New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-13
PROSPECTS, OF GEN. WALKER-COL.
KEWEN

The Memphis Eagle, Of the 9th inst, contains an
interesting and eloquent letter from Col. r. j. G.
Kewen, Nicaraguan Emigration Agent in the United
States We have read it with care interest and salts
faction for the conclusions to which the gallant Col
onel arrives, have all along been entertained by US
and now, when gloom rests upon the fortunes OF
the indomitable Walker, we believe he will emerge
from the difficulties that environ him all the better,
prouder and brighter despite the terrible and pro-
tracted ordeal to which he has been subjected It
NAV be that powerful desire leads us to miscaculate
probabilities But be that as it may, we still repose
undoubting confidence in the future
Col. Kewen is particularly severe upon the North
ern enemies of Walker, and deals out scathing nyec
tive upor them. We quote the first paragraph of the
letter in full It will be perceived that it is exceed
ingly bitter:
Since the advent Of VIM. Walker into Central
America his severest conflicts have been not with the
native defenders of the SOIL hut against the wfu
Misrepresentation and studied calumnies Of North
American enmity. A powerful opposition has ar
ayed itself in New York against his success in the
person and influence of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and
every expedient which ingenuity could devise or mall
ice originate, has been employed with savage zeal in
the unhoy attempt Of accomplishing his overthrow.
Treason fasehood and the fonlest spirit of assassna
ton have been subsidized to his service and the blood
and misery of many hearts have atested the partial
success Of his ptiess antagonism. The treacheries
induced, and the murders of American citizens COM
mtted under his direction and through his nstru-
mentality, have been so openly and boldly avowed by
the instruments of his iniquitous designs that they
have seemed to court instead of shun, the infamous
Judgment of the virtuous of mankind The purchased
treasons and assassDations of Vanderbilt have, how
ever been insufficient in their prejudical effects, in
comparison with the insidious circulation, by his
issares of rumors Of reverses Detailing the American
cause in Nicaragua, intended to damPen the enthusi
and discourage the exertons of those who might
be friendly to his success This expedient of malig
nifty has been perpetated through period of months,
and has doubtless exercised potent influence in dis
tufbing the hopes and exciting the apprehensons of
the welldsposed portion Of the community.
Col. Kewen thinks the failure Of the Lockridge
expedition was owing to the policy of the " Wall
street inancier, but that partial triumph twill only
render more poignant the inevitable sting Of final dis
appointment The position of Walker" says Col. K,
g is no more perous to-day than it was four months
ago. Further along it is explicitly and emphaticaly
stated
His position at Rivas is impregnable to the assaults
of the allies however formidable their forces may be.
The leagued States of Central Americana incapable
of concentrating an army within six months which
could give any serious annoyance to the present posi-
ton of Gen. Walker. With five hundred men, he can
defend Riyas against five thousand of the flower of
Central American chivalry. From the first of June
to the first of November, the continuous rains OF the
tropics will render anything like systematic warfare
an utter impractcabity, and will as certainly pre-
vent the marching of troops from the adjacent States
in Nicaragua. The armies will be compelled to re-
main for the most part within their forhcations and
Walker is more amply provided for this necessity than
the otdefeated, discouraged and impoverished army.
In the meantime aid can reach the American army
by way of Panama and the Pacific, and strenuous
efforts from various sources concuIring i'll the
speedy consumnlation of that project.
We would like, it must be confessed to see that
q aid" start as speedily as practicable from both
sides Of the continent. Too much delay has already
taken place; and not another month should elabse
before " material aid" Of every kind should be for
warded in abundant quantities from this side under
the control of brave, skful honest and experienced
men, to sweep aside all opposition on the San Juan
River. We have hopes that this will be done, but
shall not rest in perfect content until we witness re-
alization of those hopes
Of the ill-omened rumors which the enemies of the
South and the enemies of the of regeneration
in Central America for the is equivalent to the
continually set aoat in the columns of certain
newspapers in this country, Col Kewen speaks thus:
The more recent apprehensions of the friends of
Nicaragua have been awakened by the correspond
ence of the New Orleans Picayune, published in the
journals of Memphis yesterday. That such tissue of
inconsistencies and absurdities should receive the
dence of any rejecting person, is more surprising
than that respectable newspaper ostensiby friendly
to the progress of Americanism in Nicaragua should
so long retain correspondent who has assduously
and scrupulousy absoved himself from any suspicion
of ever having written truth in relation to Walker
Or his army. The whole course of Francis w. Rice,
the Panama correspondent Of the Picayune has been
characterized by an unscrupuousness of exaggeraton
and profiigacy of ms.statement that would do
credit to the mendacious accomplishments of the
basest employee of the Wall street capitalist.
In continuation, Col X. reiterates his conviction in
regard to the safety of the cause and winds up with
earnest and impassioned appeal to the public to
come forward and respond " with liberal hands and
willing hearts to the necessities of Walker and his
gallant soldiers, and nsuring the finaty and perma
nence of his success Such appeals are seldom
made in vain to Tennesseeans or to the Southern
nennle.