Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1851-08-28
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 25, 1851.
Cuban Freedom.

Our Geographic news which publish on Saturday,
anticipated is of the important and startling
character. A few days will give us the inteIh-
gence in more reliable and detailed FORM. The aw-
ful tragedy has commenced. The streets Of Havana
have been made red with American bsod. Inhuman
and savage ndgntes have been heaped the mangled
and eless bodies Of these martyrs in the cause of free
dom. Fricnds.of Cuban berty-be not dispirted! Re-
member Texas. The massacres Of Goliad Ind the
Alamo were the forerunners Of Texan liberty. The
more cruel their deeds the certain will be the
downfall Of this despotc power The perpetrators Of
such deeds OF cruelty should find sympathy in Amer-
can bosoms. We are excited and can write more ;
but commend the following patriotic and noble
timents, from the pen Of COL Sam Medary, all our
readers and TO the country
But the wonder is that the who, for any cause,
perpetrate these wholesale and ndscrmnate deeds of
human slaughter should find sympahizers in any part
of this free Republicl They place themselves upon a
lower level far than the aborigines who would have
biushed for humanity at such massacre this OF Ha
vana And yet its perpetrators have American sympa
thisers-and the officers Of General Government
their determination abandon all such men to
their fate; and to power except in such way
to preserve in power the bloody yant and oppresso
We think with the New Orleans Delta and with Kos
suth, that it high time the people Of the United States
could be heard and that the souless and unsympathsng
GOODNESS in regarding and nations struggling for
selfgovernment freedom, peace, and happiness. Aus
tra can bring her gigantic national weight TO bear
seconded by the Gar, with his millions of Cossack
hordes, wash with the blood of slain men, the
struggling fires of Liberty and Independence. Turkey
becomes the bleak prison Of freedoms heroes, and Of
benefactors of the race and tyrans trembe and own
proposals for their release and emancipation. And
yet America Boosting of her bravery proud of her his
tory and every citizen soldier owing her very nation
atty to Frenchmen, Germans, Irishmen, and Scotch.
men, and every bosom thrilling with agony for the su
ferng Of the ensaved children oil these Americas
Government looks with very dread lest we should
he sr<pectcd of wishing well lending aid to the
Right,
Such cold, unworthy policy should be abandoned to
that Past whose history necessities, and circumstances
alone made it advisable. We need not now be AZ en-
tangled" by alliances, if we do say something
do something for the of European freedom Gu
ban liberty II is impossible avoid collision of
sort when neghborng power is struggling for Perpe
tuty by treading upon the neeks of its subjects.
Look at the proof Here is the Falcon, unconnected
with this Cuban affair, assaed by the vessels of the
Captain General, and boarded in hostile manner Our
vessel, and yet Messrs Fillmore and Webster invoke
the spirit of neutrality and inaction. Fifty shot
down in the streets of Havana, and are invoked
neutrality Our brave and hardy young men are told to
stay homc they VIII be punished by the laws of
lard, given quietly up to the garote! The
Hulsemann letter should be read 10 Concha well
to Haynau; and should stop the reading, it
seems we have in the case of Brace!
We deplore the massacre Of these devoted men at
Havana but their blood cries TO their friends FOR
geanee; for every victim the slaughter thousand
hands, with hearts in them, will be raised to press the
goblet of blood black to the lips OF their murderers
May they drink to their fill