The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-11-05
IN EseLAsD.-The London Times

whe!ming vote, been elected president of tn
republic. The Times says, eve may congratu
late ourselyes Great Britain in the event o
Walkers downfall On the probable removal o
; what would have been an obstacle to the set
: tement Of the Central American question:
The Times means. Walkers success would b.
unfavorabie to such settlement as would ena
bic England TO retain her influence in Contra
America, while his downfall would destroy al
American influence IN that quarter, and conse-
Iquently give the English great political ad
yantage. That such is the meaning of the
great Thunderer." isapparent from the asser-
5 ton that Walkers government. founded upon
the strongest anti-English feeling. would have
{ been able, perhaps, to raise, distractions, and
set the current Of feeling against u.s. The ul-
innate design Of Walkers movements to r-pub-
licanise the isthmus, and this is the result
which Great Britain fears and intrigues TO pre-
vent. 1t can'readily be inaginedthat it is for
the interest Of the United States, of the south
ern States especially, that Walkers movement
should be successful, and the policy of his gov
eminent shaped in accordance to the doctrines
taughtin America What the Times THU
Walkers capacities for command. is Of no con
sequence-his military talent has never been
saunted, and he can readily find competent sol
diers to lead his troops-the Times WAS laboring
under the conviction that the next American
aF ~,
expulsion OF the flbusters from Nicaragua. BY
the combination planned for his defeat by the
English agents in Central America The con-
graduation on his prospective fall was rather
premature, and therefore the criticisms on his
want Of capacity TO rule are inapplicable. We
do not entertain very high opinion OF Walkers !.
talents: but he has struggled against enemies !
within and without-against treachery among
protested friends and against The plots of for
eign agents-yet he has always kept his feet.
It is extremely ludicrous in the abstract to see
the Times turning his supposed downfall into
compliment to Louis Napoleon 1t says:
THE instant be (Walker) had gained his
position and was president OF Nicaragua. he
ought TO hare turned over new leaf, to have
put off the military bravo and become the civil
magistrate, and to have shown himself alive to
he advantages OF social order and peace But s
this is transition which inferior Adventures g
cannot make. We haven a near neighbor re- :
Snstance OF such transition, but even
n his case it IS one OF the most powerful traits
If powerful mind The common order of ad- c
cannot exert this self-command, stop b
themselves all AT once in the midst of their i'm =
,etus, and attain complete balance in the very
ontrary direction in which they were previous
= going" FRA - Q
The Times ''near neighbour" the emperor IL
t the French, acted under entirely different e'
from those which surround Walk L
+, and that journal knows that sabres and can is
on were more powerful than craftsmanship in Of
ffecting the French coup d'etat, and forcing p'
cquiescence in the asurpation OF Louis Napo- al
.on. Give Walker the aids in Nicaragua, in a ca
rcporlionate degree, which Louis Napoleon al
ad in subduing the authorities p his plans, Cd
nd, perhaps, his success would be as greaA an
is more than probable that the Times viii fol
It be landing the iIibuster-cbief, and may or
ZEN praise and fiattcr him. Gu
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The New York papers state that frequent
differences of national Union men, from eveH
ate in the confederary have been held in that Pu
y, the resula of which is. that great Union IN
ovement calculated to crush out the spirit Of ",
sunlon now 50 rampant, has been projected Ne
"a 11 ~ - Fel
70 ~ A'eh' +''e 'iae paStie's Vi the land- Ma
E Americans by birth and at heart-are to Rh
brought and bound together anew. Dele n,
lions OF citizens from every State are TO be Ne,
tied to visit the tomBs of the Hermitage, Ash m
id, Marsilaeid. Monticello, Mount Vernon, Mai
. plains OF Chalnetts, Yorktown, Monmouth. NJ NJ,
ippewa, and other prominent battle fields, Geo
ereon, for the sake of The Union was COM Ia Ia
1ged without sectional feeling or distinction, Ken
blood OF southern northern, eastern and Nh Nh
stern patrots--tbefe to meet conservative OH
;o, ,.o,-o r H. Ind
'0" 'o'iho MASSES oi tue american people, IIIir
determination, FOR counsel, and for invoca- Mis-
IN the present crisis of the patriotism of the Me-
ole country, and in 5ehalfof the constitution Flor
the Unioa. The project is regarded as the low low
binger of peace and good will In the from Wis
i nation. Jan
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We have not as yet received the full returns sou-
he recent state election held in Pennsylra-
The last Baltimore Patriot SAYS. latter -
'ntest almost without a parallel, the demo- y,
,yof Pennsylvania have carried the State y,
from one 10 three thousand votes" The VAC
ladelphia Sun puts down the democratic ma p'S~
] at less than $500. The aggregate vote w. y,
Philadelphia, at the eleetion, was $1,000 - "
vote 81 the city in October, 1855, was only :
this year, 1000. :! ;
LoE1DA--The Savannah News says that re- and
S from all bat three countries give Perry, Nun
ocratc nominee for governor. majority of way
votes. This majority, it states, will be Lam
further reduced by the three counties to be that
d from . III aufd
q nEp- --l1fr no.