Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-04
GIVE US LIGHT!

1t is with Joy too sober for exultation that we
recognise, in the state of the public mind Of this
country, since the failure of the late criminal enter
prise against Cuba, the triumph Of moral principles
of reverence for law, Divine and human; and of a
just regard for the good opinion of the World.
Whilst these elements are in the ascendant in the
national character and policy, we have nothing to
fear for the Republic People that can master its
own dangerous sympathies, and even control its
good ones, as this People has done on the late oc-
cason, offers noble spectacle to the world of a
sound integrity not incompatible with the freest
institutions.
OF the prime movers of the desperate enterprise
against Cuba, the greater part had probably no
higher aim than their own personal advancement
and interest. Some Of them, doubtless, young and
inexperienced persons, were seduced and deluded
by the false idea of lending aid to people strug-
Cling for liberty but after weighing the evidence,
already before the Public, Of temptations held out to
the grosser Of the adventures, it now
be doubted that no small number of them were en-
ticed into the service by the prospect Of plum
der than by the love of liberty.
BY what dsceptions the honest-hearted and real
liberty flowing men in the expedition were induced to
abandon their homes, and, in many instances, their
helpless and destitute families, to follow the for
tunes of an outlaw leader with the view Of wrestling
from the Government Of Spain great territory
by the spos of which he at least was 10 be enrich
ed-we have already shown to our readers, in
the proclamations and false intelligence manufac-
tured, for the purpose of deception, at differ
ent and distant places in our own country. The
evidence on that subject is conclusive. But, in
regard to the inducements held out our informa-
ton has not hitherto been so particular. We know,
however, from the evidence Of parties concerned,
that the humblest individuals who engaged in the
Expedition were promised large sums in the event
of its SUCCESSES much as thousand dollars
each--whilst those of higher pretensons, who held
nominal rank in the invading force, were, in the
same event, to become possessors of untold wealth.
We know, also, that much of the money for the ac-
tual expenses of both expedtions-that Of last year
and that of the present-was raised upon bonds
(promises to pay) issued by somebody or other !;
that these bonds have been bought and sold; that,
in one case, thousand dollars was advanced by an
officer of the Expedition for which he was to re-
ceive ten thousand, making the price Of the bonds
to be ten cents on the dollar that much money has
been let out upon this gambling sort of security;
and we have even heard that at the same rate
crops Of cotton have been exchanged in Louisiana
for these bonds; whilst elsewhere they have been
passed off for cash at as low rate two or three
cents on the dollar. But we have as yet had no
definite information of the form Of these bonds, the
nature Of their stipuatons, or the amount and char
acter OF the fnd or funds out Of which they or
were TO be paid.
o-.isfed of the existence of these bonds by an
accidental publication in the New Orleans newspa-
pers of the saleof small amount OF them, we ex
pressed wish to be enlightened by the publication
of the form in which they were issued, that the
Public might be enabled to determine, from their
face whether they bore the impress Of guilty or
an innocent transaction.
Our wish has been accomplished. We haze got
copy of one Of these bonds. Here it is, word
and letter