Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-09-15
Correspondence Of tie New York Herald.
New ORLEANS, Aug, 1919.

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New ORLEANS, Aug, 1919.
For some time past, several men, calling
themselves agents of an expeditionary enter
prise, have been ~enlisting men in this city,
private and secret, that they shall perform
duty in any service in which their aid may
be required when the expedition shall have
arrived at its destination. Immediately after
the enlistment of each man, he is made ac-
q~uainted with certain secret signs, by which
he can recognize his fellow associates, agents
or officers; and, as / also learn, each man
binds himself to keep the fact of such an ex-
petition being in process Of formation 10 him
self, and to reveal it to no one. Another stip-
ulation which those who eBlist in the @enter-
prise are obliged to enter into, is, that the
destination of the expedition is not to De
made known TO them until the vessel in
which they shall embark shall have reached
a certain latitude and longitude. When that
particular point shall have been reached, the
object and intent of the expedition, as well
as the point of debarkation, will be fully
made known 10 them, and they will be e1-
pected to obey their officers, and perform the
military service which they entered into in
this city. Fifteen hundred men, or more,
have at this time announced their readiness
TO embark In this enterprise, and the number
Is increasing every day. A formidable guam
tlty OF arms has also been secured, consisting
OF fifteen or twenty thousand muskets, which
were purchased of Government contractors in
New York, Philadelphia, and other places,
and they are safely secured in the place ap-
pointed for the expedition to land at. The
active men in this affair, the leaders, who
command and are now carrying it on, will
visit the Northern cities, where Gin New
York particularly they expect 10 get all such
additional recruits as they desire.
have as yet said nothing Of the object of
this great movement, nor the point at which
the expedition will debark. You r~ecollect very
well, that, for some lime past, there have
been rumors Of a revolutionary character in
the Northern part of Mexico, and that it has
been expected by the Mexican Government
that an attempt would be made to establish
an Independent republic in the Northern
States, 10 be called The republic of the Sierra
Madre. The subject caused a great deal of
anxiety TO the central government at Mexico,
and troops were sent there some months ago,
and other measures a dopted to nip it in the
bud. Now the object of this expedition is TO
carry out the formation Of the republic of the
Sierra Madre, to separate that territory from
the Mexican Republic, proclaim its indepen-
dence, and maintain it by force. 1t was in
THIS way that the separation and independ-
ence of Texas was brought about; and the
scheme In that instance having succeeded so
well, 1t will be tried now in Sierra Madre.-
The place of debarkation and rendezvous is
TamPico, in the State of TamaulIpas, which,
you are aware, is very accessible from New
Orleans.
A great many of the soldiers and officers in
the late war with Mexico, have Joined this
movement; and | am crejibly informed that
II has received the appreciation, if, indeed, it
has not emanated from, some of the leading
citizens of the South.
Some of these statesmen think that the
time has arrived when not TO resent in a war
often threatened, the continual encroach-
ments of the North on the rights ofthe South,
and their repeated and ihcessant attacks on
The institution Of Slavery, ought Justly 10 be
considered cowaTdly and ~craven-hearted. A
dissolution Of the Union has been frequently
threatened, and this movement is the COM
mencement OF a train of events that will lead
10 such a contamination on The part Of the
South, under the guidance of The leading
Southern politicians. The expectation is,
that the Sierra Madre would, of course, in
due tlme' be annexed to the United States (;
and as soon as that is accomplished, the South
VIII Tecede from the Union, and, with the
Sierra Madre, form a separate and i~ndepen-
dent republic, leaving the North 10 act as il
pleases. With such a vast increase of cotton,
rice, tobacco, and sugarproducing soil, The
new Southern republic, it is thought, would