tus, reprenez la charrue, non pas pour labourer | naître, ce serait alors pour vous une glorieuse le sol vénézuélien, puisque vous vous êtes fer- occasion de vivre d'une vie nouvelle. Le cri mé à jamais les portes de la mère patrie, de la liberté en danger dans votre patrie vous mais pour soumettre à la culture le sol vierge ferait un devoir de voler à son secours. Vous de Texas. Soyez planteur américain. redemanderiez à la ville de New-York l'épée que vous lui avez confiée, vous la réhabiliteriez alors, vous la régénéreriez en lui donnant une trempe nouvelle dans le feu sacré de la liberté. Plus tard-qui le sait, qui peut lire de si loin dans le livre du destin?-plus tard, si jamais un Monk osait s'armer d'un poignard parricide, et formait le projet odieux de le plonger dans la sein de la patrie qui vous vit "MORE OF IT;" BEING ANOTHER CHAPTER ON "LONDON ASSURANCE" AND NEWSPAPER DECEPTION. IN WHICH IS FAITHFULLY RECORDED HOW OUR FORMER HERO, THE EDITOR OF THE TRIBUNE, BOLTED OUT OF ONE DIFFICULTY INTO ANOTHER; ALSO SHOWING HOW, BEING VERY MUCH ENWROTHED ABOUT HIS FRIEND, SIR HENRY LYTTON BULWER'S HARD TREATMENT, HE INDISCREETLY EXHIBITED HIS NATURAL OPINIONS ABOUT THE ATROCIOUS RASCALITY AND COWARDICE OF ALL IRISHMEN; AND OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE SAME, WITH OTHER SINGULAR DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SCIENCE OF EDITORIAL FALSEHOOD, AND THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF TRIBUNITIAL BILLINGSGATE, AS ILLUSTRATED BY OUR HERO. "And is it to you, you graceless varlet, I owe all this? I'll teach you to abuse your mother-I will!" (1.) OUR HERO ACKNOWLEDGETH THE CORN. * * * "On the 4th of December, having heard of the outrages committed on an American steamboat by British officials at Greytown, or San Juan de Nicaragua, we spoke of those outrages in the terms they deserved. * But the next day we received information which left no doubt on our mind that our former inference, natural and justifiable as it was, did not accord with the fact that in fact the outrages at San Juan were not authorized nor justified by any instructions from the British Government since the Clayton Treaty was ratified, but that, on the contrary, repeated dispatches from Lord Palmerston had been transmitted to San Juan, (which must have arrived there very soon after the perpetration of the outrages complained of,) ordering the British officials thereabouts to refrain from any interference with or assertion of authority over American vessels in those waters or American citizens on their shores. This information entirely changed the aspects of the case." * 營 * * SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER. country's interest quite as well, watch for encroachments upon them as vigilantly, and are quite as tenacious of American honor as their critic in the Review, [meaning ourselves,] whose entire diatribe smacks of a hereditary proclivity to annihilate the British Empire by flowers of rhetoric, and demolish English domination by liberal allowances of Billingsgate and bullyragging." HE DISCOURSETH OF THE CHARACTER OF IRISHMEN. "We venture to say that any shrewd Briton who should read this Review diatribe would say at once and unhesitatingly-That never was written by a descendant of the gray-coats who fought us so manfully at Bunker Hill and flogged us so fairly at Bennington and Saratoga. Men who do such deeds are never so ready to threaten them. But this must have originated with some scion of a race accustomed to revenge itself for ages of abject subjection by voluble and grandiloquent threats of the vengeance and discomfiture it might, could, would or should visit upon us on some future occasion.' And he would apparently be not far wrong." HE DEFENDETH BRITISH * * * AGGRESSION ON THIS CONTI NENT, AND SHOWETH THAT THE BALANCE OF AMERICAN "To put forward an assumption of guardianship over the whole Continent, and an inherent right to resent and resist any future acquisition thereon by a European power, while discussing events in Central America, is to befog and com 12 plicate a question which the Clayton Treaty has | Inflexible, which was professedly blockading the happily stripped of all embarrassments. It is to coast. But for this lift, they might have remained court the opposition of all Europe to our policy, at San Juan for weeks. But they were likely to when we might as easily command its countenance create a famine there, and had already raised the and support." price of provisions, and the British were glad to help them away."