The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-08-21

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BArTIMoRE, August is.-The steamship Falcon
has arrived at New York from Havana. She re-
ports that Rey gave hissansvger to the American /
Consul in presence Of FIVE Spanish soldiers and I
under thteais. He was there in Havana IN prison I
but had conirived TO send two letters 70 the Con
sui stating that he had been abducted and desired
American protection. He moreover requested |
demanded is the word used 70 see him, the Con
sua This, however, afteFdeliberatoH was refused
by The Spanish authorities.
Great establishment was felt in Havana on the
subject, and the excitement was Increased bythe
arrival Of the y. 5. soop Germantown. She, how
ever, sailed without taking any steps in the matter
If all this were true-and we doftbt it all--it
would not establish the fact that Rey was alb.
Quoted The offence against our laws and our
government was in the forcible removal Of the man
from our territory. If he went voluntarily, how
ever induced, there was no abduetion for the;es-
sence of abduction is cOnstTaint upon the will H.
he were deluded by promises which have not been
fulfilled, persuaded to return and thus deceived,
the consent, however frauduently obtained, would
make all the risks his own. In quitting the terri
tory Of the United States, he left their protection
unless taken away by violence, and has no rightto
demand their interposition to restore him to
rights he had surrendered Of bis own free will
The crime of deceiving him, if he were deceived
Of seducng him by false promises, if he have been
seduced, within the Spanish Jurisdiction one for
which all honorable minds viii feel the deepest
adherence, and for which the perpetrators and
agents will receive universal odium for their cow
ardice, perfdy and cruelty. But it must not be
forgotten that the crime is not against our law nor
one III respect to which our government has any
natural right of interpositien The consent OF
Rey would take it entirely beyond our jurisdiction
State and Federal. If there be no abduction by
force proved here, no treatment Of Rey, however
treaeherous cruel can give our courts juTisdic-
ton or authorize national interpostion. The crime
would enure to tile infamy Of the government and
its agents but neither local law nor the law Of
nations would afford a remedy. The duty to pro-
teci extends beyond the territorial limits only when
the party has been illegally removed. In Rey's
case this has not been established. We do not be-
heve it can be, for the proof of consent is eonclu
sive to our minds. The events at Havana, even if
as represented above, add nothing to the case, as
presented here, of forcible abduction.
But the whole Geographic report reads TO us very
much like rigmarole. tits about on level with the
reports that were published here about the gaggng
and the dagger-izlngo RsY. The reportbrought by
the Falcon would make US suppose that Gen. Camp,
bell was a fool and coward and we know him
to be neither. The American Consul would never
have taken Rey's declaration in the g presence Of
Eve Spanish soldiers and under threats;'' and if
Rey were in prison and had sent two letters to
the Consul, stating that he had been abducted and
desired American protection = the Consul would
have demanded the release Of Rey, and, ifrefused,
would have left on the Germantown.
AS to the report about the prison and the letters,
and the deliberation and refusal of the Spanish
authorities. it bears the " Laborde - brand How
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in the streets Of New Orleans after the departure
of Rey One report says he is in Moro Castle ;
another says it is no such thing, he is in Havana
in prison. This last dispatch will, we think
prove to be very much like the e Machin . dis
patch which made out Llorente to be amurderer
BY the way, the Picayune never has given US the
details of that Machin murder. Was he gagged
in the same way that Rey was Did Llorente
take that same dagger with which Rey was coereed
into signing his name and apply it to the trembling
bosom of the murdered Machin And those reve-
lations that Ayala was about to make-are they
all gOnel
What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam,
e Great excitement - was felt 10 New Orleans the
day after that " Machin" dispatch arrived, and
every body was awaiting the accounts of the coro.
ners inquest. But the great ''revelators in this
mighty affair were dumb.
The Plcayune is the Dangerfed in this great
POpsh plot When DR.. Oates began to see that
the Plat was going down, and hesitated in his
testimony, Dangerfield came ia and swore more
Justify than the original contriver ever had. The
Delta the great Oates of this Rey affair, has been
quietly backing out for some days but in comes
the Dangerfeld Picayune and out Deltas the Delta
The success of the Picayune in its new career is
charming one xyouId fbiDIr II bad I,aan "A
in such course all its life,