The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-22

Avo oonOcu0n, moro ~ testimohfA OF sDen Boy
The contributors to the Washington Monument
cannot be said to have no admiration Of the
character, nor reverence for the memory Of the
Father Of his Country, because, perebance, they
receive from its committee an engraving terrifying
TO their patriotic donstion. Gen Henderson. from
the West, whore he was born, rowed his passage |
to New Orleans In fiat boat, and by dins Of hs
industry and perseverance, rose TO emnencs at The
bar, and to the honorable distinction Of Senator
in Congress, from his adopted State Of Mississippi
OF such materials spectators cannot be made
They are more likely 70 be found with less prin,i-
pie to paliate their actions among the revlers OF
our movements. The result Of the Cardenas sxPe-
dition is known 70 the public. Among its conss-
quences was the trial Of Gen. Henderson by three
successive juries. They were, on the first, equally
divided; on the last they stood one for convection
care had been taken to guard agans. any violation
Of the neutrality laws Of 1873 In April Of the fol-
lowing year Qe5l), the third expedition, that OF
the Cieopa.ra, was gotten up in George y tue
having had charge Of the purchase, of the
transportation, and the superintendence in that
city Of other elements. All the efforts OF The
government to convict this gentleman proved
fruitless. The result Of his trial again made 1t ob
vious that the law had been respected If the wishes
Of the administration had not. AZ TO myself, al.
though have surrendered voluntary to the author
tiles of Georgia, and given bonds to the govern
ment am as yet untried-a Sufficient yiDdicamon
that the pains taken by me, in guarding against any
infrng upon the statute made the interest Of
Spain still more hopeless at she South The means
for this expedition were chiefly derived from Cuba,
whose patriotic daughters, the women OF Havana and
Puerto Principe, without distinction OF class or sta
tion generously added the Offering OF their jewels
20 the contributions of their brothers and husbands
About Sl2 Geo OF Cuban bonds were taken in Geor-
ga, by gentlemen of the highest responsibility and
political position, among whom will only mention
the editor ard proprietor Of leading wing organ
IN the State, because Of the republication 10 that
sheet OF nm abusive article from the National intel
igtncsr, against those whomi designated as specu-
la.ors il Cuban bonds. After the discontinue OF
the expedition Of April 1861, by the seiznre Of the
Cleopatra in New York, found il necessary 20 re-
cruit my health, impaired by the incessant laoor
and anxious soicitude of the preceding months,
for. under the circumstances, was unequal TO the
dnties Of an active summer campaign. General
Lopez encouraged me 10 do go, with the under
tandiYg that / should support, with force OF tom
1900 to 1000 men. the expedition which, IN the ex-
pectation of rising in the island, he preparing
in New Orleans. "CareSe Y. CON esmero," said he,
in his last letter to me; para que raya apoyaf a
sis amigo de cora s0,s. After leaving, in obedi
ence to bis instructions, all the elements which
had collected in April. in the bands Of one of our
friends for their furherance to the island as General
Lopez might direct, set out for the Virginia
Springs. the warrant issued for my arrest not allow
ing me 10 repair to those Of Georgia, While in the
mountains the intelligence reached me Of the rising
Of the patriots Of Puerto Principe and Trinidad the
exaggerated accounts Of which, published IN the pa
tion of Spanish agents, unquostonably precpitated
the departure Of the General in the steamship Pam
pero at cree returned Secretly to Georgia. where,
owing to arrangements in the engine osa.d steamer,
already returned from the island, | vas sorry TO
find men, arms, and ammunition, which, IN my cal
cuIation, were then on their way to Cula, With
out interfering with that movement, already IN
the hands OF others, ! Of once proceeded to
raise the promised reinforcement. The disastrous
news OF the fate Of the General, and his brave
Cuban ard American associates, reached me in
Charleston, while in the successful prosecution OF
this labor have been led thus to enter into details
somewhat personal to me, from the necessity of
answering the malignant Institutions Of some of
the friends Of Spain in this country, who iered
and perhaps regretted, that | and other Cubans
were not included in the massacre of August and
September lst. i viii add, for the information
of these gentlemen, that was severely wounded
at Cardenas, thereby claiming the honor of being
the FIRST Cuban who has ever bled in battle in the
assertion of his country's rights With the details
of the Pampero expedition l am comparatively
unacquainted. / am, however, convinced that the
means therefor We're generously furnished, mostly,
leans, editor Of the Daily Dela, who asked nothing
for contribution which deprived him OF his ell,
but promise Of General Lopez simply to refund it
to him. Against such the iangs Of SANDER
must lie themselves. With the Pampero expedi-
tim ends the last of four efforts made, three
cessive years, for the disentbraiment of Cuba. IF
not Immediately successful, they have produced one
Of the results anticipated by those Who haze, in
its attainment, sacrificed position, home, aud
friends, and incurred the oblIquy OF the II aLgnant
and misinto-ned, to wit:-rhe replantng OF the
Cuban revolution upon its native soil, whore il
is RAPIDLY advancing to 81 successful issue
Having run through its preparatory stage. it is to
Cuba that its future ones should be looked for.
The defence Of the acts Of Gen Lopez, and his
Cuban and American friends, wou remain insom-
plete, were ! silent. Ist-Onth abusive com neats
upon the sale of Cuban bonds; and 2d-On the de-
nunciation contained in Mr. Fillmore's proclamation
Of April, 1861, On the subject of the bonds, the
National lnteligeHc1an English hot. house for the
exotic weed of monarchy, without whose fostering
and covert protection they could neither with
stand in republican America the incongenialty Of
climate, resist the sturdy tramp of freeman the
paper ever to be found on the side Of any interest
sntagonistic to the Amcrican-has been especially
severe 1t has called these bonds fraud, and their
purchasers Spectators, while it has characterized
the movement they were issued for, as desperate
enterprise" The reader may have noticed with
what comparatively small means four costly expedi-
tions have been raised, precludDg the possibility Of
gain by the projectors. Had they speculated by it
they would have felt inclined to establish paper at
Washington, in, defence Of somc .weIpaying
government, rather than risk their lives against
1T. Had such been the case, they would have COM
menced by issuing the bonds, and not by spending
their own money, as they actually did in the first and
largest expedition. Then, if the enterprise des
perate, there certainly was more generosity than
speculation in those Americans who furnished the
means for it, If the chances Of failure were ten
to one, as represented then the bonds were really
worm Ten cents on the dollar ana no more. But IN
the belief Of the MteHigencr there was no chance
whatever. Then, even ten per cent was disnter-
ested donation. Supposng the chances to have been
fair Of establishing republican government in Gu
ba- and this supposition could not be made, without
assuming independently of circumstances favorable
to the issue, that the great majority Of her people
willing to throw off the yoke Of Spain-then it
was exceedingly proper to invite neighborng re-
publican people, even as they invited a distant
moDarchical one, to lend them .heir aid and any
caOital
in what might possibly become ''despera.e' should
hare been amply remunerated by the country
which, in the event Of success, would not only
have acquired the invaluable blessings Of lib
Money has at sill times been raised in a
Ike manner for similar or analogous purposes.
Hungary issued bonds so did Italy aod
every country and people who has stood in need Of
it.. Bonds were issued in Texas, and cold at one |
time as low MS FIVE cents on the dollar. This debt
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