Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-09-12
From tie New Orleans Delta


Or sleep with glory in the grave
Then rally for the Cuban
The cause of freedom and of man
And realize the Godheads plan,
Of equal rights and equal laws,
Still marred by system, caste, and creed,
Since Kingy rule and sin began
Their reign of terror in the world
The authors of each ruthless deed,
The of the achiri,cind seed,
While again they half unfurled,
Ger man and nature Anarch's banner,
Eclipsng brightness it few,
And darkening souls to demon hue
Fen making Gods bright face look waner!
Oh! what is life in this sad age!
A contest which the purest wage
With battered shield and ravaged crest;
For though opinion praise their morals,
Still, COINCIDENCE blights their greenest aurels;
And he alone is truly best,
And by suspicious fates caressed
Who nobly dies, greatly lives
Who falls to earth in Freedoms fight.
Ennobled by the death she gives
martyr for immortal right;
witness of the good,
In which, though doubted, he believes
His creed attestng with his blood;
Or he who wears upon his brow
The regal rays which victory
Filings, sunlike, as her pnions bow
Above the banners of the free,
TRANSFERRING their chivalry
Them brethren, aid the gallant strife,
With all the gifts which Nature gave
The head, with thought and wisdom rife,
That plans the battles of the brave;
The winged spirit, spurning life,
And soaring sunward through the storm
The hand, to strike the armed slave,
And give to earth the despot's form.
The issues of demand
The gifts of head, and heart, and hand;
Then let us haste to Cubas isle,
And WOO the goddess Freedoms smile,
And make her queen of that bright realm,
With Vict'rv seated on her helm.
(Ah would my native isle of sorrow
Had such glorious chance tomorrow y
Oh! how the blood-built tottering thrones
Ofthe old world would shake with dread
When Fame proclain1s, in thunder tones,
Columbia is to Cuba we'd
And all the nations will rejoice,
And chant the hymenia hymn,
And in one loud, harmonious voice,
Give praise and glory first to Him
Whose will decreed the despot's fall,
Vouchsafng freedom to the thrall-
And next, to that bright hero-band,
Whose zeal fulfilled the Lords command,
And fought to free the trodden land
From the New Orleans True Delta
William s. Crittenden.
In the midst of the lamentations of fathers and
mothers brothers and sisters for the death of their
dearly beloved. by the Havana butchery, we have
abstaned from the obtruson of our humble grief in
to the presence of the august of those who
have to mourn the loss of their own blood, but we
can no longer defer poor tribute to the memory of
a bosom friend.
That friend was William s. Crittenden Long and
we'll did we know him. We knew him first in the
Mexican war; and in many bivouac shared his
blanket. Educated at West Point, he graduated
with honor. At the opening of that war, he &C.
cupied the position of adjutant of the first infantry,
and for several months discharged the highly respon-
sible duties of posadjutant at Vera Cruz with merit
cd honor. He the son of brother of the dis
tinguished gentleman who fills the office of At
torney General of the United States His father
emigrated to Arkansas when that State was in its
infancy, and died in early life, filing a community
with universal regret for the loss of man as high
ly endowed with the otest virtues he was gifted
with the rarest genins.
Will. Crittenden. as he was Familiarity named by
his friends, was worthy of the stock whence he
sprung. nobler specimen of the Kentucky gen.
tleman, worthier servant citizen of the republic
we have met. A lion heart, love of truth of
honor, and of liberty, were his. An accomplished
soldier votary of letters, he as gentle as he
was brave. At the close of the Mexican war he re-
signed his military Office, and became citizen of N
Orleans, where he resided until he embarked with
Lopez
Our blood has boiled to hear the base inuendoes
of the agued lip-lovers of Cuban freedom against
him. we'll as his companions for permitting them
selves to be captured. The dying missives of his
compatriots reveal the that compelled his he
roic soul to yield If ever fell victim to afro
cious deception, it was he few days before he
left met him. and wish that we would accom-
pany him expressed. We earnestly advised him
against embarking in the enterprise we spoke our
ncreduty of the reports that the Cubans had risen
He answered that he freebooter; that he
could not be induced to join the expedition not
the people of Cuba in arms against their rulers
That revolution had actually commenced that the
Cubans were in the field he assured us he knew
from the statements c. parties who had given him
their confidence. Against this fat.: we had nothing
but our lncredulty to present, and parted lever
to meet again. We have felt it solemn duty to
state this to dispel impression that he from his
position in the expedition, party to the cruel
articles practsed by the unseen heads of the scheme
He is gone. noble citizen is lost to the republic.
In the excited state of public feeling at present
will not enlarge upon the cold -blooded and selfish
policy of those who enlisted his sympathies by their
deliberate fasehoods. Peace to your names and hon.
or to your memory, Will. Crittenden!
ICED CHAMPAGNE.-A gentleman who has been in
the ice trade at st. Thomas relates funny an
ecdotes about the natives there and their luminous
ideas of Boston hard water.
He once sold lump to gentleman, who sent a
for dinner table The servant took it home. and in
quired of the cook how it was prepared. After con-
siderable discussion in the kitchen cabinet, it was
decided to have it boiled. At dinner the gentleman
called for it and in high glee for he had drank
iced champagne in the States and he felt mighty
hankering for second trial of the same beverage
Soon SamhO made his with roIlno