The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-05-30
The Cuban Expeditions not Abandoned
Change or Tactics.

Cuban expeditionsts have been foiled in their at
tempt to effect departure from the shores of the
United States, with men and munitions Of war,
for the purpose of efecting a landing in Cuba,
their design Of revolutonizing that island, and Of
afterwards annexing il to the United States, has
been abandoned 1t is true that appearances seem
to justify the soundness Of that opinion because the
parties who had enlisted for the enterprise in differ
ent parts Of the country have, according to all &C
counts, returned to their homes Many of the ring
leaders are either in prison or at large on bail,
and quantity Of gunpowder and arms has been
seized by the agents of the government at this and
other ports Notwithstanding all these things,
however, are inclined to think that the project
of revolutionizng Cuba has not been by any means
abandoned, and that the leaders, having failed, in
consequence of the interference of the government
at Washington, in collecting sufficient naval force
to transport the invaders to Cuba, are about to
pursue another course, which in the end II, per-
haps, be more successful for the object they have
in view.
The course which, according to all accounts, the
invaders are about to pursue, and which, indeed,
they have already commenced, is to appeal to the
sympathies of the whole people of the United States
to wolk on their feelings, and create in their
minds compassion for people who are ardent in
their love of liberty but who cannot enjoy i. solong
as they are dependency Of the Spanish crown
who are willing and anxious to throw off the
letters which bind them, and who look wistfully
to the United States for aid and assistance to
enable them to do successfully. 1t is well known
that there exists in the breast Of every American
an earnest desire that every people under the sun
should partake Of and enjoy the blessings ofliberty
N self thaye in ba tad
States, and that every descendants of the men who
formed the government and institutions under
which we live, considers himself to certain ex-
tent, apostle Of liberty whose duty it is to insti
into the minds of the oppressed of every clime the
great truths which were transmitted to him by his
fathers, and which are contained in the Declaration
of 1ndependence-the modern magma charta Of
universal liberty. This being the case, we can
easily account for the intense feeling which the strug
gle of the Greeks Of the Irish, of the Hun garans
of the Italians, in our day and generation created
throughout the United States and of the vast sums
Of money which were contributed to assist those
people in Riding themselves of their oppres sors.
Constituted as the American mind is, it is easy to
see the effect which such appeal would have in
the United States. 1t is easy to that, ia CON-
parativey short time, it would effect in this coun-
try feeling in favor Of aiding and assisting the
people Of Cuba in their efforts to establish their in
dependence, which administration could CONTROL
and which would burst all restrictions that might
be placed upon it. The government itself-and our
statesmen, of all classes and parties-would be COM
PEELED to give way to it, for good or for evil We
have seen the force and effect of the sympathy in
New Orleans, for the deliverance Of Cuba from
Spanish authority, within few months. We have
effort after effort to convict the men who par
ticipated in the invasion Of Cardenas fail-all be-
cause the sympathy Of the public in that region
swallowed up every other consideration
This system Of tactics has been commenced in
New Orleans already. Within q few days, we
have read resolutions sympathising with the people
Of Cuba, which were passed at public meeting in
that city; and we have doubt that the move
ment will be followed up in other places, and very
likely in New York, before long. We should not
be at all surprised if some demagogues to call
public meeting Of this character in this city,
within short time, with the twofold object of in
fuencing the trials Of O'Sullivan and others, who
were recently indicted by the Grand Jury for
taking a part in the last attempt to invade Cuba,
and, If possible, procuring their acquttal; and, in
the next place, with the view Of working on the
sympathes Of the North in favor Of the people Of
Cuba, and Of the movement to produce a revolution
In that island. There is not much room for
such an undertaking at the North there is in the
South for the people Of the former take, compare
lively speaking, bat little interest in Cuban affairs
The case is different at the South, however, for
there a revelation in Cuba, and its subsequent
annexation to the United States, have taken root
in the minds of large portion Of the people.
II will be seen, therefore, that so far from the
revolutioniuing Of Cuba having been abandoned in
the United States, the American allies Of the revou
tionary party only changing their system ope-
rations and, If they persevere, we would not be at
all surprised to the Cuban question intimately
mixed up with the next Presidential election IL Is
n subject which would be popular in the Southern
States, and which politicians would gladly avail
themselves Of, to further their own purposes. We
shall await farther deyelopments-but we fear the
future.
THE WORLDS FAm-PAUcITY OF AMERICAN
ExH1BITIoSs.-The London journals and American
correspondents remark that the Americans do not
make much Of show ut the Worlds Fair in Lon
don. Various reasons given for this, none Of
which we believe are correct. In our opinion, the
cause Of Americans not taking any trouble to be re
presented In the Crystal Palace is that our people
- - . -. n q.