New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-01
VOLUME XIII.
aleu Orleans 4ailp Grsstent,
MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER /, 1860.
THE FATE oR WALKER.


Tie British ship Gladiator which arrived here
two days ago, brings the survivors Of the latest
expedition Of Gen. WALKER to Central America,
and also positive confirmation of the rumor that
Walker himself was publicly shot by the authori-
ties Of Honduras on the l2th Of September.
The whole story in brief, is this: A few weeks
ago, Walker made descent upon the town of
TruxiIIo, in Honduras as the first step towards the
recovery Of what he claimed to be his political
rights in the Central American Isthnus. But
feeble resistance was made to him, and it was sup
posed he would easily yrecstablish himself in power
But he had scarcely seeured himself in the posses
sion Of Truxo--so far, at least, as the native
population was concerned-before q British man
of.war appeared before the town and summoned
him to surrender. Unable to stand before so pow
erfuI an enemy, he retreated from Truxillo and
marched down the coast. Still pursued by the
British slip, and overtaken, his suffering with
hunger and disease, he had no alternative but TO
surrender. The accounts all agree, however that
he surrendered to the British officer alone-that he
expressly stipulated that was the British Govern
ment, and none otAer in whose power he placed
himself. 10 the inquiry, twice repeated before
delivering up his sword, the answer emphatieally
given was, that Walker and all his men were
| alone.
| Yet, with perhdy Of which the parallel is
rarely found, even in savage warfare, this British
captain no sooner had Walker and his men in his
power than he delivered them over to the Hon
DURAN authorities-to men that he knew were
tbrstng for his blood. The sequel is soon told.
| Walker was shot as if he were dog, and Rudler
condemned to close Imprisonment in climate
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fatal.
| By what right tie British Government inter.
| posed, through an officer Of its navy, to capture
Gen. Walker, is a question yet to be decided
Leaving this out of view, however, there can be
no difference of opinion, among all civilized ma
tons, that it was an act of treachery the part
Of this officer to deliver Walker over to his enc
mics, after the solemn assurance that ha d beer
given him, for which no language of condemnation
can be too strong. Such things have happened
in the fierce and bloody wars of savage nations
but it is something new at this day, when the in
fuences of humanity and civilization have abolished
the brutal atrocities which were practised in thu
sanguinary conflicts Of The dark ages.
When the British Government, by deceptvt
promises got possession of the first Napoleon, ans
imprisoned him upon a rock in mid ocean, it gainet
the title OF "perfdious Albion" Nearly half ;
century afterwards it reestabshes its claim to th
designation by similar breach Of faith, which
though committed on q minor theater, is none th,
less worthy of universal censure. We hold thu
Government responsible for the acts Of its officers
until those acts shall be publicly repudiated am
disavowed.
That Walker was no ordinary adventurer, n
mere selfish plunderer, as some have suppose
him, will yet be proved. The history of his ca
reer, with the motives that prompted him. has ye
to be written He was possessed of an idea, whic
had nothing sordid or selfish in it, and one whic
led him to risk his life in enterprise full Of dar
ger, and with means altogether inadequate.
cannot be believed that he would have expose
himself to such peril-that he would have pei
sisted in his purpose with so many odds agains
him-with motives no greater than pertained t
his personal advantage. He beeved-howeye
much others may believe otherwise-that he ha
rights in Central America, and that of these right
he had been unjustly deprived. He determined t
recover them, or fall in the attempt-and lie lea
fallen through the duplicity of third party.
remains for this Government, if there be an
energy left in its Administration, TO ascertain b
what right Great Britain thus lords it, by land an
sea, over the whole of the Central America
region