The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-12-06
NICARAGUA.

Walker, the fiEbuster, seems to be on the
high road to renown, as the founder Of new
State. His control of Nicaragua is represent
ed by the latest intelligence, given in our COL
umns this morning, as more solid and secure
than ever. Corral, the last man who might
have headed movement against his authority,
has been convicted of reasonable correspond
ence with some relics of the opposite party, and
shot. BY every arrival from California, rein
forcements swell the army of the chieftain, and,
If he continues to manage his affairs with the
same discretion which e has hitherto exhibit
ed, no power can eXpel him from his position.
The moment chosen by Walker for the inva-
sion of Nicaragua was the best conceivable.
The country was exhausted by prolonged
civil war. Everybody desired peace, and any
commander who could secure it would have
been welcomed by what remained of the people.
The leaders of the contest on both sides were
dead, removed either by battle or by pestilence,
and their followers had also been decimated by
the same causes. In fact, there was no longer
even the sembance of native army to con-
quer, when Walker moved upon the capital.
The plaza of that town, where for months
Chamorro had held Castellon at bay, had not
now a defender, and the only military man Of
any prominence remaining to the country
Corral-made haste to submit and make a
treaty with the invader, to break it, however,
very soon, and to pay the penalty with his life.
more facile conquest is not recorded in his
tory. The acquisition of Texas by the Amer-
cans was nothing to it.
We must admit that since his triumph the
co. E:o!nq9eror mas eeHnlolted great degree of Do
"ucai sagacity. The Presidency was in his
grasp, but he preferred That Don Patricio Rivas.
prominent native Nicaraguan, should be put
hot o4
this means, Walker saved the Government from
that revolutionary and alien air, which in his
own hands 1t would have worn. The Nicara.
guahs would certainly be very ungratefhl to re.
fuse their allegiance to an Administration with
one of their own number at its head. Besides.
had he become President, foreign Governments
would have been slow TO form relations with
the new regime; but there could be no reason
why they should not recognise Rivas, who had
been in high office before, and had borne de-
cent character as the world goes, The shrewd-
ness OF this plan is justified by the result The
Minister of the United States has already ex.
changed congratulations with the new chief
magistrate, and the others are likely to follow
When the revolution is thoroughly lep;..i,m
by the recognition of several lowers, Walker
wiz De ready to mako himself nominally dicta-
wi, aa NC a'reay is in reality, and to carry his
e'ea' project another step towards its consum-
nation.
That project is briefly to Eli the country with
Americans, to introduce Slavery, and to pro-
cure the annexation of Nicaragua to the North
American Union as a slave State, with the
prospect of a similar result for the adjoining
countries. This is the. scheme, and it is being
hurried toward its realization with unexampled
rapidity. What do the people of the free States
think of this new conspiracy to extend the
power of the oligarchy by which they have so
long been ruled and used IN. Y. Tribune.
Our FOREIGN RELATIoNs.-The foreign des-
patches received by the steamer Atlantic repre-
sent our affairs with England to be unchanged
since the sailing of the previous steamer. Mr..
Buchanan says that Lord Clarendon and the
British Cabinet are endeavoring to patch up a
reply to our Governments communication in
reference to the violation of our neutrality laws
by British agents, in order, if possible, not to
wound our sensibiities, and at the same time
shield Mr.. Champion.
Our Government has formallv acted on the