Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-05-01
DAILY EVENING STAR
INTERESTING FROM MArANzss

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We give place to the following extracts
from letter to gentleman in this CITY.
dated Matanzas, April 10th, 1854:
eve have had a good deal of excitement
here about the affair of the Black War
rior in Havana. The action Of our poy-
ernment in the matter is most anxiouslv
waited for, but Americans living here
have so long been witnesses of so many
similar outrages that have received no no.
tice from our Government, that there is
no hope that this instance will be an ex.
ception to the general rule. 1t is quite
time, | think, that the impression abroad
should be corrected. Spaniards believe,
(and see no reason why they should
not) that our Government is the most mo-
ney loving, subservient and pusillani
nous on earth-they have taken time and
again SO many high-handed measures
with us, that they consider they harn
fall permission to continue on in the same
rn,,rev. Ihe affair Of the Crescent CITY,
two years ago. was as outrageous as that
of the Black Warrior, and who does not
remember the contemplate course of the
Administration in the affair. The dis
tinguished Senator from Michigan sur
prlsed some of his friends when his voice
was heard in justification of the Havana
authorities. Thus far, however, l am
compelled to say that the course of the
present Administration has been very
manly, but no one here, among Ameri-
cans, who have watched the course of our
Government, believes but that the posi-
ton they have taken will be receded from,
and that in six months time the affair
will have been entirely forgotten by even
those who now are making noise on the
subject, merely for the sake of making
noise. The question is often asked, when
will these things end? Are not Ameri-
can citizens entitled to as good protection
as the English Government extends to its
subjects! No person claiming that pro-
lection have ever yet suffered injury here
without the matter undergoing full and
prompt investigation, and nine times out
of ten, whenever arrested, he has been put
at liberty very soon after the fact has
reached the ear of the British Consul in
Havana: but poor Americans have lain
in prison for months, and that, too, when
the authorities themselves could not tell
fer what reason they were imprisoned.
81 have already written more on this
subject than [ have ever done before, and
it would not be very well for me if this
letter should fall into the hands of the
Spanish authorities; but as | expect to
send it off by some other conveyance
rather than their mail bags, shall run
the risk of its escaping their espionage.
| have to charge you particularly not to
write in reply on these subjects, as our
letters are frequently cut open and pc
rused before we receive them: several let.
terS which were sent from New York by
my friends In December and January
last, containing newspaper slips, have
never come to hand, and the presumption
is, that they never will.
''In speaking of the Cuban authorities,
&C., would not have you for one mo-
ment to suppose that intend to cast any
reflections on the Creoles, natives of the
Island: as far as Ih4ve had opportunities
of becoming acquainted with them, they
are warm hearted, ges.aFouS race, with
the strongest feelings Of attachment to
the United States and Americans, from
whom they hope some day to receive their
deliverance from the most atrocious
bondage. assure you that before COM
ing out here, was led to believe that
they were unworthy of any fate better
than their present one, but have changed
my opinion in that respect, as am con-
vlnced any reasonable man would, having
had an opportunity to get at the truth in
regard to their situation-above all d,
however, their ,romen are rorthu of our
true sympathies, all of them are devoted
patriots; they would make first rate
Americans.