The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-07
The Last Gasp OF tho Filibusters-Frults
OF Mr. Buchansn's Policy.


The Last Gasp OF tho Filibusters-Frults
OF MIR. Buchansn's Policy.
The impotency of the last effort of the filibus-
ters and the general Reproduction with which
the country, is conclusive proof of the decay
and dissolution of the Walker school Of adven-
turers.
Much Of this result is owing to Walker him
self. No man among the flibuster leaders had
a better opportunity than he to run the career
of statesman and general among the dis
tracted States of Central America and to estab-
lish the nucleus of order and good government
there; yet in every respect his course has been
q complete failure. When he first appeared in
Nicaragua as the supporter of the liberal party
in their civil war, he was hailed as the genius
of peace and order, and attracted to himself
many warm friends. These he soon lost through
his own insatiate ambition, his utter inability to
comprehend the circumstances that surrounded
him, and his ignorance of the true principles of
society and government. Instead Of endeavoring
to weld divided State, to moderate the passion
Of parties, and to bind all to the support of the
common veal, his attention was directed to Sc
curing his own exclusive power, to satisfying
/ the demands of the adventures that flocked
around him, and to the putting in practice the
Utopian schemes of WORKOUT politicians. The
result was that he united men of all classes
and opinions in Nicaragua against him, and
gained the opprobrium instead of the applause
Of the world.
Twice driven out of Nicaragua, and saved
only by his surrender to American officers, he
has constantly persisted in his intention to re-
urn to that republic, not as pacificstor, but
as conqueror. But in this he has encountered
the consistent and energetic watchfulness of
Mr.. Buchanan's administration. The President
has at all times and on all occasions discounte-
nanced and denounced the lawle4 proceedings
of the Walker school, and the plans
of Walker himself, Lockridge and their
compeers, have in every case been de-
feated. Each new attempt has received less
and less public support, till now we find the
last expedition, starting with small number of
men from New Orleans, stopped at the mouth
of the Mississippi, without provisions and with
out the means Of putting to sea, and orders
have been sent there to arrest all who have
not escaped.
1t is to be hoped that this is the last expir-
! ing effort of Walker and his kind. If we are
to extend any assistance to the efforts Of the
| Spanish-American republics to establish peace
and order among themselves, it must be
through very different class of men from
Walker, and by very different measures than
those he has used. Mr.. Buchanan has directed
his attention to the diplomatic arrangement of
the subject, and the good sense Of the commu-
! nifty everywhere sustains the course he has
pursued. Adventures of all kinds are set
| aside and put down, instead of being listened
| to and half encouraged, as they were by poor
Pierce, and the policy and good faith of the
present administration, if it is met by the same
spirit on the part Of the Central American
| governments, will destroy the last remnants of
| flibusterism.