The Arkansas banner., 1850-01-22
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ties and seems 10 think that the affair Is tn no wise abandoned. He says fPresiJent Tay1or'' Proc'a- nation prevented the glorious eonsummation ct freedom to the Cubln ereoIes, bat we shall see the expedition successful before six mouths pass. The Government may miue but others can eoan'ermine' and while Gen Taylor is watching he can be waeil- 1 cd There are now five hundred thousand dollars ready for this service and government officials have the same ,ceakness that other mOrtals have"
 In relation 10 this unsuccessful attempt. Colonel GATHER, Of Kentucky, who was induced to take an active part in enlisting volunteers. defends hm self in publication and that the proclamation of the President could not have deterred him from prosecuting the design He had enlisted about 800 young Ken,uckians eager for the enterprise and thus speaks in relation to the prepety of bis having engaged a it.
 'One by one the various provinces of Old Spain in North and South America, with the solitary ex- eeption of Cuba, have declared, eonteaded for, and ultimately secured, their independence Nor were we inattentive their just rights indifferent to their nobly efforts We srmpathised with the strug- ges Of Bolivar and his comrades. wept for their losses and rroicsd in their and t is net the ieast glorious of the acts Of Henry Clay that he 1 the first 10 move the recognition Of the indepen-
 
 1 National Legislature. privatrers fttep out in ports, armed with our own guns and manned with our own seamen, openly left shores and aided in no slight degree by their bravery on ths oceu, in 1 securing South American Independence. It has not been the custom of our couutrymen to decry those adventures. nor 10 call them uarauders. their schemes disgracefuI. although there i much of gain glory in their enterprise. When Lafayette, in our revolutionary struggle. diso- beyed the positive aud personal order of his king. fitted out with |" men and arms" ship, and eysd i ing the French well English vessels, reached i our shores and threw himself into the arms of rsbelIious people, no friend 10 struggling freedom called him marauder malicousy charged him | with dsgraceJul motives. l make no effort to iaoliSh sernbance between Lafayette and the lea dcrs Of this expedition, but do say that Cuba has far more cause 'loath' the yoke of Spain than had 10 dislike that of England. Bn truth. there is no despotism in EarOpo more galling. or so far as 1 their own personal action may be concerned, more hopeless than that forced upon kind, generous and hospiable people, almost within sight of our own shores"
 The details of the plans of last summer then i given follows:
 It was at first coniemplaten to raise but reg- meat. and that my own which was preferred, from the region oi country where h would be raised, a rural, of.course d more moral, honorable and respectable body of men could he obtained, than could likely get among the population of the cities 1 and ii was primary consideration among the lea- dprs of the expedition, to have such body would do nothing to outrage the feelings of those whose i wrongs were going to redress. If may be ai- lowed to say so and except myself, the leaders of ! inc American troops especially select for their high moral, and honorable standing at home, no less than their military skill as displayed abro1d.- We were, in raising our men, io avoid us much as possible, all warlike display; there was to be no marshaIing of soldiers, no bent'ng of drums, no Haunting of banners, no bfistng ol arms as quiet ly and as orderly consistent with an efficient organization were to form our companies that they might seem lo be, us indeed they were, an az gregstiou of individuals who were going 10 aid nation of oppressed brethren 10 their freedom i 4 rms were be issued beyond the limits of thu U States, that as we hoped the vdrIest noasrc,iist iu the land would hardly cal upon The beagrs of government as armed body. To show how these rules observed by me, l need only menI, 1n that nearly five hundred mrn were reported to me by lhe 18th of August, and so quietly had the pr- ganzation been effected, that nothing had tTanspir ed beyond the counties immediately adjoining those in which lEe companies were formed. Soon after 1 reached home. il was known that was authorized to raise troops for dangerous, distant aud hou- orabe expedition, aud numbers Of young men caaIe ia know of me the particulars and 10 sgUify their iutehii3ns of going with ne-in no instance did persuade an individual to to l made fair and kind statement of what each soldier had to expect and bade him choose. So lar indeed from persuad- ing men to join me, dissladed many whose domes- lie tastes habits of body ] thought rendered it most proper for them to stay at nome. There wss nothing in all IhiS. as fancy that ssyered OT mar audug-we going to protect the property ss well as secure the liberties ot the Cubans, and when il to the plunder of our enemies, soldiers as they were, we would be apt 10 get cold steel or hot lead. and nothing else for Our trouble. The pay, though liberal for the private soldier, if il had been increased a hundrei-fold, " Verus" and men of his complexion of courage could not thereby have been induced to attempt the periis of the enterprise and the pay ot the officers being the in our own army there thousands in this Union who know as ] do, that it would barely suffice 10 main tain in ihe deeencies ot our various grades. Let it be understood that make no mawkish professions Of disinteresiednsss. l am neither Dagald Dal- getty nor a knight of La Mancha, not wholly mer- cenary nor wholly an errant night. | he motives Ol those who engaged in ihe expedition, like all hu man motives. were mixed. Honorable fame and wealth, both either, with our cause' would have induced ns 10 undergo the prrils of the prise bat neither the iame of Napoleon the wealth ol the Rothschilds could have tempted Of us 10 aid in forging the shackes we would peril our lives to loose.
 Col GATHER concludes his letter with the follow ing papabie hit al The commander of the celebrated Round Island Blockaders
 Gen Oudinot with his army of French Repub-
 
 in line walls of the Eternal City, and curses both Ioud and deep have been uttered against him through out the length and breadth of our land. Comn,a- dors Randolph, with his American sailors, his American cannon, and hls American ships, may have crushed for the time, the hopes of the friends of Cuban liberty in this country and elsewhere and it may all he right, but mol cadsist enongh to daw the distinction between the TWO acts, say whch has aided mast the of the drspot We may continue 10 hold large and enthusiastic meet iBgs to express sympathies for the gallant Hun gariAns; we may agitate, and agtate, for l" poor ireand,' until the roof of every peasants shantee totiers lo the ground We may write and speak and pray and preach for !" classic Italy" but our lips must be closed. and our arms palsied when our brethren just our shores hold up their chained iimbs, aud from the depths of their dungeons, cry Co for aId."
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