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

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heir neral and physical aid in dispiri.ing and over
aviDg our oppressed population, and exerting
European police in the waters Of America. It's SGT
down, moreover, in this State paper. that these
dare make our shores the scene Of their guilty
and hostile preparations against friendly
power, and seek, by falsehood and misrepresen-
tation, to seduce our own citizens, especially
the young and inconsiderate, into their wicked
schemes" Now it happens that Of the four mem-
bers Of the "Junta," three are Americans by edu-
cation and naturalization, and the fourth is also
probably by this time citizen Of the United States.
1t 10 more their fault that they have been COM
pelled by Spanish despossm to seek aid in republic
can Anne RIGA, than it was Franklns to have sought
Il in monarchical France. In prejudging our move
ment as guilty" tho Executive undertook to say
what il was not it's province but that Of the judicial
tribunals Of the land to decide after weighing the
the West have uniformly given their verdic. against
his assertion That "falsehood and misrepresenta-
tom were used, is fasifed by the record No as
sertcn was made by the Cubans, connected with
this movement, the truth Of which they do not at
this moment stand ready to prove. 1t is the New
York Erpress, an administration paper, the editor
Of which is friend Of the Spanish Minister, that
published the famous letter from Santabuco IN the
mountains Of Cuba, representing the patriots as
$500 strong. 1t was this paper that published
another letter from Of the Bahama islands, CIV
ing false information with regard to certain Amer-
can vessels on their way TO reinforce General
other administration papers most arduous in
publishing those false or exaggerated accounts
from the island, which contributed, with the
perfdous statements OF Spanish emmissares to pre-
ciptate the departure OF the too conhding General
Lopez, and caused him to land where he could be
most speedily annihilated If 'talsehood and mis-
representation" had been used, the men who enlist
ed for the first would not have Joined in the second
expedition; those who fought and bed at Cardenas
would not after going through SO many pcrils and
bardshps, have volunteered to fight and bleed again
at Los poyas and Caferal de Tras, and On their re-
turn from their captivity in Spain, would not haze
publicly expressed Their wllingnessto embark anew,
If necessary, III the service or the same cause II
"lalsehood and Misrepresentation bad been used,
and IL full confidence IN Integrity did not exist,
neither Henderson and Sigur, who have been im-
poyerisbed by their generosity nor the persons who
contributed in Georgia 10 the Cleopatra expedition,
would have remained since the steadtas friends
OF ourselves and cause, ready TO serve it again
with undated interest. The American character
is TOO enlightened in its nature, and too just in its
purpose. to be obscured by Misrepresentation, pri-
vate or official, to be turned by political leaders
from its conceptions of right. Finally, If false
hood and misrepresentation" had been used, would
the authors of 1t have risked their lives, or even
surrendered them, Lopez and scores OF Cubans did,
upon the same field and scaflold as their generous
associates! IL is, indeed, impossible to read
this proclamation without being forcibly re-
minded of that all pervading political calumny,
SO Justly deprecated by General Clss during his
late speech in the Senate. Ifany Of our agents in
this country-and Of this fact we are not aware
have appealed in any instance to the grosser senses OF
the people, in order to induce them to join our move
ments. such action has been wholly unauthorized
II is the weak point in secret expeditions that the
leaders thereof have to rely entirely upon the moral
character of those whom, IN some instances, they
necessarily employ on very short acquaintance
deprived as they are Of the means of coercion and
repression, which an organized government COM
mands. How much more excuslole should any ir-
regularity be- under such circumstances, tnan the
frauds and the plumber but too often perpetrated
upon the people by members Of the latter
The character of our transactions has been sufi-
GENTLY esta blished by the fact, which have men,
toned in connection with General Worth and the
expedition of $780, and by the very sentence of the
Spanish government in which death is visited upon
US, not for robbery plumber" but for .creating
at New York club UNDER the title OF Junta for
promoting the political interests OF Cuba, with the
object Of dusirg reads the sentence 'inthis island
and Porto Rico their nsidous and ayo we'd purpose OF
subvertiDg public tranquility, and for being engaged
and occupied in consphing against the legitimate
government of her Majesty 1t has been establish
ed by the history of the events of 1850 and 1851,
pending which, both at Cardenas and Los Pozas,
the persons and property of the inhabitants were
respected and protected as became the friend Of the
people. Guards were placed at Cardenas, at the
doors of jewellers, to protect them from any irrup
ton Of the ropulace; and no reward would the
officers accept for the performance Of what they just
ly deemed their duty. Nothing was used-not even
wine-that was not paid for. The negroes. eyen
who coaled the Creole, were paid for their work. Ii
vas established, by the magnanimous conduct Of
General Lolez, in setting free, while still in sight
Of Cuba, Governor Ceruti, relation of Count Al.
coy, and the officers OF the Spanish garrison of Car
denas, on the simple condition that they should
protect the lives Of such of our men as had impru.
gently remained at Cardenas, as well as in provid-
ing in the United States for fourteen months, for
the subsistence and welfare of the privates of tn
Spanish garrison who joined him at that place.
The contrast between General Lopez and his an
tagonsts may be drawn from the fact that the four
Americans taken at Cardenas were, notwithstand-
ing the promise of the liberated Governor, inhu-
manly put to death-among them, lad of fifteen.
1t was go well established in the last expedition,
that Spaniard went from Vuelta Abajo to Ha-
vana to beg the Captain General for the lives
Of some Of the captives, in consideration Of
their humane and generous treatment Of his family.
But were all these proofs wanting, and had not the
expedtionsts been for the most part men of stand.
ing and respectable families in the United States,
and were not Americans well acquainted with the
disafection-nay, the inveterate and implacabe
enmity to Spain which pervades the length and
breadth OF Cuba-common sense, no greater than
falls to the lot Of the duest savage would convince
any one, that force of four or five hundred men
would not venture itself upon an island occupied by
a million of souls, and garrisoned by 10000 regu-
lars and 1000 drilled militia, with the object of
piiander and robbsrynay without the most
sincere and evident as light, that they would be
Joined by the people they came among; and this
very just presumption assumes the proportions of
certainty, when, as in the case of General Lopez,
they send back their transports. and trust to Prov
dence and principle for life and success. It was
reserved for the America of the nineteenth century,
for the government of people that is to regenerate
the world, to represent as criminal and abomi-
nable what ancient and modern history re-
cords as praiseworthy. Thrasybulus immortalized
the thirty tyrantss Of Athens, and Iratns
and Pelopidas encircled their brows with kim
drcd laurels. General Pope has in our own
time attempted the overthrow of desposm in Italy,
Nina, in Mexico; Miranda, in Colombia, with the
connivance of Madison and the material aid of
Great Britain. SO much for liberty. On the other
land, Flores once attempted to subvert, with the
aid of Spain and England the self given govern.
ment Of a republican country, and is at this mo-
ment on his second effort to establish therein one
more eongenial 70 those two powers Barradas led
against Tampico en- expedition raised in Cuba by
the Spanish government, aud paid for by exactions
upon our own people Louis Napoleon, the protcc-
tor Of Cuba TO Spain, invaded, by Strasbourg, the
France which hf M rnla nd f.aYn the IF