Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-07-09
LYNCHBURG VIRGINIAN.
MONDAY MoRNING,.....JULY ., 1855.


lit ENtW ! tIh Thh. hht NV EbiEfh 'iku w
the Cuban Junta and OF the Cuban flibusters,
made. or rather. nsinuated. certain serious
charges against General Quitmon, a few DAYS
ago. The allegations * the sun are, IN sub
stance, as fetlows That the Cuban Janta at
New York raised a large sum of money for the
purchase Of arms for the oppressed Cnhans. and
for the landing Of the same an the island that
General Quitman undertook for a large considr
ration. To protect the landing Of these arms; that
three vessels were ehGltcted for the sum If
sl50.000. (paid in advance, IL trrn-part them +"
Cuba that the arm, were n"Fer transported.
and that the Cuhau~ were thus svindled out at
their money. The sun minated very strongly
that Gen. Quitinar was a party il This ,%windling
transaction. 1t alleged, moreover. that the Gen
eral was to receive one million NJ dollars IN case
he established the independence If Cuba.
ten. Qui'man, in II carr, addressed Ia a Nj
.i-sippi paper. derounces The article Of the sun
4 a tissue of b~arefaeed ard gratuitop. fal-c
hoods. The sun, in a more recent article, af
firms that the Cuban Junta have d%i,ni--ed Gen
Quitman from all eonncxion with tie nhlir~# If
Cuban independence. ThQs tie flarrcl -ten'-
at present.
General Qoitmau is now getting 10 b. quite mn
old man. AMI nS through long life li~ priVat"
character has remained hitherto unimreached,
we are willing to give full credit la his denial uf
the charges preferred against him by his 6Ilbas
tcring associates. Bat ii j. something like re-
frihutivc iu,tioe that Gen. q iitman should b.
made To suffer in this way for his connection with
TIE uuptincipled aud tui,clir sous characters who
Tor thu r. 1t sev,q, ar eigit years hive been plot
~ ,,,r,,v. ,,I ca,44.F-ftIy utrtipst tn, law pf
United >tntes. lie wio touches pitch must eN
poet to be deflcd, and ,f The chief of the fIibn,,
tiers now finds himstIf rs he says, atrociou,ly
alandered and mniicned by his confrdernres, til
TO more Than he might hive anticipated, anl no
better treatment ihan he deserves. We are not
informed as to the precise extent 10 which Gen.
Quitman has been Implicated n 1.-The long project
ed foray against Cuba. He has never 50 far
compromised himself q. to give the officers Of
lie laS a hold upon him, but ii is a notorious and
.lndeniable fact. that he has long participated
in the i~ntrigaos of the Cuban Juuta at New
York and the belief is universal throughout the
United States, that he is to be the colnmandersiu
chief If the next expedition that shall he ftird
ont FROM cur shores fol- the invasion ot Cuba. \
few months ago some friend of Gen. Qnitmau,
HnIAlfIl4N mbit i'iAb p' wv iii'i =
rood fame, than the General himself. undertook
to deny very cmphatically through the columns
If the Washington Onion, that Gen. Quitmau
would canseut. to lead the fllibusteriug expedition.
The paragraph no sooner met the Generals eye
at New orlcan., lint he promptly lolegrnphcd
the Union to the effect that the correspondent 81
that paper had no right to speak for him in that
nat ter. This dispatch amounted virtually 10 II
bold aud uublushing declaration that he was
ready and willing 10 head a band OF lawle-s adven-
turers in an attack on a nation with which hi
Co untry was at peace. 1t is difficult to conceive
how a man If high anl honorable principles in all
the other relations of life, could entertain and
act upon such loose and scandalous notions of
public morality. lad Gen. Quitman been Il
Young man, overlooking with youthful energy aud
genius and burning with ambition TO win for
himself a name in the world, we could have
found some excuse for his conduct. But such
are not the circumstances .of the case. Gen.
Quitman is a man who has reached the borders of
old age. Both as a civilian and as warrior. he
has achieved for himself n reputation of which
any man might be proud, lie has represented
Mississippi in Congress, and filled her gnberna
tional chair. As a General in the late Mexican
war, he won a brilliant reputation for vnIor aud
military skill. And yet, we now behold this man
full of years and full of his country's honors. us
piring to the &" bad eminence' ola piratical Cap
tain 1t is melancholy to witness such anomol-
les Of human nature, and such pcrycrsions of
moral sentiment, in distinguished men. The bad
example of such a man cannot fail to exercise n
most pernicious influence on society. If the
rising generation of the South see such men as
Gen. Quitman turn fllibusters, our young men
will soon take to piracy as an honorable path to
wealth and distinction.
We know not how far the statement of the N.
York Sun that Gen. Quitman has been thrown O.
verboard by the Cuban Junta is to be relied on
but it is to be hoped for the sake of the General
future reputation that such Is the fact.
Expedition to Central Africa.