Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-09-13

ma ,hso =. ,hemssves % work 10 get up excitement, BY
false news ss revolution. and thereby ennsnce .ne'i
chancss Of reapng the benefit Of their venture Al me
Expenditure Of the lives of you'll more cold blooded
oiecs Of strocty II would DO difficult TO conceive They
know there 10 no revolution, and they know the integrity OF
their intended victims too well 70 ask them 70 Dc P'unoee
and they frame plausible Tor the want OF an
revolution by constantly rctoratng the assertion na ney
have avces that the people of Cuba are resdy TO se but
are kept from demonstration BY the power Of tns sword
This sehood exposed by the very Tact st the people OF
Cuba whom they assert desire change OF Government. are
the Creoes and they constitute nine out OF every en OF the
population and large portion of the army by
the fact that both Of Lopszs landings be met no ad and
indeed when he landed the first time at the place OF bis Sc
lection ont Of fifty ports Cuba the very citizens OF the
town rose as army against him. and ress cd him at the
start, But these fpeculang gentry tell their hearts were
right but they afraid And has It to this that the
best blood country has TO be shed for people who are
afraid TO help themselves This blind nistuation Of our
young men is intolerable. N@@A set sHtG
Another Fundamental e started and kept shoat to deceive
and misesd youth, the constant repetition OF the weak
ness Of Cuba This every reader Of history knows TO be
grossly FALSE and its propagation is nfamoos as 1t sends our
young there wholly unprepared to meet what these ad
yises know they have 10 encounter They thereby
psed and the more easily sacrificed they must be duped
10 CO. for Gods sake tell them the truth what they have
to meet Instead Cuba being weak. she perhaps the
strongest Power the globe of equal population She has
more deensble Notifications and military and naval
than any nation of her size the globe Her wealth to her
population is unparalleled except in the great commercial
cities Of the world Her port duties than ten mil
lions Of dollars and her other from taxes some sx
millions and that in population OF million and
half of people, Havana Der capital, once taken BY the
Epssh when Cuba half what she is now in popu-
laen strength and their preparation for the expedition
may give clue to what British statesmen thought 81 her
resources ninety years ago. The expedition fitted out
secretly at Spithead and sailed March 5th 1862 When il
was all collected Cape ST. Nicholas in the island Of St
Domingo to make its secret descent on Havana consisted
Of two huBded vessels Of all classes Nineteen OF them were
If aapdoh
including thirty four storeships The better TO conceal their
approsch which wholly unknown Havana, the whole
passed down the Bahama chanae and undiscov
cred until within few leagues Of the CITY, The troops,
fourteen thousand landed short distance from the city,
unperceved, whilst feint made in front Of the harbor
with thirteen ships Of the line gates, and other
sells the storeshps The 6paniadshad only about four
thousand six hundred but they Immediately embodied
the mariners and Sailors amounting to pine thousand and
raised militia partly negroes Of ourteea thousand, making
upwards Of ~ 900 This the 9TH Of June and
after succession of attacks and continued hombardment OF
the Case the Moro surrendered the 30th of July, and
the city the l4th of August succeeding. The English
held the city until the peace which concluded the fol-
loving year, when il restored The Cubans immediate
enlarged and rebuilt the Moro and erected other castles for
the protection of the city, making the Notifications now very
different from what they then The prize money
enormous yielding the first military officers of the expedi
ton than half million dollars apiece for their share,
which affords idea Of the wealth Of the place This brief
sketch, historical will afford idea of the military
y
persuade young be conquered by few hum
ded Of them, thrown upon the shores from crazy with
out naval protection, without magazines, without moneys in
Short without every thing that constitutes army, except
hearts and daring spirits. An editor who does not
know the military Of Cuba unfit to conduct pa
and who does know and still counses his too cred
ulous cunymen into such desperate enterprise, should be
execrad by all honorable Their pretended belief that
there will follow rising in Cuba apology they should
knoo it, and have placed beyond Of doubt before
they to iname the passions of their countymen to
rush into the jaws of DEATH If the island is invaded they
pretend, the instance of Cuban precautionary
countymen before going out to join them, should
be in possession Of the written evidence Of their commta to
the cause that if they betrayed hem they could at least
make their heads pay the forfeit of their ireachey But
far we know in this country there is such evidence
and the inference s from their Withholding all aid and su
erng feowczens to be up, that there such
thing Lopezs assertion and the mandatory of false
by the New York prints who have doubt parceed
out the wealth Of Cuba in advance, and corrupt press which
they have suborned TO disseminate it. is the sole stock of
evidence Of public opinion the isandsn evidence upon
which prudent would hszard the life of favoe
dog What that specializing juno of broken down
merchants and politicians in New York, who originate and
manage this thing all DANGER how msny Of young
of the South sacrificed that their blood may pos
sbly, ia the end, render tribute the only god Of their
idolatry, mammon
Viewing this legal expedition, there reflections
which should strike the mind of every before entering
upon il but every Of common knows that it is
wholly illegal from beginning end The doctrines up,
in resolutions Of meetings. TO justify this invasion Of peace
ul country, carried their legitimate extent would
make nation Of pundeers than the corsas Of the
Mediterranean We maintain amongst other glorious free
principles the right paaon that Exchanging al
egiance which simply abandon allegiance
country and become the citizen subject Of another
at will and pleasure We do lose citizenship
simply by quitting the confines Of the Republic but
nounce and aure country, which only be done
formally and legally IN swearing arg another. This
great conservative principle which should be cherished in
its purity, it is the which sords protection our
adopted citizens throughout the world, on the very soil
Of their native land and against the graspng power Of their
native princes, who deny the doctrine but yield in courtesy
to exercise of it. and respect our citizens thus
Now, according TO these lights of international Isw
body Of entering upon expedition against peaceful
Power, leaving families and all that is dear behind them
to be considered expaated until they get into trouble
ready to eurp and then they become forthwith citizens again
OF the Republic either claim its protection or their rights
OF citizenship abandoned for amomen Such nonsense
Ridiculous for comment and they show when they
that they do not believe word Of it, They declare in
one line that those engaged in such expeditions expa
ated to avoid the laws the and and the next abuse the
American consul o interposing more actively in behalf
OF American citizens Why abuse the English and French
consu Tor the cause Of humanity the cause of civilized
tons every where Simply for the reason tha, they know
their first declaration they have not and could
not BY merely sailing sbrosd exparise themselves Every
should be msde to know through the press that merely
trampng upon the laws and spuning with contempt the
glorious institutions Of the Republic erpa,ration but
oence only against the laws and that glorious Con-
stuon the blood heritage Of fathers but against
the sacred of civil liberty ITSELF The spirit of propa-
gandsm may be carried the of breaking down our
great Republic by her people, Of crushing the last
vestige Of civil liberty in happy land but it never
can force it by the sword upon unwilling people, Such
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