Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-22
Fillibusterism.


Walker is going back to Nicaragua, to
enact over again the piracies which have
been disgrace to the country, and which
have attached to his name fame which
any high-minded man would shudder to
own. The Southern papers publish notices
calling for men, and the recruiting business
is going on over the Union-new victims
to his inexperience-his insanity-are
placing their names on the lists, and will
90 with him to die, or to come back poor
sick and miserable, as is now the remnant
of his last campaign army. So the lesson
taught by what New-York has Witnessed
for tjpe back in the way Of Filibusters,
goes for naught. The poor devils who.
dressed in rags, sick and wounded and beg
ging, have been laying around New York
and New Orleans, a warning to adventa-
rers, make no impression on the head-stroBg
knowing ones who are joining themselves
to 60 on a piratical expedition, in opposi-
tioD to law and the wishes Of the masses.
Evensupposing the enterprise to be Just
one, those who know Walker the best Join
in pronouncipg him an unprincipled scoun-
drel and utterly incompetent to take charge
of an army. He is not only cruel 10 his
enemies but to his friends. He would turn
his back to connrade as soon as to foe,
To accomplish bis ends be would gibbet
his own men-he cares not for them only
so far as they will fight for him. There is
meanness-a ittleness in bis disposition
utterly unworthy soldier, and disgraceful
in commander. 1t was said by Walkers
officers who came 10 New York, that he
had promised to aid them-they having
been reduced to poverty by serving him.
Walker had nothing with which to fulfil
his promises; but did not acknowledge it
lie man and a soldier. Instead, New
York looks one day in vain for the Fill
buster Chief; he is no where to- be found,
until by accident it is discovered that be
has sneaked off to an obscure place 10 avoid
his old friends-he refuses TO see them
This is agood specimen Of Walkers man.
illness and honesty.
Strange stories, you recollsct were told
of the grey-eyed man while his cause was
living in Nicaragua. How he burned hac-
iendas out of pure revenge-murdered old
men and babies, women and children, and
carried on a warefare disgraceful to civil
lied commander-how he had his own SOL
diers shot on the slightest provocation-how
he cared for them by dealing out miserable
fare when good might have been had
how he appropriated his soldiers funds and
forgot to pay them-how he repaid his
best friends with base ingratitude. 1t may
be that these stories were exaggerated /; but
that the main facts are true We have the
evidence of his own soldiers.
The conduct of the Costa Ricans, from
the beginning to the end of the wal, was
indeed generous, forbearing, Christian-like.
They used Walker, not as he should have
been used-like common cut-throat but
as if he had been gentleman-a soldier
fighting for his country's good. They for
got their burned and plundered homesteads
their murdered women and children; they
held back and acted purely in selfdefence,
and when the grey-eyed man became a
prisoner they provided means for him to go
back-they nursed his wounded soldiers,
and sent them home murmuring blessings
ont be good Sanaritans they had wronged.
And now Walker goes back with
starting force of ten thousand tnen, and de-
termined to conquer. 1t Is a Southern
move, and the South will support him, for
in the event of conquered Nicaragua the
the South will consider itself benefited,
judging from Walkers "pecuGar" views.
And we believe the Administration will
support him, through ostensibly opposed
to his scheme, the doctrine of Buchanan
on such points is very we'll known. Hmay
be, with the help of the President and his
Cabinet, the money in circulation, and the
renewed vigor with which tie sword is ia
ken up, that the manifest destiny" of Mic
aragua is. to be conquered by Walker
We shall see.