The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-10

Letters from Brba Ices to the rs III nit state tina.
that the markets were very dull, and arrivals Of
American produce more frequent than agreeable.
At the Letward Islands similar depression pre-
vailed.
We have accounts from Pors an Spain to the 18th
ult. The weather was bad for shipping produce.
The markets were glutted with all kinds of Amer
can produce. Flour was selling at $40 per barrel,
and still lower prices were looked for.
Areport Of the decision Of Justice Osborne in the
case Of Mr.. Richard French, charged with violating
the Sunday liquor ordinance, is given in another
column.
The Administration ut Washington ana the
Executions Mt Cuba.
1t is we'll, before the feeling of horror aroused
by the recent judicial murders at Havana is
wholly effaced from the mind, that people
should fairly distribute the blame of those acts
and charge on Concha no more than is rightly
his due. II his arbitrary measures were the
immediate cause of the deaths of Manuel
Pinto and Francisco Estrampss, some one else
is responsible for their falling into his hands.
He ordered them to be murdered, it is true:
but who betrayed them to him? If he was the
Pontius PLATE, who was the Judas Of the ira
gedy?
There need be no difficulty in answering the
question The betrayer of the unfortunate
men was none other than the United States
administration.
The circumstances are SO notorious by this
time that some apology may be due to the
reader for repeating them here. 1t is enough
to say, briefly, that from the first, Mr.. Pierce's
antecedents and sympathies not less than those
of many of those by whom he was surrounded
created af1inities between the Cabinet aud the
flbustero .aoers which led in the end to
close Intimacies, and most indiscreet conf
dences. Many OF the misguided men who for
some years have been watching for an opportu-
nifty OF evading the neutrality laws in order to
break the iron head of despotism in Cuba
were deluded by the seeming cordially of the
President, and mistook his affable manner
for an indication Of good will towards their
designs. 1t is not easy to state how much
of this manner was mere common place
civility, and how much insidious guile.
Mr.. Pierce may have meant nothing, as his
friends assert; or he may have played the spy,
as the filibusteros pretend. Neither hypothesis is
can be no question as to the use he made of
the information thus gained from the indis-
Greet filibusteIos No sooner had they DO lrei
into bis willing ear some definite hint of the
conspiracy than he rushed to the Secretary AID
exposed all he knew. 1t became in fact an
administration secret. The whole Cabinet we're
az courant. The filibusteros themselves hardly
kr eU mora than tho coupo;I of fba pras;da,t,o
advisers. From them it travelled express to
the colonial authorities al Cuba. Full partcu-
lars were sent off by the United States govern
mt Mt to that Of General Concha by the earliest
communication; and the Spaniards were placed
in possession of all they needed to know. The
consequences are notorious The death Of Pinto
and Estrampes by the garrote are only a single
one among the horrors that have followed.
If we should say that the Island of Cuba is
at present in condition strongly analogous to
and hardly less horrible than that of Paris
under Robespierre and the Committee of Public
Safety, we should hardly exaggcrate the facts.
Martial law is in force with all its hideous vio
lations of right. The unfortunate creatures
who have involved themselves in the re.
cent political disturbances have nothing to
hope either from the justice or the lenity
Of the Captain General. When his own min
lister recoils fiom deeds of blood, he super
sedes him by an unconstitutional illegal CON-
mission, created for the purpose of giving
sembance Of legality to his blood thirsty elicts;
tolerates neither opposition nor delay; hurries
his victims to the garrote quite as rapidly as
Conthon or Hebert hurried theirs to the gallo.
inc. If the French victims were more numsr-
ous than their Cuban parallels, the balance is
restored by the more extensive character OF the
persecution Inflicted on the Creoles. II is not
the conspirators only who suffer: every citizen
actually groans under q military despotism
The whole island sbrieks for respite
All this has been in measure the direct re-
suit Oft the information convey ed to Havana by
Re administration. They were the informers
on whose statements the prisoners have been
garroted, the people prosecuted, and the island
placed in state Of terror. 1t Is possible that
all the members Of the administration are no.
equally guilty. There would be nothing in The
act inconsistent with our kno sledge Of tho
weakness Of Mr.. Pierce, or the duplcity Of Mr.
Macy and Mr.. Cushing But we have never
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