The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-05-09
The Presidents Proclamation.

In the discussion of this matter, for lack OF law
and arguments the Delta has found it necessary to
depart from the usual course, and to make per-
sonal issue with the senior editor Of this paper.
With view to strengthen its position, and to
make the false impression that he had attacked the
conduct and motives of his own son, it has twice
dragged his family before the public in the most
brutal manner.
The senior editor of the Crescent, since he is
driven to it, does not hesitate to say that he is
proud of being descended from stock, who never
sought to influence others to do what they had not
the courage to do themselves. His father fell in
the struggle for the independence of Texas. That
was noble and glorious cause. The people OF
Texas had struck the blow for freedom. He went
there. not with an organized expedition but as an
| individual, became one OF them, and identified his
own fortunes with theirs. His son, an ardent and
impetuous boy of sixteen, was induced to believe
that he was engaging in an expedition for the pro-
motion of a cause equally pure and holy. He was
| fully persuaded that the revolution was to be COM
menced by the Creoles of Cuba, and that he and
others, who were going to their assistance, would
not be organized into military expedition until
thew were beyond the limits and jurisdiction of the
United States. But he and his associates were
deceived and disappointed. They found that the
people of the Island not only declined to take up
arms, and strike for liberty and independence, but
| actually took up arms against them. They there
FORE came home, perfectly sick of their folly, and
with fixed determination never to go into another
expedition, until they knew something about it.
Under these circumstances, though the son went
into the expedition without the knowledge or con-
sent of his father, he could not do otherwise than
approve his motives and forgive his disobedence
| and folly.
| If the people of Cuba desire to be independent
and free, let them signify it by doing what they
can. Let them furnish the money to buy the arms
and munitions of war, and to purchase and equip
the war-steamers necessary to successful struggle
for freedom. They will then deserve the aid and
sympathes of the friends of liberty in this country
and throughout the world. Under such crcum-
stances, we should not be behind the Delta, we
trust, in our zeal for their success. Last year we
were assured that they had done all this, and we
refer to our articles written under this belief, to
prove that took bold and unequivocal ground in
favor of the revolution, the ground that they had
done all that was morally and physically possible
under the circumstances. But unfortunately the
result proved that we were misinformed and mis-
led. The people of Cuba had done nothing. If
they wanted freedom, they gave but poor proof of it,
by taking up arms against those who landed upon
their shores to assist them. So far as we know
and believe, the Creoles and people of Cuba, up to
the present hour, have given no evidence of desire
to throw off the present Government, however
oppressive it may be.