New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-06

violence cannot be got rld Of altogether, stI u
an advantage to bring within the nsrrowe0s pos,
sbe lmits The number Of these privileged to engage
in it,
But Gen Henniogsen is not merely mcrslist and
a historisn-to say nothing Of his accomplish
ment. AZ A soldier and writer. Universal genius
Is he appears TO be, he dabbles slso in theology.
The Bible has been pressed Of late years into the
service of rumsellng into the service OF
into the service Of slavery. General Hennngsen
has found still another use for the presses IL INTO
the service Of hlbus,erism. Moses, according to
him, was illibuster. The conquest ct Canaan BY
the children Of Israel affords an examps-if We are
10 believe this learned expouRter who seems en-
titled TO seat in the synagogue not for frvn Brig
ham Young bmself-ef the same sert Of operation
which he proposes to carry out against the popala-
tons of the Spanish countries Of this continent
the dispOssessng rsees "grown effete and retro
grading" "cumbering the sod in ststionar, bar
barism," and to plant in their stead another people.
Moses. however, is not lett to bear the entire bur
den of this responsibility. Our ingenious advocate
traces sort of apostoical succession from Moses,
through William the Conqueror and bis Normans,
the Pilgrim fathers. and the settlers IN all our
States and Territories down to himself and his
compstriots thus establishing, as he thinks, the
entire Justice of private war of conquest to DO
undertaken against the Spanish Americans But
here again the comparison seems to fail. Sprghtly
a, is Gen. Henningsens fancy, bis reasoning fseu-
ties seem little defective. To speak Of Moses, or
even the Morpo..., or the Pilgrim fathers As dlli-
buster, ia to assume the very point which ne mas
undertaken to prove-nsmely, that there is no an
ference between conquests undertaken BY nation.
and a. a national movement, and c0nquests UNDER
taken by private individuals, and that under no
color or claim of right except the right OF the
strongest. Ths difficulty with Gen. Henninssen
seems to be disposition to put the cart before the
horse He wishes US of to-day to see his proposed
conquest and Americanizaton OF Central America
and the adjacent countries in the same light in
which the operation may perhaps be regarded two
or three hundred years hence, should it happen to
be- carried out according to the programme. Gen.
Henningsen is too much in hurry. He must learn
patience: he must learn to wait. If he accom-
plishes al that he proposes pOsterity some three
hundred years hence may perhaps give him and
bis confederates the glory Of being put into the
same category with Cortez Pizarro, and other
Spanish conquerors of America. While getting up
new expeditions after his model to dispossess the
eete and exhausted posterity of the conquerors OF
three hundred years ago, posterity may cite Hen
ningsen and the 6llibusters Of 1850 40 casting
halo of glory over private warfare, and Is having
justified by their success and it's results the pro-
posed new conquest then to be undertaken. ALI
tina. may be three hundred years hence Atpresent
Gen. HenniDgsen is nothing but an adventurer,
and his associates simply but fllibusters, or, as
Commodore Psulding expresses it in plain English.
"oatIaws and pirates" Let Gen. Henninssen beg
in mind that il is necessary FIRST to crawl as worm,
Ut the risk too Of being trodden on and crushed,
before futtering forth a. butterfly.