The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-09-27

ration of the public good demands this. If tn
Administration cannot stand upon the princip pie
ofthe message, it does notexpect tostand at all.
IDANIEL WEssTER's Letter TO the Union Meetin
at Westchester.
Every thing which adds to our knowledge o
the recent invasion of CUBA adds to the over
whelming proof against the men who were in
strumental in seducing the young, ineXperi-
enced, and reckless, into that fatal expedition
We are now furnished with abundant evidence
not only that there was no revolution, but that
there was no revolutionary spirit upon the island.
From all the letters and reports that have come
to us, we learn that two, and only two, Creoles
at any time joined the invaders. We learn
from all quarters that the negroes. Creoles, and
Spaniards, looked on them with alarm and hor-
ror, and that it was by the Spanish troops alone
they were treated with any forbearance or con-
sideration
All the statements, moreover, from the cap
tives-as well those who were shot as those
who were pardoned, and those who are still
imprisoned-bear conclusive testimony to the
fact that they were DECEIVED BY LOPEZ.
Who enabled LOPEZ to deceive them? Who
aided LOPEZ in deceving them2 Who gave
currency and credit to LoPEz, and enabled
him TO enlist in his unlawful enterprise the
daring and adventurous youth of the South
west2 By what agents was LOPEZ assisted in
persuading his unfortunate followers that CUBA
was in state of successful revoluton2 The
Delta. newspaper. Mr.. SIeUR, General HENDER
SON, may answer these questions, and men like
them, and presses like the Delta. Perhaps the
Geographic correspondent of the Union, whose
dispatches were deemed so important as to
warrant editorial prominence and endorsement,
may not be uniformed in the premises. The
spectators in Cuba scrip, the men who sold
thair property and invested the proceeds in Gu
ban bonds, at ten cents on the dollar, in their
haste TO be rich on the spoils of their neigh
bors-these are the men who stimulated the
self deception of LOPEZ, who assisted him in
deceivlng others, and who are guilty of all the
blood that has been shed in this miserable ex-
petition; and Of all the wretchedness and heart
breaking of which it has been the fruitful source
These guilty wretches-these spectators in
blood-were not themselves deceived. Assume
if you please, that LoPEz was misled. not by
his enthusiasm, or fanaticsm, but by false in
formation; there were men connected with him
IN this country who were not deceived, who
knew enough Of the danger which beset the
expedition not TO take part in it, who risked
their money in the spirit of gamblers, but who
never ventured their own miserable lives on
the deck Of an invading steamer, or in the
ranks of CELEBRATING army. These are
the men who flooded the country with their
lying Geographic dispatches. while the re-
suit of the expedition was in doubt; who slim
ulated the riotous excuses in New Orleans.
and collected there some two or three thousand
additional candidates for imprisonment and
death. The statements which these men cir
culated in the shape Of intelligence from CUBA
were entire fabrications, without even foun-
dation in truth; invented and published by the
men who had aided LOPEZ in misleading his
infatuated followers, and who are morally re-
sponsible for every drop of blood that has been
poured out in this disastrous enterprise.
There is good reason, then, for these men to
labor to divert public indignation from their
own heads. They may well seek to misrepre
sent the character Of the expedition-to repeat
the miserable lie that CUBA was engaged in
revolutionary movement--to assail the CAP
TAIN GENERAL for inhumanity, and to denounce
the laws Of the United States as adverse to the
generous symPathies" and hgher-law i'm
pulses of freemen seeking to extend the bless
ings ofliberty to an oppressed and trampled race
These are the natural acts Of guilty and ruined
men, but they cannot long impose on rejecting
and intelligent people Men cannot innocenty
indulge generous sympathies" in violation
81 the laws of their country. The medication
Of different doctrine from this induced the
recent bloody scenes at Christiana, as well as
the awful tragedy at Havana. Once admit
that there are any generous sympathies"
which may be followed in spite of law without
crlminality, and you Immediately set up in
every mans Conscience" the liberty Of dis
pensing with all law.
II is the duty Of the press of all parties to
hold up to their true responsibility the class Of
men to whom we refer. They have brought
more evil than they can expiate In lifetime OF
repentance; and they ought not to escape CON
demnation by the success of "sympathizing''
journals in debauching public opinion, or in pal.
liating the enormity Of their wckedness.
STEAHER CLEoPATRA.-Some further proceed.
ings, OF a preliminary nature, were had in the
United States district court in New York, on the