The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1853-09-29

President in every constitutional and legal
way. The utmest vigilance was at all times
employed, but. unhappily for the adventures
themselves, without effect. In this there Is
matter neither for wonder nor reproach.-l
The territory Of the United States is but lit |
tie hess than the whole of Europe. while their
population is not quite equal 10 that Of the
United Kingdom, and their standing military
force small1 and scattered over On Immensely
extensive frontier. Our Government, like
that of England, is one of law; and there is n
great similarity between the laws Of the two
countries which prohibit military expeditions
against the possessions of friendly powers.
In fact, your foreign enlistment act Ut 1919
was admitted by Mr.. Canning to have been
founded, in part, on our neutrality law Ut the
preceding year. Of the two, believe our
laws are the ore stringent; but it is some
what difficult to enforce them in both coun.
tries. -aaV
The expeditions, got up il the U. States BY
Spanish General, and supposed to indicate
q lawless disposition on the part OF the Amer.
licampeople, comprised very small number
of persons, some Of whom were foreigners,
enjoying the same freedom Of action in the
United States, that refugees from every part
of the continent enjoy in England. The
same reproach which is cast upon US for these
expeditions. 10, at this moment, cast unon
England by the coutinen' al powers. Events
which have occurred in L. ndon, since your
dispatch was written strik.ngy illustrates the
difficulty and the risk, under constitutional
goyssnments, Of prev enting abuses Of tina.
of such governments TO exten to all who
seek il.
There is no doubt widely prevalent in this
country feeling that the people Of Cuba are
Justly dissffected to the Government Of Spain
A recent impartial French traveller, III. Am.
pere, confirms this impression. All the or.
binary political rights enjoyed in free coun-
tries, are denied to the people of that island
The Government il, in princip e, the worst
form of despotsm, viz: Absolute authority
delegated to a military viceroy, and supported
by an army from abroad. | speak of the ma.
ture Of the Government, and not of the incl.
viduals by who m it is Neutrality-suspicious.
have formed very favorable opinion Of the
personal character Of the present Captain
General, as Of one or two of bis predecessors.
OF the bad faith and the utter disregard oil
treaties with which this bad Government is
administered, your Committee on the slave
trade have spoken plainly enough at the late
session of Parliament. Such Icing the state
| of things in Cuba, it does not seem to me very
extraordinary or reproachfui, that, through.
out the United States, a handful of misguided
Dung men should be found, ready TO jim a
party OF foreigners, headed by Spanish Gen.
eral, who was able to persuade them, not as
you view it, "by armed invasion to excite the
4 h. rov.,It nd hn no,i a,
arce," but. as they were led to believe, to aid
an oppressed people in their struggles for
freedom. There 10 no reason to doubt that
there are, at this moment, as many persons
foreigners as well "a natives, in England
VINO entertain these ceilings and OPT MONS, az
in the United States; and if Great Britain lay
at distance of one hundred and ten mile,
from Cuba, instead Of thirty-ive hundred, yot
might not, with all your repressive force, fne
it easy to prevent a small steamer, disguised
as trading vessel, from slipping off from AT
outport in the night, on All unlawful enter
prise: The sfasdili}eps nj ,Gs e. +, rrJOs
the paru llel Of that Of Gen Lopez. 1t wa.
fitted out in the Thames, without interrup.
ton till the last moment, and though it then
fell under the grasp OF the Police its members
succeeded in escaping to Spain, where FOL
some time they found shelter at Gibraltar
II is declared in the last number Of The Quar-.
ter[y ReuieD to be "notorious that associations
have been formed at London for the subver-
sion of dynasties with which England is u,
peace; that arms nave been purchased and
loans proposed; that Central Committees
issue orders from England, and that Messrs.
Mazzfni and Kossuth have established and
preside over bands of regency for the Roman
States and Hungary, and for the promotion Of
revolution in everv part of the world"
have before me list, purperting to be taken
from Prussian Police gazette, of fifteen As.
sociations Of continental refugees organized
in London and now in action for above men.
toned purposes. 'fT