Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-01-05


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We sincerely rejoice 81 the evidences before as
that The Administration repudistes and condemns
the late high-hauded outrage Of Commodore Pauld-
ing in entering country with which We are at
peace and amity, and arresting body Of enigrsnts
upon foreign soil.
At the meeting 7hele in Mobile on tie l4th ult.,
before the arrest Of Walker the speakers all agreed
on one point-that Gen. Walker has violated no laws
Of this country-that he has right in Nicaragua
and that the q S. Government has wrested the neu-
traty laws from their true intent and purpose. One
Of the speakers (Major HoWadr) declared that our
government, through is own officers, violated every
principle of neutrality in forcing Walker to abandon
his position in Nicaragua and that it would only do
its duty in restoring h5m that rghtful authority
which it Is acknowledged he held there. Appealing
for material aid the speaker declared his own will
ingness to subscribe thousand dollars towards rem
dering Walker assistance. Judge Meek commended
that Walker was the rightfuI ruler of Nicaragua;
that he had been unawfully forced from the posses
sion Of his rule, and shat be had right to return
aud recover it, series of strong resolutions were
adopted unanimously, identifying the interests Of
the South with the success Of Walker in Nicaragua
A letter of Gen. Henningsen, dated Washington,
Dec 10th, to Hon. A. Fl. Stevens, gives, coneisely'
some interesting information concerning Central
american affairs. '.The bulk Of the population
lie remarks, is Indian-an Indian unlike that Of
the North American continent hunter, nomad and
savage-but Of the race that Pizarro, Cortez' and
the Spanish conquerors found-barbarians 1t IS true
but stationary, agricultural people, doeie, patient
iujustrieus and supersitious, who had built large
cities. and raised stupeLdOUs temples. The rest Of
The population consists Of the admixture Of Spanish
Indian ana negro blood mingled and re-intermingled
IN every Imaginable degree The pure Indian races
are the people who cultivate the soil who produce,
who have never had any share in government and
who are dragged las successive factions are aseen-
dan from their willing labors to fight for the mix
ed race This mixed race is in a slate Of rapid
moral and physical degeneracy. A large majority
are born with the faint of hereditary disease, and
the incessant revolutions since the Spaniards were
driven out the general decay Of cities, Of agrcul-
lure, Of industry, and of population, the abandon
ment Of plantations and of mucs attest how utterly
visionary is the idea that any Standardization can
be expected"
Gen. Henningsen declares his conviction that five
years after Nicaragua is Amercanized, IS some day
it will be- its production in sugar and coffee will aP-
proach, or equal that of Cuba at present, and that
lis mineral products will fall little short Of that OF
California now. A majority of the people look to
the Americanizaton of the country the only hope
Of averting its decline into utter barbarism and
ruin. If the native government could sand, the
men in power are bent on excluding Americans, and
Americans have no foothold no security for life or
property on the Isthmus Of Panama, beyond what
the guns Of the United States squadron afford them
He afHrms that all circumstances cOncurred to
legitimatize the enterprise of Gen. Walker and the
emigrants from the United States to Nicaragua, and
that ''witbout misapprelensiOn or perversion OF
facts his opponents may be challenged to show any
difference between the circumstances under which
Lafayette and Kosciusko took part in the of in
dependence, and he in the civil war in Nicaragua,
which are not IN favor Of the legitimacy of his acts
lie was called in by government which had the
sympathies Of the majority. He repaired the dsas-
ers his party had met with. He conquered the
whole territory of the country, and waselsctcd Pres
ident by vote of the majority. He defended the
country against the assaults Of four foreign States
and was only driven from it by the unauthorized IN
reference of a United States officer"
Gen. Walkers pretensions and claims are here
plainly set forth, his Lieutenant and friend, and
we have given them this publicity that readers
may know, from authoritative sources, upon what
grOundshe stands.