Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1859-05-03
A Movement for Cuba.


led ca" pqaessisg ossor more nsnbsrs from
fsaeh Jsssa, and ell others friendly 10 the imue-
Idisse acquisition Of Ceh., 10 meet In eonsenten
ss vieksburg. Miss. on the 10th day Of May. for
The purpose Of adopting measures which will Sc
care the acquisition Of Cuba by civil migration
The day appointed 10 that next succeeding the
lnssting Of the Southern Commercial Convention.
Isaeh delegate to which Is invited 10 attend this
ICaban meeting.
We have heard of many different nodss Of &C
curing foreign Tsrrisory-but the idea Of "civil
Emigration" as means of doing so, We are free to
say, has never before occurred TO rs. II by ''cvi
migration" is meant peaceable descent upon the
Island, we arc clearly Of opinion that it's an en-
tirely impracticnble enterprise. However ''civil'
our emigrants might be to the lIabanese, We take
IL that the latter would regard it as very mncivil
thing upon our part, and they would in oil proba-
bility be "uneivil" enough to turn the guns oil
Moro castle upon our vessels. and blow them high
and dry out of the water.
Civil migration! !" Who ever heard of such n
thing before, when the ayowal is openly made b,-
forehand that these men are going there to wrcst
the Island Of Cuba from s. ainf Probably, by
"ciyil migration" Us understood in the fllibuste,-
ing sense, is meant the landing Of large numbers
Of people upon the shores of Cuba, the seizure Of
the Forts and Ar-cnals, md the capture and sub
lection Of all the legal officers of the Island. If
ANY resistance be made the rcbcllious are to be
shot down in the most "civil' and gentleman like
manner. 1t reminds US Of the culogum made by
a Mississippian upon the town Of Woodville in
that State. The most quiet and peaceable place
in the world, said he-"no noise, no rows, no
confusion whatever. Ii any little difficulty DC.
ours between two citizens, one of them is quietly
shot down in the street, and the disturbance is NJ
once over" Acquiring Cuba 10y civil migra-
ton" appears to very much like tho preserva-
ton of the peace. as practiced in the quiet town
of Woodvillc.
Possibly, the idea was borrowed from General
Walkers attempt to acquire Nicaragua. His men
went TO the lsthmus with the most civil inten-
tons in the world. They went ostenshly ~
pcaccnblc cmgrnnts They went to settle the
country and to raise crops But the only settling
they did was to settle the hash Of every bloody
greaser TINT within the range of their mus
kets, and the only thing they raised was IL tremen
Iuouo rh'N' HI'ii 'hc H'ih VI CiNH
grafton to Cuha we suspect, would turn ont in
about the same way that it did in Nicaragua.
Cuba can never he acquired by civil migration,
nor by any other sort Of migration except the
peaceabc migration of n sufficient number of dol
lars into the pocket of Her Mos, Catholic Majesty
Iof Spain And we doubt il even this mode will
ever be successful All Gllibustcring expeditions
must necessarily meet with failure. Even il we
were to land large force upon the Island, we
would never he able to send them renforccmcnts
Of men or munitions nf war. England, with her
immense navy, could almos, put n bridge Of decks
from tho Keys of Florida to within the very shad-
ow of Moro Castle.
But it is fl subject Of discussion fnr those
madcaps who of late years constitute and control
ehese nnnun! Southern tnn,cntions"---a fit sui
jrct Of discussion for them. and for them only
These entcrprsing individuals are 50 much adIic-
ted to moonshiue projects aud utopan spcrun-
tons, that it is not strange they should be ready
TO encourage this proposed acquisition Of Cnba by
'civil misrn,on." 1t would be curious indeed if
the idle brains of those who constitute these so
called Southern Commercial Conventions did not
conceive propositions even more alsurdly prepo.-
ferrous than this scheme Of acquiring Cuba By
civil migration