The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-27

generals have done, including the memorable ID.
Leopoldo ODonnell. Ii would not surprise me To
hear shortly that my best friends, the most distn
guished young men in Cuba for their talents and
virtues, confined in the jails Of the colonial cap
ital for supposed indiscretions which was repre-
sented to have made known to the turnkey, Don
Juan Garcia.
Now and for ever, protest against such an out
rage The oppressors of my country shall not dis
grace me in the eyes of my compatriots; nor shall
the barbarous men, who so many times threatened
me with the gallows if i did not denounce my ac-
completes, the fufment of their unjust designs
by means SO base and villanous which the civilized
world abhors.
Don Juan Garcia, (alias Rey,) an unfortunate
turnkey of Spanish Jail ignorant man in
ry sense of the word, incapable of compromising
the aspirations OF a patriot-truly he is entitled to
my gratitude for having set me at liberty, but not
TO my secrets, not to my confidence.
All the prosecutions the captain general may in
flict upon Cubans by means of the revelations of
Garcia will be entirely arbitrary and tyrannical-s
fatal consequence of the unlimited powers with
which he is invested, by the state of siege TO which
Cuba has been subjected since 1926 and of that OPP
pressive colonial system which prevails in that
fortunate island.
We now come to the last part of the examination
of the Spanish consul. According TO this benevo-
| lent being, Garcia, fearing that Fernandez and
| myself would oppose his return to Havana, endea-
vored to keep the matter secret and asked for
passport under the name of Pedro Murga y Romeo.
Assuming that the fears of Garcia we're real, and
! not gross invention of the Spanish CONSUL could
it be possible that Fernandez, who disappeared from
New Orleans long before this affair, or l. who was
| in New York at distance of so many leagues
ignorant of the plans of Garcia, will not say pre-
vented, but even desired to prevent his supposed
spontaneous return to Havana? Again, if Fernan
dez feared that Garcia would deliver the hid treasure
| to his creditors, why did he abandon him at New
Orleans? Why did he not poison him to make him
hold his tongue? Why did he not throw him into
the Mississippi? Why, in short, acting with more
humanity, did he not give Garcia So 900 or So to
| save $780, 900? Where was the common sense of
Fernandez, that he did not sacrifice small sum to
save the whole? And l, who had the weakness to
entrust my lberator with secrets SO important as
those which involve the security of people, WHY
did leave that man and Fernandez as soon as we
| had landed in this republic2 But will stop The
differences obvious, that, pursue the matter
| further, would be to weary the attention of my
| readers without necessity. Enough has been said,
in my opinion, to prove the absurdity of the repre-
sensations of the Spanish consul at New Orleans
enough to convince the Cubans, the United States,
and the whole world that if the captain general of
Cuba, Don FREDERICK Roncaly, to avoid signing the
palinode before the government at Washington
and to satiate his revenge, avas himself of the alb
ducton of Garcia, pretext to defame me and
Cypress my compatriots, he commits the greatest
act of injustice and tyranny that reserved for
the captain generals of Cuba
CIVILO VILLAVERDE
New You Aug. ~, lS49
P.S.-Since writing the above protest, have re-
ceived the New Orleans Picayune of the 5th inst.
the contents of which confirm all my suspicious.