Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-02-28

ROMANTIC INCIDENTS OF Ills EARLY CAREER
Ills LOVE AFFAIRS. ETC

ROMANTIC INCIDENTS OF HIS EARLY CAREER
Ills LOVE AFFAIRS, ETC.
4 very general miscCnccptIon prevails
throughout the country, and especially in
the North. relative TO lie character, mo-
tives, antecedents, principles, DC, of the
young man who has recently placed him
self at the head of affairs il Nicaragua
An intimate friend has supplied us with
information relative 10 General Walker
which will no doubt be interesting to our
readers, and may be regarded as authentic.
William Walker is the very reverse of
the character generally assigned to him.
Those who are in the habit of regarding him
as reckless desperate and adventurcr, a
Spectator in revolutions, a restless lover
Of war, bloodshed insiisated to deeds OF
lawless violence by the hope of redeeming
desperate fortunes, or tie ambition to fig
ure before the world in Il character, which,
whilst denounced and reprobated by the
conservative few, never fails to kindle the
enthusiasm and sympathy of the popular
mass of this great, progressive, flibustcr-
ing republic.
How astonshed would be those who
have formed this idea Of Walkers charac
ter, if they could see, hear, and know the
real man Except his indomitablc courage
Walker lacks every other quality to make
up the desperate and modal flibuster. n
small, silent, seiate, meditative, scholarly,
homely man. apparently but little versed
in the practical affairs Of The world or in the
knowledge of man; slow, deliberate and
drawling in speech, modest, shrinking and
unimpassipned in his demcanor, he is the
would be picked out as the leader i'll the
desperate undertakings he has headed. 1t
is this estimate ofWalkcr's character which
has led so many persons to regard his
present scheme of Anglo -Americanizing
and Quixo;ic
General William Walker is thirty three
years Of age. and is the son Of a highly re-
spectacle merchant and president of an in
surance company in Nashville Tennessee
He received an excellent scholastic and
collegiate education, and at IN early age
commenced the study of medicine. In the
prosecution of his studies he visited Paris
On his return home he abandoned the med
zeal profession and took to that of law in
which he graduated with distinction, and
proceeded to New Orleans, where he hung
out his sign as attorney and counsellor
But the retiring modest manner, aad stu.
dious tastes cf Walker were not adapted tc
the pushing practical habits Of the people
of the great Southern mart. He did not
succeed at law. therefore; and requiring
some vent for his 'pent up ideas, ccnnect-
ed himself with the Crescent newspaper
! tilcn u ue" anu iSoiouSlN Cohuuct6u JOUIIl-
al. Assisted with j. c. Larue--now
Judge Larue-and with S. f. Wilson, one
of the editors and proprioors of the Pea
yune, Walker soon began to make his mark
in the columns of the Crescent. His arii-
cles were characterized by tEoughtfulness,
by conservative spirit, and a supreme
contempt for all demagogueism.
Among his ablest and earliest contribu.
tons TO the Crescent were certain articles
against the tendency of Americans TO in
wade the territory of their neighbors, and
in ridicule Of the designs of the filibusicrs
A fierce controversy on this theme arose
between Walker of the Crescent and Walk
cr of the Delta, the latter being the first of
the filibuster journalist in the South. The