—Same paper, two days after, January 11th, 1851. * * * AND DISCOURSETH OF AN EMPTY STOMACH. "To say to Europe, We will seize and acquire wherever and so fast as we can; but if you grasp (3.) OUR HERO FURTHER DISPLAYETH THE DESIGNS OF another acre on this Continent, we'll flog you,' what is this b t to put forth great, swelling words, such as all the world recognizes as coming off an empty stomach ?" "He came down to Realejo in a sail vessel; was detained there two days; was five days coming thence to Grenada on Lake Nicaragua; was there detained two days longer; was two more in traversing the Lake (by schooner) to the San Juan; then detained again; and came down the river (in a bungo, or long narrow boat) in two days more. He was sixteen days in all from the time he landed at Realejo till he was ready to take ship at San Juan de Nicaragua on the Gulf. HE SHOWETH WHAT WAS DONE WITH HIS OLD SUBSCRI- ARMS AND BEING TRANSPORTED OUT OF GREYTOWN, LEST HE SHOULD EAT TOO MUCH. "Our citizens, landing in the night and thoroughly drenched with rain, were at once deprived of all their arms by the British police in Greytown,' as they call San Juan de Nicaragua: but they were otherwise treated very kindly, and finally conveyed to Chagres by the British brig THE BRITISH AGAINST CENTRAL AMERICA, AND TREATS "The brig Masardis, Captain Hampton, which arrived at this port on Saturday from Belize, Honduras, confirms the previous accounts we have received of hostilities between the States of Guatemala and San Salvador. Several skirmishes have taken place between the troops of the two States. (4.) THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE SHOWETH IT WAS IN POS SESSION OF A LETTER WHICH IT SUPPRESSED. "We have received from Mr. C. H. Halsey, of Long Island, a more detailed account than we gave in our last of the treatment of American citizeus at the port of San Juan, by the British authorities at that place."-Same paper, January 13th, 1851. (5) Extract from the letter of Mr. Halsey, an American citizen, as published by him in the Sun newspaper of the 20th January, showing that the Editor of the Tribune had been in possession of positive and reliable informa tion to the contrary of that which he had previously pub li hed, which truthful statement he deceived his readers, by suppressing. HOW THE PLEDGES OF THE TRIBUNE ARE FULFILLED. "To the Editor of the Tribune: 46 * * * We left San Juan in the English steamer Trent, on or about December 15th, which is as late, within a very few days, as any advices from that place received here. I can assure you that no such orders from Lord Palmerston, as you speak of, have been sent to San Juan. As for the English not exercising any authority over Americans in San Juan, it is absolutely false. Every American citizen is watched and guarded in the most rigid manner by a band of negro police from Jamaica. The first moment an American touches his foot to the shore, he is required to walk up to the Police office and deliver up ALL HIS * * * ARMS, guns, pocket-pistols, knives, or whatever they may be. In coming over from Realejo, the party of which I was one reached San Juan in the middle of the night. We were in all, twenty. We came down the San Juan river in an open boat, and when we reached the town our native oarsmen anchored off the Custom House, and said we must remain there till morning, as the English allowed nobody to land in the night. Our party were determined not to submit to any such humbugging as that, and so we seized the boat ourselves, and went ashore. Just as the boat struck, up came a negro patrol, and ordered us off. We drew our revolvers, determined to brave a fight. On this, up came an English officer-sergeant-and on our expostulating upon the unnecessary rigor in wanting us to go back and stay in our boat all night, he finally consented that we might stay ashore, if we would go up to his station, and deliver up our arms, which was done. * * * * Over one hundred Americans from San Juan came in the Crescent City, and two or three hundred in the Georgia. They will all tell you that they received similar treatment. They will all tell you, that up to their leaving San Juan, three weeks ago, the Englishdd,and were exercising their authority over American citizens. They will tell you also that the place is in possession of the English, and that if they have taken off the duties and made the port "free," they still command it, and subject American citizens to the control of negroes, and other indignities. "CHAS. H. HALSEY, Sag Harbor, L. I." (6.) OUR HERO, WITH MR. HALSEY'S LETTER IN HIS POS SESSION, SUPPRESSING IT, AND YET COMMENTING ON IT, RENEWETH HIS PROMISES FOR SIR H. L. BULWER. "Great Britain will therefore relinquish her pretensions to San Juan, or Greytown, as she has clearly contracted to do." AND SHOWETH THE POWER OF ENGLAND, AND HER PLAIN RIGHTS IN CENTRAL AMERICA. “Before agreeing to that treaty, she could have held the mouth of the San Juan against the world, and called it Greytown' as long as she pleased." HE SPEAKETH LIGHTLY OF THE TAX. "She has already taken off American vessels the trifling duty imposed by her authority on vessels visiting that port; she has rebuked the insolence of her officials who annoyed and bullied the captains and crews of our little steamboats hitherto sent down to try the navigation of the San Juan; and she will have to withdraw her authorities from the port altogether, according to the plain letter of the treaty." AND HE RENEWETH HIS DELINQUENCY. care and labor have been employed this year to make the Almanac full and reliable in its Returns, and though it is of course not absolutely faultless, we are very sure that no manual at all comparable with this, for completeness and correctness, has hitherto been issued. sion; * "The Members of Congress, present and prospective; with a sketch of the doings of last Ses** *Central America; * * * &c., &c., such are the subjects treated with the utmost power of condensation in the closely printed pages of the Whig Almanac."