The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1857-09-02
From The New York Sun Of August 10.
THE FRUITS OF FILlBUSTERISM.

THE FRUITS OF FiLlBUSTERISM.
Those who visited the Park yesterday, at
either Of the times when the Walker ilibus-
tiers brought home by the Tennessee were
exhibited to awaken the sympathies Of the
spectators, had an opportunity to look on a
living picture illustrating the "glories OF
war; Our brave volunteers in the war
with Mexico wore anything but a gay ap-
pearance on their return home; and the
remnants OF regiments which have served
through hard campaign in a foreign land
present, on their return, very different APP
pearance from that which excited so much
admiration and enthusiasm on their depar-
ture.
In the strife for glory the bright uniforms
fade and become lustreless; the gay feathers
disappear, and the bloom and flush Of yigo-
rous health forsake the cheek. Truly the
glory of war is an imaginary thing, for no
eve has ever been able TO discover its radi-
ance reflected on the care-worp counte-
nances and ill-clad forms of "heroes +"
returning from the carnage Of the battle
field. Fancy throws certain romance
around the life Of the soldier, but those who
have seen the horrid reality of war, who
have stood by mangled corpses and wounded
comrades writing in agony, can abhor the
monster which the world, by false philoso-
ply, clothes with delusive garb OF glory.
! Al more saddening and sickening sight
than that presented yesterday in front OF the
City Hall we have never witnessed. Over
hundred Of the returned flibusters were
seated on the steps of the entrance. Prlya-
ton and suffering long endured were marked
on their countcnances. Their unhealthy,
/ spiritless look their coarse, ill-worn, scanty
clothing; their unwashed, unshayen faces,
produced in the sensitive beholder a train Of
feelings and reflections which no language
can adequately describe. Many of them
were barefoot; others limped along with
rags tied around their heels to cover bruises
or sores others wore the remnants of shoes
held together by means Of pieces Of strings
\ or Irvine,
Some two or three were distinguished BY
wearing black hats, dirty and dinged. A
few looked like sailors picked up from som,
wreck, or taken from barren coast OF
which they had been cast away. Their re
was probably the gift Of some benevolent
!" tars whose wardrobes were not too wei
stocked vet they made respectable appear
ance compared with some Of their comrades
One poor fellow, who sat eating crust 0
\ bread, had lost the use of one OF his hand
by a wound. He was Of large, muscula
frame, but his strength seemed 70 have beef
spent and his spirit completely broken
I There we're youths among them grown pre-
maturely old. Their cheeks were OF al
ashy hue their eyes lustreless and unex
pressive. The gaiety and elasticity o
youth were gone. Hunger and hardship
. had done their work.
Many wish was expressed By. persons i
the crowd that Walker was there to see th
wreck Of humanity which he had made
but il would not have been safe for him I
be present. II the deluded men had not
the indignant crowd would have torn hin
10 pieces. Yet what has Walker done tina
Kings aud Governments are not doing con
tinuallys They waste and sacrifice me
without scruplc in prosecuting their ow
4 foul schemes Of ambition. They may do
with more "pomp and Circumstance .
war !" but the butehery and the inhumanit
are the same. They may call it glory, bu
the wise and good will call il By anothe
name. All Central Awerica j. not wort
the men who have been sacrificed in II
immoral strife for the control of the Trans
route, and all Asia is not worth the me
Q who have been sacrificed. and are yet to b
sacrificed, in that quarter Of the world to a
asaricious and Unsuitable ambition.