Washington telegraph., 1856-06-11
Gen. William Walker.

At large public meeting, held at Nash
Vile on Saturday. the 17ih ult., called TO
give expression to the public sentiment on
that question, the following resolution was
passed in reference to Gen. Walker himself.
who is native of that place. 1t is just
encomlum upon man whom all who
ever knew him respect and admire, and it
comes from from that particular place with
peculiar fitness, as a sufficient reply to the
calumnies with which Walker has assaied
in some of the journals which, in their an-
tipathy to the cause, have not scrupled to
molign its chief:
ResolUed, That we, the neighbors, friends
and acquaintanceso Of Gen. VIM Walker, the
distinguished chief of the Republican army
of Nicaragua, deem the present fit coca
sion to declare our high appreciation of his
qualities as man. and to give expression
10 our heartfelt sympathy for the noble
cause in which he is engaged. Born rear
&c aud educated In our midst, lie has ever
maintained the character of an honest and
honorable man. A graduate of the Univer-
sity of Nashville, and for several years
student at Paris, where he devoted himself
to the acquisition of knowledge, his intellec-
tual endowments, his literary attainments
and varied knowledge, his nice sense of
honor. his distinguished gallautry and his
Republican principles. eminently qualify
him for the task of regenera.ing people
cursed with all the evils of bad government.
and comforting upon them the blessing of
freedom and security under the operation of
wise and beneticient laws He left his
home and native land without SPOT or
blemish upon bis character. and we who
know him well feel sure that whatever NAV
be his future career, he will do nothing to
tarnish the brightness of his fame
This city was the residence of Gen. Wal
ker for several years before he emierated to
California; and from an intimate acuuairt
aDce with him we are able 20 say that his
record here, too, was without spot or blem-
ish Nothing can be said with the shadow
of truth. against his pursuits or manner of
life. He had no vices or irregularity of
habits His tastes were all refined, his oc
cupaiious intellectual. He was temperate.
studious, meditative, of high intellectual eul-
ture and varied accomplishments; a good cIas-
slcal scbOlar-he had studied medicine and
law. andcultivated bells-lettres and was re-
markable proficient in music, of which be
was very fond. Slow and deliberate in speech
from his custom of pondering well over the
manner and matter of what he should say.
he was a terse and forciblc rather than an
elegant speaker; but with the pen he was
powerful writing with great facility and
vigor. He was early imbued with the
most radical opinions, and held to them with
uufiinching tenacity and utter torgetfulness
of any consideration of self-intereSt One
of his prominent chara acteristics is an utter
absence of sei6Shness, unless the ambition
to be distinguished in a cause which he
may have espoused, because be believes
it honest be classed as selfish Oflhe taint
Of anything sordid he is uttely free of even
suspicion. With these qualities and quail
iGcatiOns, be is of the stuff of which the
regenerators of nations are made-the men
of lndomitable will and auStcre virtues who
control great events and whom men are
willing 20 follow tsustingly
We are unwilling to think of the posi-
bility that he may fail iu this undertaking;
but If he does, it will not be because Of his
own unworthiness or that of the cause with
which he has identified his fame, but from
combinations of alien influence which will
one day be looked upon as streacheries to the
great cause of humanity. civilization and
progress, in which Walker will have been
a martyr. We have, however, high hopes
that the martyrdOm will not come, but that
the hero will succeed. and live to prevent
the treacheries.-N O Picayune.