| Show r WON CENTRAL AMERICA l William Walker and His Campaign for the 1 Conquest of the Latin Republics About the Isthmus Within a few fett weeks tho he tide of progress p l at Xa Nashville IiI h Tenn Jo 1 r will l cop s away a front from this Mils place one une l tit of IC Its Ils In the tho tho bh laco an and homo humo of William Walker 1 11 CI the lie t eyed ray moll limn of or destiny who once to III car c out an inn em umpire empire II it I. I fur for himself hll 1 In Central America In the lie very cn I on where Nicaragua aliI anti and Honduras Stare atc Aie now noty clawing each cach others other's throats Soldier and antI cr lie he mil the thc r S term Cat fate that thal so man many soldiers Ami 1111 have ha stet stet-leath met death hi In front flunt of r. r th the titles lilies of or A firing putty of his hiss s enemies t The house whore this man called f i J 1 by man mall many the greatest gloater lat t of lIf all nil l filibuster first wan aty till the lI light ht Is n a quaint buildIng build build- fug Ing In the style Myle use used when Juli Jackson on wa was teas trouncing the at New Ne Orleans It Is in the heart of ash Nashville's business busi busl huslI I ness nl'S district n and 1111 it iI must h he torn down I the tho city Intends to run rue a 1 street tita cag 1 to llo ic the congestion UIt u of truffle traffic oil alt the thc main business thoroughfare thorough thorough- fare rare Its Us owners who bought It from Walkers Walker's V relatives are arc to lJ be paid aid 18 18 for Cur It For hur years It has been visited It by persons persons per per- I sons HilliS u of or an adventurous nd turn of mind I j who have conic com to In Nashville Nash to sec see the lie place where all Walker er was as horn born and 1111 I where where where-he lc he spent hi hl youth Several e years cal n ago tto o there was wa a movement mo on I fool foot to Ur buy It II and preserve It like Mount Venion Monticello the thC Besty HoC Ilo 1155 j house hous 01 tho he Lincoln homestead a and 1111 other homes when when- once ollee ll lI dl jd great Americans nut But the till offer effort I came te cameto to nothing LUIl Lung Long a ago u the lonely grave giave 1 a ve where Walker wa was burled near 11 uX- uX 1111 In Honduras ru was ryas catch a away I by lay laythe bythe the encroachments o of tip the sea J 71 r Walker alker W was t bor T n hi 1 1 1821 1811 R In in In the I house that I Is to lu be bc destroyed rd Ills father fl was ns a t Scotch banker I lio had i married In Kentucky and William p parents wanted him lido to III he be a n PIt Presby- Presby hy lerian lellan ler But BUl th the hull hud hl his own Ideas He lie studied law la al at th thI tub the University of Tennessee Ce and medicine I at al Edinburgh and practised for fm it tl I while Then be lie took tool up the law ll h and hun out hung out ou his hiM shingle ll In New Ne Or Or- Orleans leans Then he became a sll nC newspaper newspaperman man 1 In the amo tamo eH city Next he lac yen yento went Ill to California anil studied humanity In 11 Hie Ow he rough h while the gold ol fever rC serving nerving as UN an nil associate e edits editor Oil on The Ih IhSan i he San clI Ift Herald r All things were tere simply preparations forthe for foi forthe the mN meteoric o lc lust last days day f of bl hi life It IL was WI in 1853 that hat the real lal Willlam Will Will- lam hun Walker hp began to tn show himself Both Bolh the States Slates lal mid Mexico a I t re cl U troubled line tho over t the Ihl ques gUes- question lion tion b it of Ila slaver I nn and the other over o trench French 11 aggression Southerner os as he lie I as Walker saw his l chance II to give I It his Is cuU a an up I outlet for fUI slavery cry into inlo Mexico It by con conquest With ii II ty- ty Iwo t men inch h he Invaded In Lower 1 alifornia then lieu n ns my still Mexican territory He lIe dc declared erl a 1 republic and the h title Wll of President Jh Then Teen n Mexico lc got gOl after him H He lie