New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-22
TIE Cuban spes'ti"n'

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Permit noe 10 say WORD N your '0'''"'' " to
,.,on 70 Cubs. The Expedition announced as hav-
sailed for Coba, is in many quarters denounced
s.m,rsudipg and piraticsl, because it enbarked
.hor.. To any one who, like myself, hss
h.n on the Island. or is familiar with the character
= -. sosnisb rule there, by study OF reliable
80. !, cannot be deemed strange that the Cdbans
.sse foreign free soil, the theater OF their organ
;..,;on lor revolution. On soil where there u the
,,neItv of arrest and imprisonment attached TO the
Hesitation of as many as three persons, to discuss
roHcs or social grievances, as relates to the Gov
srument AID where every vigilance that fear aud
,a,e can suggest is on the watch for toe slightest
1,.,lsv Of mutnous disposition, how impossible it
you'd be for a people to unite their sympathles and
oompass the means essential to successful revolt
against their oppressorsl Such soil is Cuba, and
a people so spied upon, and seized upon the pre-
,epce of suspicion even, are the Cabans. No
eermitted to have in their possession any ~
weapon; all their movements logged the rfsht OF
sssoeia,ion, petition and remembrance denied Them
how could they, except from without, gather 'n0se
ssnnon and bayonets which are the only argu.'''"s
Spain respects 2 The voice of ban n"H.''
Cubsns. were it permitted, might l@"''+'
a., IN win agains. the power whlc" '4NsS -u'R
Il hood and tramples their hearths ana a.
% oIut the Lust Of royalty and vice-royaliy'
-, has never shown solictudc for Cuba. save to
ds,;.e new means Of Wrestling revenue lom her.
r.o.t,;stad. the moment they are suspected Of
Ehsrsl and generous ideas, the master-splrlts OF
cnbs have their homes in foreign lands. Herein
dc limited States, where in youth many OF them
sge,e educated and where they drank In an lnspir-
.tion for Freedom, in middle and old age, they are
driven by msrciless rule that hnds 10 thelr ban
ishment excuse for sequestering their rich estates
That these exiles loving their native SOIL with de-
votion which even the savage ieels' shouu seen 70
ov srthrow the tyrants who expatriate them, is only
patural And in seeking this, they are too wise 70
nah wespone 50 upon their armed oPpressors and
IN ne armed they know their weapons must be gath
cred elsewhere than 10 Cuba. Cubans, exued ana
sohls snirited Cubans, have devised the expedition
xofree their homes. Could they have comprised the
,,a,.risl of war at home-their birth home-they
would not have sought our soil. Driven from home.
en-, return with such weapons as they could ind
and IT. taking their lives in their hands, individual
Americans have gone with them TO do battle for
liberty, can we as a people, indebted 70 LA tay-
cites Steubens and De Kalbs in our Revolution
call these mer-either the suffering Cdbans, or the
sympathiZing AmerlcanS-prates or marauOers
Men battling in the hottest causes have been called
rebels, pirates and murderers, though alter ages
rewarded their memories with the name OF De1v-
erers. Crusaders warning for the Holy Sepulchre
were more pirates, than the men who, IN the Nine
teeutb Century with the example OF revolution Tor
Freedom all around them, seek the dellyerance OF
oppressed Cuba. II it shall be found that the Ca
bans. as man. reject this Expedition; If they fail
10 rally to the standard they have invited through
fear or more mercenary feeling, then let IL be said
that the Expedition mistook its purposes but IT L
shall prove seed sown in the right time to pro-
duce harvest for Liberty, let it be honored. It's
scie will best test its character II 1t eschew vio-
lence, save what may be called for in the held OF
battle ano, proceeding to conquest, liDerates and
exalts Cuba the great family of free people will
everywhere rejoice The conflict may have been
o,scpitate bat the facts, all considered, make IL
iust conflict though the patriots fail 1t is a conHict
bet~een Spanish people aud Spanish rule and let
no third purity interfere This is all the Cubsns ASK
ard trusting they have God and the right with them,
they will render their account to the world.
c. d. STUART.
ne" If the Invading Expedition be truly
a liberating one--if it be its purpose to give
freedom to all the People of Cuba, and not
those of particular colOr-we heartily wish
il success. But if such be the fact, we can't
see why those among us who arc so fierce
for the Extension of Bondage in our own
land should be foremost in giving money
and effort to abolish lust such Bondage in
Cuba. Ed. If0'