New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-06-19
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| Perhaps we went q little too TAR yesterday IN
setting down as the greatest of charlatans and the
most Dpudent of cheats, William Walker, and his
| prete nsiOns TO carry with him. wherever be goes,
Nicaragua, and the sovereignty Of Nicaragua, but
| tened up in his breeches pocket. In acknowl'
edging all the just claims of foreigners-Wlliam
Walker, thank Heaven, has renowned his Amer
can citizenship, and claims to be Nicaragum and
| nothing else-we are not to forget the merits Of
our own citizens, who, instead Of seeking foreign
countries to operate in-as to which 1t is greatly to
be desired that they might initiate Walkers e1-
smple-select the field Of attempts to invest
| themselves with sOyere On and irresponsible au-
thority, this city, making their headquarters at the
| City Hall and the Five Points. Mayor Woods at
tempt TO make hmself-by the aid of mob, which
certainly contains many Of the worst characters OF
the city-Lord Mayor and absolute dictator of New
| York. far Outdoes, it must be confessed, in self
| couceited importance, Williams effort TO make
| himself lord and master of Nicaragua At the
same time, the pretensOns set up to further Woods
scheme, in point of charlatansm and fslsehOOd
| stand at least on The same level with
| those Of Walker There is, indeed in
| this respect marked similarity between the
actics employed by these two notorious advocates
of the one-man power. Az Walker sets himself up
as embodyng in his person, by virtue of his election
as President by what he calls "a large majority OF
the democracy of Nicaragua and, for that matter
the entire people of Nicaragua, whom he represents
a. in his person. grossly outraged and carried Off
into exile by Captain Davis; so Mr. Wood sets
q nko1r in notm
the Democratic party, but the entire population OF
the City Of New.YOrk, whom, in the curtament OF
bis powers as Mayor, the Legislature at Albany,
by their recent acts for the regulation of our NUM-
cpal affairs have sought to strip of their just con-
stutit nal rights, and against whom in his person.
warrants of arrest have lately been issued to which
be only submitted when frightened into it BY the
array Of military force--just as Walker submitted
to similar threats of force the part of Captain
Davis.
nWalker's letter to President Buchanan, tits not
the violation Of any personal rights or interference
with sny personal projects Of his own of which he
complains; it is not that he wanted to fibuster
and put money in his pocket to turn pirate and cruise
Up and down in his stolen schooner Granada, seek
ing by water as well as by land whom and what he
might plumber and that Capt. Davis would not let
him. His complaint is that the sovereignty of
Nicaragua and the rights of the Nicaraguan people
have been grossly outraged in his person, and that
the hsppness of those people only be secured and
their rights INDICATED by replacing him, William
Walker, with an army Of illibusters, in the sole
and absolute command of Nicaragua Exactly 80
Mayor Wood. To him the Legislature, the Gov
ernOr and we might add the Judiciary Of the State
of New-York, stand in the place Of Capt. Davis
and he vents against them complaints as bitter as
those If Walker Of having violated in his person
the municipal rights of the City Of NewfOrk and
the individual rights Of each and all Of the citizens;
which rights, according to Mayor Wood, can bnly
be placed in q condition Of security, and the cit
liens themselves in a position of selfrespect aud
substantial prosperity, by the city being delivered
over, for an Indefinite period TO his absolute con.
troll ard that Of such rowdies, bues and adyen-
tuers as he may appoint to rule and to plumber it.
The pretension of Walker to embOdy in his person
the sovereignty and to represent the popular rights
and popular sentiment of Nicaragua s, it must be
admitted, a most audacious piece of humbug. But
can ybOdy deny that Wood, in pretending to set
himself up as representing and embodying, in his
bloody resistance to the laws and the Courts, the
municipal rights aid tie popular sentiment of the
City Of New-York. gives specimen of impudence
at least quite equal to that of Walker
II il impossible that any man of ordinary capa.
city who does not wfully shut his eyes, can fail to
see that the struggle now going on in this city is
precisely similar TO that of which Nicaragua was
lately the scene-a struggle on the part of the
property holders, the business men, the industrious
classes, the sober and the law-abidng citizens, to
save the city from the effects Of utter ineliciency
in every administrative department, legalzed sys-
TEN of plumber, frighttu state of disorder and
anarchy consequent upon the advantage taken by
Wood OF the violence and Teeklessness of party
spirit and the divisions thence resulting to get him
self elected May by bis own drilled troops, very
much in the same way in which William Walker
was elected by the votes Of his own men,
President Of Nicaragua. And will not the emigrant
runners baggage smashers and sweepngs of the grog
shops with which Wood has filed up the ranks Of
his pseudo police and guarded by whom in the City
Hall be lately set The Judiciary at defiance, COM
pare well enough, both as to character, objects,
local attachment to the City, and pecuniary or
other interest in it, with the flibuster horde col
ected together from all quarters Of the earth, with
which Walker attempted to rule Nicaragua
The anathemas poured out BY Wood and his
ny rmidons again:t the Legislature and Governor
for their attempts TO come to our aid, and to deliver
Us from this horrible and frghtful ty ranny and dis
oder are precisely similar to the excavations ut