The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-04
The rsthmus The Negro-The Nation.

The rsthmus The Negro-The Nation.
The New York Herald is quite indignant
at the reflection that the project Of the canal
across the Isthmus of Darien may receive
shlow that will retard it, from the barharous
character of the races that infest the line
upon which il is to be made. The recent
news from Panama illustrates the character
of the predominant element theresbouts IN
amanner that provokes this indignasion OF
the Herald. 1t says
s "Our news from Panama yesterday IS
s;cken;ny in it's accounts of the brutality
which characterized the transplanted Afri-i
-rar harbarians who invaded Chiriqni and
mass acred one hundred of it's people,
= siracging the opposing leader to the tad 9of
a. horse until life was extinct Ian act
worthy Of their ancestors" ii III -,zsc
This is very horrible, and the Herald
very reasonably conjectures that capitalists
will hardly hazard their money upon works
located in country where negroes have
the power to cut such antics as these. That
paper urges as logical sequence that the
acivilised world " will be forced to take
possession of the country and guarantee
security to capitalists and safety to; COM
merce from interruptions from such capri
) cious and cruel barbarians! "Ihe civil
lied world indeed Nonsense! we say
".he United States of North America" as
we have said for twenty years, and many
more than, for sake of credibility, we should
acknowledge. We are better American
a more "loil citizen than the Herald.
We are for the MONROE doctrine. These
United States already own line OF rail
road across the Isthmus. We have the ad-
vantage of location and the superiority OF
interest, and since might makes right,
noe haze the right Although this doctrine
is abhorrent to justice, it is some consola-
ton to know that, exercised in this matter,
it will be exercised in the line of expe-
diency and the fitness Of things. We are
the chief nation in this hemisphere. Our
Interests are expansive and overruling, and
ought not to be seriously menaced by the
establishment of foreign and European in
terests to greater extent in our neighbor-
hood. This peril we must not permit and
having control which may prevent it, We
must not give up that control
Darien must be and will be seized as o
national necessity -: and then we shall
build the great Darien canal, opening to
ourselves and the world the western route
TO the Pacific Indies. There is no event in
the future more sure than this. We must
al remember that this Republic has grown
great, and its power and expansion under
the universal law must be common
surate with the magnitude of the inte
rests it now has to protect. Had the effort
to separate the Union-which sprang from
the motive opreservethe purity, simplicity,
and honesty Of republican government
with Its freedom, municipal and personal
succeeded, the extent of these interests and
the force required for their protection
would have been lessened; but the failure
Of this attempt has precipitated the de-
velopment, in oil its grandeur, Of the Ame-
rican Republic, and forces upon us the
energies and diplomacy commensurate with
its dignity and demanded for its protection.
These views will force themselves with
sufficient promptness upon the nation, and
will likely help to elevate it from the mise
rable civil feuds which have SO agitated and
cursed it, and which are not yet ended. 1t
will be healthy turn to affairs when We
all wake up to the real Importance of our
external relations, and cease this miserable
internal strife