The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-07-16
TsT CUBAN EXPEDITION
.Tls Uy.say 10 Eegi@E4 ~ he Subject.
L-nrial P~alIlalaeaf.
Houn or LoRDs, Friday, June 4

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Tapviaf Payiiaaaeaf.
Hsrsr or LoRDs. Friday, June 7,
Lord Bfoughnm, (who spoke IN 50 low
npd %coloquial a tone ucross the table that
I'VE could scarcely catch a sentence from
said that he had 70 put a question 10
|,he noble Marquis opposite upona matter o.
VERY crave importance. Reports OF an
alarming nature bad been circulated within
he last few days-reports which he hoped
MIGHT prove groundIess-that an Expedi-
lion. consisting Of some 5000 or 5000 men.
had sailed from the shores OF the United
States of America for the purpose OF taxing
Uncomfortable and armed possession
'of the creates, of the West India Islands
|the ancient Spanish colony OF Cuba. lie
.bod no account Of this expedition further
than those which had appeared in the pub
lie prints, and they stated that It had actual
Nv sailed from New Orleans
The Marquis Of LandSf0wne-And
landed in Cuba. 49,,
Lord Brougham-It had not only sailed,
but actually landed in Cuba. Now, ne had
no idea whatsoever that such a proceeding
Iwould be assented to for a moment by the
president or government of the United stu
ties. Indeed he believed that so far were
3they from conserving, that they had taken
steps to prevent the sailing of thus very arm
ament upon a former occasion. But he un'
lderstood now, and to his great sorrow, that
these pirates had not only succeeded IN get
ltinp away from the shores of America, but
had actually escaped the Spanish fleet. That
Those execrable pirates, going practically by
lsea to Cuba for the purpose of INVASION ana
robbery, as they had gone before to Next
Go by land, had escaped from the Spanish
fleet. lie deeply regretted that they should
]have so escaped. But he hoped that they
! would vet meet with the condign punish
4ment in Cuba which they so richly deserved
lie trusted that his noble friend would be
able to give the house some information up
ION the subject, and to tell them whetheI
4any communication has passed between thu
3American government and our Minister a
A Washinton, or the American government
lat home, with regard to it? And wheth
Her the government of the United States
\ (which was respectable, having a proper car
%for the relations, of peace and amity wit
%foreigh friendly nations, was endowed wit
y suficient strength and power to prevent ii
Nown subjects from fitting Il and armin
large expedltsons for the avowed purpos
Nof the invasion Of unoffending, peacefl
forelgn States?
Il 10 After a good deal of talk, in whic
several of My Lords participated and qua
" relied a little:
Lord Br0ughdm-L am not aware TIL
There was any necessity for the rebul
(which the noble lord opposite has just a
Is administered to my noble friend near me al
mi am sorry to see he suffers so much und
Eit, Qaughter) and further, am not ava
Wthat the duty Of this house is any thing Ii
1.-THE duty which my noble friend oppos
Wseems to think it is-the duty Of stoppi
Mour inquiries or discussions because we g
!, abound to rest satisfied with the answer
Wthe government. /, for one, am perfec
Msatislied with it, because all the answer Il
has been given by those members of
government who are i'll the secret, is, Il
\ there is no secrect at all, Qaughter) ; i'll sh
| think all that my noble friend has So
g., amounts only to a roundabout and VERDE
l manner of saying a very simple thing-t'
a he knows absolutely nothing whatever
le the subject, Continued laughter.) Blu
is a subject on which the government NJ
. have no delicacy. The law with respec
it is as plain as A B C-the expedition
lie piratical expedition, and the men comp
ing it are to be treated as pirates. L
There are eight thonsacd of them, does
is Mmake them less pirate s than if there W
ct &two-rather that there are eight thousa
,e of them, only renders them more dangero
h. We are all agreed as to the treatment
= 8every State to act against pirates. 1t '
!; upon that assumption that the house apr
Il Ned of the conduct of Sir James Brooke,
THE Indian Seas, where there were m
hi hundreds of pirates, but their numbers
No mot make them the less pirates.