The daily union., 1856-12-12
For The Union
Is GEN. VIM. WALKER A FILLIBUSTER


As the affairs of Nicaragua daily becoming and
more interesting and important to citizens and as
there appears to be in certain quarters disposition dis
courage emigration to that delightful country by sezng
every occasion to cast odum upon President Walker and
his brave followers propose to consider briefly the
character of the charges made against them and the source
from whence these charges spring.
Passing in silence all mention of certain nsignif-
cant journals in this country, whose purchased columns
fattened Spanish gold, necessarily pour forth abuse
against Gen. Walker and his followers shall conine
ourselves chiefly to official documents for information
These surprising it may appear, abound, for the
part in little else than the grosest abuse of Gen. Walker
and of all connected with him. There is scarcely single
public official document emanatng from any of the gov
ernments of Central America excepting Nicaragua that
does repeatedly brand President Walker and all of hs
American soldiers fLi6usterS robbers pirates &c &c
The documents of Molina, Marcolea, and Irisarre
peciay, abound with these monstrous epithets indeed
they have quite exhausted the Spanish vocabulary
of abuse.
Now, Gen Walker and his brave soldiers are either fill.
busters they not If they are then they deserve all
this diplomatic abuse that daily heaped upon them but
if they not then is high time that diplomatic re-
taers and manufacturers of this abuse should be called TO
account and held up the eyes OF the world for thus
reyng respectable citizens Of this republic who choose 10
emgrate TO Central America The petty ministers and
charges of the little Central American republics 50 called
under Of the protection Of their diplomatic chaac-
ter to think that they have right brand every
company of respectable citizens that leaves this country
for Nicaragua gangs Of flbusters" "pirates &c
Things have come TO fine pass, indeed, if quiet
and honest citizens longer emigrate to Central
America without being denounced, officially gov
eminent as hbusters plundering adventurers de-
serving Of some other choice Castilian epithet
For ourselves fully prepared that neither
Gen Walker any Of his followers fbusters any
correct of the word The fHibustsr as every
Spanish Mexican, Central American diplomat this
government well knows applied to the pirates
or buccaneers who pundered the American coasts 50
quenuy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
fllibuser who fits expedition for the pur-
pose OF making deScents upon any where he and his
plunder with impuniy, and then again loaded
with booty retreat TO their ships Such was the character
Of the ibustering expeditions of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries The illibuser seeks nsthing but
Punder-not to seize upon governments and to build up
for himself throne and kingdom upon the ruins Of
ers. The aim Of the flibuser is high as that If
that were the correct definition Of the term then might
many respectable monarch reigung, be called fl
Hbuser.
The diplomats this government who 90 frequently
apply the term fibuster to Gen. Walker and his follow
ers either know the import Of the or they do not n
they do not know the Of the term they should not
it in any case but if they ignorant Of lis mean
ing then they certainly nexcusabe for thus branding
citizens with It. Gen. Walker visited Nicaragua by
the special invitation Of the leaders Of the democratic
y Of that country who longer able endure the des
potism Of Chamorro, had taken up against him BE
landed in Nicaragua soldier, with his brave follow
ers, and joyfuy received with open arms by the
popular He to aid people struggling against
tyrant; and he succeeded in putting him down and in
restoring peace the country. He neither plundered nor
laid waste the country, Still, he and his followers are
branded with the odious epithet Of fAibuHer,l
No thought OF calling Lafayette Koscusco and other
distinguished foreigners who caue and offered their ser.
vices to this country f5uers and yet they were en-
gagged in doing the very thing that Gen. Walker and
his soldiers bave done They too to aid our fathers
who were struggling against perhaps not great ty
rant as Chamorro Il Gen. Walker is fllibuster then
was lafayette and Kosciusco and Baron De Kalb and
Count Pulaski and many others who fought by the side
OF Washington To meet this argument we have actually
heard diplomat eSclaim "Lqfaydts pas fAibua,7
and Hoscusco and is his government and 20
hdg, Al ksdsi Of he North Azqsricdns r.
II high time that this torrent of abuse should cease
We are asonished at the tone Of many Of the diplomatic
documents thrust in upon government filled with the
abuse Of citizens They are disgrace to even the d
pomatic literature Of the age
The government OF Gen. Walker in Nicaragua thug 6r
has proved to be better than those that preceded Tcs
country which, since its independence Spaiu IN 1871
has only been one continued Of war and boodshe
s now likely TO revive under the nuen ce az ApqoSsyon
enterprise, capital industry, and civilization The tide oF
Ango-SaRonsm has now set In that direction and moth.
ing That bears the stamp of Spanish upon II can stop II
ALBERT W. ELY.