Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-09-28
THE END OF WALKER.

The intelligence that Gen. William
Walker, the most notorious of modern
illibusters, has been shot at Truxillo,
will create no great sensation, and prob
ably no great regret, among the Ameri-
can people. His was career which re-
flected no honor upon this country, but
continually to involve us in
complications. And with
the solitary exception of his enterprising
activity, the personal qualities which be
were not those which some
times give faint relief even to the lives
and fates of bad men. He was neither
magnanimous nor amiable, but as cruel
to his companions as he was narrow
minded in his aims and incompetent in
the execution of his plans. This is not
the ilIiberal verdict which follows want
of success, but is the impression which
Gen. Walker wrought upon the public
mind by the whole progress of his sin
gular career.
Gen. Walker was of Southern birth,
and at his death had but reached the
earlier stages of mature manhood. Ro-
mantle stories have been told about the
causes which drew him away from the
prosecution of his professional studies to
embark upon the fillibustering adven.
lures now terminated so ingloriously, but
they are probably mere fabricatiors
ELECTED by the temporary success of theil
hero in Nicaragua. No man was evel
more desperately pulled than he was a
one time, and the quantity of rhetorical
fustian with which he was honored is nov
almost incredible. 1t needs but few
words now to recall the substance of hi
Nicaragua career. He arrived in tn,
country in June, 1856, having been in
vited from Sonora by the so-called dem
ocratic faction of the state, with the ten
der of twenty thousand acres of land
He sailed from San Francisco with fit
six men, and captured deputy sheriff i
the cabin, who was legally in possessio
of the vessel. On his arrival, Wake
plunged into long series of battles, re
sulting in the capture of Granada an
4 the stipulated promotion of himself q
= Commander-in-C chief of Nicaragua
] Soon afterward the President, Rivas, wa
4 expelled, and Walker was chosen to b
i place.
r All went on swimmingly for time
e Nearly a thousand adventures joine
= his native troops. Our minister in n
4 caragua recognised his government, a
:, though the step was subsequently coul
v fernandez. He re-established SLAYER
! in order to attract Southern emigrant
V and capitalists, like Mr.. Soule, purchase
e estates within his dominions. But d
sensions arose the cholera decimat'
his troops; the Transit Company reser
= ed his interference his purse was empt
and one reverse followed another, ,
v Walker at last fled the country, and {
- rived in New Orleans in the summer
e 1857, with two hundred and sixty wretc
q ed followers. 1t was estimated that mo
;; than three thousand American advent
rers lost their lives in this miserable CT
a SADIE.
70 After this event Walker spent cons
ii cradle time at the South, trying to p
~ suade the government to connive with
n Central American "policy," and to b.
Ie up recruits for other expeditions, but W
he poor success. We have heard of him
,is the Mexican border and in Californ
It. but the public took little interest in
nd operations till his recent emergence
no Honduras. That portion of his car
NJ is now ended, and forever. May it
&c, the end of all such attempts and all 81
M adventures. Three years ago, al
", Walkers expulsion from Nicaragua,
Ter took occasion to say: " Walker and
of PEI are united in ignominy, though S
arated in fate" The union is now CT
as plere. The fate, though hard and n
IN ancholy, must be conceded to be jus
re-. the victims, and salutary to the peact
~. nations.-Boston Journal.
in Coon BoY.-The Prince of w;