Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-09-29
SPAIN REVIVING.

Spain is beginning to recover her place among
the nations of the earth. AS her former wars
against the Moors within her own borders
seemed but to prelude that Saraccn-likc flash
of conquest with which her victorious arms
oversprcad the American continent, so her mod
ern warfare against the Moors of Morocco
seems but to have sharpened her sword for the
affairs on this side of the water. She has lately
landed troops and supplies on the Island of San
Domingo as first step towards regaining her
ancient supremacy in that quarter; and she will
doubtless soon turn her attention to Mexico,
where a large party is anxiously awaiting her
arrival She will show herself quite able to
deal with the flibustcrs that infest those seas
and thus save us from any farther discredit and
shame on that account. 1t will be a curious
spectacle to see old Spain, whom we have dcs-
pissed so much of late years, giving us a lesson
in national good faith and decorum.
Cotemporaneous with this attitude assumed
by Spain among the Antilles, we receive news
of the death Of the notorious pirate Walker
The object of so much sympathy on the part of
our fellow citizens of the South, has fallen at
last in one of his plundcring excursions agans,
Honduras. Such, at all events, is the report.
and is generally believed to be true Under
high-sounding ptetexts of political Objects he
has pursued a long course of violence and ra-
pine; seduced, it is believed several thousand
of his countrymen to their ruin; filed all right
minded men with loathing AMI disgust, and
brought diScredit upon our government and
people. lie has met it is said, with a compar-
atively respectable death, being shot instead of
hung for the lIispanoAmcricans think hang
ing barbarous.
If by his death we could be absolved as a ma
ton from the crime of encouraging his murder
Gus expeditious-if individuals who have Sc.
cretly lent him their countcnancc and means
without which he could have done nothng-if
these could be restored to a sense of manlincss
and sei-respect, it would be of some conse-
quencc to us; but as it is, the great Mr. Soulc
who bought plantation under his empire of
Central America, is teaching political science
from the stump as coolly as if Walkers schemes
and his own were but mere unsuccessful spccu-
lations The death and misery of some three
thousand OF his fellow citizens, with as many
more, perhaps, of lIspmo-A are all
nothing; and slavery, Of which Walker was the
champion. holds lis head as high as ever. Thus
it goes, downwards--one step after another in
the scale of easy descent, proceeding from one
disgraceful step TO another until at last there
is nothing so infamous from which it will recoil.
In the meantime, the cradle of flibusterism.
the source from which all this buccaneering has
sprung-New Orleans, is experiencing the bit
ter fruits of her unprincpaled measures. Hard
ly paper reaches us from that city which does
not contain some new and revolving evidence OF
the want of safety to life and property there
One day hundreds of bales of cotton are burnt
up, and another human life falls sacrifice to
the passion and caprice Of unchecked ruilians
In sending rapine, plumber and death among
her neighboring people, New Orleans has dom
iciliated these evils upon herself.