Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-06-17


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81 No history says Gen WALKER, g is 50 hard to
write as thatof ourown tines The tasks even
move difficult if man attempts to narrate events in
which be has taken part The author canddiy
confesses that in this narrative be does not expect to
attain perfect truth in all things he merely asks
the reader to give him credit for the desire to state
facts accurately, andtO reason justly about the cir
oumztances attending the presence Of theAmericans
in Nicaragua
In this narrative we have succnct history Of the
warm Nicaragua, commencing with the revolution
Of 1854 and terminating with the surrender Of Gen.
( WA1Km and bis men to Commander DAVIS, Of the
United States Navy, on the lst Of Nay, 1857, en-
bracing period Of three years. These three years
torn epoch Of 10 ordinary interestinthe history
Of Nicaragua, and the work Of Gen. NAIKEE was ne
eessary to a correct understanding Of the objects
sought 70 be accomplished by that war So far as
we are able to jadge il is truthful and impartial
history Of the events occurring in Nicaragua during
the period Of the war and is therefore, valuable
/ contribution to contemporary history.
We extract the concluding paragraph, as showing
the spirit and temper Of the work
thus have /, during a leisure thrust on me
against my viii, tried 70 tell clearly and conclseiy
/ of the War IN Nicaragua. Doubtless many brave
/ deeds and some worthy names have escaped inc
notice they deserve for have been Obliged 70 Wfte
] almost entirely from memory with Iew papers "
documents TO refresh my recollection OF events NV
so,pe time past NV rain effort mas Deen 70 trace
as distinctly as could the causes OF the "Sr' lne
manner in which it waged ana lle CllS
ces attending its conclusion As 5Aiu N Siie LIST
general order published at Riyas; reduced 70 our
Y,asa7t roston bv the cOWardIce OF some, the inca
ppacifv If others, and the ueachery Of many, the
army has yet written page OF american history
which il is impossible to forget OF erase FROM the
future if not from the present, we may expect just
indgrneni5 That which you ignOrantly call Fill
busferIsm is not The offspring Of hasty passion or
l-reguated desire it is the fruit Of the sure, IN
errng instincts which act in accordance with laws
as old as the creation They are but drivellers who
sneak of establishing fixed relations between the
pure white American race, it exists in the United
States and the mixed HispanOlndian race, as it ex
lists in Mexico and Central America, without the en-
ployment Of force. The history Of the world pre-
sents such Utoplan vision as that Of an inferior
race yielding meeky and peacefully to the controll
ing influence of a superior people, Whenever bar /
barism and civilization, or two distinct forms Of
civilization, meet face to face the result must be
war Therefore the struggle between the old and
the new elements in Nicaraguan society was not
passing or accidental, hut natural and inevitable.
The war in Nicaragua the first clear and distinct
issue made between the races lnhabtlng the North
ern and Central portions Of the continent. But
while this contest sprang from natural laws trust
the foregoing narrative shows that the stronger
race kept throughout the side Of right and JUS
tice and if they maintained their cause IN Cen
trail America let them not doubt of its future success
Nor kings nor presidents can arrest movement
based on truth and conducted with justice; and
the very obstacles they place IN the way merely pre-
pare those who are injured for the part they are to
play in the worlds history. He IS but blind reader
Of the past who has not learned that Providence fits
its agents for great designs by trials and suerngs,
and prosecutions. By the cross thou shalt con-
Quer is clearly written in the pages Of history
as when the startled emperor saw 1t blazing IN let
tiers Of light athwart the heavens. In the very diff
ficuties with which the Americans Of Nicaragua
have had to contend ] the presage Of their tri-
umph. Let me, therefore, say to my former COM
rsdes, be Of good cheer faint not, nor grow VERY
by the way, tor your tolls and your efforts are sure
in the end to win success With US there can Oe no
choice honor and duty call on us to pursue the
path we have entered, and we dare not be deaf to
the appeal By the bones Of the Wondering dead
at Masaya, at Rivas, and at Granada adJure you
never to abandon the cause OF Nicaragua Let 1t
be your waking and your sleeping thought to devise
means for a ryturn 70 the land whence we were IN
Justly brought And if we be but true to ourselves
all will yet end we'll
The present movements of Gen. WALKER will i'm
part additional interest to his history Of the War
in Nicaragua.
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sourH July, 1861. Nashville Southern Methodist Publish
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follows: MILTON and his recent Critics, Dr.. ADAM
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