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believe that Shaw deserves to be placed in such a category He may for all I know have had preferences for Riley and may also have been informed of the state of things at Washington. But I hardly think this is the case - The circumstance in this whole transaction which gives me most annoyance is that my brother has been recommended to you for an office - If I had attempted in any manner to thwart your wishes I should certainly have been the last man to write you on the sub ject I have endeavoured to deal candidly with all men - There could not have been with me any good reason for preferring Col. Riley to yourself though he & I have been always on good terms - To have taken the course indicated by the Correspondent of the News would have been little less than a reckless act of unkindness dictated by no motive. But to have afterwards asked a favor at your hands - would have been an act of base duplicity and would have exhibited a want of self respect and manliness of which I hope never to be found guilty No. 2528 1857 Sept. 2, W. WALKER, NEW ORLEANS, [LOUISIANA] TO C. J. JEN.KINS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA 18 Slavery in Central America-Manifesto of General William Walker. From the Mobile Mercury. NEW-ORLEANS, Wednesday Sept. 2, 1857. sir: In the conversation we lately had at Augusta, concerning the reintroduction of Slavery into Central America, we agreed that much of the opposition to my course in Nicaragua was due to the act annull ing the decrees of the Federal Constituent Assembly. It may be a matter of interest to you, as well as to others, for me to explain the motives which led to that measure; and in this connection it will not be irrelevant, and certainly not unimportant to the people of these States, for me to advert to certain combinations of the Spanish-Amer ican Republics, with a view of limiting the increase of negro slavery on this continent. It has been incorrectly asserted that I and my comrades emigrated to Nicaragua for the express purpose of establishing negro slavery in its territory. For myself, I can only say that I had no such intention. Although born and bred amidst Southern influences, I trust that I am not sufficiently insane to attempt the propagation of Slavery, inde pendent of its adaptation to climate, soil and productions. The experi ence of LOCKE in the formation of his Carolina constitution is sufficient to deter any man ordinarily modest from the attempt to frame laws and institutions for a country he has never seen ; and facts nearer our own time might satisfy any one of the evils "higher-law" political philosophers would entail on society if all their theories were reduced Genl M. B. Lamar Very respectfully & truly Yours James Willie
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