New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-16

I - "V"Ns HAai' my lsck Oh creature cOmiovt.
'or himself. But Of more total ncapsc;t, ).
imt' rove the good luck of which ais N;c,..
qua expedition furnished series Of 800
able irstaDces, il would be hard "a e.,
an instance. He was peculiarly lucky In a.
circumstances that Carried him to Nicaraeua hs,-
invited thither by party in the country resdv -
receive and support him, aud at a time when "a,
other faction, having lost its principal leader, \,
the cholera, was in no position 10 make yiserou,
resistance. Yet these advantages ayailed b,,
nothing. He wandered about from place 10 pl.,.
fighting to no purpose, and would have been ar.
PEELED from Nicaragua as speedily as be had be,
from Mexico, had not the Transit Company con-.
forward to bis assistance. This was bis second
piece of luck. 1t made him commander.ieeh.S
of the army Of Nicaragua and head of her sssr,
But il availed him in the end no more than M.
other. The first use he made of his new pova,
was TO send Minister 10 the United States. wha
had no more IretensiOns than himself to be regarded
as citizen of Nicaragua, and whom even the sli.
buster Cabinet of Pierce did not venture TO receive
The next step was to commence shooting and rob-
bing the natives, which Immediately excited alarm
throughout Central America and gave occasion 10
an alliance to drive him out Of the country.
The third piece Of folly was 10 quarrel with thu
Transit Company and seize their property, which
not only greatly diminished the zeal for his success
of the merchants and capitalists generally, but st
once created for him powerful body Of enemies
here ready to cooperate with the Central American
allies for his expulsion. Nor was this laundering
piece of robbery limited to its effects here The
property thus seized Walker proceeded to sell,
without any attention to the claims Of an English
firm to which the Nicaraguan Government had as
signed in payment of debts the very claims against
the Transit Company which were made the pre-
tense of the seizure thus making enemies in Eng.
land as well as here. This was followed by forced
loans levied upon all the merchants, foreign as well
as native by which all trade was brought TO CON-
plete stand STILL and Walker aud his filibusters be-
came stencil in the nostrls of every mercantile
nation of Europe. 1t was, however, Americans
who Jared worst at his hands. lie seemed 10 re-
gard every American as bound to assist him 10 the
last extent both with money and personal service
in fact as bis absolute slaves, to be used by him at
his pleasure, and shot without mercy if they at
tempted to escape from his hands.
The only possible chance for Walker was to seem
to play the second part, while he really played the
first; to keep the Government apparently in the
hands of the natives, while gradually an American
population was drawn into the country strong
enough to control it, Instead Of that, at the very
moment that he was threatened with double inya
sion from Costa Riea and Guatemala, he mus.
needs quarrel with Riyas and the rest of the native
officials, be chosen President himself and establish
a Government purely fllibuster the only act Of
which was the extreme folly Of the legal reestab
ment of Slavery. Nor was the course he adopted,
when it became obvious that the natives were too
strong for him, any more judicious AS ifto render
not snly himself but the American name as odOua
as possible, as if to give to the Central Americans
and all other Americans the most serious warning
against ever again inviting foreigners to intervene
in their quarres or illibusters to land upon their
shores, the cities which he was unable TO hold he
proceeded to destroy, marking the line Of his re.
treat with frghtful ruins. AS 10 the length Of the
defense he made, that was owing as everybody
knows, not to himself, but to Gen. Henningsen;
while both of them owe their escape with their
yes not to any strategy of their own, but purely
nd simply to the Intervention Of Capt. Davis,
citing under orders from Washington.
Talent, however wickedly employed, may chal-
enge certain degree Of admiration; but stupid
ity, wickedness and failure combined, are
strange materials out Of which TO make q hero.
Yet, since men have been found TO defy goat, an
ass, snake or monkey, why not bankrupt aud
broken-dOwn fllibuster2