New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-06-15
IUD1orATIo. OF THE rMrorENr.


IHD1GNArIos OF THE IMroTENT.
The New York Tribune Of the 9Th inst. il excess
iysly indignant at the manner in which Gen. William
Walker wsssec4ived BY ~ people q New Orleans,
without dsnction Of party or nativity and takes oc
casion to ssr At the newspapers, IN its peculiarly
Vulgar styIs,for giving truthful accounts Of what
tfanspirsd whilst the enthusiastic ovation was pro
pressing The newspapers, Gen. Walker, and the peo
ole Of this city will survive, we opine, the indg-
nation Of the impotent organ of all the infde social
istic and disorganzing isms that have dsgraced hui
man nature and endangered the country, for the last
nth Of century. III
The low characteristics Of the Tribune are fully dis
played in the first paragraph Of the article to which
we allude. cannot understand the feeling that ami
mated our people in the honors they bestowed upon
Cen Walker, he having returned from field Of glory
under the clouds Of temporary defeat. Had ne re-
turned triumphant garlanded with the undying lau-
rels Of victory, the Tribune would have experienced
no difficulty in arriving at conclusion, it having
profound appreciation Of the advantages which attach
to success and the emoluments that usually follow in
its train. But to- receive fallen man according to
the manner in which conquerers are received with
martial music and with the shouts Of enthusiastic
thousands peaing forth glad welcome passed the
Tribune's comprehension. Had it any conception,
however Of q lofty principle its brain, heart and
soul were not absorbed by wretched fanaticism-it
would have discovered the true secret of Gen. Walk
ers magnificent reception. 1t was principle-high
and noble principle principle having no reference to
profit that actuated our people. They would have
champion Of great principle, principle that will
yet as surely prevail that the grass will grow and
the waters run, but that out Of the question:
for the time being, they received him as he deserved
TO be received and honored him as he deserved to be
honored. Defeat could not Induce them to abandona
principle or neglect its embodiment. For this they
merit credit instead of censure-praise instead of
sneers.
Then the Tribune attacks Gen. Walker in the fol-
lowing ferocious, false and vulgar style:
And this was the reception which the city of New
Orleans rendered to one of the greatest rogues and
most selfish rascals Of the nineteenth centary-to
freebooter, who in his short and most inglOrious
career has nothing to boast Of but bunders-to a
leader Of banditti, who has not shown one of the
conventional virtues Of Jerry Abershaw, or Jack
Sheppard, Of Dick Turpn-to desperate without
| talent or cunning-to one who comes back from his
marauding without sprig OF laurel, and upon whom
rests the dark responsibility of thousand murders
| and . hundred wholesale arsons-to general who
runs from the accusing cries Of starving women and
Children and from the ghosy battalons of the dead.
It is well for us to have lived to see Of what small
stuff heroes can be manufactured in New Orleans
We unhesitatingly assert that as many downright
falsehoOds as are contained in the above paragraph
\ cannot be found compressed in the same compass
anywhere else. The charge Of sel6shness against
Walker is as base an untruth as was ever coined at
the mint of calumny. There is not particle of sell
shness in his composition. The constituents Of his
nature are exactly Of opposite character Had he
been selfish y he might, months since, have made
his own terms, and left Nicaragua laden with riches
To call him " freebooter is foul prostitution Of
terms. He went to Nicaragua on the invitation o.
the Democratic party of that country then for the
previous twenty years. distracted by intestine reyou
tons, succeeded in restoring quiet accepted service
under the government, which was as regularly con
stituted as any government had been for long time
Nicaragua desired peace, but her neighbors wonld
not let her remain at peace. Costa RIGA invaded
Nicaragua proclaiming death to all Americans in the
service Of the Ryas administration without respect
to age terms or condition. All recollect the inglo
rious issue to the Costa Ricans of that campaign
Some months afterwards 1--WE have not room for de
tails) Gen. Walker elected to the Presidency oil
Nicaragua by majority of fourffths of the native
vote Of the country. No coercion or intimidation
was practiced The act of the native population was
voluntary This placed him at the head of affairs
legally and rightfully, and he has not been dis
placed either legally or rghtfuly, he is much as
ever the President, notwithstanding combination o
circumstances have constrained suspension Of hi
4 duties.
Gen. Walkers sojourn in Nicaragua instead of be
ing ssshort and most inglorious, most glorious
although short. When truthful history of his ca
reer is written, the minds of candid and intelligen
men will be lost In wonder establishment and admira
ton at the fertility Of resources he displayed in over
coming tremendous odds, in surrounding difficulte
i that would have been insurmountable by any excep
an extraordinary man, in the wonderful victorie
gained against overwhelming numbers, in the infex
BILE will.with whch he pursued his ends, the match
less heroism that illustrated his all
sions the far seeing sagacity, the sleepless energ
and iron mind which time and again enabled him t
foil his enemies and renew his strength when the
thought him well nigh helpless within their GRASP
the unmatched hold he had upon the affections of hi
soldiers and the singular combination of traits tina
enabled him to protract the struggle when every ell
ment of foreign aud domestic hostility was brougt
to bear to crush him, aud to escape from the countr
without a blemish attaching to his military e
cutcheon. gs
English gold and English arms, American gold an
American treachery-to the shame of the America
name be it said--and the coldhearted, disgraeef
course Of Secretary Marcy, caused the temporal
e overthrow of Walker. He had to struggle again
all these hostile influences, the league of Centr
: American States besides, and came within a hal
!, breadth Of overcoming and conquering all (! tt
It pages of history do not furnish an example where
it defeated general more laures than RICH
:. fully belong to Gen. Walker; and, time and agai
have unsuccessful commanders been voted ilustrio
!. by the world.
The fling at New Orleans about the manufacture
= of heroesn is characteristic Of the Tribune,
chief editor of which takes honor unto himself I
o having meekly borne Gaming in the streets Of Was
ington, who claims to be more honest than his neig
~ bors after having pocketed bride to lobby pill
II dering railroad scheme through Congress, and W
+. maintains that Senator is worthy immortal hon
because he bore the stripes Of disgrace like ba
= hearted, white-livered poltroon. We may ma
I, small stuff heroes in New Orleans but it shot
!. be said to our credit that we never make them
d caned Senators, or kicked, cufed and bribed phil
err thropists."
In conclusion, the Tribune says: walker is q cri
H. inal, clearly amenable to very plain statute of