TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, AND SPORT. 



clearly as much to be desired in a political point of 

 view by this country, as it is to be deprecated by the 

 American Government. 



Ever since the disclosures by General Goiocuria of 

 Walker's real intentions, in which the latter frankly 

 asserts that "Nicaragua is a great deal too fine a 



country for those d d psalm-singing Yankees," 



the American Government has taken a very different 

 view of his proceedings; they now perceive the 

 danger that would arise from the formation of a 

 federal union of the Central American republics and 

 Mexico by Anglo-Saxons. Jfo sensible American 

 ever either hopes or desires to annex to the United 

 States these countries, containing a population of 

 9,000,000, who have vainly endeavoured to carry out 

 republican institutions, and who, if infused into the 

 United States with the rights of citizens, to which 

 they would be entitled by the constitution of that 

 country, would be a source of weakness rather than 

 of strength. Added to this is the opposition which 

 would arise on the part of the North against the 

 annexation of so large a tract of tropical country, in- 

 volving slave-labour. The question for the American 

 Government to consider is, whether it is preferable for 

 these States to remain as they are, or to be incor- 

 porated into a federal government by Anglo-Saxons, 

 under institutions by no means republican in their 

 character, but adapted to the present peculiar political 

 condition of the inhabitants, necessarily partaking of 



