The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-08-24
Rey il the CitY d HaEana.
TNn poouMRN.Ts s.

ANunors OF all SORTS circulated from mouth to mouth.
The Delta issued an extra, and embodied many
street stories in an editorial extravaganza
the Crescent was not spared for its incredulitiesl
The Evening Pieayune was more stately in its
Civilizations; and went offwith more activitythan il
customary with that pOnderous reproduction Of the
morning edition. The Courier was in The same
state of citation as though it were great triumph
to have discovered some cause for getting 10
national quarrel with Spain. What these reports
are at length it would be a superduous task TO
recapitulate either as they 60 round the streets, or
as they are set forth in editorial speculaiions, on
the eutrayagant correspondents Of the papers, We
have fortunately been put in possession of some
documents which makes it unnecessary to repeat
or review idle and disproved tales These are the
official papers which will be found in this morn
ings paper. They are the same, probably, of
which the Picayune writes as convenient
documents, meant TO shield the parties in the
abduction case, and coming from an official
source !" and against which that paper, in a very
unfair spirit, warns the public in advance as show
ing false eolors" They are copies made from
the original Or official duplicates, Of original papers,
which have been forwarded TO Washington by
Gen. Campbell himself, authenticated by his own
seal, or the seal of the Spanish authorities The
idea Of fabrication is mostfous absurdity, which
no sane mind will entertain for moment
For these papers we are indebted to the counsel
Of the Spanish Consul and they are given to the
public by departure from the official usage, in
order to check as far as possible, by authenticated
facts the torrent of prejudice and misrepresentation
which is directed with so much persevering zeal
against his conduct in this matter. We have no
intention TO review these papers at length. being
satisfied to refer any discriminating reader to the
leading points, in which they, sustain clearly our
position, that there was no abductionthat is, that
Rey went voluntarily TO Havana, for his own pur-
poses and having freely placed himself within the
Spanish jurisdiction, has no title 70 claim the inter
position of the United States in the matter of his
individual wrongs, if he have any, from the gov
eminent Of Cuba.
By way Of study into the art Of inaammatory
correspondence, we ask the public to note the letter
Of Rey to Consul Campbell as exactly copied in
tho correspondence, with the description Of it given
by the Havana correspondent of the Deha wherein
Rey is made to say
That be was forced on board the American
schooner Mary Ellen By Don Carlos de EspaitG,
The Spanish Consul at Nel0 Orleans, Capt. Jas.
Mcconnell and sir men that when, forciby de-
"liveTed on the schOOner's deck, he was taken to
% the cabin, and there confined In the attempt to
rescue himself he iDds kicked IN the pit of'He
stomach By Don Carlos de Espafa and James
=" Mcconnell, which left him insensible,' etc.
These statements are not contained at all in the
letter they pretend quote, and they could not be
true unless the very witnesses for the prosecution,
including Charley Rodgers their chief had sworn
falsely, for their testimony is utterly inconsistent
with these particulars, which the Delta, neveTthe-
less, swallows as excellent facts
The whole Of this Rey letter, reoanted inmedi-
ately afterwards only increases the contempt felt
for him, aud the assurance Of his utter unworthi-
ness Il is evident that be is a poor sharper, who
has been playing game Of double freachery with
out The nerve 70 carry either part throughtyi
frmness and that if he is in the custody Of the
Spanish government as a criminal, he has brought
il on himself by attempting new treachery, in
which he has failed to satisfy his seducers of his
good faith 10 them or bis ability to do what he un-
denook in order to buy their favor. The key to his
expectations, his conduct, and perhaps to his fate,
may be discovered in passage Of one Of the cor
respondentsof the Della, embodied in an editorial
Of that paper and specially commended while max
ing these unconscious confessions
i is also added by a sagacious and reliable cor
respondent that the victim will suffer the extreme
penalty AS THE PROMISES OF HIS PARDON ARE
PREDICATEp upon has declarations being Of inpor-
tatice 70 the Go0ernmat.'''
This Delta's sagacious and reliable " CORES.
pendent thus plainly admits that Rey had prom
ises of pardon and that these " promises were in
return for information which he was to give the
Government. The necessary inference is that he
went voluntarily out Of the jurisdiction of the
United States into that Of Spain, in the e1pecta-
ton and on the assurance Of receiving favor and
rewards for his services. How, then, can the
Delta, or its Intelligent correspondent make ont
avioaton Of our laws if under these circumstances
the Spanish Government have broken faith with
him, or have discovered that he deceived them
The Spanish authorities, in all these papers, ex-
plieitly admit that Rey had certain assurances for
going back % Havana; and in one place it is said
that none Of the assertions made in his deposition
to the Consul promising revelations, had been sub
stantiaied. The SPanards seem 10 treat him as
having attempted to fool them; and he, in his
terror, perhaps inhis consciousness Of having cheat
ed all parties, at one time tried to recant all his
declarations, and wanted TO put himself back, by
series Of absurd lies, under American protection.
The letter Of Gen. Campbell is a sufficient and
complete answer to the allegation that Rey,s first
declarations Of his perfect freedom v ere made in
the presence Of the Spanish soldery and that he
was afraid for his life 1t now appears, by Gen.
Campbeil's letter, that he was only accompanied
by the Captain of the Port, who went to point out
where the Andrew Ring lay; and Gen. Campbell
himself says that this excuse of Rey's for telling
falsehood was very insufficient. This is another
example Of the dissipation by few words Of fact,
of one of the largest abduction inventions
By-the-by, we must not forget to observe that
the whole Pigment about PRESERVATION of Rev bv
somebody else, is given up, and all sides now con
cede that it was Rey himself who talked with the
Consul on bo2gd Of the brig, Where then is the
Picayune'a oftrepeated calumny upon Captain
Mcconnell, that he responded to Signals from the
coast, and landed Rey from the Mary Ellen, de.
ivering him into the custody of the Government
We know that there is stubborn feeling of in
creduiiY, which will not, on this subject believe
the plainest Of proof against their theory of
abduction, but nevertheless implicitly gives faith
to the widest rumors and the most absurd and I'M
connected stories which agree with their preoon-