Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-02


respect to treaty Obligations and thought that
peope Of Cuba desired to be free they should strike
themselves instead Of relying American citizens to fight
their battles They have hoisted the banner Of liberty
and should rally around Having put their own
shoulder 10 the Wheel their calls on Hercules for assistance
NAV not he in vain We shall look for further from
Cuba with interest The patriots will fight desperately for
if defeated and taken, their lives will be the sacrifice"
(BaHin,ne Clipper.
We presume that our respected Baltimore neigh
Dor, from whose paper we take the preceding, when
he speaks thus of the Cubans as having hoisted
the banner Of liberty" has suffered himself to be
imposed upon by publication. the making OF
which is obviously one of the arti6ces of those per-
sons in this country who in one way or another
connected with the operations Of the New York
and New Orleans Flibustiers," and whose objects
are in violation of the laws of their own country
and the laws of nations, TO wrest the Island OF
Cuba from its parent stock, by means OF invasion
for the purposes of plunder, attended with whole
sale murder, sequestraton, and con6scation. That
publication, whose caption is Declaration OF In
dependence" (of Cubans, SO far as it is pretend
ed to be the act of more than few individuals,
whose names (if they be not men of straw are
ture. This Declaration had it any valid sane
ton from any but few individuals in the noun
tains of Cuba, is beyond all doubt OF the manu-
facture of "Cuban patriots" in this country,
better skilled in the use Of the pen than Of any
other weapon, and whose perfect familiarity with
the Anglo-Saxon tongue has enabled them to WELD
it with too much ability and dexterity in this De-
claration' to allow it to be mistaken by any edu-
Gated men for the work Of the Creoles or the
Spaniards of Cuba. Take the first paragraph as
a sample:
"JuLr A. ls5l-Human reason rerols against the idea
that the social and political condition Of people can be
indefinitely prolonged in ,ohch man, stripped Of all rights
and guarantees ,uth security of person or property no
enjoyment the present, hope in the future, Aues only 6y
the ,c and under the conditions imposed by the pleasure
of his tyrants; where vile caumny, prisoners denun-
CATION despos suspicion, word caught up by surprise in
the sanctuary Of home, from the violated privacy of
letter. furnishes ample grounds for tearing from his
hearth and casting him forth die Of desution despair
on foreign soil If he escapes being subjected to the insult
ing forms Of barbarous arbitrary tribunal where bis
cu,ors themselves the judges who condemn him, and
where instead of their proving his offence he is required to
prove his innocence"
Does any one of our readers believe that this
parody upon the United States Declaration of In.
dependence-these sounding phrases, these round
and smoothly turned periods-this date OF the
Fourth of July-was ever conceived or penned by
any one of the Cubans or Spanards, be they few
or many, who have risen in arms against their Co.
vernment? Or that the following paragraph was
ever penned by any other than some one of those
citizens of the United States who are engaged in
candestine criminal enterprises, for their o,cn
personal en1olument against the colonies of coun-
try whose territories, BY the strongest possible
bonds Of honor and morality, they are bound to
respect and refrain from attempting to invade or
moles!
"We on til. other hand, besides resources have
in the neghbong States of the Union, and in all the repub-
lies Of America the encampments Of troops the depots
our supplies and the arseal Of All the
Of this New World whose bosom shelters the Island Of
Cuba and who have had like us, shake off by force the
yoke of tyranny will enthusiastically applaud resolve,
lH Hy by hundreds to place themselves beneath the flag of
liberty ranks and their trained and experienced valor
will aid in annihilatng, and for always the last
badge Of gnominy that still dsgaces the free and indepen
dent soil of America"
This pretended Declaration, it is too plain, is
no act of the People Of Cuba, but of those ndivi-
duals who have in different cities Of this country
opened recruiting rendezvous, raised and lent
money, displayed strange flags, and marshalled
professions, for the purpose Of seducng and delud-
ing innocent youths and reckless desperadoes from
their allegiance to their own true Government, into
wild and dangerous land, SO far as the main object
plunder, is concerned, namous enterprises against
the dominions Of Spain. This Cuban Declaration
has the New York or New Orleans stamp too
deeply impressed upon its face to pass current
with any other persons than such--our friend at
Baltimore for example-who are themselves too
honest to suspect the use of such subterfuges by
those to whose criminal enterprises he is, if we
rightly understand him, as much adverse the
most conscientious upholder Of the laws and
treaties Of his own country.
The Clipper" is far from being the only jour-
nal which shows more confidence in the news,
made to order, and in This spurious Declaration"
than we accord 10 either. Several Of our contem-
poraries-and among them some whose judgment
we habitualy respect-have republished this De-
claration" authentic document, entitled to as
much consideration as it undoubtedly would have
been if really the act Of the People Of Cuba, or of
any representatives chosen or authorized by them.
Even we were disposed to connive at the object Of
these candestine and illegal movements from this