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door of emigration at her o\\·n will and discretion - is that which she expects England arnl France to protect her in; because, says she, with- out this right - the right of arbitrarely excluding Americans from hPr soil - the country will soon be overrun by them - the Natives will be thrust aside - "·ill loose their prestige - their social position - and in a few years will be swallowed up and lost forever in the great whirlpool - the mighty Katacongo of American wealth, energy and enterprise - melancholly results which Nicaragua cannot believe the great powers of Europe - jealous of American progress - will ever allow. Thus we perceive that it is not against existing evils - no positive wrongs - that foreign protection is implored. It is inwoked [sic] only against those immaginary evils - those apprehended con- sequences which it is feared may flow from a plethary of American emigration. Nicaragua acts upon the old maxim - that an ounce of prcwntion is worth a pound of cure. But the modus operandi of keep- ing the Americans out of the Country, and the probable consequences of the attempt seem not to have been a matter of contemplation with · Nicaragua. Evidently, it cannot be effected without a sanguinary war. The Americans have at least, as much right to enter Nicaragua, as the British have to enter China; - and they will probably fight as hard for it. Even if the laws of immigration in Nicaragua were repealed; and no treat:v existed between her and the United States, the Americans would still ha-Ye the right of entering the country by virtue of the laws and usages of civilized nations. The right of my countrymen to pass owr the Transit route - when it shall be opened- will hardly be denied eYen by Nicaragua herself - and certainly not by the powers alluded to; and yet Nicaragua would have as much authority to forbid their pa8sage over that route on the plea that the route runs through her territory, as she would have to prohibit their stopping on the way upon the same plea that the soil is hers. The assumption of such authority in either case, would be to incurr a Yery high responsibility. Indeed to proclaim to the world, that the door of admission into Nicaragua was open to all people, except to the Americans, would be an open declaration of war against the United States; and any attempt on the part of Nicaragua at a practical asser- tion of this principle - any attempt either by persecution or by open force to drive the Americans out of the country, while they were obe- dient to the la\\'S of the land - would necessarily be the beginning of hostilities. And it is precisely at this point, that Nicaragua expects to receive the needed succor. She w'ill inwoke the Chivalry of Eng- land and France. Ay - and she may also invoke spirits from the vasty deep; but they do not always come when called. And thus may it happen with respect to these two nations. They may not come when called. Or if they should - who is to pay the expenses of the war? Nicaragua as a matter of course, since the war is gone into for her sole benefit. Such expense she would not be able to sustain for twenty hours. And at the e11d of the struggle what becomes of her National- ity - her Independence - the great objects to be secured and ren- dered perpetual by this friendly and chivalric interposition? - Xica- ragua would, in the winding np, find herself compelled, by a profound sense of gratitU<le, to become another Hindustan to her victorious de-
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