The vessel which was to have conveyed the expedition, it is said, was
purchased and fitted out at Panama by General Moran, Zaldivar’s chief. It
was to have touched at some designated point on the coast of Nicaragua and
have taken from there a hundred and upwards Salvadorian refugees. The
proposed place of landing was La Unioo, in the Gulf of Fonseca, where, it
appears, the co-operation of some military chiefs had been secured for the
scheme of revolutionizing Salvador and reinstating ex-President Zaldivar,
whose efforts to regain power are persistent, but will no doubt continue to
end in failure.
[Inclosure in No. 650.—Translation.—From
the Correo del Comercio of Salvador.]
Explanations.
We publish to-day without comments an editorial of the El Independiento
of Granada, relating to a frustrated revolution against the Government
of this Republic, which some Salvadorian emigrés, under the auspices of
Messrs. Zaldivar and Morán had organized in Nicaragua.
As our readers will have noticed, the editorial to which we refer gave us
no particulars; it is limited to denouncing the act and to eulogizing
the conduct observed under the circumstances by the new President of the
neighboring Republic, Señor Don Everisto Carazo.
From data obtained from entirely impartial sources, we can to-day make
known to our readers that nothing less was proposed than the embarkation
of more than a hundred men who, through deception, had been enlisted and
conducted to the uninhabited coast by the revolutionists with the object
of placing them on board of the vessel recently purchased by Señor Morn
for invading Salvador.
The men had been told that the object of the gathering was to capture a
large quantity of contraband liquors and tobacco, but when they arrived
at the point agreed upon they were made acquainted with the object of
the enterprise; they were informed at the same time that their landing
would be effected at La Union, and that by that time some of the
departments of the Republic would have pronounced against the Government
of General Menendez, in accordance with agreements made with several
military chiefs in the interior of the Republic.
Fortunately, the Government of Nicaragua, being advised in time, sent a
detachment in pursuit of the revolters; ordered the emigrés at Rivas,
who were in league with them, to remove to Granada, and thus frustrated
their plans without the shedding of blood, or creating a scandal for
Nicaraguan society.
As we learn, General Menendez has been cognizant since Holy week, when
these occurrences took place, of all the particulars of the affair; he
knows who they are that, within and outside of the country, conspire in
union with Messrs. Zaldivar and Morán against the Government, and yet he
remains tranquil and has molested no one.
We commend his course, as we also commend that of the President of
Nicaragua, who has fulfilled his obligations as becomes his high
position, in breaking up revolutionary projects against a sister and
friendly Republic, conceived by those who imagine they have come into
the world to subjugate their fellow-men, and to dispose of their lives
and property as caprice may dictate.
