The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1853-10-05

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in ibis eddniry a feeling that the pep'
pie Of cuba are Justly disaaeeied 70
the gogelnment 81 Spain. a recent
impsFtial Freneh traYslier, NJ. AnPere.
esnirns the imrressisa. All The q.
binary political rights enjayed IN ire
eaanfries. are aenied to the people Of
the island. The government Is. IN
principle, the wDrsf form Of despotism.
viz sbsolufe oushorify delegated o. :
military sicrroy, and supported b. N
army from abroad. speak q the
nature "a the government. and not 81
the individuals bs ~ham II j. admins
tered. for I have formed very favo-
rable opinion Of the personal character
If the present Captain General. as Of
one or two Of bis predecessors. Oh
the bad faith and The utter disregard
Of treaties with which this bad Cavern
menf is administered. YOUR committees
on the slave trade have spoken plainly
enough at the late session Of Parlia-
menf. Such being the state Of things
/. IN Cuba. II dues not seem 10 me very
extraordinary or reproaehiui. that
throughout the United States hand.
ful Of misguided men should be found
ready to join a party Of foreigners.
headed BY Spanish General. who was
able to persuade them. not a. soa
view il. .by armed invasion. TO excite
the obedient 10 revolt and the tranquil
10 disturbance" but. as they were led
10 believe. 10 aid an oppressed people in
their struggles for freedom. There is
no reason TO doubt that there are at this
mament as many persons. foreigners
a well as natives. in England, WIN
entertain these feelings aud opinions
as in the United States and III Great
Britain lay al distance nf one hun
drcd and ten miles from Cuba, Instead
of thirty five hundred. you might not,
with all your rrpresswe force. find It
easy To prevent small steamer, dis.
guised as trading vessel. fran slip
ping of from an outport in the night
on an unlawful enterprise. The ex
i petition Of General TURTLES in 1918.
as far as illegalIty is concerned. is the
j parallel Of that of General Lopez. II
was fitted out in the Thames, without
interruption till the last moment. and.
though il then fell under the grasp OF
the police, is members succeeded in es-
l Gaping to Spain. where for seme time
they found shelter at Gibraltar II is
declared in the last number of the
Quarterly Review to be " Notorious.
that associations have been formed at
London for the suhversiun Of dvnasties
with which England is at peace; that
arms have been purchased and loans
proposed; that Central Committees
issue orders from England; and that
Messrs. Mazzini aud kossuih have
established and preside over boards of
regency for the Roman States and
Hungary. and for the promotion Of
revolution IN every part Of the world"
have before me a list, pnrporting to
be taken from a prus.ian pnlice ga
zette, Of fifteen associations of Conti-
mental refugees organized in London,
and now in action Tor the above men,
toned purposes.
i When these things are considered,
the fact that, in the course Of four or
five wears. two inconsiderable and abor.
tive efforts have been made from the Tn.
tied States, though deeply tobe lament
cd and sternly 10 be condemned as a
violation Of municipal and information.
al law, ,loesnot appear to me - "shuck
ling" as it seems 10 be thought BY you,
1t does not. in my judgment. furnish
any ground for the reproaches which il
has drawn upon the government and
people Of the United States. Nor doe.
! the remark in nv letter at the lst oi
December, that disposition to engage
in such enterprises would be increased
rather than diminished by our acces
sion to The proposed convention, strike
! me as a melancholy avoaal," as sor
pronounce il, on the part of the Presi'
dent. You fnrget the class from which
such adventures are in all conntrie,
enlisted, the young. the reckless, the
misinformvd. What other effect cnul,
be expected to be produced on this par
Of the population by being .oid thai
their own Government, in disregard
OF the must OBJ, ious public interests
as we'll as OF the most cherished his,
torical traditions, had entered into q
compact with. two foreign Powers q
guaranty the perpetuIty Of the system
under which Cuba now >uilerss doe.
not lord Howdcn, the English Minis.
terat Madrid, make a very similar asow
al in his letter Of the S0th Of May last
addressed 10 the Spanish Minister u
Foreign Affairs, when he says: Il can.
not conclude without expressing ny
! deep regret that the courseoi Spain is
such as to produce general alienation
in the opinion of the English public, out
of which will most inlallibis result a
state of feeling which no Gocsnuneai
can control or oppose:!'
The idea that convention like that
proposed was measure naturally CALI