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their superior energy and courage, were about to 

 throw themselves boldly into a foreign country, and, 

 enrolling themselves under its banner, add to the 

 small but determined force which now forms its 

 army, and in which there is scarce a native of the 

 country. They left New Orleans as emigrants for 

 Nicaragua, they arrive there as soldiers in its army ; 

 and so long as they continue to leave the United 

 States in the former capacity, the Government cannot 

 prevent them from doing so. It was a significant 

 indication of the age to see this magnificent steamer, 

 the product of a high state of civilisation, employed 

 in conveying across those very seas, where Kidd and 

 Morgan won immortal renown, men bent upon an 

 enterprise in some respects not very dissimilar in 

 character, but yet differing in this important feature, 

 that buccaneers sacked cities and robbed churches, 

 and stored their plunder away for their own behoof 

 in secluded islets, while filibusters have nobler and 

 higher aspirations, and seeking to possess themselves, 

 not of gold and silver ornaments, but of a magnificent 

 and fertile country, they desire to replace the in- 

 efficient government, which left its resources unde- 

 veloped, by one which they would themselves supply, 

 and regenerating a neglected state, give prosperity 

 to its inhabitants and a profitable market to the 

 world at large. These are the motives by which 

 these gentlemen declare themselves animated, and if 

 the process is somewhat rude, the results are desir- 



