New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-23
ONE HOPE LESS FOR FREEDOM


Sir: l. has been for the last few months the honest
belef of III. many adherents of Gen. Walker in the
City of New-York tina, he was true man, actua'ed
by high and honorable motives; that he assumed his
position in Nicaragua at the urgent request OF an OPP
messed people; that he designed to adopt such a
course IA should best promote the social and political
well being Of such people; that the calls for AID, the
invoking Of sympathy in behalf Nicaragua, were to
resrcnd 10 human claims and that he, William Walk
er was net the object in view, but the good OF peo-
pie and the advancement of Freedom and Humanity.
This was the finn belief Of his adherents who were
willing 10 ignore much that was vital IN their own views
in the immediate, in the hope of an ultimate good
in the future. They had faith in the man Walker;
they believed in his singeness Of purpose they had
hoped as time consolidated his position, that large and
liberal statesman-hke measures would ensue. Oppor-
tunity such as rarely falls to the lot of single man,
was afforded him for career at once wlse, Liberal
and noble.
II is not too much to say that these expectations of
his friends and we-wshers have been grieyousy dis
appointed by the recent DEGREES Of Gen. Walker. He
has betrayed then without scruple. He has thrown
hmself unblushingly into the arms of Pierre Soule,
who has induced him to throw all his influence all his
political and territorial power into the hands Of South.
ern demagogues and shareholders.
In doing this, William Walker has lost his best and
only chance of being great man. He is nothing now
but tool and adventurer He is level with the times,
and level "at ow-water mark" He has shown
himself incapable of thinking for himself, incapable Of
seeing an inch beyond the length Of his own nose.
Let me show the blindness, and oblquity, and mar
rowness Of this man vision. He introduces Slavery
into country where it did not exist whae it is not
needed where the native inhabitants opposed to
IT, and all this not from his predictions, but be-
cause Southern demagogue has been at his elbow,
and by brides by batteries and csOleres has induced
him 10 a course at once impoltic and suicidal The
whole of his recent acs not his but those Of Pierre
Soue.
There is no doubt that much Of the Spanish charac-
ter instnctivey cruel naughty and oppressive, has
become softened in It's development in Central Amer
ica The country is rich in minerals and fertile IN SOIL
The native population, simple, tinnd and laoonous,
have yielded themselves willingly to then masters, ana
have done the service Of slaves while noninaAy ree
Thu. there has been no motive for lega1ng the afro
cous system in the country. Slaves have, without
doubt grown UP and been developed under this aspect,
but the poor native could always remove himself from
the reach Of oppression. He could flee TO the noun.
tains; be could take his bamboo and build himself
hut anywhere IL the wilderness and the genial climate
and generous soil afforded him shelter and support
wherever he chose 10 20. Not so with the slave IN
our enlightened Republic, where free and inde-
pendent citizen mounts the sucton-block, and with the
Declaration Of Independence, declaring al men free
and equal in one hand, he holds up shackled man N
the other and sells him body and soul.
Again: Slavery, which Gen. Walker now publicly
ayows it his design to authorize and sustain is not
needed IN the country. The Indians, unlike those Of
North America, have supersttous reverence for the
white men. They do not dwindle and die as do the
more heroic races of the North, who fret and gosd
themselves TO madness in seeing themselves subveed
BY new race. They DO not oppose themselves 10
labor On the contrary, they are Ike children in their
docihty. They take the subordinate position as by
instinct, and toll faithfully for the smallest pittsnce.
They are not covetous Of wealth or position. They
are Ike tender lambs eonhdng and sectionste Their
wants are few and they grateful for protection and
kindness. Surely, there is something better in this
than compelled bondAge-better, surely, is the gentle
service Of this aectonate people than the enforced
toll Of creatures shrekng from the lash, and driven
hitler and thither Ike the beast of the shambes.
Further: The native inhabitants viii bitterly oppose
The introduction Of Slavery There is large populs-
ton Of mixed blood Spanish, and negro and In
aiao have I'll ama|gsmsted; ard shoald there be ~