The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-28

WALKER THE FnIBusTER AND HIS SILLY
CHARGES AGAINST THE ADMINIsTRATIoN.-We
published yesterday despatch from Washing
ton stating that the filibuster Walker, in
speech at Selma, Alabama, said " that the Sc
cret of the opposition to his cause, and the rea-
son of the high handed outrages committed
against him and his men, were that Americans
in Nicaragua favored the establishment of
slavery" In another despatch which we pub
lished yesterday from Mobile, it was stated that
at ian enthusiastic meeting" held there on
Monday night last, walker disclosed the Sc
cret of the government opposition to his Mica
ragua scheme-which was a rejection of their
proposition that he should go to Mexico, and
incite war there, with view of their acquiring
that territory"
Now, We dare say that Walker entertains the
idea that he may make as many silly accuse
tons against the government as he pleases, be-
cause Of the contempt with which they will he
regarded by the administration. For the infor-
nation of such OF his Southern fre-eating SYM
pathizors however, as may be credulous enough
to believe lin, We undertake 10 say that in
neither of the foregoing specifications is there a
shadow VI truth. or this we are entirely salts
fed. First, we are sure that in regard to
the hostility of the administration to the
late flibustering enterprise Of Walker, the
subject of slavery in Nicaragua had
nothing more to do with IL than
the King of Dahomey or the man In the moon.
Secondly, the charge that the administration
had made proposition to Walker "that he
should go to Mexico and incite war there"
with view TO the acquisition Of that country,
and that IL was because he had refused to ac-
cept this nattering offer that the Cabinet turned
against him, must have excited the laughter
even of his most devoted Mobile sympathizers
In the first place II will be difficult to make
any man believe that Walker would have re-
jected this proposition. No man of his profes-
sion, and in his position, could desire anything
bettG than such an offer and such an opening
as flibustering invasion Of Mexico. under the
connivance of the government of the United
States. What overruling scruples Of conscience,
or what superior inducements Walker could
possibly possess in any other direction, IL were
hard to conjecture. In the second place, Il il
utterly 1mpOhSlDle tnat tne PRESIDENT or any
member Of his Cabinet could stoop TO any such
scandalous proposition to Walker, or any other
adventurer, as the stealing Of neighbor's
lands upon any terms. Gould any such over
ture be traced to any member of the Cabinet,
his reward would be, not only his instant expul-
sion, but the universal contempt of the country
The simple fact is that Walker, as the great
ilibustering champion of manifest destiny" is
played out. Had he been practically in the
smallest degree equal to the task which be as
sumed as the Dictator Of Nicaragua when in
possession Of the country, he might have been
successful in holding IL. He had the game in
his hands, but through his incompetency and
bis beadlong recklessness he sisgusted his
allies, arrayed his best friends against him, and
united his enemies. The administration set Its
face against his late expedition simply because
IL was lswless and disreputable enterprise
lie was arrested and brought back as a flibus