Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-27

Reneau's bonds, rpdeemahle by the United
States, would be for the General-in-Chief OF
the Cuban forces IReneau himself. &c
When the Marquis of Havana received this
letter, there were present Commodore kellett,
of the English Navy. Mr.. Crawford, Consul
General of England, and many other persons
who had accompanied them to dine with his
Exeellency; and his Excellency, considering
the letter the farcical work of some idle
joker, or as the production of Some fool or
fanatic, handed it for perusal to these gentle
men who could not refrain from manifestlng
the indignation which such crazy zeal had
excited. The Captain-Gcnerai, in their
presence. tore up and destroyed the letter. as
its contemplate contents warranted his
doing.
Time passed. and recently his Eyceilency
received another letter from the same n. ,.
Reneau, dated in Memphis, Pennsylvania.
(Tennessee) October 25th last. In this letter
Reneau pretends to have received an answer
to his first Letter from the Captain-General.
under date of September oath. He says that
he has communicated to the President Of the
United States the propositions which his ex-
celency had transmitted by deputation;
that in the pane of an hundred thousand
citizens of Cuba he had refused from the Pres
ident of the United States that he should
grant the protectorate which his EXcellency
General Concha had asked for; that the Pres
he had offered the said protection to com
merce as soon as the independence should be
declared, and the consequent petition for an
neXatiOn had been forwarded, and that his
Excellency should declare the independence
on the 4th of November &c.
Upon seeing the turn that Reneau was
giving to this business, his Excellency adj
dressed her Mairsty's Consul in New Orleaus
warning him against intrigue achich. ho70-
ever ridiculous and derod Of the least common sense
IL might appear. might gre occasion for nspostOsas
or feGts of another character.
BY those who are ignorant of the elevated
ideas in which certain circles in the United
| States indulge, and The fanatical aspirations
| and unlimited creduity of part of that
! great people, when their influence and great
| ness ia treated of, the documents and plans
| of which we have spoken cannot be cOnteul-
| plated with more seriousness than is merited
/ by the solitary and inoffensive rawlings of a
mailman. The habits OF our intelligence and
| our conception of the dignity and elevation
! that belong to the person invested with the
| supreme authority of any country, do not
! permit us to conceive it possible that an un-
| known individual who pretcnds to- pass him
self off as the mOuth-piece OF a National party.
| should address himself in the mode and with
the confidence that we expressed to the supe-
! rior chief of 4 foreign province. But it should
cause still more wonder that low adven-
turer, without claim to consideration of any
| kind among his own countrymen. should
| forge story based upon his supposed con-
! fluctuations with the chief of the Government
of his own country lowering the credit and
! dignity of the nation in the person of that
chief should succeed in attracting the atten-
ton of the capital of the Union, suppose re-
plies from the Captain-General of Cuba and
his letters and projects, and form in New Or
| leans circle of prOpagators of his vile i'm
! posture who agitate all the telegraphic wires
of the country to transmit a ridiculous fable
to every corner of the Union; and it is still
more remarkable that without rcfccting upon
the consequences he should venture the asser-
tion that a number of the citizens of the
| United States had come to this island with
| meditated conspiracy.
Such an announcement would be sufficient
to warrant our Government in taking mea-
sures of precautiOn which might seriously
! Inconvenience the citizens of the United
| States temporarily or permanently residing in
Cuba. But happily our Government which
| knows the origin of these absurd rumors
which knows that these foreigners have not
| given the slightest cause to suppose that they
abuse the protection that is afforded to them
will continue to proceed towards them. in ac-
cordance with the requirements OF peaceful
relations, notwithstanding that such charges
as the above are published against them in
their own country. We do not believe they
will he induced by trifes TO change its line OF
| conduct. also assured that IL 'COuM moi
hesitate 10 reersacf those exemplary pihmets ,chich
The rails of 4bdres hare already lctHesSed Il Il
should be Fg0rOked TO Sach course of acts, sUca as
some nO'o tcish 10 suppose are possible.