Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1844-06-01


OUTRAGEs UPON AMERIcANS.-We find
in the PhiladeI phia United States Gazette
OF the 7th inst. a statement VIII CHI ought
to Stir the blood o. every man, and which
should lead our tardy Government for
once to take prompt and decided steps to
obtain redress for past injuries, and pro-
lection in future for Americans abroad.
1t appears that Gen. O'DonneIl, 10 his saw
age mode of investigating those compro
missed in the threatened instruction in
Cuba, is involving white foreigners. He
has established kind Of lnquisition for
procuring evidence Of guilt, which is pro-
ceedlng quite as cruelty as the inquisiton
OF the old. The statement in the Ga
zetto-which the editor pronounces to-
come from highly respectable source
asserts that the proceedings Of the In
QUESTION TO towards the whites would put
to the blush the negro tribunals OF Hayti,
we copy from The printed statement.
Five persons OF responsibility, four of
whom are planters; were arrested and
confined fifty one days, on charges found
ed on the testimony Of worthless negro,
Three OF these five persons are French
residents, and we doubt not their Govern
ment will procure them redress for all
their sutferings. One of the FIVE is cit
zen Of the United States, and we are
happy to learn that full statement Of the
iac;s in this case have been forwarded to
our government. His name is Christie
pher Boon; is native OF New York, and
:or many years has been employed as a
machInlst and engineer on sugar estates
IN the vicinity of Malanzas. The facts
IN his case were as follows; Some time
IN February last, he was arrested on
sugar estate, on which he was al work
and conducted to another, six miles dis
liant, where he was confined two days in
the negro barracks. He was then put OF
a horse, his arms lied behind him, the
cord being fastened 10 the saddle, his feet
tied together under the belly Of the ami
NAL, and in this painful position was
borne to Matanzas, a distant Of lorty
miles, exposed to public view in the pub
lie streets Of the city, doomed to soita-
ry confinement OF fourteen days without
being informed of the groun of his ar
rest, and during that time allowed no
counsel, nor any communication whatever
with his friends. At the expiration of
The fourteen days he was questioned by
he lnquisition touching the charge
against him, viz: That he had in his
under a tree 5000 stand off,
arms! !-thls most absurd charge resting
solely upon the testimony Of the negro /
'eIore mentioned. Moreover, on the
,roundless and malicious accusation, Mr.. t
Soon was confined thirty-fve days longer,
md this, too, in country, the colony of n
nation pro(essedIy civilized and in amity
With the United States.
The Editor Of the Gazette has been fur
shed, from another source, with the fol- n
owing list Of sufferers, including those h
,entioned above, and three or four French n
nd Germans from the same estate upon II
'hich Mr.. Boon was employed; G.
John Gilbert, carpenter, from the 81
nlted States--it was thought that he c,
ould be shot. :,
Henry Elkins, an Englshman, an en- c,
lneer--was for nine days in the stocks, =
nd then imprisoned ... I
Robert Matters, Scotchman. N
Thomas Hogan, owner Of coffee cs- D
te-contlned for a long time.