erland, Pennsylvania, July
19th, 1801; removed to Mississippi in 1826, and commenced the
practice of law; was United States Senator from Mississippi, 1836-
1845; was Secretary of the Treasury under President Polk, 1845-
1849; was appointed, by President Buchanan, Governor of Kansas in
1857, but soon resigned, and died at Washington City, November
11th, 1869.

CHAPTER XXXII.
FOREIGN INFLUENCE AND KNOW-NOTHINGISM.

The forcible acquisition of territory was the means by which the
pro-slavery leaders at the South hoped to increase their territory,
and they defended this scheme in the halls of Congress, in their
pulpits, and at their public gatherings. Going back into sacred
and profane history, they would attempt to prove that Moses, Joshua,
Saul, and David were "filibusters," and so were William the Conqueror,
Charlemagne, Gustavus Adolphus, and Napoleon. Walker simply followed
their example, except that they wore crowns on their heads, while
he, a new man, only carried a sword in his hand. Was it right,
they asked, when a brave American adventurer, invited by the
despairing victims of tyranny in Cuba or of anarchy in Central
America, threw himself boldly, with a handful of comrades, into
their midst to sow the seeds of civilization and to reconstruct
society--was it right for the citizens of the United States,
themselves the degenerate sons of filibustering sires, to hurl at
him as a reproach what was their ancestors' highest merit and glory?

General Walker, the "gray-eyed man of destiny," was the leading
native filibuster, but foremost among the foreign adventurers--the
Dugald Dalgettys of that epoch--who came here from unsuccessful
revolutions abroad to seek employment for their swords, was General
Heningen. He had served with Zumala-Carreguy, in Spain, with
Schamyl, in the Caucasus, and with Kossuth, in Hungary, chronicling
his exploits in works which won him the friendship of Wellington
and other notables. Going to Central America, he fought gallantly,
but unsuccessfully, at Grenada, and he then came to Washington,
where he was soon known as an envoy of "Cuba Libre." He married
a cultivated woman, and his tall, soldier-like figure was to be
seen striding along on the sunny sidewalk of Pennsylvania Avenue
every pleasant morning, until in later years he went South to "live
or die in Dixie."

President Tyler having sent Mr. Dudley Mann as a confidential agent
to Hungary to obtain reliable information conc