Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-09-15
~ A letter from New York to the
PHILADELPHIA Bulletin saws

means Of breaking up nm expedition fro m this port.
Two steamers had been bargAincd TOR, one OF them,
the Eldorado for 900 COO and the other for e70
They were to have sailed unarmed, but with - ma
ny passengers they could iskc.'
The N. Y. Tribune says that within a
few days two briggs have sailed from that
port for Cuba, but ostensibly cleared for
ports inthc Gulf. Both these vessels were
laden with arms, ammunition and provisions
for the use of Lopez men in Cuba.
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II A proclamation has been issued by
the Governor of Pennsylvania. announcing
that on the LIST of September s659.122.9S
of the public debt Of Pennsylvania was ex-
tinguishcd--that amount Of State stocks
having been purchased and the certificates
cancelled. This makes the present debt
ofthe State S4O.1l6, 362.44.
u The space occupied by the subjoin-
ed article from the National LnteA,gencer.
could no, be better filled than by paper
announcing the highest principles of nation
al morality and confirming. them by the
concurrent opinions ofgreat and wise men,
who lived in the days ofpurer politics and
sterner good-faith than our own. We
hope that TO one win be deferred by its
length from reading the whole Of it.
From tle National fnteiiyencer.
RetrOspectiOn.
1t would be labor thrown away for us to
enter, at this moment, into a review of the
influences which have contributed to re.
duce the standard of public morals in this
country so far below that which, for fifty
years Of its existence, it was the pride and
boast of this Government and People to
maintain. The reality ofsuch demoraliza.
ton is certain, as is demonstrated by the
fact that, instead Of every conductor of a
public journal reckoning among his para.
mount obligations to society the support Of
National law, of public morals, and of the
laws OF his own country, considerable
portion of them-happily nothing near the
neutrality-suspicious. of the principles Of
law, morals, and civil duty, have, in the
late critical emergency, perverted the
whole power of the press, by means OF
false and hardly specious reasoning, to the
incubation of contempt of the most sacred
laws of God and Man, and the encourage
ment of enterprises in every sense unlaw-
full, dangerous to the peace of our own
country and of the world, and involving a
wilful waste of the lives of their credulous
and most cruelty duped and deluded dis
ciples.
10 show, however, at one view, and in
a compendious form, the heresies which
the lust of dominion and the yet unslaked
thirst for blood have engendered, it will be
sufficient to quote single example of the
language Of such presses as have particu-
larly identified themselves with the late
desperate enterprise against the territory Of
Spain. We will not select the Infatuated
and caluminous language of the New Or
leans Courier, or of any other print in tina,
latitude, whose excited atmosphere &C.
counts for much of their violence, but shall
resort in preference to print published in
the city which was wont to be known as
truly the city Of Brothcrly Love, but which
were we to judge by the following extracts
from one Of its papers, harbors in its bosom
dangerous enemies to the peace and honor
Of the country:
'Non-intervcnlion' is now stale and OBJ
solete-not on the statute-book, it is true,
but in the sentiments of the American peo-
pie; and it behooves us, by public meetings,
and through the truly republican press, to
let the next Congress know that it 'ough,
promptly to repeal all laws of the United
States which may be construed to prohibit
an armed Intervention by citizens of the
United States for the relief of those who
suffer under the present despotic military
Government ofthe Spanish colonial Deepen
denotes in America.
ave do not doubt this will be done.
1t must be done, or every Congressman
who opposes it will be swept from place to
make room for those who will carry out
the peoples will 1t is useless to argue
that the people may be excited and be led
astray. Our Government is the great cx-
pertinent to test whether popular opinion
will not make nation greater and happier
than rigid adherence to musty TECHNICAL
tics, black letter laws, enacted in feudal
times, and slavish subserviencc to antiquat
ed notions Of international amenities, so
oracuarly prated about by long gowns and
flowing full-bottom wigs.
"But the American people have not
always stopped at constitutional reslric-
tons and legal requirements. When pub
lie opinion wills, there is way as has
been shown by the acquisition Of Louisiana
and the annexation of Texas. The letters
of restriction must be taken from our hands
and we must be allowed to spread abroad
the principles of universal freedom. We
cannot look on and see the republican
spirit of Cuba crushed under the iron heel
Of Spanish despotism; we cannot be bound
by laws when the cries of our slaughtered
brethren are ringing in our ears; we cannot
longer submit TO the doctrine Of non inter-
vention."
1t Is not TO comment upon indictments
such as these to outrage and bloodshed, to
and continued violations ofal law
and all morally, that we bring these sam
pies Of Ishm@lite philosophy to the ken Of
our readers. But it is TO show TO them the
sufliciency of the ground upon which
though for the present there is 1--WE may
trust) an end Of the trade in human blood
in the form of Cuban Expeditions and
specula,ions connected with them-we
think it proper TO show the language held
by the Republican party Of this country,
in its uncorrupt and primal age. in regard
to cases of precisely the same character as
that which has now unhappily arisen
And, without further comment we pro-
coed to that object.
FORTY-TWO YEARS AGO.
A petition was presented in the House
of Representatives of the United States on
the 3lst day of May, 1909, from number
Of citizens Of the United States confined