-Same paper, January 7th. (8.) One of the first things the little Annual said after it was born, and which it was taught to say by its father, showing that he knew the true state of affairs in Nicaragua, that what the American Review said on the subject was strictly true, and, by consequence, what he said to throw discredit on the statements of the Review was as strictly false. OUR HERO'S LITTLE ANNUAL ON BRITISH ABSURDities. "In 1529, Captain Diego Machuca explored Lake Nicaragua, and went down the river San Juan (one of the rapids of which still bears his name) to the ocean, at the point where now stands the town of San Juan de Nicaragua. Machuca proposed to found a colony here, and it is believed did make the attempt, but was interrupted by Robles, then commandant at Nombre de Dios, who also meditated the same enterprise. These facts are mentioned here as showing the absurdity of the claim to that port recently put forward by the British Government."- Whig Almanac, p. 49, art. "Central America.” HOW ENGLAND FURTHER INTERFERED IN CENTRAL AMERICA. "After the expulsion of the Mexican troops, and the defeat of the aristocrats, the delegates of the several provinces or States met in General Cougress, and adopted a Constitution of Union, under the name of the Republic of Central America.' This Constitution endured until 1838, when, in consequence of dissensions in and between the States, industriously fomented by British agents, it was dissolved, and the five States again severally assumed their sovereign character."-The "little Annual," ibid. THE FURTHER BAD FAITH OF ENGLAND. "Meantime, we do not learn that any serious "Previous to 1763, Great Britain made some annoyance, any wanton insult, was suffered by our pretensions upon the Mosquito Shore,-not, howcitizens who lately came down the San Juan to the ever, as protector of any Indian tribes, but in abport; on the contrary, they were helped on their solute sovereignity. These were sweepingly disway, and fared very much better than they would posed of by the treaties of 1763, 1783, and 1786, have done had there been no British within a hun-between Great Britain and Spain, in which the dred miles of that point. Still, they will be obliged former agrees not only to evacuate the Mosquito Shore, but to withdraw her protection from her own subjects who should be so daring as to presume' to remain there, or to obstruct the entire evacuation agreed upon by His Britannic Majesty."-The Tribune's Vade-mecum, ibid. OUR HERO'S OWN HISTORY OF MOSQUITO, AS GIVEN BY HIS LITTLE ANNUAL. "Subsequently, a treaty was negotiated by Mr. Clayton, Secretary of State of the United States, and Sir Henry Bulwer, Minister of Great Britain, providing for extending the protection of both countries over any route of communication which may be opened across the continent, and also for the abandonment of British territorial pretensions, and the withdrawal of British establishments, on the coast of Central America. THE LITTLE ANNUAL ON THE SAME. about 150 miles. North of the river and east of the mountains which approach the Lake is the Mosquito Coast,' so called, which Great Britain has long ruled in the name of a succession of savage Chiefs, or pretended Chiefs, whom she has christened Kings of Mosquito. But neither by the Nicaraguans nor the Mosquitoes and their British masters has the valley of the San Juan been peopled at any time within the memory of man. It is a dense forest or mass of luxuriant tropical vegetation, filled with wild beasts, but rarely penetrated by man, save in navigating the river. A small village (San Carlos) marks the point of its departure from the Lake; another collection of huts (San Juan de Nicaragua, the British Greytown,') is found at its mouth on the Gulf of Mexico, and there may be half a dozen huts, inhabited by "The British pretensions consist in an alleged negroes and demi-savages, at two or three interprotectorate over a mixed brood of Indians and mediate points where the 'piragua' or 'bungo' Negroes, who have maintained a miserable ex-navigation is interrupted by rapids; all the rest is istence on that part of the Atlantic coast of Nica- wilderness."-New-York Tribune, Jan. 13th, 1851. ragua bearing the geographical designation of the Mosquito Shore,' and who, it is claimed by the British Government, are entitled to be considered as a sovereign people. They have, however, no written languages, no religion, no laws--not a single feature to elevate them above the lowest order of savages. Under the pretense above indicated, the agents of Great Britain have undertaken to fix the limits of the supposititious Mosquito Kingdom, as including the entire coast from Cape Honduras to the boundary of New-Granada, a line of more than 800 miles, and extending inward indefinitely. This preposterous claim, of course, takes in the mouth of the river San Juan and the port of San Juan de Nicaragua, the only possible Atlantic terminus of the proposed canal. This port, which, as we have seen, was occupied by the Spaniards as early as 1529, and which was subsequently, by royal In again stooping to notice the irregularidecree, made a port of entry, and fortified by the ties of the New-York Tribune, after its publiSpanish