Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-09-20

whom he led on to distraction One of the
gentlemen engaged in the first abortiye move
menG on Cuba, speaks in warm terms of admi
ration of the courage of Lepez, and of his self
sacrificing disposition, but the gentleman thinks
that his violent hatred for everything Spanish
and his burning desire to avenge the indigni-
ties 10 which he had been subjected in Cuba,
had SO far affected his understanding that he
was wholly untitled for the direction and con-
troll of an invading expedition. That he was
egregiously mistaken respecting the disposition
and intentions of the Creole population, can
not be doubted; and it is equally certain that
he was the instrument of dcluding many brave
men to an ignominious death. But he has
gone to his finale account, and the great
Searcher of hearts san alone determine the de-
gree of his guilt.
The awful end of this i'll advised and wild
scheme, whether one of plunder and rapine
alone, or project for subverting the authority
of Spain in the fair and fertile Island of Cuba,
and giving free institutions to her inhabitants,
is greatly TO be deplored in whatever aspect
we regard it The lives of more than Eve hun
dred Americans have been euenched in blood
If their accounts are to be believed, they had
slaughtered more than five times that number
of Spaniards- soldiers in the simple discharge
of their duty, and who had given no cause Of
offence to single man among their slayers.
While we mourn over the shedding of Amer
lean blood, have we no sorrow for the Span
iards who are sleeping in their gore? In this
terrible category can humanity discriminate
in favor of the dead Americans who went to
their graves drenched in the blood Of their
victims
The life-blOod Of more than twenty Eve
hundred human beings has been pourd upon
the ground Ike water. Who is responsible
for it? Answer, you lying presses and false
letter writers says the Springfield Republican
Answer, ye local couspiratiors, who have COM
truth to carry out your schemes Of ambition
and avarice! Answer, ye government officers
who failed in your dutyl At whose door he
all these stains of human blood and tears, and
these sighs and bereaved homes? The Gov
ernment-the Govemment-the Consul--the
Consul has already begun to be shouted
We have already published resolution pas
sed on board the Cherokee, under the auspi-
ces of Gen. Lane, democratic Delegate to
Congress. from Oregon, and would-be candi-
date for the Presidency. It shows the track
upon which the bloodhounds have already
started after a quiet conscience, and in the
hope of making political capital, But it will
never do. Noman or party can ride into pow
er in the U States on an issue compounded
of national per6dity, nor lust for plumber, ee-
mented by human blood. The spirit of ag7
gression and rapacity in which the scheme for
i
stifed in the blood of the men it consigned to
disgraceful death. Itcan have no power for
mischief hereafter. II we ever acquire Cuba
it must not be by force or treachery. In the
archieves of our Government, we have an en-
gagement, made in Jackson's administration,
between the United States, England and
France, to the effect that Cuba shall not be
seized by either party, and that Spain shall
remain in undisturbed possession of the Is
land. 1stf aa fi7a s
l-sl e s.