The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-21

JAMES GoRDok BmsnKrr, ESQ !: /.
SlB-Whl you permit to Cuban. exiled from his
kindred and country for his attachment to republi-
licsn principles space for few words Of truth and
scberness, in reply to q cruel and unjust attack
upon the conduct and character Of the Cuban pa
triotsg
The Courier and Enquirer of the 18th instant is
disgraced by leading article on Cuba, which |
reiuse 10 beieve comes from the pen of the actual
editor. That reeborD son Of freeborn woman could
not SO fGlsify his nature waive the false logic
ana infrm statements Of this substitute, for be is
not responsible for what nature has denied; but his
seni Dents are his own. and they proclaim truupct
torgued, the writer WAS trained under the dark,
soul ciampipg shadows of despotism. He saws -
Oppressed as they (the Cubans) are-for tho
Spanish rule is despotic beyond Czarlsm, and the in
habisants Of the island Spaniards and Creoles, but
50 many cypbers, politicaS-she latter have all the
liberty that they deserve" And thon he goes on to
Insult the unar,ned Creoles, for not hackiug down
the massive forrresses that dominate our cities with
our sugar knives. Yet in the next sentence, he ole
gsnty ADDS. that the leaders in the revolutionary
con bnations Row ripening will 'soon pay for their
whistle by conscation of their estates, and some
years OF Punishment. SO evon this stranger TO the
beating OF chained heart. longing and Struggling
to be tree, admits that the Cubans are perll.ing
liberty and fortune, hundreds before them have
faced poverty aud exile to help forwsrd the cause
OF Cuban emancipation. The prisons and the scat
and devotion. Unless, indeed the gallant and
sclf-devoted Agicros, Benavides, Zayas, Ar
menteros, Arsis, Hernandez and those that
labored and fell with Naroso Lopez, wore American
adyerturers--uness, indeed, the hundreds who, like
me, aie waDdering in these United States without
property, country or family by the prosecution OF
lne Spanish government, are "Amerioan adyen-
turers--uniess, indeed, those Cubans who drag
IDE honorable chains in the prsons and prostdos OF
Spain and Africa, are "Amercan anventurers''-
oeep, grateful AID enduring will DO the remeu-
brance that Cuba viii cherish OF her sacrificed heroes
And when in her day Of freedom she raises monu-
Ient 70 their glory, she will not ask where they
were born for Cuba feels that all the children Of
true liberty are tho sous Of one mother. When an
alien to the family taunts us with the folly Of vast
ing our gold and our lives IN disseminating argu-
iucit for independence in country where, to his
o1n words, even the seals of private corrcspon-
oence can hide from the government spies
and mans very trencher fellow may be Of the Sc
cret police he states tor us better than wo can do
it for ourselves, why cur progress has been slow.
In tho same breath no accuses us Of not doing
enough, and sneers, as Concha or Nero might do,
over the punishment That awaits us for doing too
much. To al this reply-not to the Courier, for it
not for such things. bu. to the men Of Ameri-
cato the legitimate sons Of her generous and
liberal institutons-I cay that Cuba is neither cold
nor asleep, but bound as every Cuban is with the
triple chain of an overpowering standing army, Of
numerous spy police and fottorod press, she must
organize as she is organizing, town by town, neigh
borhood by neighborhood, some times family by
family and establish With her credited representa-
tives ut New York and Washington, better commll-
nication and abundant means before we strike the
last blow We do not wish, by any rash or prema-
ture step, expose sacred to such ignorant
and unchdr,tablc Judgment as ana now noticing,
nor yet leave families to the mercy Of African
sayages daily imported under conniyance Of Her
Catholic Msicsty's government.
DOMINGO DE- GoICcURIA