Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-06-19

o. General Walker seems to have been rather
coldly treated since be left New Orleans. The at
tempt to get up any reception for him at Washing
ton CITY, failed even the papers did not notice his
arrival, and but few persons called upon him.
Ii is true that much depends upon success, and
that men now pass Walker coldly by, who, under
other circumstances would have been among his most
fulsome adulators It is natural that II should De So
This may not be exactly the most generous thing 10
the world, but generous ungenerous, ii is the way
of the word-has always been aid will always be-
and bad as it is s certainly worse than Walkers
own course. The best and bravest of his youthful
followers sleep beneath the soil of Nicaragua or
whiten with their bones its fields and highways,
whilst friends and kindred mourn. By his own &C.
count be has killed eight thousand of the enemy"
"a comprehensive word but roaming in common
vernacular, men, with mothers and sisters, and wives
and children, and fathers and brothers, and kindred
and iriends-brown or copper colored men of short
statue and features not cast in the Ango-Saxon
mould, but cast in such mould as God willed
These things are done-hese men are dead-of all
his recruits but about two hundred got of, sick and
wounded, and in want, and yet MIR. Walker lands at
New Orleans with the air OF a " conqu ering hero"
and as he does so, brass band announces that said
hero comes"
We 20 tor all legitimate and proper extension Of
national influence and power. But We 60 for doing
it in the straight out legal way. Pet the nation
tend the nation, and we will see better results and
hear less Atlantic whining over Fillbustersm
# we must have a thing let US have it. Now, there
is Mr.. John Bull who cries out perpetually about
American FilIibustering. The old fellow has vast
territory in the East and he wants relay houses and
military stations on the road to this territory. Look
at them On the Mediterranean, almost commanding
it's entrance he has Gibratar-a little farther and
you come to Malta, position of equal strength
Then on the Red Sea he has Alden and the Island Of
Perrin, completely commanding the entrance to that
sea perfect chain of military posts. Taking the
route by the Pc sian Gulf, and he has recently ac
CURED nsuar and continental positions there. Take
the voyage round the Cape of Good Hope, and there
he is at home. This is illibustering, such as the
world never saw before In fact it is all nonsense
for any other nation to talk about American Fllbus-
tering. Including all that Walker and everybody
else has done, American Fillibustering is nothing,
compared with European exploits in the same way
ne only UlmCulby Is IL udo peeH
undertaken The time for unauthorized movements
is gone by The Blu ccaneers have passed into the
domain of history, and out of that of actual life.
The day for " Free Companies" as in the Middle
Ag es, is no more. War is matter of resources and
supplies quite as much of mere physical valor-
Lopez, Crabbe, Walker were all brave enough, so
were their men, but they wanted the backing that only
the pledged support of organized government can
give and they fell. And such must be the result at
all times. Texas is no exception, for Texas was an
organized community-a State, fighting for State
Rights The defenders of Texas were not in the po.
silion of strangers on foreign SOIL They were the
actual settlers there repeling aggression.
A man, because be is bold and fearless, and cares
nothing for his own life the life of others, is not
necessarily wise man or great one. Neither is
every man who talks iof &C. STAR" and apes Louis
Napoleon, necessarily the appointed Regeneration of
Continent. Regeneration is the work Of peaoe-the
result of quiet development-,he accompl shment of
ages. Ii cannot be forced The man and the hour
come together, for when leader totally mistak es
the time and the circumstances, that very lack of
Judgment shows that he is not the man.
For our own part, we 60 for the Monroe doctrine
up 10 the hub-we go for American performance
on the American continent-we 60 for the govern.
ment asserting that predominance and we will 90 as
far as the next in supporting it in SO doing Private
fllibustering won't pay. Believing SO, we must say
Sc. Of course, we 60 against it.