Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-11
Gbe Anti 5lapcrp Buolr.
from Putusm's Monthly, for April.
FILLIBUsTERING.

In the year Of grace lG85--we informed in
ths naive narrative eff TIE Sieur Raveneau de Lus-
cam jolly company of freeboo,ers in the South
sen" 1.-THE Pacific west of the Isthmus). of which
he was one, descended upon the town Of Granada,
on the Southern shore of Lake Nicaragua, in Cen
kral America. On the 7th Of April, of that year.
sshree hundred and fOrty-fve men. chiefly English
and French. and all Of them very anxious to ex-
send the benefits of French and English civilian
stion to the Spanish and Indian inhabitants Of the
iconn.ry, event ashore on q fat Coast" and were
led by a good guide through wood, marching
might ard day until the 9th when SHARP Hunger"
,eomPsllsa them to rest in great sugar plantation
fosr 1esgnes distant from Granada. at belonged
TO Knighs of st. James's who, upon our arrival
We fail to teke prisoner, Leggs being at that
slime mnch more disposed to rest, than to run after
him" 900 rshe 10th, they saw two ships upon
lake Nicaragua. carrying all the wealth Of the
town to island two leagues off and, after
brief COZ sultatiou, exhorted one another to fall
on braeely" and advanced at a "round pace" to
thc attack Che freebuoters lost but four men
killed and eight wounded; (which in truth
very cheap" Thereupon, they repaired to the
church and sang 7e Deum and then detached II
party ''t0 go xnd Gnd out some women; to be ram
soned; aud finally sent word to the Spar iards
that they must rsusnm the town, or il would he
burnt The Spaniards did not trouble themselves
10 answer (Which at last constrained some OF us
20 set fire TO the Houses out of meer Spight and
Revenge" The pirates partly intended to pass
Ses.) but wanting the facilities to do that, they
cut their way back through ambuscades OF Span
iards aud tropical forests, aud deadly disease,
reaching the shore again upon the 10Th "t the
month; ard got out OF those parts OF the
World, which though very charming and agreea
BILE to those who settled there, yet did not ap
pear to be so to On handful Of Men were,
without Shipping, the most part Of our time with
out Victuals, and wandering amids, n mutitude
of enemies, against whom we we're Obliged 80 be
continually upon Guard, aud who did all
shat in thom lay to deprive us of subsistence
The artlese tales of such earlier missionaries of
human progress aud the superi n races in Central
America. closely resemble those OF their success
sors with whom we are contemporary. The S'eur
do Lussan's foray upon Granada read In quaint
old type, has little air of unrealy and the
crime 10 ~ remote that it becomes almost romantic
But the same relation of :he same transaction by
avsgsbOnd of our own time, told in yesterdays
newspaper, is only shocking and disgusting in it
details.
The old pirates were outlaws in an outlawed
region. The inhabitants Of tho Spanish Main had
been themselves robbers and spoilers. The prov
inces they occupied were subject to Spain, but
Spain cared pnly strain their treasure from them
drop by drop. like boud to bloat her Golfers. :
Englnnd and France were ut war with Spain, and
the easiest strokes they could deal. and the most
deadly were thuse upon the American possessions.
For century the shores OF the Gulf OF Mexico
had been debatable ground. Removed from the
neighborhuod of any power which could make Its
laws respected in d,tail, the whole Central Amer
ican regi,n was convulscd with strife. as deadly
and continuous as the elemental fury of tho trUp-
ics. 1t was the arena Of the world. Supersti'
.ion and religious rage burnt there more wastingly
than volcanic fres. The Holy Church of Rome
sent shiploads OF racks aud thumb-screws
TO allure the Indian lambs to the fold. and the
pure religion and undetled os the English Church
withstood the dreadful cruees of the lnqusi'
tion with bloody retaliation. The aboriginal IN
habitanss of the country-a mild and tender race
were the victims of all sides, and were ruthleSsy y
conquered and enslaved by every victory. Cold
was the object, and blood the means of the long
sanguinary struggle which makes up the history
Of Central America until within a century, the
torpor Of exhaustion parilyzed the land and 1t has
lain for four years upon the equator, r'oribunu.
- After the French revolution both the patrlcla'
and pieoeian classes in Spanish America desired
to separate from Spain. The former, because II
feared that The reforms imposed upon the Spanisf
monarchy would be transpanted To the provinces
and destroy the patrician prerogative of absolute
oppression; the latter because the movement q
North America and Europe had even stirred the
stagnation of despoiisn in which the provinces
were slowly decaying. In 1921. therefore, Span
ish America became independent. Since tha
date its internal history has been record of con
gstant differences. jealousies, and instructions
The states have been ceaselessly fighting withir
their own limits or with each other. They made
reconsideration q and dissolved it. The world hat
not even heard the incessant quarrel, much les
needed it. But suddenly, in our day the Centra
American States have again become of vast i'm
pOrtance. and their affairs challenged caily inter
est and attention.
"At this moment March, 1857 there is free
booter ia those states, in much sorer plight thai
the old pirate de Lussan. when he and his friend
sacked Granada, OF the earlier pirate, Morgan
who burnt Panama; and, although nearly TIVE
hundred years have passed-and even two hundre
-, En, nd main a ri
sens of London did not publicly assemble to eS
,vress their sympathy for de Lussan-yet, in Nev
York, to-day, in the chief city of a country tina
has uomiualiy some especial Christian and demo
cratic claims. the citizens are summoned to eA
pres, publicly, their hopes o! the victory OF d
iussan's successor, who has ordered the sam
Granada to be burnt to the ground. And as th
old pirates coupled theircarnage with Is Deum
:he new ones cunsectate theirs with 2"or sent
mentality about the progress OF the Saxon rae
and democratic equality.
Atlenst the old murderers Of the Spanish mai
had the merit of cutting throats without cantlnG
They wanted plate, and pieces OF eight, and the
said 80 plainly and they butchered the inhah
rants until they found them. Beng anxious f.
information, and pressed for time, on occasion
I.olon0s, a French buccaneer OF the seventh cent
ry drew his cutlas9 ard cut open the heart OF on
OF the Spauiards who did not reply quickly enoug
and 'pulling out his heart, began to bite and gna
Il with his teeth like ravenous woii, saying
the rest, i will serve you all alike, it you sho
me not another way"
Walker had other ohects than presen. boot
merely; but the sufferings he has occasioned al
q thousand-fold more dreadful than those us
ally recorded as the consequences ot she old 70
avs. And to what end? Month after month, no
for nearly two years. young men have he'
shipped by responsible agents in New Yo
and New Orleans TO Nicaragua, and for what pu
pose? Hundr eds have gone-not three hundr
remain above ground-by whose means-to wh
ondi Was it a scheme of colonization in go
.faithf We have not seen q solitary man who
aileyes SO; but assuming it, then it has failed
.strously that every citv and village in the count
should warn anybody, who intends to emigrate
{he'fasts Was il scheme of assistance TO- o
n two ooptsnding parties. in good fsishf Tn