The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-12-30
THE LOWER CALIFORNIA EXPEDI-
TON


We published an account last week of the
exploits of this marauding expedition, COM
posed of Il mere handful of desperate adj
venturers, ready and ripe for anything that
might turn up, and who succeeded in killing
some five or six Mexcans, and capturing two
civil officers. Below we copy an article on
the subject from the Herald, which treats the
movement with just about the Importance it
merits:
The news which we published yesterday
of the movement of the fillibnsterng fOray
into Lower California will astonish the folks
on the other side of the Atlantic. A bark
sets out from San Francisco with forty-tive
desperadoes on board, armed to the teeth,
and ready for anything. They cruise for five
hundred miles along the peninsula of Lower
California; they land at its lower extremity,
dispense the local authorities, appoint Pres
dent and cabinet, adopt code OF laws,
head of the army, and head of the navy,
all from their own number; and then, when
they have eaten the provisions of one village,
they march in n body to another, dispense
the authorities again, and proclaim Lower
California IN independent republic, A re-
public, executive, civil officers, army and
navy, and all from body of forty-tive men.
Captain Walker puts to the blush, in cool
and daring audacity, all the achievements OF
all the tlibusteros of modern times. Lopez
is eclipsed, Caravajal is n small potato, and
Count Boubon is nowhere, in the presence
Of Capt. Walker. Wildcat himself is out
done by Capt Walker, and Billy Bowlegs is
the only man that can hold n candle to him.
! In plain English, however, Capt. Walker d.
mni,hes from the majesty of II librrator Ia
the contemplate character of a iillibuster-a
tllibuste- upon the high seas, and on the dry
land Il filibuster. In proclaining himself
President of an independent republic, and
that republic the province OF power with
whom we are at peace, he procaims himself
an outlaw, beyond the pale of our protection
while in the Mexican territories, snhjrct to
the hazards of piracy upon the high seas
and liable to punishment il he escapes back
within the limits OF the United States
Our government will have TO answer tC
Mexico for the escape of this expedition from
San Francisco. And whether the administra
ton are, or are not, at the bottom OF thu
DIOl, lIlpN UluSI sun iOi ~ w 'D'''''
Anna. No doubt it would be n godsend t'
Gen. Pierce, about this crisis, to get into mn
other war with the Mexicans. 1t is, perhaps
his only chance now of salvation. And 1t i
possible that Count Boulbon, just before tn
receipt Of the news from Capt. Walker il
the city Of Mexico, had mvsteriously disaT
pearud with Il body of men he was permltle
to raise for the deFenre of Durango agans
the Indians-it is possible that Count Bou
bon may have gone mp to cooperate wit
Capt. Walker, in which event these hllibu.
teros may spread the fire along the Who'll
frontier, and get us into Il regular row wit
the Mexican Dictator before we expect it,
But if Count Boulbon has left Mexico |
good faith, to fulfil his contract against tn
Durango Indians, then we are afraid we slla
have too soon to lament the downfall OF tn
new republic, army and navy included, if ne
the sudden dccease Of the redOnbtable Cap
Walker What is Marcy doing? Are we
peace with Mexico, or are we not