The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-08-28
EDITORS CORRESPONDENTS.


i EpiIol u tUhnEOTUNDENUE
New YoRK, Aug. 26, 1851
In the absence OF any later reliable intelligence respect
ing inc SITUATION OF our countrymen who accompanied
Lopez on his liberatng expedition TO Cuba extreme
anxiety Is e IN regard to their fate and the excitement
increases every hour Yesterday the city was filled with
rumois ana reports OF every character and every hue In
some quarters 1t was announced that Lopez had been
taken severely wounded, and that his command, dis.
pefsed over the country, were being cut off in detail by
tue peasahtry or captured and brought in for execution
by he sod'efy From other gathered nior-
marion OF very different purpoH. Several actions
SAID 10 nave been fought, in all of which the invading
force had the advantage hundreds OF Spanards were said
10 nave been slain, and large renforcements from the
Creole population TO have joined the bera.ors. We
were unable TO discover that these statements, either
hand had any real foundation in truth and the better
opinion 49, mat we are in possession of nothing from
the seat OF war; unless the negative intelligence brought
by the Empire City be so considered-and that
amounts only TO the bare fact that nothing new was
known at Havana on the 18th Meanwhile from
all paris OF The country comes, in tones OF thun-
der lhe response OF an aroused and indignant peo-
pie, whose souls have been thrilled by the tale of
horror brought by the Cherokee. Meetings are being
held IN every popuous city, while the story OF massacre
ana outrage, travelling on the wings of the lightning,
awakens the hardy denizen of the forest and the prairie
the mountain and the plain Another gathering of our
citizens is called in the Park this evening The wing
press in vain attempts 10 pour oil upon the waters and
allay the storm the people not to be argued into
belief OF the legality of wholesale slaughter reason
ed out OF those feelings OF just resentment which the per-
petration of such revolving and nhuman deeds as those
we refer TO must ever excite AS long four hundred
Americans are exposed to fate which shuddes to
contemplate SO long will the public mind be agitated by
degree OF feverlsh anxiety which is impossible either
to overcome to control.
The fugve-slaye law is being carried into execution
in this with md
fleet great credit upon the authorities, while the cordial
acquiescence manifested by the people in its demands,
and the readiness with which they extend all necessary
assistance to the officers, indicate soundness and recti
ude OF public sentiment which should be received by
our southern brethren as guarantee that their rights
will be respected in this quarter for the future Daniel
slave belonging TO Mr.. Moore, Of Kentucky, who was
arrested days since in Buffalo, Heretofore consider
ed the hotbed OF abll,onism) has been sent home to
his master, notwithstanding the almost superhuman
efforts OF the anti slavery party in that vicinity and the
ncendiary articles of the Tribune of this city, which en-
deavored 10 create excitement by spreading report
that the runaway had been half killed, out OF sheer
tonness, by Mr. Rust the agent of his owner 1t would
that the negro in accordance with the general code
OF instructions promulgated by the aboonsts, had pro-
vided himself with huge knife and stood defiance of
the law. The agent, who had abundance of deadly
weapons, which he could have used if he had chosen to
injure the fugitive. merely struck him with stick to pre-
think but, nevertheless, the Tribune yesterday had the
satisfaction of recording his with the runaway to
Kentucky. Another valuable negro secured by Dep
uty Marshal Tamadge at Poughksepsie yesterday. and
will doubtless be promptly restored TO his owner though
the Tribune is at its dirty work again, endeavorng
cite resistance to the law.
1t would be we'll worth the while of any one who is
DESTROYS of perfectly understanding and approaching the
spirit which anmates the hgherlaw or Seward branch
of the wing party to devote few moments daily, for
week two, the perusa of the editorial columns of
that ose of its most efficient organs 10 which have
just alluded He woul find, ia addition to its TRADES of
maniaca abuse against the fugitive slave law, those who
conceived those who passed, and those who it,
articles of the most extraordinary character which it is
possible to conceive could gain adm isson into a paper
protesting be American. Not satisfied with advocating
change in the present admirable commercial system,
which has brought country to such unexamped
pitch of prosperity, and return TO high tariff and the
ruinous prohbory policy. the editor actually gloas
the discovery the manufacture OF fax and hemp,
means OF rendering the culture OF cotton unprof,a
BILE, and supplaning in the market OF the world one
great southern staple TO which, than to any all
the other products of soil, owe our commercial
greatness, and the general diffusion of wealth. compe-
tenee, and the OF happiness throughout the
try. And TO what end would he sacrifice this principal
element of our existence great, prosperous, and
happy people, In the vain hope that with the cessation
o, the demand for cotton would also cease the demand
for slave labor to produce it, and thus death blow be
struck at the domestic institutions of the South which
would the instant be fatal TO the vital interests of
the country at large What OF sympathy could such
an American be expected TO feel for his coun,rymen
saug h,ered by the mnions of foreign despot' H.