"History of Fillibustering"

[Bapopik at AOL.COM]

THE CALIFORNIA DIARY OF GENERAL E. D. TOWNSEND
Edited by Malcolm Edwards
The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles
1970

Pg. 91:
_Sunday, January..1855_
(...)
   HISTORY OF FILLIBUSTERING (sic)
   January 13, 1852, General Hitchcock, commanding the Pacific Division, received a special commission from the President, transmitted by the Secretary of War, in a letter dated November 19, 1851, to enforce the Act of April 20, 1818.  The occasion of the commission being given was the rumor that an expedition was fitting out against the Sandwich Islands, but it was general nad unlimited in its terms, and applied to any hostile expedition fitted out at any time in the U.S. against a friendly foreign power.  This commission had not been withdrawn, when General Hitchcock hearing that a filibustering party was about to sail under Walker against Sonora, or Lower California, wrote to Collector Richd. P. Hammond, September 22, 1853, informing him of his (Pg. 92--ed.) instructions and of what he had heard and asked him to permit his officers to keep a look-out on all vessels...
(This article is on pages 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, and 96.  From the last line on Pg. 96--ed.)
   "General, do you think the Administration is really intent on stopping these filibustering expeditions?"

(I haven't checked the American Memory and Making of America databases--ed.)