secured some Nume reinforce reinforcements ments but hUl disaster overlook U him hint Finally Finally Fin Fin- ally he ho haul had lo to cut his wu way back across the tho border where h he surrendered to u Anici icon Hoop 1100 He lie W I In California hill bin hll tie IC government o au- au acquitted acquittal hint him of violating Defeated ll In hl his lust fili 1111 filibustering he hl was tyas life richer In iii experience A U year laler he turned his alien alien- loll lo tu Nicaragua lIu whore I the Iho usual revolution re tas ta's v. v i iii in progress The floe light light- CI em cia were the thc Jc and 1 the lie Dem Iem- Democrats and anal 1 Walker turned Wed In rot for the r. latter with tatty screen l' l filibusters he took tunic 1 him from California and whom h he called the American Phal Phal- In 11 th the first Gisl n fight ht Walkers Walker's was aus beaten but hut In iii time the sox n l fern fe w things s a nt i lit Walkers allas way and lit tho mi ls were urge l to toe sek e k an Ig Ig- Ig peace Walker Vall wu was made chief It of ur the tile army and I from pretty much all nil over l fI r l the h world Hocked to his standard o One Ill of the tho men nten who fought ht w with itt him hits was Joaquin Miller th the poet A little mote more than a tt year car After he ho landed In Nicaragua Nica Walker was ns elected ent of or the nation ii His is success and his ob oh- obvious aim aint to conquer the tho whole holt of or Central Central Cen Cen- Iral America curd and make himself l emperor emperor em em- forced the tho other Central American Amer mcI ican lean republics to tu gel goll together They hey funned formed an un alliance and declared war wal Walker Valler hurl hat J mon men while his enemies eJ had hall 21 but hut thus this doubtless would hove have made ninth little difference hH hud had h he not maple made hl his Illy final fatal mistake of or making mak log ing an enemy of ur Cornelius Vanderbilt who whose l. l steamship line 1111 lo tu Central AmerIca America America Amer Amer- ica meant the till transportation o of men tacit menI I and supplies V withdrew his ships and Walker aller w wry was loft left hl high jl and andi i dry He lie had hall to quit ull and return to the United States Slates The Ilie people received ed ell him as ns a n hero But In a few Cow months he lie was tas back backlit In lit with more immure filibusters ers NS Till n next move o was WUI lIko Napoleons Napoleon's Na Na- a. a from Om Elba Elba it It led to his I Waterloo Ho Ile found a local revolution tion tun going going on un in 1 Honduras arid and I hi his sword to U tho the musket side Tho Tito first thing h hI he did wax was to capture un mid and then hc began an the end cod The British government r Informed him hits h by warship It ha had n a mortgage on the Iho ports port's revenues but hut Walker Ignored time the British clams claims hl While e c ho he was teas dickering dicker cl ing with the thc warships warship's commander a aimy 1 appeared on tio rho land lam landside landside side of or the town It H threatened to sturm storm the the- place Illace and on the thc water skit side time the warship threatened to 0 bombard If Ir Walker did not surrender surrender He Ile and a handful of I Wren men H lI escaped but hut later haler wore acre forced fenced to surrender to 10 the British commander supposedly ullo for trial by th the lite British authorities Tint Put th the captain steamed back U to I and ond gave ue Walker U up to tho lie Hondurans Their dictum in the thc matter mat- mat lei ter vas that the tine only good oo Walker wo was wasa a lead dead one and they tool took him hint down downto to the thc beach one unc morning and wen wen- ty hike ty CI soldiers made c a fi target of him When hen they looked cd at al him hint ho he was waR still tm I H living 11 anti and a 1 sergeant lI paHl put a pistol to hi his head anti and blew his hiM brains out and i ia iI I lie he lieas was as burled bulled where he fell I |
