New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-05-05

Walker Is No lonely fllibustcr in whom nobody
takes an iptercst. He Ia thc agent and pioneer OF
the Slav, ~ Extension leaders. His ragged host is
their advanced guard The moment he is in peri;
there is suddenly manifested a mos. extraordinary
interest in bis fate throughout the Pro-Siayery
ranks. There is general rush TO his rescue, so
far as wordy declarations. go. Mr. Sou6 speaks
Of him as ga gallant adventurer who 70
"nobly defends the rights of oppressed peo
pie" Mr.. Weller puts him on the same lofty plat.
form. Yet Walkers Government is nothing but a
military despotism which sustains itself by forced
contributions Upon population impoverished by
his exactoDs. Walkers mode of sustaining him
self is to smoke out every fellow in the country
who has got an extra dollar, and send file of SOL
diev after him and command him to deliver. 1t
WA principal part of the duty of Walker squad
Of occupation, before be got into this last war with
Costa Rics, to go round in small detachmentS, and
levy contributions upon everybody who had any
thing that could be made useful for the troops,
whether money, food, or clO.hing Noby defending
the "nghts of an oppressed people" Why he has
been engaged in doing nothing ever since he got to
Nicaragua, but squeezing dry every poor devil in
tho country of his last shilling. Stores have been
shut up, men of means have hurried off with what
they could carry; others have hid their possessions
90 far as they could and general fright and conster-
alton have seized the people in consequence OF his
forced levies. They are whipped aud imprisoned
if they withhold anything, and they starve after
yielding up everything. This robbery and brgand
age Soule calls defending the rights OF al OPP
"pressed PEE pie.
In all these Slavery Extension schemes the
hackers and promoters at home are absurd and ex-
travagant in their positions and language 10 a de-
gree that discOses the intense eagerness oil tneir
desires and the alarm they feel iest their plans
should miscarry. This Walker movement ID thus
regarded with the deepest interest by the ProPa-
eaDdiste because it is Dot only scheme to reduce
Central America and convert into Slave States 10
be annexed to the Union, but because it is de-
signed as the base Of operations against Cuba.
Cuba il the great prize they are after, and Mica
ragus and Central America are stepping stones on
the way to it.
The intercepted correspondence which Walker
has sebt here to show that the British Government
has furnished Costa Rica with arms, Gt is not the
frt time she has done it, causes very wry faces
among the parties interested in his success. They
feel very belligerept but since the Russian war is
over they are alittle cautious aboutventatug their
wrath. Their Indignation is chiefly vented 10
scowis They know that the Slavery Exten'ion
scheme can only be carried out piece meal, sur
repttiously and by preserving peace with the great
Powers "The cat loves fish but dares not wet her
foot " The prOpagandists, eager as they
are to subjugate the continent to the sway OF the
Slave power, are nevertheless compelled to keep the
peace. They hate to be checked and curbed by
interference from any quarter, but they cannot
afford to be becOse about it. They can only
erowr and snbmit. And althonghthe "mutifarlous
peripetia" of the movement may turn ont to be
very repugDant to their aims and DESIRES they have
to grin and bear It. We doubt whether even that
sfdeut and pugnacous gentleman who did not get
Cuba hen he went TO Spain after is, would advise
war al q means to rectify the tangential discord-
apce Of tho 1multiuious peripetle' OF the drama
in progress J. D L.