Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-08-16
THE TINES, TERMS.
The Cuba Expedition.

We published, yesterday, letter to the New
York Express, from Orange Keys, near the south
ern coast of Florida, dated August LIST, and rep
resenting that two small steamers, with Cuba ex-
pedonists had arrived from New Orleans, and
had passed on towards Cuba These could not
have been the party of adventures who left New
Orleans on the I'd or Sd inst. IN the steamer Pam
pero, of the departure Of which, we give to-day
some particulars. 1t seems evident that quite
formidable number of hazardous men have actual
ly gone upon the desperate enterprise Of snatch
ing Cuba from the hands of Spain. Their chances
of reaching the island must be small, unless the
revolutionists anticipate their arrival with impor-
tant successes.
The New Orleans papers, received yesterday,
add nothing to our previous intelligence. The
Bee, on its French side, has an article on the
quesonhow far President Fillmore will, or should,
interpose with the Federal authority to prevent
citizens of the United States from carrying aid to
the insurgents of Cuba. On the one hand, the
Bee admits that the interposton is demanded by
fidelity TO the neutrality enoined in our treaties
with Spain on the other the President mi oht
place above this moral obligation the popular SELL
timent, which, it remarks, often supersedes duty.
And then, says the editor, tive much deceive our
selves il there do not result from this strange posi-
ton, in which the Government is placed u1ae GER
tame nollesse in the measures il will take. Certain
orders will be expedited hither and thther, but
the instructions will probably be found sufficient
" vague. And, as these instructions will be adj
dressed to functionares who doubtless partake of
the popular sympathies with the Cuban cause, they
will be executed only in part, and perhaps not at
all. What we thus foresee results necessarily
from the situation, and ought to astonish nobody.
There are extraordinary cases in which logic and
fact are in open collision, and it is difficult, not to
say impossible, for government to pursue frank
ly line of conduct On such occasions, it must
shut its eyes, and only strive to save app earances.
This, we think, is what Mr.. Fillmore will do."-
The Bee, or rather az A6eille"-for the English
side of the paper has no corresponding article
has beyond dispute as much of une certaie anolesse
in its reasoning as it commends to Mr.. Fillmore
in his dealings with the Fillibusteros. And yet
the present state of our advices from Cuba leaves
it very doubtful how far the American Govern
ment ought to concern itself to waylay on the
high seas parties going to aid the revolutionsts.
The Havana government lies so ou1rageously on
one side and the oracles of the insurgents on the
other, that it is impossible to form any positive
opinion of the state of things on the island. If
the Cubans themselves have really made formda-
BILE head at many points, and maintained their po-
sitions against the government forces, we cam
not deny that we most heartily wish them COM
plete success. If they have the upper hand, and
the government de facto, their case is very diff
ferent one from that of few feeble rebels who
are certain to be quelled without foreign aid