Mariposa Democrat., 1857-06-25
A G T. N r S .
II o r. n / T. O ST;
THURSDAY MORNING. ......
THE LATE NIcARAGUAN WAR.

THE LATE NICARAGUAN WAR.
Walker has been driven out Of Nicaragua
by the combined forces of the Central American
States, but no obligation was exactcd from
him by Gen. Mora, to the effect of forbddng
his return. Had Walker proved successful, 1t
is more than probable his return to the Allan
tic States would have been hailed with triumph,
and the most aged and wise of the present
generation of men would have lost sight of his
aggressions in the beneficial results that would
have accrued to civilization, by final and
complete victory over his enemies. Our SYM
pathies have been with him through all his
trials and privations and we were sadly disap-
pointed that he was not able to vindicate the
progressive spirit of this age of enlightenment,
by driving the Costa Ricans back to their own
rattle trap government. To our minds we can
not see any reason for believing that he will
not return to Ncaragua's shore, to fight over
again his battles and once more fill the civil
lied world with admiration for his courage and
can States are quarreling over the carcass of
Nicaragua, and are thus cngendering prcjudi-
ces and enmities that may induce Walker in
the end to grasp the bone over which they are
now snarling. The Government of the United
States will watch Walkers movements with
vigilant eye, and endeavor to discourage and
discountenance any action upon his part or on
the part of his advisers, that would be likely to
again involve the Central American States in n
war with citizens of the United States Walker
can never muster an army TO invade the State
Of Nicaragua, because he will not be permitted
to do so by our Government, and his only
chance will be to appoint some place of rem
devious on the Nicaraguan coast at which to
collect together all those seeking danger or WOO
ing desperate fortune. A Government with
ample means at its disposal is scarcely able to
sustain war against an inferior rival without
feeling a financial pressure, bearing on all
classes of its people and on all parts of its adj
ministrative action. How little then was Walk
er capable of sustaining himself against the
combined forces of the Central American
States, possessing adequate means at their dis
posal, secretly furnished by England or France.
The Nicaraguans may call on him to assume the
Presidency of their State, but he will attempt
the holding Of the State under his sway with
no more favorable prospects than those which
met him on his first arrival The wonder of
his career has been that he was enabled to sus-
tain himself so long in his wars with such in
adequate means at his disposal. That he has
shewn military talent of no ordinary stamp
must all confess, and we may also add that his
ambition is of an arbitrary and selfish charac-
ter, which, combined with reckless daring,
had tendency to render his plans Of operation
too premature in their formation and too hasty
in their execution Had he evinced more po-
litical art-had he shown more tact and less
precptancy, he might in the end have obtain
ed the cooperation of the Central American
States and converted the means at the disposal
Of these Powers, to his own use in firmly estab-
fishing his control over Nicaragua. Yet we
must not now view him in the light of an agita-
tor or as disturber of the peace of nations
Something more is due to him than strict NOR
asts are willing 10 concede. OF a restless,
rowing disposition; possessing an excellent ed
ucaton, with a strong imagination and indom-
table will, it can readily be conceived how he
was led into the expedition by such men as
Garrison and Vanderbilt and others, who rea.
Oily availed themselves of a man possessing
such warlike qualities 10 further their own sell
fish and avaricious desires. The war was con-
tinued and supplies furnished, so long as they
deemed it to their advantage, but when nothing
more was to be gained by its continuance,
they basely deserted Walker and left him to
his fate. Gen. Walker is a pcrsonifcatbn of
that spirit Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and extension
that is now so rapidly increasing in the United
States and against which the Government is
constantly bringing to bear the whole restrain
ing checks of the Constitution. How long
these checks will be able to restrain the pro-
gressive spirit of the American people, may be
determined within the next year, and then that
course Of conduct towards nations which can
find no vndication in the laws of nations may
be defended on the score Of expediency.
MARPosA GAZETTE The Mariposa Gazette
has thought proper to reply to an article in
our first issue published at this town. We
were not aware that there was any sentence
in the article, to which the Gazette alludes,
that could provoke reply-howcver, as they
have deemed it worthy of notice, we clip for