The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1857-06-18
Walker.

Gen. Walker. late President Of Nicara-
qua, has arrived in the United States
He has been received at New Orleans,
and other places as hero and conqueror,
when in truth he was literally starved out,
and driven from the country over which
he pretended that he had been elected
president. 1T9 ,fogIIa correct judgment
of the char Z. merits of this man
Walker, it is necessary to trace him back
a few months. We first fad him attempt.
ing to seize Lower California, but being
defeated there, he went to Nicaragua and
made war upon the inolfensiye inhabitants
of that country, and the bleaching bones
OF thousands of men who fell in defense
OF their country, their homes and their
familes-acts which would be considered
patriotic and prascworthy in our own
Countrywide helpless cry Of the orphan,
and the hopeless wall of the widow -
these are the trophies with which this
general returns to his native country, and
for which he is teied from one end of the
country to the other. And what is the
pretext set up in justification of this plum,
dering expedition into the territory of a
neighboring nation? None whatever,
but the democratic slave holding doctrine,
that the strong have the right to subjugate
and reduce to vassalage and bondage the
weak.
This new democratic doctrine, as laid
down in the Ostend Manifesto, which was
headed by James Buchanan, is in direct
violation Of tho law of nations, as laid
by Grotius, Vattel, Rutherforth, and 9th.
er elementary writers.
Says learned writer, in speaking on
this subject: Nations are equal in re-.
spect to each oP.er, and entitled to claim
equal consideration for their rights, what
ever ray be their relative dimensions or
strength, or however greatly they may
differ in government, religion or manners.
This perfect equality, and entire indepen-
dence Of all distinct States, is fundamen-
tai principle Of public law. 1t is a nee
essary consequence Of this equality, that
each nation has right to govern itself as
it may think proper, and no one nation is
entitled to dictate form Of government,
or religion, or course of internal policy,
TO another. No State is entitled to take
cognizance or notice of the domestic ad-
ministration Of another State, or what
passes within it as between the govern
ment and its own subjects" q. KenrS
CON-, 2l.)
Our slave holding brethren find n ma
ton that has adopted for its internal pol
icy the principles embraced in our Dec
Iaration Of Independence, and for this
cause they claim the right to interfere,
and establish slavery, and the slave trade,
which latter has been declared to be pira-
cy BY our government.
We hold that the law of nations as
above quoted. and which is in accordance
with the immutablo principles of justice
should be religiousIy observed by all ma
tions claiming to be Christian, especially
by the rich and powerful, towards the
small and weak, that very weakness which
renders them comparatively helpless, en-
titling them to strict justice, and even for
beaance at the HANDS of their more fortu
nate neighbors
No nation can pursue different course
and escape the just relribulion of tina
over ruling Providence, which sooner o.
later, will mete out exact justice to ma
tons as we'll as individuals.