The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-08-06
ne Abduotion Aaair.

this curious investigation The reader will find,
in our reports to-day, some documents which throw
| light on the disposition Of the man ReY his mo-
tives and wishes They are wholly in conflict
with the version Of those who insist on maintain.
ing the position that he was forced away to meet
cruel punishment in Havana. They are in har-
mony, too, with the news brought by the West
India Steamer to Mobile, which we published on
Saturday. It will be noticed as a singular fact,
that the accounts from Rey, brought directly from
Havana, have not been published, at all, BY the
papers which have made most Of his disappearance
Two of them have INDUCED in structures dscred-
iting the news, and questioning the truthfulness
Of those who brought them, while they give un-
limited currency to every extFavagant and improb-
able rumoF, tending to strengthen the impression
that an outrage has been committed This is hardly
consistent with fair dealing in matter of so much
interest. No reasoning man can deny that the
Havana accounts which are thus suppressed, are
entitled to infinitely more respect than the rdi
enlous street rumors and bar-room gossip, to the
confident repetition Of which two-thirds of the alb
duction fable and all the popular excitement is due
Just as matters are clearing away here, and the
public mind is getting back to a state Of rational
calmness, we are receiving in our Northern e7-
changes, the expression Of feeling there on the case
as first presented in the newspapers here All the
melodramatic embellishments with which the ex-
cited imagination Of the wonder-mongers dressed
up tale Of lRwess violence, have been creduIous.
ly taken up at the North as undouhted realities
4he Press became Of course, excited and indig-
naTt They imagine friendless stranger, an exile
from his country for his republican sympathies.
torn by force from the arms Of protecting friends in
the house Of his refuge, deluded BY deep and
s-F,t s..fs IL RI
paid agents Of a foreign tyranny seized BY
powerful men, menaced by drawn daggers,
pinionedi thrust into vehicle and hurried on
board Of a brbed vessel, ironed and carried away
with piratica ieroeity INTO distant country, there
to be put to death without justice or mercy. 1t
is tale to rouse every manly feeling, to stir up all
generous sympathies, and TO excite an unappeas-
able thirst for immediate and ample PREPARATION from
the foreign agents and their principals, and all
who have taken part in or countenanced the vii
lanY II these things had been true, well might the
indignation Of the people and the Government be
quick, hot and unsparng. The Northern Press
implicitly receive them as true, and the result is
a universal agitation loudly expressed. The Gov
eminent is urged TO immediate action Spain is TO |
be threatened, Havana attacked, and the more i'm.
patient are dissatisfied that fleet is not on its way
to demand the instant release Of this abducted
man--who is, in the meantime, smoking his segar
at his ease, dFowsily waiting for the quarantine to
expire, that he may get back, of his own accord,
into the city Of Havana.
Tits difficult to comprehend exactly what will be
the sensations at the North, when the truth comes
limping along TO correct this monstrous fabrication
Certainly there will be a sentiment Of indignation,
that the most generous and patriotic sensibilities
have beenplayed upon by an absurd and mischiev-
ous exaggeration, and the uncomfortable sense Of
having been made ridiculous
We hope, for the credit Of. the country, that the
Administration will not have been led away bV this
clamor to take any act to bring upon itself any por
lion Of the rdcule which justly belongs to the rash
propagators Of this senseless story We trust that
it has been guided by the plain duty of waiting for
proofs, before committing itself to the belief Of the
imputed outrage. We give our rulers credit for
so much common sense. Il would be indeed NOR
tiiying, If any important step should be taken by
the Government before the arrival of the concur
sive testimony which is plainly at hand that there
has been no reasonable cause for all this furious
excement-that Rev has never been under any
restraint requiring the interpositiOn of friends much
less demanding the movement Of people in his
iavor-and that al the tales Of violence against
him, the dark conspiracy, the mysterious DOCTOR |
The fatal carriage, the dagger the ropes the chains
and all the other stage embellishments Of the ABB |
iueilon Plot, We're the creations Of a rank imaRin-
ation, that had been better employed in getting up
terrible afterpieees for the entertainment of the
galleries OF a theatre, than in playing such mad
FRANKS with affairs SO deeply affecting material in.
leress and character.
We see new phase Of the subject, or rather a
new subject altogether, proposed 1t il suggested,
very gFaveiy, that the Investigations into the Plot
Of the Abduction would be facilitated bv the ex.
animation Of Sr, Vilaverde, who is in New York
and Sr. Fernandez, who is in Mexico. They are
the prisoners liberated by Rey, and it is singular
that the objects of the vengeance of
the Spanish Government should be supposed famil-
lar with its plans TO carry off Rey from New Or
leans, although neither of them was within a tbou
sand miles of the place at the time But il is not
the abduction itself Of which these gentlemen are
supposed to know any thing-and the abduction
itself is getting obsolete RumoF has Connected
them-one at least--with attempts at revolution in
Cuba, as agents Of republieanism and annexation.
Possibly there may be truth in this, but what that
has 70 do with The accusation of a specific violation
of American laws and nationality, we do not clearly
perceive Il would be remarkable spectacle in
deed to see q Justice Of the Peace in New Orleans,
aided by one Of the prosecuting officers Of the State
and the legal adviser Of the United States, making
public investigations into the state of the interior
politics Of Cuba, and the prospects Of revolution
and annexation there. We do not think it likely
that the appetite for such public display will be
soon gTatifed.
UNION COLLEGE. - Taylor Lewis, the distin-
guished Professor Of Greek in the New York Uni
eeniiy, has been appointed 70 a similar post in
Union College, Schenectady, MY.
LrBERIAN IEDEPENDENcE. = The French Re.
public has, according to its PROMISE made an Off
,ial recognition Of the Iiberian Repubiie and the