New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-17
NICARAGUA.
WALKER's ROBBERIES.

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Sir: II Is almost fourteen months since w. Walker
sur REED by treacberous the defenseess City OF
Granada 10 the State Of Nicaragua. No resstaoce
was offered aganst Wall ers gang but the Inhabitants
were subjected TO the outrageous treatment 10 which,
in barbara sges condemned the stormed places
We do not propose TO trace the history Of tue "iess
enteTphe from that to the present dGy; nor do We
intend to record all the crimes committed the mn
conbaant people Of Granada after the surprise Of the
city, The black career Of Walker approaches 70 ia
close, and then viii be time for ab,er persofs to write
the history OF crime and lite punishment. Dat ct so
dreary heap Of materials, choose ony an incident
connected with the purchase Of the hacienda,
called al Las Mercedes by the Honorable Pierre
SOue in order that people may know to what kind OF
bush ess they are aured without warning, through
all tie newspapers, not excepting are sorry to say
the most scrupulous conservative leading organs OF
the national feelings.
The ancient and wealthy family of Chamorro one of
the most promr emit in Nicaragua by their private and
public virtues, by their abilities and untarnshed patr
otsm, has been for many years, and is the Legitimate
owner of /" Las Mercedes" which Soule, it is appa-
rent, has bought for nothing; from the Chamonos
its OILY proprietor, hut from Walker.
The tile Of the seller to said estate f such il might
be called, is that of The pirate the booty he HIS
wresied frem the unanned merchsntnan But the i'm
patient Mr. Soule has gone to meet the pirate on the
stormy sea, has embarked in the outlaw -ship aud
taken possession of art Of the booty
To show the precisen,ss OF this comparison, it is
enough to bring TO mind some events already recorded
by impartial history.
Imme dately after the surprise Of Granada, the city
plundered, its Inhabitants outraged in every pos
sible way, and mauy Of the unarmed, non combatant
principal citizens were imprisoned. One OF these was
Don Dioncio Chamono He was compelled to see
the sack Of his home his fair young wife in the power
Of vile, merciless pirates who cut her fingers to take
off more cruelty her ripgs and subjected her to other
outrages infinitely worse than death. The unhappy
husband thrown into psop, and threate ned to be
shot at every moment. The spotess soul of the beau
tful, sensitive lady fed very soon to her Maker,
leavir the profahed earthly fame.
The family of Chamouo, victims Of such gross bar
baIties could not live IN Granada forsook their home
and went into the country, in order to avoid the pain
full sight of their tormtnters and did almost all the
Inhabitants OF the doomed city. But Walker had re-
solved not to allow them any rest, and consequently
enacted, early as in N,vember, 1855 his tyrsncal
decree binding the inhabitants to their domcies under
heavy pecunary penalties. Many families, among
them that of Chamoo, did not return, and under this
pretense that of enormous and continual extortons
their property was taken possession Of by Walker
Sometime afterward he made another Decree declaring
it to be treason the part of the inhabitants of Mica
ragua take up in defense of their country and
their national and private rights against himself
and followers, the foreign libuster Invaders of that
Republic; and the persons guilty Of this the high
crime of patriotism, to be punishable with death and
on T,1. a,t,a aptS
thrown in the face OF civilized nations the property of
the citizens Of Nicaragua has been forfeited to the
filGbusters; end the Chamorros' "hacends Las Mer-
cedes" owned by Walker and bought by Soule.
Crime and nothing else than crime, may be found in
this and similar transactions by homes. people; and
was to be expected from the leading newspaper that
they would not have published, without warning,
the allurng advertisements to which we take excep
ton, proposing as an amendment due to the public
the following:
PLUMBER BY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL At CHEAP
PRICES.
great many fine estates Of every description,
planted with cacao sugarcane fuit-trees, prepared
the cultivation of indigo, or stocked with cattle,
&C., of which Walker has robbed the Legitimate
ers inhabitants of Nicaragua, where said estates
ocated are offered for sale the citizens of the United
States cheap, very cheap, as Ndiker mas not gh
peaceful possession of the real property ref rred to,
and, the contrary, is struggling to mantain foot
hold agapst all the Central Americans who have risen
in defns Of their rights Any bidders are required,
first, to abandon all claims to honesty by becoming
ut cetsanly the accoDplices of the flbu.ters in all
the crimes by them perpetIated in Nicaragua; and
secondly to ndorse openly and earnestly the cause of
fhbustersm, and in order to take hold Of their parcel
of rapne, to perform whatever mporant services the
desperate cause may requires, to influence public
opinion by any means to recruit and forward soldiers,
money, arns, ammunition, clothes, provisions, &c.
So Mr.. Soue, late Minister of the United States in
Spain, and leading companion of Messrs. Buchanan
and Mason in the famous Defend Conference has paid
for, without taking far,ng from bis pocket, the
beautiful estate, LIS Mercedes" belonging to
the Chamoros Of Nicaragua.
Nerisrk, Dec. Is, 1876