The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1854-05-05
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"A Lower CaliGorhiaAC rueItt.
Our late California exchanges inform US
hat the filiibustering expedition under COM
nand Of Col Walker is about on its last
legs. The Colonel is not so much Of q lion
As-he- led -his- 70 lowers to believe, nor so
much of a gentleman either. His easy od-
dress and bland manners appear to MS VIC
Tins now that he has involved them IN DIM
Guilty, to have been only assumed for the
emergency His course is represented 10
have been one Of horrid cruelty to the Peo-
pie Of Lower California, having foraged up
on them, robbed and murdered private mot
fensive citizens. His conduct toward his
subordinate officers and troops has been such
as to drive them to state of revolt when
neither the Colonel's courage nor address
would avail him in quellng. While the
Colonel has been struggling with his fate,
ambitious for realm Of his own, over which
he could reign supreme, the government OF
the United States has been carrying on me-
gotictions with Mexico for the cession OTTER
ritory embracing Lower California and a
great part of Sonora. The negotiations are
understood to be approaching a successful
consutn nation. In such an event the posi-
ton of Col. Walker becomes awiulIy critic
al; he will find the territory which has been
the scene OF his operations, slipped from be-
meath him, leaving him in aposition little
short Of treason. ~f'SRG ~ 81 Hhs-I
We clip the following extract from the
Marysville Herald, as a painful illustration of
the inhumanity of this notorious military
des perato:
Arthur Morrison, one of the victims of
whom we speak, had young and fondiy at
tached wife, and chil five years old, in Ili-
nois, the place of his birth. He had written
to her to come out, and sent her the neces-
sary means to do SO; and about two months
since, this devoted woman left her home and
friends, with a. heart buoyant with hope to
meet the object of her love and fealty. Il
About one month ago, she arrived with her
child on our shores, and then for the first
time, learned that her husband h ad been en-
ticed to join the fillibusters. She immediate.
y wrote to him, informing him of her priv
al, and begging him for Gods sake to come
to her. and abandon his unjustifiable enter
prise. Morrison received the letter, and i'm
mediutely set about fulfilling his duties as
man and citizen, by abandoning the camp Of
the fillibusters, and starting for San Francis
CO. 10 90
But he "counted without his host" for Mr..
Walker Immediately dispatched party in
i II Suv
Diege,. and compelled him to return with
them. second letter from his wife soon
after reached him, and the unhappy man de-
termined to leave Lower California and re-
turn to his family, which needed his presence,
at all hazards.
In order to effect this, Morrison entered
into combination with ten others, to desert
at the first opportunity. This determination
was carried into execution with as little de-
lay as possible; but again the emissares OF
Mr.. Walker traced the Inflated refugee, and
making him prisoner. returned with him to
the camp. Then a Court martial was held
self. constituted officers sat in Judgment over
their victim; the forms and ceremonies of a
trial were gone through with, according to
the most received rules, tor such cases made
and provided; a verdict Of guilty is brought
in, sentence Of death is pronounced unhvsi-
tatingly by his "superiors," and Morrison is
shot like n dog, in cold blood, 'or obeyipg the
first laws of God aud man, and refusing any
longer to do evil.
Tongue cannot tell, nor language depict
the sufierings of that devoted wife and moth.
er, who now stands on our soil, homeless and
cherries, far from the scenes OF her birth
a" d the friends of her existence, unk nown tC
all around her; and her helpless orphan de
pendent on her for support. Such is one G
the Incidents connected with the fllibuster
ing expedition. G s- l.i~