The New
York Times speaking OF the action of the
Republicans Senators, says that the result
of it will be that England will have very
great advantage over US in competing for
the control of the Isthmus route to the Pa
ciic. Her capitalists can invest their mo.
ney, her mechanics and laborers can UNDER
take the work, and her subjects can enter
boldly upon the traffic of the route,-for
they know that if Nicaragua cannot pro.
tect them, England will. American citi>
zens and American capitalists have no such
security. Their Government has deliber.
ately refused them its protection, even when
invited to extend it by Nicaragua herself.
Under such circumstances it is not very
likely that money will be advanced to con.
struct route across the Isthmus, or that
American enterprise will play any very con-
spicuoas part in the affairs of that section of
the continent. The rejection of this treaty
virtually abandons the field to English ener-
gy, capital and skill.
Another treaty, now before the Senate for.
ratification or rejection, it is feared will share
the fate Of the Nicaragua treaty. We refer
to the one negotiated by our Minister, MIR.
M'LAxE, with the Constitutional, or JuAREz,
government of Mexico. This treaty gives
the United States the right of way over
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and also anoth-
er Pacific rail way route; it admits large
list of American productions into Mexico
duty free; it gives authority to our govern
ment to protect its citizens on Mexican soil,
when Mexico is unable or unwilling to do
so. Every agricultural and manufacturing
interest of the nation will be promoted by
the ratification Of this treaty, and Mexico,
hsrelf, will, by its operations, be relieved
from the misrule, bloodshed, and revolution
airy ontsreaks which now periodically threat
en- her national existence. The treaty gives
the Americans what they, or some other
nation must speedily have i: the right to
establish and saaintain, to some extent at
least, good order and good government in
Mexico. We beliese the treaty will result
in making Mexico, . quasi American colony,
and in the future viii realize those visions
! of annexation and manifest destiny which
are so popular with our people, north and
south, Republican and Democratic. go
The Mexican treaty is opposed in the
Senate by the Republican Senator'S and a
few of the extreme Southern members. The
Charleston correspondent of the Washing
ton Constitution gives the following reason
why the treaty meets with opposition from
Southern Senators aa -sdfo sGt b8a syst
forewarned you that the Texas Senators,
especially Mr.. Wigfall, would oppose the
McLane.O campo Treaty. Mr.. Wigfali express
ed the opinion, when passing through here on