North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-08-27
THE NEWS FROM CUBA.

a- !, s stated, landed on the 18th, within some
for,v or 6tv miles of Havana, with about I'ooO
,,on-o,ber accounts state four or FIVE hundred men
1,o ,ccounts are given of his subsequent movements
5 the CAPTURE of the Americans who were executed
IN. orornnent account states that Lopez, on land
;n sent letter to the inhabitants of Posas, threat
irq them with determination unless they aided him
Subsequently, fight occurred between the Spaniards
and the patriots, in which the former suffered severe
Iss On the 18th, the patriots attempted to re-em-
bakat Cubanos but prevented by the Spaniards,
and an engagement ensued in which the patriots were
utterly routed and dispersed into the mountains back
Of Bahia Honda. A portion attempted to escape in
boas. and this was the party that captured and
eyecued. The other account is widely different. 1t
s,tes that engagements took place on the 18th, in
which the Spaniards thrice defeated with great
loss and that the 18th tie patriots moved towards
DIEGO Nunez and Cubanos, with the view of taking
the fort of the latter place. Some fifty endeavored to
not there by sea- and these captured by the
Standards. Neither of these accounts is precise as
IN the whereabouts Of Lopez.
There is despatch from New Orleans, dated Au-
aust 10, as follows: "The brig Telegraph, from
Havana. reports the liberators' triumph
iuo Much disatfection exists among the government
,roone-4 600 have deserted to the patriots.''
Il is the duty of the United States government to
overt its powers in good faith to prevent the arming
and 6ttiuq out on soil of troops or bodies of
men. whose object is to assail the governments of
countries with whom we are at peace. This duty,
in the present case, has been performed, and more
than performed. The President has not only direct
Cd strict watch to be kept in the harbors Of all our
principal Cities, but he has gone far, it is stated.
rs TO order our national vessels the high seas, be-
vond the American waters, with instructions to in
ercept all vessels bearing armed men from our shores
TO Cuba. In addition to this, he has denounced In
his Proclamation those who have gone from this coun-
try to the assistance of the Cubans as robbers and
phunderers-the minions Of Spanish despotism call
them piraies and surprised to observe that the
New York Express and other Wing papers in this
country, give them the same name. Now, these men
are neither pirates, robbers, plunderers pirate
is a man whose hand is against every man, and who
murders in cold blood for money. robber is one
who forcibly seizes and apProprates the goods of
others to his use, and plunderer is about the
same 1t must be borne in mind that there are two
parties in CUBA patriot and government party.
That the patriots are gathering strength daily is not
to be denied and it is equally certain that their cause
is bottomed Justice and that they encouraged
to a considerable extent, by the sympathies of the
Cuban people. These patriots, month or two since,
made demonstration of their own against the gov.
eminent; and they reported to number in their
ranks at this lime several thousand men, securely
entrenched in the mountains some four or five hum
dred miles from Havana. They a:e arrayed against
desposm than that which forefathers re-
sisted and put down in 177G, and in which were
joined and aided by such Lafayette, DeKalb,
and Pulaski. 1t to assist such and in
such cause, that these Americans have landed in
Cuba. They may be called misguided men, adven-
tuners, and the like; but they not pirates. They
have exparated themselves, and thus forfeited all
claim TO the protection OF their government; but who
will say that those of them who have been captured
have not paid the penalty like heroes!
The Spanish government had right, according to
the law of nations, TO execute these men; but its
treatment of their dead bodies Infamous and in
formal. What was our Consul doing Why did he
not demand audience Of the Captaiu-Genera, and
require that these unfortunate victims of despotc
wrath should be executed and buried like men, On
the contrary, it he asked audience by let
teT' and that his request treated with silent
tempt, while in the meantime the bodies of as brave
men as ever breathed, and under the protection
oil the American flag, and mutilated by wild
beasts In human form, and then committed to the
earth as If they had been wolves or dogs! These
men had mothers and sisters in America, to whom
watch, or ring, lcck of hair would have been
DEAR because left keepsake or memorial by the
misguided wanderer in his last moments, to those he
loVed and yet even this was denied through the in
uherence or cowardice of our Consul, and by gov
eminent lost to all decency and civilization. All this
however, will but hasten the overthrow of the Span
lSh power in Cuba.
"They never fail who die
IN great cause. The block may soak their GORE
helr heads may sodden in the sun their limbs
be strung to City gates and castle walls
Put s''ll their spirits walk abroad. Though years
Ell and others share as dark a doom,
utI WY Out augment the deep and sweeping thoughts
Nv nich oVerpower all others, and conduct
Inc world at last to freedom
II also appears, from the news in our paper today
tnat the steamship Falcon was chased and fred at by
spanish vessel, and insult was thus offered to
,ne United States. We shall see what course the
resident will adopt in relation to this insult
Inc news from Cuba, by this arrival, must create
d ueep sensation in the United States Every ear
VIII De turned towards that Island for the next INTEL
gence' The success of the patriots at this time. it
must De admitted, is very doubtful. We shall soon
know the result.
our worthy and interchangeable friend, Col. John II.
"heeler passed through this City this week on his
T''n' 10 suPerinend the printing of his Sketch
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