The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-11-23

MIR. WILLIAM WALKER, citizen, and whlom
President of Nicaragua, has again become promi-
nent in the South violator of the laws of the
Republic, and disturber of the public peace In
his efforts to win notorety, or attain to the dig
nifty of hero, he has been, upon the whole, toll
erably successful The country at large has been
made familiar with his exploits and the public
has been duly posted in regard to his incomngs
and his outgongs, as he has ''walked to and fro
upon the earth" Men have hailed him under
the somewhat meaningless title of ''the man of
destiny" and feminine curiosity has been graft
he'd with descriptions of his personal appearance
so minute as to enable it to speculate on the I'M
prepossessing color of his eyes. If his history is
interesting to some, it affords matter for melan-
choly comment to Others, because of its connection
with questions affecting interests far more impor-
tant than those Immediately involved in the fate
of him or his followers. The wrongs and out
RACES inflicted on foreign and friendly people by
lawless band, organized in, and departing from
our midst, it is our bounden duty to note and to
remedy. The weakness of our own government
as heretofore proven by the impunity with which
this very man has defed it, is a subject for the
consideration of every good citizen. Of what
avail are laws or rules if they are powerless to
check the career of bold and reckless pirate,
who, for series of years, has carried murder and
rapine into the territory of a neighboring people?
What is the power the vigilance of this Govern
ment worth if they are still to be successfully re-
sisted or evaded by Mr.. WV. WALKER? He in
vaded Sonora some years ago, and returned with
the blood of its citizens upon his garments. The
..l.IIfo,.UIU ,asc was CIe;tr, anu tue
facts were not less patent, yet that crime
went UNPUBLISHED. He made an incurson into
| Nicaragua, and was driven out after a
''whole hecatomb of lives' had been offered
as vain sacrifice for the success of his ambitious
schemes; and for that sin he has not been called
upon to suffer. He set foot another foray
against the same nation, and led it forth with a
lie upon his lips, and upon his trial before his peers
| Heaven save the mark, he was pronounced mot
! guilty" Now he is again arrested on the eve OF
embarking on precisely similar expedition. The
shallow pretences under which he seeks to conceal
his intentions are as false as they have always
been. What he says to the public, now, concerning
the purposes of his voyage, is neither nor less
| than what he announced on previous occasions,
and with how much honesty we need not tell II
he is permitted to prosecute this present enterprise
it only be, we believe, because the government
is dereict to the obligations resting it. 1t has
ample means at its command by which to ferret
out the plans of WALKER to the least of their de-
tails, and to counteract or crush them. That it is
bound vigorously to apply them in this instance,
none can doubt Men may differ about the moral.
ty of movement such as WALKER contempates
! l. Xl~o l.,.
While admitting that some persons look on "fli-
clustering" as one of those offences that are only
mala prohibita, and not naala in Sc we cannot for
bear dissenting from such proposition.
We confess our very slight respect for the doc
trnes on this subject which have latterly been SC
freely preached, and particularly in the South
The obvious arguments to be drawn from the suf
fering and injustice perpetrated upon the inhabi.
tants of such countries might seize upon, are
sufficient with US to conclude further discussion
But these objections removed, there Others
that, in our view are equally valid We not only
see no occasion for an expansion of our extended
territorial limits, but believe that such action on
our part would be fraught with incalculable evil
We do desire tho extoncion of the area of free
dom by the establishment of slave States in Mexico
or Nicaragua, or by an inroad of SHARPE's rife
saints into the Red River valley in Canada
Strong enough already to
"defy banded world'
upon our own soil, we look forward to the natural
energetic and peaceful development of our country,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the surest means
of establishing in other lands the freedom that we
hold so dear. If we are only just to others and
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peopng the far West with such a race as dwels,
free and prosperous, this side of the Mississippi
what more could we ask for this Republic, or from
what loftier point could we ever challenge the ad-
miration of earth's remotest nations?