The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-07-30
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Spanish Account OF the Puerto Prinosp>

Puerto PrtnCkNA
lnsurrcction.
From the Dsrio de La Marina, July 10
The GaCea in its official part, publishes to-day .
summary Of the various communicate received
by the Captain General from the General Cen
mander OF the Central Department. upon the fer.
nation and almost spontaneous defeat Of tone
parties Of young men Of Puerto Principe, pushes
to crime by the Infamous counsels of those sosun-
drels who pretend to disguise their plans of robbisS
and plunderirg, under political pretext, and osG-
promising parts Of families, and conspiring for thde
rum and sorrow.
For US, we look at these events as more paiaf,A
than surprising, for those young men have fallsa
in the rerfdious net spread for them; but ii was
not improbable that some faults Of reflection i'm
PEELED them to the point in which them and ~
have not forgotten the numerous victims that have
been ade among the youth fdfert By these
who aspired to enrich themselves by their punders
converting the most thoughtless into blind instra-
works have been made--how many steps takan-AsW
the malicious men were beseging, with s.roag IN
vitaiienS, with false promises, for years, these in
cautious cant young men, IN order to engage them -
ceive why, with single reflection, they have
not understood the true motives Of the unpria-
cipled NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. faith-without ooa-
seence-who, from tho neighborirg CO untry, ex-
cited the dscord for their exclusive profit, while
those men, entirely lost already, could but expose
themselves TO an almost certain death before the
immense forces Of the government, sustained b.
the country Why have they not foreseen, frsa
the first day that those who excited them wero the
true enemies, not only Of the prosperity Of the
country, but even ofits existence.
What means that complete abandon to vhjch
the young men Of Puerto Principe have found
themselves, in going out Of the field in this has,y
flight towards Las Tunas, the c;Fec. of tho dis-
order caused, no doubt, by the horrible crime
in which they had been inyolyedl What
took place in the mind Of those young men,
Mt the moment when they were pursued hy
the troops Gloomy and unhappy illusions.
which will be turned into rdiculc by the coward
seoundfes who bad, in CaTdenas, only bravery
for plundering, burning, aud running away, and
who now, in a foreign country, will laugh a. the
incautious, who were their easy instruments, 9TH
out plying their fall.
For our part, we sincerely and profoundly dc, iers
II; IL was y legitimate and necessary consequence.
az sinst which we never lost an occasion OF advising
those young men whom VIC constantly saw incited
by The foreigners and we have always called their
attention and their rehC ction to the true and
unhappy end Of these excitements. And We hsv,
gore further notwithstanding, In admitting that
to be impossible. and 90 much impo. sbe that any
man with reason will immediately recognise il, W.
have proved, in fact that the promises Of these
dcceitful, and could only bring catastro phss.
Then after long reflection, have brought 10 light
the projects Of those Nho In the decCtful obscurty
with which they offered then, knew perfectly weh
that they were impossible. Not conte at yet We have
sought 10 discover in thA; obscurity the true piau
Of these abjcct men, and all in favor OF those mis-
guided youth
We repeat that our regret is profound, IN. .,ys
we hope thu; lesson, cruel az IL Is will or ~ %r
ever, the eyes Of the young men 70 the <ipins Al
projects Of those who have nothing 20 la. hy
them; they live in foreign country, fa f-om ~
dangers, and having nothing 10 lose exsiio ths
Others to promote troubles bya rapi excnrsoc
such are the true motives Of their me Seacntg