The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-04
The Return OF the F1libusters-What Does
the Voyage to Honduras Mean.


the Voyage to Honduras Mean.
The filibusters that went out in the schooner
Susan have returned to Mobile, without much
honor and less glory, as the guests of Governor
Seymour, Of Belize, and the officers of her Bri-
tannic Majesty's steamer Basilisk.
1t will be remembered that after the detention
Of the bark Alice fainter by the Collector of Mo
bile, party of 1873 Of the flibusters got away
from that port on the coasting schooner Susan, on
the 9th ult They were spoken at sea, en- route fol-
Nicaragua, by vessel which arrived at New Or.
leans, and one or two bogus telegraphic reports
of landing having been made, were sent from
Washington. By the steamer Illinois we re-
ceived letter from our Panama correspondent
announcing that revolutionary scheme was on
foot in Leon, and that the flibusters were ex-
pected to land at Omoa or Truxillo, and to cross
Honduras into Nicaragua. But fate had ordered
otherwise, and on the morning of the 10th
ult. the Susan was wrecked on Glover's
reef about sixty miles from the British
settlement at Belize and nearly the same
distance from Omoa, to which port she was evil
IDENTIFY bound. Her passengers were taken to
Belize, where Governor Seymour, disregarding
all adverse reports, regarded them as ship
wrecked citizens of a friendly nation, and ten
dered them steamer to convey them to any
Southern port of the United States. When we
remember the fierce announcements that IL the
flibusters met British vessel they would fight
her to the last, there is a peculiar ring in the
statement that the officers of the Basilisk have
treated them in a gentlemanIy manner
Glover's reef and Governor Seymour have
given the coup de grace to the Walker flibusters.
The plan to go into Central America through
Honduras was good one, SO far as avoiding
the cruisers at the mouth Of the San Juan river
was concerned, and if they really had the consent
and c0nnivanee of President Guardioa they
might have stood chance for success.
But now that they have shown their hand the
game is up. That point Of the coast will also be
covered by naval forces opposed to them and
President Guardiola will probably have his hands
full with domestic troubles The department. of
the English officials has been very praise
worthy, and we do not believe the filibusters
will be so vociferous in the future to fight
the British as they have been in times past.
The solution which has been given by the wreck
of the Susan to perilous question has been a
most happy one, and will save much trouble for
all.
There is an import, however, in the exposed
plans OF the filibusters which should not no dis
regarded. 1t is evident that they are not with
out friends in Central America, and that the
course now being pursued by President Martinez,
of Nicaragua, and President Nora of Costa RIGA,
is not the course adapted to the establishment of
peace and order in those regions. The centrali-
cation of government and the founding of des-
potisms are not what the Central Americans de-
sire, and the alliance that is sought with the
despot Of Guatemala by those two Powers is full
of trouble for the future. The constitution
which has lately been adopted in Nicaragua is a
sarcasm on the name of constitution, and is one
that can only lead TO blood The mistake must
not be made by our government Of surprising
that the Walker enterprise was one wholly desti-
tute Of cooperation in Central America, and
that the principles developed by Mora and Mar
tinez are heartily adopted by the people SUBJ
jcct to their rule. Reprchensible as Walkers
course has been, and incompetent as he
has proved himself to be, bis errors should not be
laid upon the strong and popular party in Mica
ragua that desires liberal government, and
hates constitution which gives to the executive
the power Of banishing his opponents from the
republic without accusation and without trial.
It is to be hoped that the return Of the Susan's
freight is the last we shall hear of Walker and
his movements. But in order that il shall be so
the nations interested in the prevention of fiji
busterism should see that yrannics arc not cstab-