Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-02-08

I Our intelligent New York correspondent
furnishes us this morning with minute and
exceedingly interesting account of General
Walkers advent into Nicaragua, and the
discouraging difficulties which he encount-
cred and manfully overcome in gaining his
present apparently sure and permanent foot
hold on the soil of his lew Republic. All
accounts concur that his hold upon the con-
fidence and affection of the people of that
country is steadfast They regard him as
their deliverer and friend. He has proven
himself competent to thoroughly understand
their character, and adapt government to
their inherited peculiarities, and the degra-
ded condition in which long years Of law
lessness and anarchy had left them he
has shown himself brave, sagacious and
humane he has rigidly enforced a rigid
military discipline, not in the barbarous
spirit of an adyenturer, who to gain pal
try notoriety, deems it necessary to signal
ize his brief authority with blood-writ-
ten record but in following the dictates
Of wise but seemingly severe policy,
which, for the protection and security of
the many, DEGREES the destruction Of the in
tractable and unruly. Gen. WALKER is
not a rowing, speculative adventurer, whose
impatient spirit, firing of the dull, unvary-
ing round of the comparatively stagnant
condition of affairs about him, would quix-
otically attempt the impossible, merely to
give employment to a mind active but err
ratio (; surfeited with dullness, and painting
for stir and strife, whether it be laudable
and legal, or lieentious and unholy. He has
manifested a shrewdness aud strategy in
his military operations ; profound, eau
tious, conservative craftsmanship in civil
capacity an intimate knowledge of the
springs of human action a force Of char
acter and power of will and an invinci-
BILE energy which does not belong to the
light and airy nothings Of impulse, but are
absolutely necessary to constitute full
grown manhood Gen. WALKER is an ac-
complished scholar, we'll read in science aad
the arts medical graduate Of high at
tainments an able lawyer, and a vigorous
and polished writer. There is nothing in
his early life--that season when the child
is becoming the father of the man, and the
impress is being given to the character
which will last and deepen even through an
octagenarian life-time-which can justify
the estimate placed upon him by many Of
the leading journals of the country, as a
fllibustering, meteoric upstart If that
portion of his career gave any clue to the
subsequent character which he has figured
on the canvass Of the times, it was in those
solid and substantial qualities which he is
now developing. He was studous, thought
ful and retiring of slender, fragile frame,
and not a robust constitution pale-faced,
lighthaired, weak-eyed and pblegmatic.
One could not have foretold in him the bold
and intrepid founder Of new Republic, or
the sagacioas and successful ruler of PEG.
pie unused to the subsection Of law, and
not supposed capable Of appreciating whole
some and equitable government. Those
journals assuming to lead public opinion in
this country. who sueeringly turned up
their autocratic noses at the unsuccessful
invader Of Sonora, viii end their selfcom-
plaeent representations Of bis future sadly
shaken, now that Our hero has seated him
self firmly in Nicaragua--the acknowledged
head Of the Government. and supreme in
the affections Of bis fellow citizens He
has earned for himself a position in the
eyes Of the world which his revilers can
never reach. He is true embodiment and
representative Of the conservative progress
Of the age, There Is blooming for him a
vet more luxuriant chaples than now adorns
hts brow. II is well known that General
WA1RrR Is a native Of this city As a
Tennesseaa. we are proud Of him. and shall
ever rejoice At his success. We shall note
with interest every event in bis career, and
watch with admiration as the star Of bis
fame moves maIesticaIly up % Ia place in
the heavens
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