New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-08-16

ossFeU1rs or THE LATE vrcroR KERR-To-day, at half
part seven O'clock Ms solemn services will be had in
memory Of the gallant young Creole Of Louisiana whose
name heads this notice They will be had in the heant
full ceremonies Of the Catholic church, at the Cathedral
Doubtless notwithstanding the esry hour many Of those
who knew the amented dead mingled with him in daily
intercourse and SHARED with him the conversation of m
tua friends will loiu the ceremonies to take place
The remembered dead was of our college mates
and ne have known him long and well ~ frank chiyal-
ros impuliye young The decided character Of his
quick and enthusiastic temperament easily betrayed him
ntoa participation in The cuban expedition The love Of
adventure the ambition Of glory the vision of berating
an oppressed people coored the enterprise to him in the
most attractive and fascinating lights He imagined that
the banner Of the hberating Army would be to the
saved Cubans an 0rifanime, at the first cleaning of
which they would rise up in nsurection give out the
hattle-cry of freedom and revolt and throng eagerly to
their newly arrived friends as to saviors.
This was terrible mistake It betrayed Kerr Crtten
den and many other gallant and adventurous spirits into
wild and fatal expedition and esry and fearful DEATH
With singular Indifference, in spirit of the grossest
and most treacherous cowarce the Cubanse the brave
followers of Lopez to contend hopeessly against
whelmng odds and perish by starvation the fusade and
the garote yil The fate of those martyr1victims-
ceived but not shonored-must be forever dark stain
upon the character of the native Cubars 1t is almost
Impossible not to believe that they invited the expedition
and it is absolutely certain that they left it, unaded to
its disastrous fate In this they have forfeited all claim
ito the and if they suffer oppression for
centuries the generations of the future may well remem
Der that they expate the crime of the generation of
to-day
Thesolemn roll of the loud toned organ the chaunt of
of choir and surpced priests the religious ceremonies at
the altar the rvent prayers of the afflicted and the rev.
erenta sympathy of friends cannot summon back to fe
and place erect and breathing amid the multitude of men
one OF those who sleep, Gin undistinsnsabe mass
in the shallow trench in the shade of Havara's walls
But still as testifying affection remembrance and re-
speet, such ceremonies have beautiful Significance
ihey Smbo home affections andt the syathies Of friend
'hp which survive the death oftheir object aigo down
With prayer, and ehaunt, and incense into the darkness
md darkness of the inodorous grave and looking I'D and
beyond it. see thousand bright and cheering hopes star
'ed upon the unexplored hereafter They testimony
'aih and love- asybol even those who know another
'tual at the ALTAR of respectful remembrance and manly
SORROW They testify that the dead are buried only in the
sarth but not in memory and that Affection and Honor
nave garands for the hubest grave if he who sleeps in
N it. died well, died bravely and honoraby and in the
aith Of good cause. In such faith however deceived
by report of Cuban sympathes died the unfortunate vic
Tins of the Lopez expedition The ovation of triumph
they thought they reflected in the future is sadly
arkened and reversed in the unmarked graves outside
the walls of Havana and in the mournful obsequies of
to-day. A lesson for the future warning to en- |
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