The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1857-07-17
Gen. Walker in Aupusta.

General Walker President of the Rerullic
of Nicaragua, on his route from New York to
Nashville Tennessee, spent few hours in the
city "f Augusta, on Saturday the 1th inst
The intelligence of his arrival coon, attracted
to the Planters Hotel, where he was .torpinr.
crowds Of citizens, anxious to show their an.
probation of the mnn and their svmpat!,v
with the cause in which he is engaged Yield
ing t" their urgent solicitation, Gen. Walker
consented to remain until the following morn
ing, and to favor the people with m address,
synopsis of which We extract from the Con-
sttutional;a.
In conversation, he expressed his fixed de-
termination t" rcrscvcre in the cause in which
he is engaged, an.l Iii; confident hop. TIM. he
will hc enabled to return to Nicaragua, within
the next two months, with the good will of
the Administration and with mcn and money
enough to re-cstablish his authority in Nicnra-
gua:
| The remarks which he made, occupied about
(;half an hour in their delivery and were fire.
quentiy interrupted by applause. Short, hur-
| ricl and dcsultory, as they necessarily were.
| they made very decided impression upon his
anditory-an impression attributable to their
directn"ss and force, and To the complete idcn-
uiicatlon of them who uttered them, with tie
cause which he advocated. Assuming that the
future destiny Of the Republic of Nicaragua
WIS an American question. of vital interest to
the people Of the country, aud consequently
| upon whichihe might, with perfect propriety
address an audience of American citizens upou
n day c"nsccrated to the celebration of their
declaration of independence he proceeded ra,.-
idly to sketch the history of the occupation of
| Nicaragua by himself md his followers, giving
MI interesting relation of many of the more
| important events which have transpircL with
| in that RsPublic i'll the last two years; vinli-
eating the motives and the actions Of those
who were engaged with him; asserting that
they landed i'll Nicaragua by the invitation of
| the Democratic party, Of the country, and thn:
they remained Mt the earnest entrenty of its
| people, to aid them in rescuing the Republic
| from the anarchy into which it had been plum
ged, by the intcruecno strifes and ndincnpnc:ty of
It's mongrcl races; and challenging those who
| denounced him ns freebooter and filibustcr
! to poiut to single act of his whole career in
| Nicaragua, which was unjust in itself, or in
confirmation of any Nicaragua. United States,
| or International law. lie dwet at some length
upon the course pursued by the northern press
towards him, which rs he expressed it 'rceked
with all the calumnies against himself and his
followers which inventive brain create and
| attributed its hostility to the fact that he had
rs President Of the Republic of Nicaragua,
issued deere" lcgalizing African slavery with
| III its limits. lie remarked that he wns South
"rncr by birth and devoted to all the institu-
ti"as of the South, but that he never would
have issued that decree. unless he had been
convincnl that upon the establishment of slave
ry depended the stability of any government
which might be innnguruted in any of the
Spanish American Republics. This i,l.a he.
illustrated by contrasting the condition of Cuba,
where slavery Established by tn. Catholic
Pri"st, I.ascnsns. distinguished for his bcnevo.
lcrcc and philanthropy still exists, with that
of jamaica, where tho views of Wilbcrfurce
aud Clnrkson have been carried into practical
! operation, by the abolition of slavery. The
introduction Of slavery into the Spanish Amcri-
can Republics he contcnded, would end hS
long strifco their mongrcl races for supremacy,
give the control Of their affairs to pure, un
mixed white rncc. and eventually secure them
the blessings Of free and stable institutions.
With this vicw,he had sought to establish it in
Nicnragua-for this-he had been denounced
by the northern press, and he.called upon tho
people Of the South to disregard its calumnes
aud to sustain him-that his cause was their
cause, rs his SUCCESS would be favorable to tho
extension and perpefuation Of their institutions
Ills remarks were cnt short, by sudden fall of
rain. aud he retired from the balcony followed
by the cheer Of the crowd.