The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-08-22

different points, Recorder Genoa. Col. Christie and
Attorney Reynolds, were the only psrsons who
sought arrest The progress OF scenes, which ior
the credit Of our city, Notwithstanding the strong
and bitter provosation 70 them, we cannot bus
deeply regret
The Havana Massacre
The nevs which No publish today. will thrill
the land with horror. The massscrs at Havana
viii be- memorable and infamous in history.-in--
famous in it, eold-bloodsd strocity and defiant
disregard at al deesney and humanity, and mo
morabls I've cay conRdsnty) from the speedy
and terrible vengeance which viii pursue and
ovsrtake it, actors. The spirit Of the country
will be quickened by it 70 fsrcenees and pas
sion, which it were well for Spain had never
been provoked.
Fifty-one men in the prime Of life have been
shot down, in cold blood. But we will not com
plain Of that but ws do complain, the public
sentiment Of the world, the universal sentiment
Of humanity, will complain, that these ffty-ons
mon, brave and gallant gentlemen, should not
only be shot down, but their last moments out
| ragged by the vile hootings of low rabbls, the
| lingering remnants Of departing life brutally
beaten out Of their bodies by the clubbed muskess
lof hireling soldiery, their inanimate corpses
submitted to the horrible indignity Of the NEST
/ bsrbarous mutilation,-and then, when the very
semblancs Of humanity was 30 villainously
crushed and beaten out Of them, cast, like dead
animals into : trenched ditch, and 50, without
one rite Of sepulture, rudely massed into tn
common clay. Has history one scene of horror
which can surpass tho barbsrous inhumanity q
this terrible outrage upon manhood, deoency and
civilization? Had they merely met soldiers
death, had a court martial sentenced them to
death. and, with NO additional atrocity, executed
it's sentence, we might mourn and sorrow for the
dead, but our right to complain would be at least
questionable But human nature cannot patiently
recall the horrors, the infamy, the brutality Of
the Havana massacre, and civilization echoes the
indignant csnsure it pronounces.
What was the crime Of those who suffered the
indignities of the Havana massacre? Simply
this: they believed that oppressed Cuba desired
to be free, and in the unclaimed ardor Of gallant
and adventurous spirit, they rsked life to battle
/ in her struggles. Even Spain herself could only
charge that they were misguided, whilst she
could not dispute the gallanty which led then
, to dare 50 unequal and perilous contest. Has
her authorities had either magnanimity OF wis
. dom, the massacre would never have taken place
They would have foreseen the terrible retributiol
which it must provoke, and dismissing the cap
!. tured young men, with words Of kindness AMI
. caution, have landed them safely on our shores
4 and in the magnanimity Of the act, would hav
|. compelled reluctant admiration and conquered
). bloodless peace. The naughty and vengeful Gas
!. titan blood was incapable Of such wise forbeaI
= ance; and it has enacted tragedy Of horror
which will startle the whole world, and provoke
v certain and terrible vengeance.
d In the eyes of outraged humanity, now, the wa
against the Spanish authorities Of Cuba is cru
II SADIE, and sanctied by the saeredness Of reribr
/. ton for the butchered dead There are no barrier
/. between rstribution and the Spanish authorities
,s In the manning Of the slaughtered dead, and tn
indignity of brutal burial, they have violated tn
laws of humanity; and indignant public ssntmel
}. will outlaw them from the cover Of technic
d treaties. Before il our Government will be pov
. eress to restrain; it might well seek to ARE
= the rush of the avalanche the sweep Of Il
- prairie FIRE. Let Spain look to it; the avenge
.e will shortly be upon Cuban SOIL and fearful pc
h atty will be exacted for the horrors and outrsg
N of the sixteenth August.
)" They died bravely, those gallant and unfort
nate young men. When the moment of execute
n came, many, Colonel Crittsnden, and Capt. Wet
a. Kerr among them, refused TO kneel with the
In backs to their sxecutionen. "No," said the cl
IL valrous Crittenden, An American kneels only
= his God, and always faces bis enemy" They sto
I. up, faced their eDcutioners, were shot down, q
4. their brains then knocked out by clubbsd muske
The blood runs cold before the terrible narrative
their barbarous fate, and we rather to reco
m the inhuman vengeance Of savages than the ste
:" justice of civilized men.
= Peace to the slaughtered dead They al
nobly, in cause they deemed sacred, in the ms
" rations of freedom. They died like soldiers; =
~ met their terrible fats with heroism which
been rarely paralleled. The rude ditch in wifi
: they were brutally thrown, entombs more heroi
n than many rare and costly sepulchre, and thou
no marble monument crown their last rest with
record of sorrow and glory, they have the sleep
rs the soldier, and leave tho memory of men, "
81 died without fear and without dishonor.
Their melancholy fate has darkened and de-
II lated many household, and filled it with wailil
re- for the dead. The loss of beloved relatives has
A agony heightened by the horrors Of their fate.
Pc wall Of misery will ring through the land, q
81 quicker than trumpet blast or beat of drum, it
u I. summon host before which Spanish oppost
!, will be powerless.
" We have before US two letters from the slaul
"a tered Kerr-one copy, the other an original,
et handwriting Of which is firm and regular, thor
V in few minutes he was to meet his terrible fl
O. We subjoin them, emitting one line Of a pc
liarly private and delicate nature:
MY Dear Fslscsa-Adieu, my dear wife. 7
is the last letter that you will receive from y
Victor. In ons 6Onr shall be no more.
:. Embrace all my friends for me.
i. My adieu to my sisters and brothers. Agar
4. last adieu I die ike a aoldieF