Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-09
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CUBAN "EXILEs" IN NEW, YORK.

from the New York Journal of Commerce;
THE cUBANs AND THE NATIONAL NTfLLIGEScER.
To the Editor Of the Journal Of Commerce:
srR An article published in the "Ns.iona Intelligen-
ce Of the 3st umo does great injustice to and to
friends that are dear to u.s. The Inegencer being the re-
puted organ Of the National Executive its article possesses
importance which induces give emphatic denial to oil
its assumptions influences, and insinuaons We also in
gnsn,y deny that we have imposed upon sought to i'm
pose upon the press and people Of this count by manu-
actued and exaggerated statements BY false and forged
documents All statements and publications given by Us to
the press Of this city have emana!ed from the Indicated
in ,hem-our friends in Cubaand they neither "
Of straw nor men capable Of fsbIieaing lsehoods
On behalf Of the Cuban eIles in New York.
OcrAyIAso DuAHI, Depsr.emento Oriental
FRAscIsco SEDAHo Depsremen.o Central
MIouAL T. ToIoS, DePAtemenio Occidental.
New YoRK, Aueusr j, 1851.
= Upon this publication we shall make few re-
marks; and these would not be made if either the
= Cubans" in New York, or the press which pub
fishes their imputatons upon the National Intelli-
gencer, had done common justice to that journal.
In the first place, the Administration is not ac-
countabe, and must not be held responsible, for
any publication made in the National Intelligencer
which does not clearly import to be made by its
authority. The Administration had no agency Of
any kind in the article to which the note Of the
Cnbans' refers.
Secondly. The article to which their note alludes
contained no assumptions, influences, or insinua-
TONS against real Cbans, whether residents in the
island or /" exes' from it. The rights Of Cuban
exiles resident among US. SO long as they respect
the hospitality and the laws Of the United States,
the National Intelligencer would be the last to dis
turb or to question. Neither do we question their
right individually to return to Cuba from the United
States without let or hindrance. All that is ex-
pected from them by the friends Of law and good
government in this country is, that they shall not,
in the teeth Of the statutes of the United States
engage in fitting out from the ports shores of the
United States military or naval expeditions against
country with which the United States is in peace
and anity.
Thirdly. So far from mputing to Cubans, whe-
ther in Cuba or in New York, the fabrication Of
documents for the purpose Of producing false i'm
pressions upon the People Of this country, the Ma
tional Intelligencer distinctly showed, by circum-
stantial evidence, that the pretended Declaration
of Independence was Of Anglo-Saxon origin and
manufacture, and that the Cubans at home had no
hand in its production.
Fourthly. Nor has the National Intelgencer
hitherto charged, at any time. that the Cubans in
New York had given statements and publica-
tons to the press" Of that city in any deceptive
form. It has not even denied that the Proclama-
tion copied into the papers Of the United States,
may have been printed apon a press in the fast
nesses of Cuba. But we still maintain that the
Declaration is not an emanation from any city or
province OF Cuba, or the Representative Of any
such; but SO far as purports to be SO, is.a coun
terfeit and an imposition.
In further and conclusive proof of this position,
we offer the following statement Of facts from the
New York Commercial Advertiser Of Saturday last !:
"The Savannah News publishes free transla-
: ton of Proclamation Of the Cuban Patriots
Z dated July 8, Uery different from that supplied
Z to the press In this city. In this documents
I dated prior to the one prepared for New Fork
papers, much more warlike tone is adopted, and
the 500 victors of Puerto Principe who, as al
- heroic example, have spilled their blood, are
spoken Of in the past tense. The accounts pub
: lished here gave no account Of any rising before
the 4th of July, or any fighting before the 5th.
: The ttco branches, North and South, Of the Cuban
juata in this country cannot have sufficiently COM
L pared notes before publication"