Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-25
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.
Central American Affairs The current

ton al or personal rights involved In the sys-
tam upon which he has undertaken to make q
monarch of himself and to strip the citizens of
Nicaragua who possessed aught but rags on
their backs, of their all, involves a moral tn at
should not be lost on the South, wherein ef.
forts are still being made to generate sympa-
thy for his cause. We spprehend that no one
Of common sense can read the letters, pronun-
ciamentoes or articles to which we allude,
without comprehendipg that if ever q mere
freebooter obtained nstoriety by the boldness,
rscklessness, cruelty and entire disregard OF
the rights Of others involved in his operations,
it is the adventurer Walker, who has shown
himself as sweeping tyrsnt and as selfish q
man in his dealings with the unfortunate
Americans who have trusted themselves with
in his clutches, as towards the natives He
turns out to be by no means the man, If the
revelations of his own friends are to be be-
lieved, with whom the South can in any man.
ner Identify its cause.
That cause relies upon q single safeguard
a single anchor. That is, on the strict observ-
ance of the guarantees and obligations Of law
and constitution. She cannot safely counte.
nance their violation any where or by any
parties; az it will never do for her to set the
example of justifying any such fragrant disre-
gard of law and national and individual
rights as Is involved in all Walkers acts in
Central America. So TO do, would be simply
q proclamation that she admits the soundness
of the theory lin public affairs that the end
justifes the means. That is the position &C.
eupied by the great party Of the North bent
on overriding her rights under this Govern
msnt. Though they had not the strength in
the recent election to crown that theory of
theirs with victory, they came so near tri-
umph, as that all wise and truly patriotic me n
at the South must now comprehend that for
her (the South) tscitly to endorse the sound
ness Of that doctrine-as she would be doing
In countenancing Walkers schemes-will be
to bestow on it the strength necessary to give
1.-THE position of the Republican party with
reference to the guaranteed rights of the South
An eventual triumph. That position once
installed as the policy of the Government,
and there would remain but one of two alter
natives for the South. Either submission that
would involve the speedy abnegation of all
her rights under the constitution, to be accom-
panied by the entire destruction Of all her
great interests; or on the other hand, . sepa.
ration
While We do not hesitate to proclaim that
-o he =
practical revolution of the Government of the
United States az would be involved in the in.
at. .llation lin the Government) of the doctrines
he'd by most of the Republican party presses
and orators in the late canvass, We are for
hsviA the South remain in the Union on the
terms Of coequality on which it was origin
ally bsAed. We know that for four years, at
least, it will be administered wholly on those
farms that all its power will be exerted to
strengthen the South's right to coequality in
the Union. On the South there rests, On the
other hand. the duty of strengthening that
policy Of the Government, by discoun tenanc-
ing any and all concerted violations of law
and vested rights, on the integrity of which
her future in the Union hangs suspended, as
We explain above. She has no more right to
ask the Government to countenance infractions
of the rights Of nations, than abolitionism as
to seek to enlist it (the Government) in An on
slaught on her rights. The principle is the
san, in both cases, and it is as a Southerner,
keenly alive to the danger to the South in
volved in the gradual growth of abolition
readings Of the powers and duties of the Gen.
eral Government, that We have steadily set our
face against the principle of fllibustcring.
But the developments made in the course of
the controversy to which We refer above, indi-
cate unmistakably, We think, that Walker is
well nigh at the end Of his tether. lie is,
evidently, utterly without money, native sym.
pathy, or very efficient North American
troops; and, besides, is penned up in Drama
da, (Which city he has been compelled to for
tify,) so that 1t is very questionable whether
he can receive any further supplies of food for
Nicaraguan-fever grave yards from the great
cities Of the North. And besides, there is
now evidently widespread enmity towards
him and bis plans in the breasts Of large
portion Of his lately deluded followers As
far as We can perceive, he will receive no
countensnce whatever from the Government
here, which is evidently now more than ever
indisposed to become involved in bis schemes
aud acts on and in Central America.
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An Important and Interesting Manifesto.
Below, the reader will find an article from
the Richmond Enqmlrsr of Saturday last
From its tone and various other circum-
stances connected with it, we feel warranted
in the judgment that it was prepared with
the immediate sanction of Mr.. Buchanan,
himself At any rate, it places him in a posi-
ton with which all considerate Southern
Members Of the Democratic party will not fall
to be satisfied. In the only position, indeed,
in which the power Of his administration can
bs effective for the successful protection of tho
rights CT the South in the Union. That can
not be done by its identifcati on with the nlana