The Nevada journal., 1857-05-22
FILLIBusTERIsM.-We had intended

| L flLLlBuSTERlSM.-W G mad intended,
since the massacre of Crabb and his
command, and the dolorous news from
Nicaragua had been made known to the
public, to write an article on piracy and
murder, and lay the blame at the proper
doors. The Bulletin, however, express
es our views better than we could our
selves, and we re-publish from that
paper an article which tells many a
wholesome yet melancholy truth.
Responsibility of the Fillibuster Press.
A hundred young and energetic Amer
lean citizens have met an ignominious
and disgraceful death at the hands of
the troops of Mexico. They have died,
not as soldiers and honorable though
vanquished foes but have been exter-
minated as fllibusters, pirates and ban
ditti. In being thus opposed and de-
stroyed, they were regarded by the
! Mexicans as invaders of their native
soil and enemies of their unhappy coun-
try. Unfortunately the truth compels
US to admit they were such. While now
we must lament the sad fate of many
who once were our fellow citizens, and
some our townsmen, we yet could never
have wished them success in their un-
lawful undertaking.
But these hapless mon went not of
their own accord to the destruction that
has overtaken them. The expedition
was not a spontaneous movement of the
men who composed it. They were
gathered together. a few at a time, with
trouble and great labor, and by dint of
strong persuasion, from distant parts of
the State. They were deceived and
betrayed! The traitors and enemies of
our State who have thus caused the
death of hundred of our fellow citi-
zens, are among those who control por-
ton of the press Of San Francisco,
and of other portions of the State AT
theiir doors lies the blood of many of
these fellow -countrymen; on their heads
the blame is justly ehargeable; their
hands have been the cause of this hu
man butchery. They it is, who by
their lying editorials, in which open
piracy and robbery, and an entire disre-
gard of the honor and faith of our coun-
try, were defended, encouraged and ap-
plauded, have sent young and adventu-
rous men to the doom of felons, made
American fathers and mothers childless,
American wives husbandless, and Amer
lean children fatherless. They it is
who have caused this pang of agony
which now thrills through the heart of
the people of our State, and the sound
of weeping, and mourning, and lamen-
tation, that rises from the broken hearts
of the new made widows and orphans
around us. A hundred homes in our
midst are made desolate, and who shall
tell the sorrow, anguish and distress this
news has caused, and for which the
presses and the men who have labored
night and day among US to encourage
and assist the enlistment and shipment
of recruits, and the government officers
who have permitted their leaving here,
are justly responsiblea
This is a heavy loss and sad one to
our State. 1t has taken our people by
surprise, and they feel its full weight
But it is not the first thing of the kind
that we have suffered. Does it make
any difference, in fact, to the State,
whether hundred of her sons are slain
in single day, or whether their butch
cry and sacrifice last through the whole
of the month, or even longerl Or
whether they thus die by the balls of
an enemy, or are decimated by the ma
lignant fevers of an inhospitable cline
Have not the deaths of American citi-
zens in Nicaragua, almost every month
since first Walker left here, exceeded
the whole number of Crabb's party 2
And have not the fllibuster press of
this city, and Of other parts of the State,
urged young men to go from among us to
join their fortunes to those of an outlaw
and pirate} Have they not been daily
filled with glowing misrepresentation,
describing as salubrious the most pestif-
erous climate on the face of the earth
Have they not Systematically misstated
every circumstance connected with the
movements of Walker, his forces, his
reverses, and the feelings of the popu-
lation towards him and towards Ameri-
leans generally! Have they not acted
and written as though anxious to send
the young and unsuspecting among us
to be butchered by those who only man
ifest justifiable though barbarous pa
triotism in repelling their invaders 3
Are they not, this very day, urging 9th
er Americans to follow in the track of
those who have just perished in follow
ing their counsels, and rush headlong on
to destruction, in seeking to revenge
their predecessors
For this heavy drain upon our popu-
lation, this Wholesale consignment of
Americans to the dishonored graves of
robbers and pirates, there is but one
remedy. 1t is, that the honest portion
of our people and our influential men
shall unite in frowning down every in
fraction of the faith of our nation plight
ed to lands with whom we are at peace,
and in discouraging the criminal and
insane attempts of unscrupulous adven-
turers to obtain an infamous notoriety
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