Southern shield., 1851-09-27
An Honest Judgment.

1hO olio"llS Just anu SdtlSldClOIy ue- fence c the Administration, for its action in reat0n 10 the Cuba movement, we take from te Georgia Citizen, published in Ma con. The editor, whom we know well, is Demcrat, but man who has the moral courag 10 vindicate the right and oppose the wong, regardless of party afhnities, whenever he finds occasion for exercising ais ribt of oplnion:--
 "CUjA AND THE ADMINISTRATION Every | body \, ,ho knows anything of the opinions of th Editor of this paper, must be assured thaLwe are not "Fiimorebuster, as our neigbor of the Savannah NeooS so aoitiiy ex- prese it! We have never been the sup pore- of MT. Fillmore, either as candl- date for office, or as the President ot the Unied States. When this chief Magistrate however, is wantonly and maliciouSIy aS- saIel both North and South, on account of his ourse touching Cuban affairs, we think
 it fui time for the honest press of the coun- try 0 speak word in his behalf.
 Ibw stands the case? Mir. Fillmore isl abused at the North, for want of energy and vigihnce in suppressing the movement ln the United States against the Cuban Gov ernnent. These are Freesoier and Abo- IitiorStS who do not desire any further ex- tension of Slavery, to which 1t IS probable this movement would eventually lead. On the other hand, the pecuii@' selt-styed friends of Cuban emancipation, in the South, are denouncing the President for pre- Sumilg to issue his proclamation against the fitting out of armed expeditions Tn the Un- ted States against Government with which we have a treaty of peace Some ot the newspapers have even gon5 so far as to call Mir. Fillmore the friend Ot COnchd, the Captain General of Cuba and to charge up. on the President that he naS been the cause of the cold-blooded massacre of the tifty-one patriots at Havana, when it is well known that Mir. Fillmore has already despatched one or two vessels of war 10 inquire into the circumstances of that atrociouS affair, and is doing all that becomes him, as the Chiet Magistrate of the Union, to do, in the emer- gency Why and wherefore is Mir. Fill more assaiIed in this fashion! Look at the character of the assaiIents and you will req div understand the whole matter. The as sanIt comes from the Fire Eating Press Gang and their PartlZanS, who have tried, m Sa- vannah. Macon and other places South, to make capital out of the Cuban movement for their desperate cause. They wish to make it appear that the Union party are opposed to Cuban independence, and that they, the Fire-Eaters, are the only true sympatAi@erS with the oppressed CreoIes of the "Gem of the Antilles" Certain gentry of this city had the assurance, the other day, 10 start a subscription to raise money from those opposed to the present FreesoH Administration" to buy powder for feu-dp-j0i demonstration, in favor oi the Cuban patriots and in honor of the mur- dered victms We are happy 10 say, how ever, that this premeditated insult 10 the Union men of the city found DO counten- ance from any except few iactlous and malignant spirits who have more zeal than brains, and that at the meeting Tuesday night there was no response 10 such an un- called for insult 10 the President and his friends The truth is, we profess to be as good a friend 10 Cuba as any body, but we have yet to earn that the rash and VI olent measures which have been urged and advised by unprncipled editors and politl- clans, give them any right to dictate 10 oth- CTS upon the subject, or qualities them to pronounce upon the sincerity ot those who do not come up to their standard oi patriot ism and philanthropy. We do not care, at least, to be chased with those, who by inAamatory appeals and exaggerated publl- cations, have alured so many gallant spirits to an inglorious massacre i'll the streets oi Havana. We would not have one drop ot the blood of those victims on our conscience for worlds. nor would we care to hear the ,naledictions of the surviving relatives aud friends, as our "just recompense ot reward" for aiding, by singing false and syren song 10 allure our young countrymen to doom so horrible! And if there is any personal or political capital to be made out ot the whole operation, they who have made the investment are welcome to all it's honors and emoluments!"
 
 TIE CHoLERA.-We do not recoIleCt an instance of maignance in this mysterious and fatal disease, more striking or terrible than the following, copied from the Du- buque Qowa) Express: "Durng the preva- Ience of the cholera this season, member of family, not far from this locality, was suddenly taken down with the most violent symptoms of incipient Asiatic cholera. The collapsed state of the disease soon succeed ed. and in a few hours, the victim was a corpse. In day or two after, another member of the family was taken, and shared the same fate; and thus the fell destroyer proceeded until six members of the same family were consigned to the bosom of this mother earth. What is remarkable about the above is, that three of these victims died whilst staying at great distance in the country whence they had gone for securi- tv 4 straw bed, on which one of them