Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-01-16

South and of the Administration but the ex.
element which it has created in the South Is
rather likely to precipitate matters, by compelling
Mr.. buchanan 10 shoe his hand. In future, his
Southern supporters will have more confidence in
him, and will not be so easily deceived by the
gaseous denunciations Of q message, Words for
the North, actions for the South.
In the arithmetic of the common law, four de-
tective titles are not equal to one good one, even
with actual possession but in transit matters,
actual possession being secured, with four defec.
tive titles in their hauds-two from Costa Rica
ard ;wo from Nicarogua-Messrs. Garrison, Nor
gan & Co. might consider themselves in a good POI
sition, especially if backed by the Charleston aud
New Orleans interest, and being the largest cred
itors Of buccaneerism from the commencement.
The Transit game has been played for tho most
part outside the Administration circle. All that
was known within the circle of the later opera
tons of Messrs. Garrison & Morgan was, tina,
they represented the Southern PfO.Slavory party
politically, that they had a grant from Walker,
made when he was President Of the isthmus, and
that they had suffered heavily in ''the cause"
This was sufficient for Gen. Cass, who gave CARR.
son every assurance that he would be sustained.
My authority for the following statements is no
less to a person than an ex. Governor of California
now Minister for the United States in "a South
American State, and who, in his capacity for
Governor, was one Of the most useful fricnds Of
that strOng-willed, selfreliant man, Brodcrick of
California.
This Ex-Governor, who, though Ground, fat and
oily" or slippery, is not in the clerical or political
sense "a man of Cod" but only a very good
natured gentleman, was heard to say that, in the
latter part of October or there abouts, 1856 1.-THE
exact date is not essentially, Mr., G. X. Garrison,
Democrat, and ex Mayor of the City of San Fran.
cisco, visited Ibis friend james Buchanan at
Wheatland, and passed a day with him.
AT this time it will be remembered, Walker was
being gradually beaten back by the Central
Americans, and had withdrawn himself from all
the nGrth and west Of Nicaragua into Granada,
which was threatened by the allies from Leon and
ChOntales.
Mr.. Garrison developed in glowing terms-such
as he is well known to be u master oi-the inagni-
iccnt results that might be expected from the
enterprise of the buccaneers no less than the
"AmericaniZation," i. e., conquest, OF the whole
of Central America. lie also explained in that
broad able and satisfactory manner tor which lie
owes, in tnct, the greater part Uf his successes as
a tinancier, the business relations into which he
had entered with Nicaragua passing over Aces,
sorry Transit operations as things OF small interest,
alreaey forgotten. He did not claim the real and
solid merit tor Walker which posterity will con-
cede to him as the pioneer OF the African and
Indian slavc.trade for the nineteenth century on
this continent, but ascribed to him other qualities,
which undoubtedly he then supposed him to
possess.
Mr.. Buchanan, it is said, was powerfully effect
ed 10y thcso representations, made, in fact, by q
diplOmatist quite as abe aud tar more cunning
than himself, but who appeard only 10 the charac-
ter OF Il simple-miuded destiny enthusiast" glow,
ing with the love OF glory and the hope o. extend
ing civilization.
The topic of Slavery was but lightly touched.
The gentlemen, both Northern men, conceding the
laws OF climate, "isothermal lines" aud the gon.
eral bosh OF the ethuOgrapbers, and with n defer
ence to the DEGREES of Providence truly refreshing
n these days of philosophical! atheism, came to
a thorough friendly understanding on the subject
of buccaneerism in general, and Nicaragua in
particular. Mr.. Garrison was given to under
stand that the enterprise under Walker and CARR
son woutd be cordially supported by tie Admintstra-
lion, and a confidential message was sent to Walk
er and delivered to one Of his officers on the 18th
mus on the It'll, Of December, 1856, which reviv-
ed his hopes and gave him a new lease of ''desti'
n.y." Could he hold out until Mr.. Buchanan had
settled himself firmly in the seat of power. oil
would be well. Similar assurance had been given
by Cass, and it was known that the Cabinet would
be Southern in feeling and composition.
The denunciations of the Message did not
deceive knowing politicians and Cabinet makers.
1t was understood that Presidents Messages are
only a kind of useful clay figures" fair, stuffed
semblances of polity and justice, set up to charm
and satisfy the vulgar eye.