Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-11

Uus in newspapers and conversation.
They became 50 conspicuous that President
Rivas took the alarm at last, as Costa Rica had
lone at and being the head Of the government
II which he had been named provisional president
or fourteen months, by the treaty OF peace, dated
october 23 1855, and so in good faith to continue,
unless the president in full council of ministers.
should resolve to call an election before the end OF
the time" Art. H., Of the rroaty,) he resolved
to assert his rights as chief of the government;
and naturally suspecting the intentions of the
commander.in-chef Walker. President K ivas, with
his ministers of war, Snlazar, departed TO Leon
in the month nf June, 1856, and declared the gov
ernment to be removed to that city. This was ir-
regular, because by the second additional" arti-
Gle Of the treaty of peace, the government was
to reside in Granada; but it was q Justiia-
BILE measure of public safety, Walker Icing at that
time in reasonable correspondence with u Cuban
adventurer.
Upon Rivas's retirement to Leon, Walker pro-
claimed him and his minister at.wt ar. Saazar, trait
ors and ordered a new election for presidentwhich
was held on the Oath of juno. Walker was eec.
ed, rs Louis Napoleon was elected Emperor OF
France; and few weeks a(terward, he caused
SalaZlr to be put to death ut Granada. The pre-
tended election of Walker reduced the country to
the precise condition in which the Fillibusterer
found it, upon his arrival thirteen months be-
fore. Since June, 1856, there have been two gov
ernments IN Nicaragua; the one composed of tor.
eigners headed by Walker, and the other OF native
Nicarnguans and other Central Americans chiefly
Costa Rirans, allies Of their neighbpr Nicaragua.
On the 10Th of August, Walkers government was
recognized by Mr.. Wheeler, who had acknow ledg.
ed tho Rivas-Walker government The Padre
Will returned, and Walker FASTENED to appoint his
successor, but Mr.. Oaksmith and Don Frnin Fer
rer. who have been successiyey sent by him to
Washington, have not been received by our gov
ernment, which to the honor Of Mr.. Marcy be it
said. has declined officially to countenance an ad-
yenturer in foreign state, merely because he
CHANGED to be born an American.
From the moment Of his election president
to tie present, William Walker being thiown en-
tirely upon his Tn resources without the favor
of the United States government without the sup
port ot Il Nicaraguan party, which has entirely de
serted him. or OF the steam ship company, which
is practically powerless for the time its buats he
ng siezed BY the naive army, has exposed to the
whole world the measure of his capacity. The
man, who, year since, having the semhlance o
right upon his side, was the active agent Of the
government which held the capitals and controlled
the resources of the country, has discovered tha
sembauce Of right was his whole power. Totally
unable to cope with the circumstances of his po
sition, he now March 1851 skulkS along the roac
between the Lake ana the Paclhc, u conspicuous
criminal, n forlorn adventurer, the contemplate
captain of a hundred wretched men. starved. de
moralized, and utterly miserable; himself the di
rect occasion of an extremity of human suffering
the story of which is like that Of the plague il
4 Napoleon's army at Jaaa.
And grave men and grave journa sontem plat,
tho riGiculous and in respect of 0th srs tr ,sica
career of this incompetent Bombasses, and pbilos
| oIhizc abont the destiny OF oar country in over
spreading the continent.
! Mr.. William Walkers personal viows are a.
important as those of the old pirate Morgan, or hi
compecr Lolonois, or Roche Brnsiliano, or Barto
! lomeo Portuguese. or Captain Kidd but aEy such
man. used as II tool becomes Immediately npor
~
! know what was the meaning Of this decent upon
Nicaragua if it meant anything beyond a perso
nal scrabble for power and booty. Nor is it very
difficult to ascertain.
The Rivas. Walker government was established
! in NicaraguA in the autumn of 1853. On the | lit
of January, 1856, Walker made a contract with !
Captain f. A. Laine, agent vi Domingo de Goicon
ria "sole holder and depository of the goods ana
chattels belonging 10 the cause of Cuba. consist
i iug in money, Il vessel, and munitions Of war. -
/ To this contract, Walker agrees firstly, to hell
Cuba and 'her liberty" after he has 'consolidat
I ell the peace" of Nicaragua secondly, he makes
common cause of the resources of Nicaragua, witt
those of tho revolutionary party of Cuba; thirdly
he requires full statement Of the Spanish re
soarces upon the island and fourthly he and Cap
Laine accept the whole rs the preamble of a NOR
elaborate contract. In consequence oi tins agree
ment in the following March, Domingo de Goicou
ria went to Nicaragua, and was made Brigadie
these promises without the knowledge, So far a
. oppears, of his government: disposng Of Mica
ragua AS if he were already that state-and attel
ward declaring the government invalid, when
was removed by Presiden, Rivas to Leon, in cor
sequence of such treachery as this.
We are far from suppoSing that Walker nocese0
sarily meant to keep the contract because he sigr
f ed it, HIS first necessity was munitions OF wa
and money, and he was doubtless, very willing
, purchase them upon such easy terms az his wore
= If he did mean 10 keep the contract, Il proves IN
ultimate intention wEica other events revealed
D he did not it illustrates the quality of his homo
!. The Cuban movement in the United States, as e'
plained and justified at Ostend by His EXcellenc
o Jsmcs Buchanan the Hon. Pierre SOue, and NJ
A Mason is no secret 1t is VIGOROUSLY movemeT
n for the extension of slavery 1t is not surprising
+. therefore that some time subsequent to the alg
l. ING of this contract. between Goicourias ngel
q and Walker that eminent American citizen Al
l. and lover of liberty the Hon. Pierre Soule, wei
3 10 Nicaragua, and established relations with II
e Fillibuster.
!, By this time--summer Of lS56-the great col
q test between slavery and freedom upon this cont
o nent had been brought to open battle. For u
first time in our political history, vast par'
s was organized upon the fundamental pFihciPie
n no further slavery extension. The diuerenc
t came to blows, and blood, and anarchy, in the te
n rtory of Kansas and to tn, most searching an
# solemn debate and vote, throughout the couhtr
The slavery party, accustomed TO victory Wet
l. amazed mt the vital earnestness of the struggl
% and could with difficulty understand how peopl
q which had only made mouths at the fugitive Sa'
"a law, and had only murmured protests against II
!. repeal Of the Missouri Compromise and the Ma
sas-N Nebraska bill. should So suddenly take ioi
a, moral ground in politics. and declare that th'
a valued the soul more than the body of the Unio
p In view of such surprising Developments, the sla
party naturally thought it might become necesS
"a ry to relax their speed little 1t might even
polite 10 concede Kansas for the present, but =
great policy of slavery extension must be snstal
a cd, even at the cost Of rupture of the Union
: general doctrine has long been current amor
H. sagacious slave. politicians that the extreme sout
n. ern slave states might. one day, find 1t necessa
g to change their conftderated relations, and form
II slave republic consisting of those states and {
ar old Spanish provinces of Central America. viii
Q. should abandon the northern states and perha
n Canada, to the blight Of freedom, while they a
,e yanced in a career of humanityland the Christ: