New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-23
FROM WASHING TOW.
THE CENTRAL AMERICAN CONSPIRACY
SonsspsAoepos o. me Y. rnsuns

bn, founded upon conversations with Southern
men, that the real object Of American Baccsneer-
ism Of the nineteenth century h the reopeons Of
The African ,lsve-hade. /. is not my intention 10
Sscuss the merits or dement's Of toe sa'e system;
I lesve that 10 writer's who have h.d opportunities
Of observation more extensive than my owa.
Whether William Walker. - t,e leader of the
BaccaDter war 10 Ncarsguh c)n,eiyed this IDEA
u Of little moment ! am inclined 10 believe thss
his original design was Only 10 ally himself WIN one
al the factions in Nicaragua, and erect ml1ei GoV
ernmebt Of Americans and natives. L hnn' III DO
graphical notices written by bis almifer'' lnat 10
vas melted 10 the enterprize principally oy reaqng
T. G. Squier's work on Nicaragua. lie WAS at that
time the editor Of a wretched little newspaper ia
California. which broke down in Sacramento with
the triumph Of the Koow-Nothieg party Crabb,
who was butcbered in Sonora, was friend of
Walker. and Wing in politics; but the associations
of both were with the Pro-Savery faction, whose
plan 10 divide the State Of California and erect
Slave State in the southern half was generally I'M
popular. Parker II. French, who has again turned
ap in New-YOrk as q contractor for supplying Car
raon's steamers with wood on the San Juan River
as soon as Joe Whites grand new Atlantic and Pa
cfc Nicaragua Canal scheme comes INTO practical
operation YVES conspicuous editor IN the Know
Nothing party at the same time IN Sacramento. But
quite enough has been said and written about him
and bis exploits.
Whatever may have been the secret opinions of
Walker, he was obliged TO disguise them while he
maintained bis portion the ally OF native party
In Nicaragua. The introduction Of Slavery WAS not
openly talked Of among the buccaneers until the
visit Of Mr.. Soue 10 Granada in the Summer OF
1856 The correspondence Of that date represents
him 40 closettd with Walker, as having bought
plantation on time bonds, similar 10 value, Isup-
pose, 10 those recently given BY j.. L. White 10
Messrs. Garrison a. Morgan in pay for the steam
era and Of which it may be said that MesMs. White
and Yrssarr having paid in wind, viii get wind for
their pay; witness a bag of very choice brand re-
Gently lot of in The Star TO PUT the bonds OF the
new InteroceaDic bubble.
A quaint old author has described, for his own
particular fun ard gambol of the pen, an island
where wind was the sole food OF the Inhabitants
and staple commodity. The people ate aud drank
nothing but wind, and died all of ventOsities wind
dropses. Under this he shadows forth, presume,
In q propbetcsl spirit the various bubbles of his
own and Of all future times. If the old writer
could have lived long enough to pay visit 10 Wash.
ipeton, be would have fanced himself fallen, by
chance, upon his own Island Of Ruack-the Windy
or Classy Island. Bubbles Of monstrous size are
blown here daily by gasOmetrciins, WHO let out
their professional bellows and other apparatus to
those who crave this diet reasonable terms: hav.
ing chemical secret for cOrdensing air INTO small
bits Of NOR ey. The thnDess of these bubbles may
be exactly calculated, when We know the quantity
Of soap and water employed the soldity of the
bubble being inversey as its dimensions. We hear
Of projects for cutting canals through Nicaragus;
Of beiiDg tunnel through the mountains of New.
Granada high enough for ships-of the line to sail
through; of building railroads across the Colorado
deserts and along the mountains OF Southern Cali
forDia; Of changing the seat of the worlds COM
merce from New-York 10 Charleston of dscOn.
tinuiDg trade between the South aud North and
establishing exclusive commercial relations with
Europe; and hundred other schemes equally vast,
thin and prismatic.
The conquest of Central America by handful Of
bucc Aneers headed by William Walker, is one OF
those productions Of gas and soap; the latter OF
very inferior quality, made Of very weak te.
/ suppose you viii regard the reopenng OF the
negro trade from Africa, and conversion OF Nlcara
qua into slave mart for Central America, Mexico
and Texas as bubble Of the same IL; it will appear
10 you all fustian and humbug; thing impossible
because you fancy that the world must be eternaly
progressing and that things cannot in these days 60
from bad 70 worse.
Admitting that only the present force Of Walker,
leo men, and perhaps 900 more under Henning-
sen-in parties Of three, four and five hundred
succeed in entering Nicaragua, as part OF them al
ready have done, the whole ia bubble. Bat find In
in the Southern press, and 10 other quarters ndi'
cations Of buecaneering tide from the Slavery Elk
tennoDists setting strongly in the direction OF Cen
the memory OF man; no one surmlsed ten years ago
that the Mormons would become people, aud
would declare war upon the United States. They,
too carry the seeds Of Slavery in their hierarchlca
syskm; If they move into Sonora il may as readily
occur to them TO use negroes as to enslave women.
The Ne,o- Orleans Delta, paper which generally
expresses the state Of public opinion IN the extreme
South, accords unqualified praise to toe resolutions
introduced into the Legislature Of Texas by Mr..
John Henry Brown. "Thess resolutions" says
The Delta, present at length, and quite ably, the
general arguments for the re0pening of the Afri-
"can saye- trade, and indicate fOrciby the peculiar
"benefits which such policy would confer upon
"Texas." The resolutions were referred TO COM
mittee.
"Tbe labor of the NORTH" says The Delta, "by
"eniQration, has been increased probably at the
rate Of ak per cent per anauw, while the agricu
"tural labor of the South, depending upon native
reeources alone, has scarcely increased at the rate
"of three per cent. Such is the effect of the SET
"ttd policy of this Government OF ours. IL 1t not
possible TO subyert that creation of can't after the
slater 1.-THE can't has been banished from the
wallis Of true philosophy and genuine phIsn-
throphy"-for which SEQ Carlyie's Latter Day
Pamphlets, in which the slaye-trsde is sustained
"Most assuredly," continues The Delta, with the
gallant State Of Texas on the one wing, and the
"brsve never. say die old State of South Carolina
"on the other, the thing" e., the reopening of the
African save-trsde, "can be done, If the center
does not refuse to keep step to the music Of South
"ern glory" &c. "Who is the man, ready and
"6t standing on the forehead Of the time at hand
Ito express that will " l. g., the will of the South,
elm words and deeds that shall be destiny"
The person alluded TO, who is standing on the
forehead Of the time at hand" like wsrt 10 the
buecaneer Walker. ave earnestly hope" says
Tie Mobile Register Of thel3 9Th inst, that the
"ported movement of The British and American