The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-09-24
CIIRA.

CUBA.
The New York Herald is laboring with all
its might to get up another invasion Of Cuba.
Its corresE ondence represents the island as IN
avery dsorgansed state, just as ii was repre-
scented to be before the invasion of Lopez. The
garote and the dungeon are said to be the sole
instruments of government. So they may be,
so: no doubt, they are, and SO they were before
Lopez went there TO set things TO rights. His
fate, as we'll as that of his companions, should
convince Americans that the Creoles of Cuba,
and the Spaniards too, love the garcte and the
dungeon system better than freedom and equa-
lily. And if they prefer it, what is it to any
body? What business have we to interfere
with their preferences They assuredly have
given ample proof that they want none of our
interference in their affairs. Our countrymen,
under the impression that revolution was to
break out in Cuba, and that nothing was want
ing but few men from the United States to
set fire to the magazine already prepared,
landed in Cuba. These very CreoIes, these
distressed patriots whom they went there to
assist, turned against them to men-hunted
them down with blood hounds-shot them like
dogs wherever they found them! Out of the
thousands who were to join the standard OF
Lopez as soon as it was raised, not one came
forward 10 fulfil the promises that had been made
for them. Is not this enough, or are there still
men in the country ldiotic enough to try the
game over again?
That there are great cruelty and oppression
plactised habitually, and daily, by the Spanish
government on the Creoles of Cuba, we have
not the least doubt, and if they would show the
spirit of men, we should feel for them. But
they not only do not help themselves; they
murder others who volunteer to help them
Who can feel for such set of people? For
men who, ground to the earth by tyranny, in>
their own friends!
The Herald publishes long manifesto, ad-
dressed TO the people of the United States by
Gonzalez, who was second in command to Lo-
PEE, but did not join in the expedition. This
man has been intriguing with Lopez in this
matter for years, and we really think it time for
him to retire from the field, where he has SO
signally failed. He occupies whole columns OF
the Herald in denouncing the government of
Cuba, and in drawing a dreadful picture of the
sufferings of her inhabitants. Well, if they
prefer such government, and such miseres,
let them have them. That they do is evident,
for they shoot or run down with blood hounds
every body that goes there to relieve them
If they piH do this, why should ace trouble
our heads about then2 Is it the part of wis.
dom, or even of common sense, to force kind.
ness on a man who not only does not estimate
it. but is ready to shoot you forit?
The Herald publishes long list ofnames of
sympathisers in the Southern States, "who,"
it says are supposed to be warmly enlisted in
the cause Of Cuban emanci pation.' Now, we
have no doubt that the greater part Of these
gentlemen would be glad to gee Cuba free, and
that some of them would assist her, were she
to throw off the yoke of Spain. We should
ourselves rejoice to see her do so, and to see
her, also, State ofthis, Union. But we have not
the slightest idea that more than very small
number Of them would join in getting up ano-
Their Lopez expedition, for the purpose of as
sisting people who want none of their help
We, for our part, have had very bad opinion
Of the Creole population ever since their de-
testable cruelty to the men who were engaged
In the Lopez expedition.