Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-08-30
THE NEWS FROM CUBA

The New York papers OF Friday and Saturday |
last are filled with the particulars of the late news
from Cubs. All the accounts leave us in doubt
as to the whereabouts Of Lopez and the main body
of his followers. II is supposed that they have
all been dispersed. Fifty4wo was the number
captured and executed. The most hUrible part Of
thessory connected with thcir execution, that their
remains were mutilated by the mob, proves to be
utterly without foundation, the bodies having been
deposited by the Spanish authorities in well-made
hcarses. and carried away from the place Of execu
,icn for interment. We copy the details in full.
FROM ruE Hxw YORK E1raxss.
THE News FROM CusA, which we spread before
en4 vhss ~ lssxe an along expected and
ufsdictsd. Sut il not the less hlkss Ns thrill with
horror. The execati0n of 6fty-odd men in cold
blood. however deserved. shocks us and we are
the more shocked when Spanish and negro ferocity
is added to the horrible spectacle. The whole
United States will feel the thrill and shock, and
loud will be the cries of vengeance but there is
another side Of thisquestion, which, as just peo-
pie, we are bound to respect and weigh with due
consideration.
Apparently, the People of Cuba rest contented
with their Government, for the Cubans themselves
not only show no desire for change, but actually
revel in the crueIties committed by their Govern
ment; and in the midst Of this conientment a band
of strangers, avmedto the teeth with bowie knives
and six-shooter rifles, land from New Orleans in
steamer to force liberty" down their hroats, and
such as resist the blessing are boDie-knsOed, or
stretched ON the.greusd in the agonies Of death by
the fatal bullets Of these sixsho0ters. 1t was the
boast, we were told last night by passenger, OF
the American Freebooters engaged in this foray
that phalanx of some thirty Americans, armed
with these cylinder rifles, shot eighty out OF one
hundred and ten Spanish soldiers attacking them.
Indeed the contest between the Spaniards and the
Americans was of a most bloody character. for the
Spaniards reports tell us, own up to four hundred
and fifty killed or dangerously wounded on the field.
Now, here is an island, peaceful, prosperous, and
for all we know content, thus invaded the second
time, by no nation, be it membered-under the
sanction of no Government, bear it in mind-with
flag at thestart, therefore, piratica, recognised
by no legal authority on earth. And these free
bOoters-RIRATBs, rather, for in the nomenclature
of nations that is their real name-fre, burn shoot,
cut, slash, slay the people they find there, under
the pretence of giving them "libery-" Soldiers
in the discharge Of their duties to their Government
are shot with cylinder rifles. Cnbans themselves
in arms share similar fate. Whatever opposes or
resists them is ruthlessy destroyed, out down, or
fired In short, an island in state of apparent
peace is thus, of sudden, subjected by strangers
to all the horrors of 1t is not wonderful, then,
nay, IS It not natural, that these mcn, whom cap@
tured, are shot! shot as we would shoot-true, with
cruelties beyond any we ever dream of practising
Canadians or Mexicans thus coming here, or En-
glishmen, if thus they should come Bring the
case right home to ourselves, in suppOsng that the
Abolitionists of England or of the Northern States
should take it into their heads thus to send a
steamer from liverpool or Boston to Louisiana, to
bring the blessings of liberty to e.save popu-
lation there; and who doubts then that the Loui-
sianans would shoot them, they would mad
dogs in the fields or streets |!
It is of no use to reiterate the lie that the Cubans
are all in arms, that revolution exists, and that
such a Government is created as justi6es foreign
intervention. These are the mOckeries, the mon
strous falsehoods created for the New Orleans
press, and for the New York press inpart, which
led the deluded fools on board the Pampero, and
which have sacrificed them on Cuban soil. If the
Cubans desire a revolution, they have given no sort
of proof of it, but, the contrary, every passen-
ger in the Cherokee represents the people them
selves to be proaouncing the invaders as devils"
(diabolos,) coming ont to Cuba to murder or to
plunder them. The feeling, indeed, we see, was
so bitter against our countrymen in the streets OF
Havana.-not among the soldiers, the reader will
remember-hat our people in the Falcon and Che
rokee were badly treated, and not safe among the
HabanerOS themselves. lncSe are lndicatlOns,
nay, proofs, that there is sympathy with the in
vaders but on the contrary, that they are regarded
as enthusiastically far from being liberators or
friends. To force liberty" upon such people
the Mississippi Valley has been reused to arms
and even now armed straggers are going down the
Ohio, the Alabama, and Chattahoochie, TO be food
for gunpowder in Cuba, if some Pampero can be
,got to take them there.
The firing of the Spanish steamer into the Fal-
con is excusable only, not defensibe; excusable,
because, after the landing of armed men from one
American steamer, the Pampero, there was no GER
,tainty that another might not be swarming with
like armed men. We hear, however, that the
Spanish commander pretended not to know, per-
haPs did not know, that it was the Falcon he was
firing into.
To show how little importance is attached to the
pressn, expedition of Lopez, about which now SO
muchrnoise is made here, in order TO delude more
dupes 10 Cuba, we copy the following from the
circulars of well-informed mercantile houses in
Cuba:
The government have announced the landing Of
pedion about fifty sixty miles hence the eewsd sup
posed to amaunt to about four hundred men, although the
accounts dir in that respect and represent the
Der twelve hundred Large bodies of troops were me-
da,ey sent forward against them and by the latest nse
geDce ey had come in contact with them and commenced
operations but Nd definite information as to the result has
get besnSeceved We also have official accounts respecting
the disturbances in the Interior which state that thsy
have entirely aueed and the parties concerned in them