The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-12-28
N1nARAuGA WALKER.

We are indebted to the y. i. heraiu iO'
the following chapter on NIearauga -
and Central America:
Success. saws Horne Tooke, is the criterion
If merit. This diving declaration oil great
man-who WIS never successful, anu thefe-
fore. in the worlds opinion, never meritoilous
has nassed into a proverb. No words couIu
so nicely express the state OF ouolle opinion
of this metropolis or the genera ieeIing
throuohout the country, in relation 10 the eX'
nIa;tso 81 Mr. william Walker and his coadju.
Tors who have lately overrun aud conquered
the territory belonging TO the Republic oil
Nicoraupq and who are now forminga scheme
80 nnite The whole of Central America under
one strong government.
only short time since, when Mr. Walker
failed in his Quixotic adventure in Lower
California, he was stigmatized as robber, a
marauder, a filibuster, and called by various
other hard names. And now when he has,
like General Taylor at the battle of Buena
Vista, ''met the enemy" in another place, and
'succeeded in maintaining his position" we
find an almost entire change in the opinion
of the majority as to his character and posi-
ton. Lately, it was Walker the pirate; now,
it is his Excelency William Walker, General
and Commanderin- Chief of the Armies of
Nicarauga, Military Dictator and Champion
of Free Government in Central America.
1t may be urged, with some TRUTH that
Walker the pirate at Cape st. Lucas. and
Walker the General of the democratic army
of Nicarauga, are different persons, because
in the latter capacity the invaders simply
joined democratic party that was fighting
for the supremacy, while in the former he in
Saded a country which was at peace and
sought to conquer it for his own personal use
and behoof. 1t might be pertinent to ask if
Mr.. Walker only interfered to give Nicarauga
freer government, why does he not, now
that peace is made and the government es-
tablshed, lay down his sceptre, resign his
epaulettes, and like another Cincinnatus, ap-
ply himself to the cultivation Of the two hun
dred and forty acres of land which the repub-
lie gives to every actual settler within its
territoryi He prefers the character of Romu-
lus to that of Cincinnatus.
In fact, there is nothing green about Mr..
Walker. The bent of his mind is not agrcul-
turnl or horticultural. He reads the Illiad,
not the Georges. His subjects may daily
with gentle shepherdesses in sweet Etruscan
wales; but he must rule as the dictator on the
Capitoline Hill, even though it is but one step
to the Tarpeian rock.
That proposition disposed of, it might be
curious TO speculate as to the real motives of
Walker and the democratic party.
BY glancing at the map it will be seen that
the territory called Central America includes
seven distinct nationalities, to wit: Nicaragua
Costa Rica, Guatemala Salvador, Honduras
Yucatan and Mosquito. At various times
during the past twenty years, attempts have
been made to make permanent union of
these States; but the man and the time
had not come. And the governments have
been disreputable and have neglected to pay
ii, 4 ~,
in the true sense of the word. Finally Kin
ney, with his followers, came to Greytown,
like Remus when he retired to Mount Aven-
tine to escape the perncions influences of
civilization. And he safe in his pine plank
palace, and was hero
Then his brother Romulus Walker, the ell
der scion of Mars, came down in the brig
Vesta, and placed himself on the Palatine
Hill. which is Granada. He was a General,
and retained martial law and drumhead
courts after peace treaty had been signed
This amiable person shot Gen. Corral, and
was another hero.
Now, to carry out our smile, we are obliged
TO quote Gibbon and President Pierce. The
shade of the great historian will consider that
we apologize for the connection.
Mr.. Pierce says in his last message, that
the Greytown settlement was a camp of saw
ages. Gibbon thinks that the early Romans,
Latins, Sabines, and SO on, were very bad fell
lows, and we all know that Rome was found
ed by host Of very bad fellows-what would
be called in common parlance. roughs. "Rom'
ulus gave welcome to every stranger outcast
or malefactor that fled thither" These men
began the world all over again; and, harden
ed in the school of misfortune, they were wise
in council and terrible in the field. From
the seven hills the fdsces of the common
wealth and the eagles of the Republic were
carried in triumph over all Europe and to be
a Roman citizen in those days was n great
deal better than it is now to be wrapped up
in the star spangled banner Some of the
material in. Central America is not much
more moral than the original Roman, accord
ing to President Fierce--the highest authori.
ty, we suppose, in such matters.
History shows that nothing is new. 1t
shows that events continually create them
selves, and that men change but little with
the lapse of centuries. Why should not
Romulus Walker initiate his great prototype
the monarch of the Palatine Hill, crush out
Remus Kinney extend area of freedom, unite
the Central American States, rear mighty
commonwealth upon their ruins, and finally
extend his sway over the whole of South
America, which would be powerless before
brave and skilful general, backed by the
wealth which Central America is represented
to possess, and which has not probably been
half discovered nor computedf
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