Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-12-27
From the New Iorl, Post
WALKERS REVERSES IN NICARAGUA

! The steamship Tennessee, which arrived in this
port on Sunday, brings MS version of the recent
events in Nicaragua confirming the opinions ex-
pressed in our issue Of Saturday BY this ntel-
gence we learn that Walker has lost every advan-
tage hitherto gained by him, that be has abar dom
ed as hopeless the strongholds of his power at
Granada and Massaya, and been compelled to take
refuge Mt Riyas on the line Of the Transit route,
where he may hope to reinforce his exhausted and
weakened forces from the passengers and the pro-
visions which may happen from time to time, to
cross the lsthmus in that quarter.
This reduces the flibu:tar chief to precisely the
same condition that in which he found himself
nearly two years ago, when, with his hfty-six Cal
ifornia followers, he landed on the shores of Mic
uragua. lie is now in desperate straits and
should not be surprised as any time to see him and
his associates finally expelled from the country
they have go dsgracotuy plundered. Indeed, at
the last accounts, we hear of him on board lake
steamer. separated from the feeble remnant of his
companions at Rivas, who were rapidly thinning
out by disease and famine.
1T is dificnt to imagine, how in such situa-
ton, he can Withstand the onset of the Costa Ri
can invaders, backed as they are by the support of
majority of the Nicaraguans themselves
Much the misfortune of his deluded comrades
are 70 be deplored, we have no regrets to express
at his own lie engaged in project of purely
mercenary and speculative character, which he has
executed with total disregard of the interests of
Justice, humanity and freedom. His sole object
appears to have been the aggrandisement of him
self and the slavery extending capitalists, under
whose auspices the undertaking was set on foot
/ Plunder and murder has been the order of the day
ever since the time of his arrival the best citizens
of the Republic were either stripped of their prop
erty or banshed In the auc ent city of Granada
ten thousand native inhabitants We're, in effect,
driven out by his policy and reduced to about two
/ hundred and fifty, to make room for as idle and
dangerous horde of loaters as vOniited
furtA from the uneasy civilization of the iSouth-
west trotrs Il, bte TIA
of better class, who had been misguided rlbytan.
immature enthusia or the specious promises Of
their leader.
| There probably never has been known an in.
/ stance where u marauding expedition has been
marked by complete an absence of prudence or
decency. Walker appears to lack every requisite
! OF satesmanship or military capacity. BY the
latter defect, in repeated cases, nothing but the
stupidity Of his enemies has saved him from utter
destruction; by the former, he has incurred the
nifty of his cuuntrymen and tie civilized
world. With almost his entire army, he marched
against Massaya, leaving his magazine of ammu-
milton and military stores at Granada exposed to
the enemy, without deience Pretending to desire
to conciliate the goodwill of free governments, he
restored slavery ana the slave trade in his own
thus also sundeTing the last bond Of friendship
with the native population.
His sole purpose appears to have been to set up
a piratical, slavoholdng dospotism of his own in
Central America, with further view of strength
oning it by the seizure of Mexico Cuba and the
West Indies, and the annexation Of the planting
States of our own confederacy at such time that
they could screw their courage up to the point of
secession.
For our part we rejoice that a plot criminal
in conception, and so characterized by blunders
and mismanagement in execution, is approaching
so near its overthrow.