Government, and afterward captured from cation of the first of the above extracts, (Ex. the Royal forces by the Republican army of Nicaragua, peaceably occupied by the people of that State, 1) we must descend still lower from our digand, as a part of Nicaragua, blockaded by the nity than we had previously anticipated it was English in 1844-this port was wrested from the possible, by the "proclivity," whether heredNicaraguans in January, 1848, by a British force itary or not, of its editor's character, to under the command of Captain G. C. Loch, of be compelled at any time to descend in reH. B. Majesty's ship 'Alarm,' and has since been occupied by English authorities, under the pre-plying to him. It is not necessary for us tense of belonging to the so-called Mosquito here again, in this connection, to renew the Kingdom. It has not been surrendered to Nica- subject of British aggression in Nicaragua, ragua, nor has it been formally ascertained that and to expose still further than the above British assumptions have been in any degree re-extracts do, the sinuosities, the groundlaxed in consequence of our treaty with England above referred to; but we are reliably assured less statements, the reckless inconsistencies, that they have been, and that the British occupa tion will soon be abandoned." The difference between the same man, as political editor, and as father of a little Annual. THE IMPORTANCE OF NICARAGUA TO THE UNITED STATES, AS PUBLISHED IN THE TRIBUNE. "The State of Nicaragua--that is, the inhabited territory so named-lies almost wholly westward of the Lake Nicaragua, between it and the Pacific Ocean, though it stretches some miles north of the Lake. The river San Juan drains the Lake, running south-eastwardly into the Gulf of Mexico, "Indeed, it is very evident that Central America must be to California and Oregon what the West Indies have hitherto been to our confederacy. Sugar, cotton, coffee, cocoa, rice, indigo, tobacco, maize--in short, all the staples and fruits of the tropics--are produced in Nicaragua in the greatest abundance and perfection. There are a large number of cattle-estates in the country; and hides, with indigo, coffee, and Brazil-wood, form the principal articles of export."- Whig Almanac, Greeley and McElrath, New-York, 1851. We need not continue-Ohe! Jam satis! printed day after day by the editor of the Tribune. To the newspaper publisher, who alone of all the American press has presumed to defend the rights of Great Britain, or any other European power, to seize territory after territory on this continent, and who has presumed to maintain that these United States have no right to interfere; to the unscrupulous apologist and defender of Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer; to the reckless falsifier in one publication of state It is sufficient for our readers to know that the articles we publish are the articles of the American Review. Let them be judged in that light-defended or refuted in that light. While, therefore, the newspaper prolétaire, or daily-talking class, must be quite content to receive them as our articles, and ours alone; while we are always pleased at their good-will, interested in their candid discussions, and extremely indifferent to their ill-considered abuse, it may be interesting to our readers to see how some of this very daily-talking class of publications evade an argument fairly directed against them. ments to which he has contemporaneously | gressed in our own. But the laws of debate, the laws which We had, more than once, occasion to refer to the manifest inconsistencies with regard to the Central American question, of a certain portion of the newspaper press. After witnessing such exhibitions for several months, we considered we would be doing the cause of American right and good faith a very evident service, by exposing it in a single instance. Accordingly, taking up the New-York Tribune as the nearest to our hand, and as being nominally Whig, we collated some extracts from it, published on successive days, and appended to them an article which has effected all we sought for. The Tribune replied by acknowledging its inconsistencies and repeating them-by further burying itself in the most reckless assurances for which it had not one particle of foundation-by evading the arguments we advanced, and then, through sheer anger at our calm and clear exhibition of its own misdeeds, by endeavoring to screen itself from public indignation, by personally attacking some imaginary individual whom it, in its witless fancy, supposed to be the writer of the article in question, as a "scion of a race;" and by further attacking the supposed race and nation of the imaginary writer as one in the opinion of some "shrewd Briton" (the shrewd Briton" being the editor of the Tribune) "accustomed to revenge itself for ages of abject subjection by voluble and grandiloquent threats," &c.- -as a race "of a hereditary proclivity to annihilate the British empire by flowers of rhetoric, and demolish English domination by liberal allowances of Billingsgate and bullyragging." The "shrewd Briton" is further made to say that our article " never was written by a descendant of the gray-coats who fought us (the Tribune's kept Britisher) so man 66 |