The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1851-10-15
Gu. Consul ut Cuba.


We give below the excul pa'ory letters Of Nj.
Owen to which we will have occasion to refer
more 4, length hereafter. We clip i. from thu.
Washington Republic, which paper gives il IN,
sertion, without note or commen' 1t must
have been bitter pm to the RePatic, snce il
goes to show THAT the extent Of his d atoriness
towards making sossc effort at least, to succor
his un,laphy cpun.ry'ncD was even greater thaa
was realized here at home. The letter of Mr..
Tlra>,er, which we published in yesterday. 5
issue, with the card, which we also gave, from
The American prisoners at Cuba, prior to then
departure for Spain, and this letter of the de-
'inquent Owen, are hunila.ing comment
Upon the administration and its irit nds.
CoSsrLArE OF TuE USlrfp SrsrEs,l
Havana, Sept. 10, leol. )
10 The Editor Of The Republic:
Sra: In your weekly Issue of the 25th ult.
you do the justice to object to my conlcrnila-
ton without hearing, and to say that | am
probably able 10 cxpain to the s:tisiaction OF my
countrvncn my omission to act relative to the
execution Of the prisoners who were shot here
on tn 10Th ult.
/ do not d)ubt TINT sl,all satisfy every I'M
partial mind that am undescrvng ccnsur,., and
TIM, had no opportunity Of doing anything il,
behalf of the unfortunate men who met 50 sad a
fat,
| reside about four miles from this place, and
not being well on the morning of the 10Th, did
not reach my office till sometime after ten
clock, where, for the first tinc, | heard Of the
capture Of about fifty cf the men who had como
with Lopez 10 this islnd in the steamer Pam
pIra. at The same time heard that the prison
RS Ind been tried, found guilty, condemned, or
dcred TO be executed, the order for tliir cxccI-
ton sent forward, and tint they were about
being removed from the harbor, wEerc they
were, to be pllced for execution
Shortly aftcrwnr,l, tl,e .AniHrcan residing here,
who it is said, called on mc, came and mention
cd the subject 4, lar. when said 10 him that il
was loo late, and thai / could do n9;lInr--thai
should not have tiine to ret PERMISSION - see
The prisoners OF this felt perfectly satisfied
al the tin,e and have since been coniirncd in
this opinion by the highest authority in the
island, who informed that the execution.
which had already been ordered before reached
the city, would not have been postponed for me
to have interview with tn, prisoncrs, mas
much as all could have asked to be permitted
TO do had already been done by a gentleman
Known TO some Of The prisoners, and itur whom
they had sii. Est ats NGs ~
Soon after the, American referred to left my
office, received the Information that gentle
man known to some of il!c prisoners hid been
sent for BY them ,and to him they had delivered
The articles and messages they desired to be CON
veyed to their friends. It,was. huta short time
lttel wards that | sent t. the palace Of the COVER
nor ANA captain general, and heard that the
prisoners had then been executed PIE y -
4 You will thus see had no time to act and
hal twas not liz my power to do anything for
he unfortunate men who had hccn induced t.
invade Cuba, with the expectation chat they
would find the whole tslaud in IA state Of revou-
ion, md ithattheylwoutdb be received with open
lfmsby the wh4le native population at last
The charge of indifference to the dreadful
condition of such number Of m;n, the bittercst
sneinv have on earth will not believe; and all
must believe it to be base falsehood and an un-,
founded calnnny. ~ -
If it We're allowable on such an occasion, |
would most soleinuly declare before God that,
n my Judgment, at the time and under the cir.
it was not in my power either to
have an interview with the prisoners, or to have
done anything on their behalf.
Fam, very respectfully, sF r t
ID - Your obedient servant, 3
AE OWEN