North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-09-03
THE BUTCHERY AT HAVANA

THE BUTCHERY AT HAVANA.
The last New Orleans True Delta pubsbo.
following letters, written by victims of Spanish Nv
potism few hours previous TO their execuon
Havana: -
On BOARD THE MAN-oF-WAR EspeR.rz,
August I6 1851
My Dear and .9tection1fe Sisters and Brofhers
Before die, | am permitted TO address NV !
words in this toorM. last
Deceived by false visions, embark ed in H.
dillon for Cuba. We arrived, about four hunJ APe-
number, last week, and in about an hour from IN
We, mean fifty of Us, will be lost. was ,a no~'
prisoner after an engagement and. with fifty o,tn
to be shot in an hour. eFs
lie, my dear brothers and sisters, a repent.,, -.
having been blessed with the last rites ~ sh-
holy religion. Forgive me for all my follies Of our
life, and you, my dear and affectonaie sisters my
for my soul. pray
A., 60 to my dear mother and console her n, ,
my dear child, kiss her thousand times for me- I
her for my sake. HISS my brothers and all 1--we
children. TO Father Backney, my last proonnJ JeaF
spect; to Father Lacroix and Father d. Han, re-
for the repose of my soul. "aSS
My dear mother-in-Iaw, farewell! Poor D.:
shot and dead by this time! ''e
L give and bequeath my dear child to yor and -.
alone. Goodbye H; goodbye Can IT ~ you
did my duly. Goodbye ALL -.
Your dear Son and Brother,
HONORE tactic VIENNp
Mr.. Antonio Costa has promised to do all ba"
to obtain my body. If so please have me- Hn. can
WIN NY WIFE, H. L. V.
HAVANA, ON BOARD THE MAN-oF-W.p
O'Clock a. m, August 10Th, 1871
Stanton e. Co.: '0'''A
My dear friends About SO of US. Col c,,.-
den's command were taken prisoners yesterday have
not received Our sentence yet, but no doub, We Iii
be shot before sunset. Lopez, the ScoundreL has d.
ceived US; there is doubt but all those roDo
about the Cubans rising were all trumped up in New
Orleans. Lopez took nearly his command and DO
serted as-we were attacked by some 500 or TOo "
the Queens troops the I'd day after we landed ~.
own gallant Col. Critenden done all that anv man
could debut we saw we had been deceived and ra
treated to the shore with the intention of oeti
OF to our country IT Possibie-got three boats and
got off with the intention of coastng until we fell in
with an American vessel, and We're taken prisoners
by the steamboat Havanero.
Explain 10 my family that have done NOTHING bu,
what was instigated by the highest motives, that
die with clear conscience and like a man with
stout heart. send my watch you, it is for ittIe
Benny, my nephew. Goodbye, God bless YOU all
Truly yours, GILMAN A. COOK
The Delta declares these letters to be genuine, and
says that, for publishing them it had been threatened
by mob. That paper appeals to the law-abiding
portion of the people of New Orleans 10 stand BY it
and prevent the office from being demolished
Tranquility seems to have been generally restored
in that City. The Delta says that the ouages there
were not committed by the Cuban patriots now in that
City from the Western States, but by thieves and
Ioafers of that place.
1t appears that it Col. Crittenden who was ex.
ecuted, and not Col. Clendenin, as first stated COL
Crittenden was, we believe, Aid to Gen. Taylor at
Buena Vista. and a nephew of John j. Crittenden.
The True Delta is the only paper in New Orleans
which is opposed To the ofthe Cuban patriots.
1t is said that the gallant Crttenden, when ordered
turn his back his executioners and kneel indg-
nantly replied that he an American citizen and
knelt only his God, and turned his face from
his foes.
The Editor of the Crescent states that he had be-
fore him two letters, from the slaughtered KERR 10
his wife and friends in New Orleans--one copy,
the other original, the hand writing of which is
firm and regular, though.in few minutes he was 10
his terrible fate. We subjoin the letters, which
are reratim as received, with the exception of
line, whfsh the Crescent suppresses stating 10 be
of peculiar and private nature:
My Dear Eeiicia.-Adieu my dear wife. This is
the last Ietterith you will receive from your Victor.
In one hour shal be no more.
Embrace ALI my friends for me.
My adieu to my sisters and brothers. Again, last
Your huab band, VICTOR KERR.
August 16, I1s5I-sixth hour of the day.
My dear FF:ends-I leave ycu for ever-I go to the
other world. i but with honor. am prisoner in Ha-
Vana, and in an hour will have ceased exist. My
Did friends, think often of me. die worthy of the
lame bear, worthy of Creole, of Lousianan, and
IS Kerr. My friends, adieu, for the last time.
Your devoted friend, VICTOR KERR.
August 16, ls5l-64 o'clock.
Messrs. N. Larose, H. Bouligny, Leon Fazenda
". G. Vincent, F. Arroza.
The blood of these will g cry from the ground
gainst their murderers. The patriots may not sue
eed just now, but the day is not distant when vctO-
y will perch their banners. Spanish rule in Gu
a is doomed, and must and will be broken sooner or
lter.