The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-05-21
w alker I'm Nicaragua.

The last steamef from Aspinwall brought no
news from the Fillibustering General. This
renders the report that he had escaped from
Rivas and taken refuge o. board an English
ship Of war, improbable. The only means
Of communication with the invaders, is by n
semi monthly steamer that ruISQp the West
ern coast of Central America N5m Panama.
Her last arrival at Panama the 18th
Of April, when she broughtnews from Rivas
20 the ID ult. At that time the Costa Ricans
had possession of San Juan del Sur, the only
port through which Walker could escape
he was then closely invested by his foes, well
supplied with artillery and ten times his own
numbers. lie had failed to break their ranks
after repeated sorties. His troops were re-
duced to about two hundred or three hundred
and their food and ammunition nearly exhaust
Cd, and his hopes of escape had become des-
perate, and his fate seemed inevitable. If
he preserves the consistency of his character
he will fight to the last and lie hero. If he
had succeeded and established his power, he
would have been one Of the great men Of his
day-arival in fame perhaps Of Louis Napo-
l.on-but failure will consign him 10 the
ranks Of q pirate and q robber. Whatever
the world may say of him, he has displayed
degree of ability, energy, courage, resour-
ces and powers of endurance worthy of {
good cause, whether he has been enlisted il
such or not. Future events will prov,
whether the true interests of the Unite
States have been subserved by permittin:
him TO be overcome.
The Central Americans arc incapable o
, supporting their natural independence an
defending the vast commercial interest
which their position has confded to thei
custody, and if nominally Independent the
will be in fact the subjects of one or more {
the ruling commercial powers. To attain
control over them will ever be subject fC
intrigue and dispute among the government
of other nations. England is ever sleeple:
in her designs to acquire power and Unfit
ence where she can use it to promote hi
commercial interests. She sees in the Il.
of Walker, the ruin of American power an
influence in Nicaragua, and an open field f;
the practice of her peculiar diplomacy. TIL
has wrought the sudden change in Lol
Palmerston's views and induced the reje,
lion of the Dallas-Clarendon treaty, and Il
vitual annulment by false Interpretation
Of the Bulwer treaty, which will relie'
England from all the stipulations of mutu
restraint in the acquisition of territory al
privileges upon the Isthmus. She mao
those treaties when she was alarmed 1t Il
increasing advantages and strength OF d
, United States in that quarter. They we
! designed as curbs upon our progress; b.
now that the current of events has turnt
against us, and her influence is in the ascei
dancy, and there is an open field for the e:
ercise of her intriguing policy, she evinc
desire to throw off al shackles, and
once puts forth all her former iniquities IL
unwarrantable pretensions. If English pow
er becomes directly or indirectly -openly
covertly established in Nicaragua, we sha
lament the defeat of Walker, and lament Il
- error by which We permitted him to be 4
stroyed.