Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-02-18
The Crime Of the Administration.

II tTlllO VI tuC
From a late COPY OF the New Orleans
Deta we CLEAN some startling facts. which
show conclusively The completely Of the
Administration with Gen. WALLER. and
also tha, it has criminal designs upon Mex
leo and Cuba. Be'ow we make some ex-
tracts from a speech OF Gen. WALKER.
given at a y .raeUan mee'ing - Il bic
NALEER saw:
Hitherto i have not la"ueir' il pro, or or
sdy.sstle Ia Gi CT se the " !iu.e truth IN re-
I larion 1" this matter; there were some CON
sideratiiuEs pressing upon ne which made
ne k ep silence l. a certain eX;rut; there
are facts which | wouid EUt, unless under
tie must urgent irrumstances, Ce,I IL IL pro-
! per 10 disclose. Scme things have trans
PRED which we're to a great extent corh
| deniial, and, therefore, unless the mos! I'M
| isstIiable and Malignant course had bean
pursued, even though myself and NV friends
I we're The sufferers, | etil would retain these
| facts. But ut length there has come d time
when these facts must uu,. There Is 4 point
beyond which it is not to be permitted that
men sbeUld G. and remain unPGnished. II.
any ordinary course had been pursued in
relation 10 the Ncaraguan enterprise, | say
| these facts wculd Il yer have been revealed
by re. But when tie chief officers of the
nation 50 far forget their duties; "hen they
| come forward and make statements which
facts show 10 be untrue; wien they make
use of their official p si;icnsto malign m2u
seeking 20 serve your interests 50 applying
their foul epilhe:S 20 you; it is, IheH, jus
tice TO you, no less than 10 ma AN: TO
others, tia, you should know the whole
conduct Of your iunctionaries.
Not only have the motives Of myself AM
others been impeached in this matter, bat
they Esve attempted 10 brand cur names
with in.su.y; and, no longer ago than last
Saturday, !hry pnrsusd NE as 4 sminoE
criminal. They kGow tina; | IN about te
repair to New Orleans, To demand j legal
investigation .! the charges against me
Nevertheless, they find a cuEytiient a1iils-
vit-maker, and eIGeavOr 10 place me in Gus
tuty OF an offcer for the purpose OF carry
ing ne ANONYMOUSLY TO New Orlears.-
Thus treated and pursued, branded aS in
famous, regarded ID Il Common criminal, is
there one among you who can say that | DO
wroEs when | come Dat and tell the whole
,ruth!-[cries of no! no! MOI THIN let 1t
cone.
Ycu al know how We returned TO the
United States from Nicaragua in May last.
You kLuw ihgt we came hither, not BY cur
own will and consent; that we Came in sub
lection to The strong arm Of force used by
the United States officers. As soon as we
touched this soil. as soon as We became
once more free, we declared our ipteHtion
to return to Nicaragua. Soon af.er ! land
ed in New Oriraus, | met two gentlemen
who mad returned from Washington. They
told me of interviews which they had hello
both with he President and with bis con-
stitutiOnal advisers, the members of HIS
Cabinet. They told Ge of President Blu
chsnan's admitting the full legality Of the
acts OF myself and the parties wbo had IN
aUgurate1 the new order of things in Mica
rrgha. They tod me that President Ruchal-
AL assured them | was as much President
of Nicaragua as he was President of the
United States. More than this. They
10 d me that ii was the intention of the
Government TO assist the Americans in
Nicaragua by more tnan mere wor's or
declarations F; it was by something more
sclid and substantial. by positive acts, that
- r1.-Na II l..-- - q, 49, e
good will toward the Americans who were
laboring 10 secure a permanent Government
in Central America.
They told me that it had been stated TO.
the Cabinet that al sundry times the En-
giisb Government. by their naval officers
at San Juan del Norte, had interiered with
our proceedings in Nicaragua; md they
were told By the Cabinet that there should
be no further interference on the part o
English officers. They were told that, so
far as he Americans in Nicaragua were
concerned, the United States Government
were resolved to assert The doctrine of Mon
rec, and no English Government interior
enre should be tolerated. And that this
might be provided for, American shiPs-of-
war should be station d there, in orcer 10
prevent such interference. But, further
Than this. not only was Great Britain to be
kept off, but The United States were to rem
der active assistance in the spring of.
1856. Just alter the Costa Rican declara-
ton OF var against Nicaragua, certain let
tiers had been intercepted, rom which it
was found that the British Government had
furnished arms and u large quantity Of ain
%unition, on favorable terms-a lrng credit
to the Government OF Costs Rica, which.
as a neutral nation, thy mud i right TO do.
In the exercise Of u similar right, the Uni
ted States Government, would furnish rer-
| tain arms and munitions to the Government
of Nicaragua.
was not sa,i fed with these promises
and these declarations, which were made
at a time VIXEN it was supposed that we
were in Nicaragua. Diet, rmined to 90
myself to !Wa shington, 10 see whether
this disposition was Fersevercd in. On
nv way rhiiher | made no effort to conceal
my resolution, as curly as possible 10 ie-
turn 10 Nicaragua. declared that | never
woulG rest until ! had regeined what we
had list, and with these declarations on our
lips We sought the President. Nov, If We
were engaged in a lawless undertaking how
| should the President receive a man with
these declarations Il | am the lawless
person his message describes, how should
he, President of the Tilted States, receive
me. VIM. Walker a criminal and offender
against the la%s If his country! Would
ii be proper that he sh u'd receive me al
ali! Wa, it roper that, with his consent,
If | were such as hr has stated was t right.
and was it proprr rha; ! Should cross the
tn es!io!d of his d, or, and th;t lie should
receive me as an equa'! But this he Gid.
He rec ired me by appointment; I saw him.
and conversed with him, in relation 10 the