The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-10-09
The Failure OF the Cuban Invasion.

sympathy from the Interested or the weak A number
men, who had fought with courage in the open field
ana many ofwhom had ince wandered for days wound
ed and furnished have b. publicly executed as pirates
that Is as robbers and murderers declaring with their
last breath that they believed they assisting an
oppressed and indgr ant population in the Of their
deliverance Such spectacle 10 among civilized
rations and In civilized times, for the simple reason
that society Is then too strong for buccaneers and ma
Taudeys to ply their trade with any hope Of success
spsn an .% aTss actually occur tbs
and incredible nature Of their crime 1t is difcut
regard them enemies Of the human race, FOR that
be said to exist and It is found more easy to believe
them something more familiar and creditabe-patriots
DELIVERIES, Quixotic enthusiasts knights Grant o.
something Of that kind. In this instance the crime
fer such 1t undoubtedly u.s. derives some color from thu
well known chsI scter q all Spanish government II
ofspain, and annexed to the great American fedora
ton must be the better for the change, and emerges
m fact nom darkness to gAt and from slavery 10 free
dom. We may chartahly hope that tinge Of pohtica
romance gided the dreams Ct these unhappy adven
as as Seusss
mills live Stock negroes and otter valuable commod-
But when the nmsy veil Of political romance has been
Withdrawn from the crime IL Is evident compassion,
we cannot withhold it, due rather TO the fy than
to the fate Of the criminal Compassion Is much
Justly due to the unfortunate authorties who have been
ariven to gor from which In the frs instance they
nad rsc0ea who were nscs to suffer the penalty Of
they had ps1doned ard released who kept the
tesserhooks Of fearfut Spectson in the presence Of
sympathisers; Who compelled to maintain q largs
naval and military force against fees IN time OF
Peace and who having tined in vain the alternative of
mercy driven to the ether alternative 81 Justice
and so forced TO endure the stigma os apparent Su
avoidable cruelty What could the Cuban authorities
do? What line az conoucS can the Americans them
selves suggest to State condemned to suffer perod
cal invasion by a~less bands in time Of peace the
6overnor Of Cuba and the Cuban authorities he'd
ether interests to attend to than the pleasure o. the
Americans: Of course they would dishsnd the royal
forces, and leave the island with all its valuable
property to 10 shared among the hrs. body Of Ar,e
rcsn citizens that could establish itself at Havana
Or If this too manifest treason, or too tan,e
a surrender, they might retain this Island for a
while, Just for the display OF American
vsor allowing few hundred loyal soldiers to be shot
OIL at each successive landing Of the invaders and nva
raby allowing the latter to retire unmolt stsd and
cruit for another landing 1t Certainly wort appear
that some Of the American sympsthisers think the
selves entitled to such Treatment for their sympathy
With the invaders Is partly founded on the het, that
owing TO their hyperion skill in
Lorvripg they achieved fearful slaughter Of the Spa
nish foiees But h is evident that the Cuban.suthcri-
uts had other DUTIES to perform than compaisance to
the fentimeDs Of tie American public they bod ths
island to keep for their Queen not speak Of the other
irttress at stake and this paramount duty unsortu-
raeiy Involved the necessity OF making example Of
the invaders Eve, in this extremity they seen, to
lave nnperdjutic not to say the claims of self pre-
strvstior with mercy The first batch taken, while the
great body Ct the invaders still in arms they put to
ceath. When the invasion eximguished and the
ger The present they ssgaed 70 Lopez
the gnomin iou death Of pirate; they snot the prnci
pal Cheers under him aod spared the lives OF the
mairne $50, not however, setting them at large to
The American journals that the expedition has 30
sgDay fail, d. d the hostility a. least the iudif
er' nee Of the Cuban population has been plsnly
morttrs'd cocdenn Lopsz and his dupes in unmss-
tuTed terms. They admit wha, everybody kuows-that
similar Get of dssreradoes would meet with very little
mercy from The President Of the United States they
fell into his hands whom engaged similar Grand
We wish cuuld persuade ourselves however that the
not their failure Ii Is admitted 70 BE- piracy sim
ply because lk. treason has not prcspered. In the
midst Of the grave censpres which are pronounced
no nd
then, come very suspicious prophecies Of the fate
OF Erha, which IL Is said will be haste ned by
the late seventies. The GovcinIr is told not that
he has exceeded the law If the case but that he
has been ipjudcious, though ia the same article
II IL said that the Liberation of Cuba IL
ff'm without. but from within In tee Island itself
thee seventies to have been taken as a mat
ter OF course and they could only hasten the
doom Of the Spanhh dominion by their effect on
the irfsscible temper Of the American public Per-
haps after the faot of two large expeditions having
sailed from Anne rican ports fer the conquest OF Cuba
with the scarcely concealed conuivAnoe Of the authori
ues-the stcopd Gu so large scale that though oaly
part Of II sailed, II was able TO keep the field than
week-tbe Americans would do well 60 abstain from
supeffucus criticism the conduct OF the Spanish
authorities. IL Cubs really Is 70 b. Amerosn-if the
pear must one day rpen and drop into that cspacous
tnd rtunate apthen there Il necessity 20 hurry
the Day. either by invading Cuba in time Of pence
BY ahusrg its authorities when thy clearly the
right.
Spayn.