Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-01-08
Fillibuster Indignation Meetings

ullDuStcI AHuiSndtlOu meetings
Have been held in some of the Southern
Cities, but seem to have failed to excite
the feeling which the leaders of them de-
sired. Walker was sercnadcl in Wash
ington, and parades before buchanan, his
Cabinet, and the other sworn officers of
the Government, as freely and as proudly
as If he had not violated plain international
laws, and caused the death Of thousands
of ardent young Americans, as well as the
robbery and murder of hundreds more of
people harmless of any offence except de-
Tending their homes.
The attempt to excite the Administra-
ton to open condemnation of Com Pauld-
ing, is checked by the voice Of the free
States and Of the Conservatives in the
Slave States The moral and religious
element, it is in vain much longer to
combat
Com. Paulling's account Of the capture
ofWalker and lis crew,is noble and manly
He says they were outlaws and murlercrs,
whom he was ordered by Government to
intercept in their unlawful warfare upon
Nicaragua, with which our nation was at
peace, and bound by treaties of amity
and he did stop them in their career, and
thus performed an act Of humanity to them
and to the world. If, in his manner of
executing his order, there was anything
technically wrong, he is willing to bear
the responsibility himse!t, and to relieve
the Government
The EilliLusters say hn hal n" right ."
touch Walker after he had slipped through
the fleet ordered to prevent his landing,
and had actually landed. But no harm
was done, and if Nicaragua does not com
plain, nobody else can. 1t would have
been as wrong to intercept Walker in 4
Nicarasuan harbor, as in N!caraguan
town. Perhaps man has no strict legal
right to shoot mad dog or ravening
bear within his neighbor'= fields ; but, after
all, could any reasonable man object? So
there should be free passage, all over the
world, for hunting down and bounding
out pirates and fillibusters. Outlaws, and
themselves ,rampling down all laws human
and divine, what law ear they plead for
their security!
But these Fillibuster excusers did not
complain when Gen. Jackson went into
the Spanish territory near Pensacola to
hiaitiSas Snvaae1" 1As" i6alan Territory Of
Florida to hunt the runaway slaves there
iutermarried, and thu, brought the
Florida war-nor when the L. s. Army,
under Gaines, passed over the Texas line to
aid the Texans and intimidate the Mexi-
cans. The Administration never allowed
any invasion of Canadian Territory, to ex-
tend American institutions to the North.
Ipvasions of foreign soil to spread Slavery,
are all right; but momentary touch Of
such soil to stop the career Of ptoote, is
all wrong.
Gen. Henningscn, and others Of Wal
ker's friends, it is stated, are planning
new schemes of invasion, and have many
men and much money at certain Southern
ports.
1t is rumorcd that the Administration
are about to order home Capt. Chstard,
because he did not arrest Walker; aud
also censurc Com. Paulding because he
til arrest him Tho President, between
his conscientious convictions of right, and
the domincerng of his Cabinet, is in
hornets nest, that stings turn which way
be vii!
Com PAULDING, who captured Gen.
Walker, is a son or grandson of the Iauid
ing who helped capture Andre, who the
Arnold of that day was protecting in his
efforts to ruin our country. There is good
blood in him, honestly inherited. Andre
anu AICOIu COuiu uOl lUpL OIu Suld-
ing, nor could Buch and Walker "fool"
the young one. They were ordered to
look out for spies and truce-breakers, and
they did So Both exceeded some of the
niceties of rcd-tapeism, but both did good
thing The comparisons here fail. The
U. S. authorities of olden time aPPIaRGca
the elder Paulding-now they ccnsure the
young one.
DIED OF GRIEF.-Samuel King, of Ri '
sing Sun, Ind, died very suddenly on
Tuesday last. He become involved in
financial difficulties, and his creditors in
New York came on with large claims,
made, Mr. King alleged, by his partner,
without his knowledge, and closed his
store He was so overcome by these trou-
bles that, after conversation with his
wife, he lay down and was soon found
dead.
An action for debt, by a wife against
her husband, to recover money loaned by
her husband, being property dcgRired after