New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-11
Cuban Sympathy Meeting.

| WI ctACCu VI SuHudy no CUDduS
refugee and resident were present with
many from old Spain, who do not approve
the summary and violent execution Ut the
captured patriots. The ardent and impas-
stoned defamation Of QuesaGa. Haya and
Others showed the deep determination of
the free Cubans never to submit. The IN
qualified declarations of representative
men OF color that they would use their
whole political and physical power to hber-
| ate their fellow creatures from bondage
and protect those Cubans who have pro-
claimed emancipation wherever they had
| power to enforce it, had political mean
ing that none can misunderstood. The at
tendance of representative men Of color
in such numbers was especially en-
couraging to the friends of freedom
These men perceive in the permitted
maintenance of African bondage so
near the Southern States danger to them
selves. Not, perhaps, of renewed bondage,
but as was philosophically said by Mr.
| Pinch back, because the reflected injuries Of
| Slavery and its sentiments. were not
| favorable to the social standing nor
political influence of the race to which he
belonged The friends Of free Cuba may
rely that the dominant political power in
Louisiana is fully awake and has committed
itself freely and intelliger tly to the liberia
ton of both races in Cuba. The admins
tration and State Department will appre-
ciate the cause of this action, and the
friends of original emancipation will find
that the seeds of freedom have fallen into
good soil.
The absence from the meeting of those
who represented the Democratic or Fusion
party was noted with. regret. Formerly
this element was extremely Jealous in the
cause Of Cuba. Was it because, as formerly
stated in the legislative resolutions of this
State, sit would sanction and support the
institution Of slavery ~ Can it be that the
same party now looks with Indifference
upon the association of Cuba because Free
Cuba will bring no such alliance! 1t
may well be rememb ered how Quit.
man numbered his friends = the
thousand, how Lopez AID Crittenden
were deplored, and how Willard Fill
more was execrated because within
hearing of the guns which slew Crittenden
an his brave American companions, he yet
made no effort to save them. but left them
"to die as the fool dieth.' When Texas !
was invaded by the same bloody and in
exorable warfare that has disgraced Cuba, |
who has forgotten how New Orleans sOr-
rowed for the Goliad and vowed vengeance |
for the Alamol Even Northern men forgot |
such atrocious crimes, and Webster, along |
side of Calhoun, voted in Senate unani- !
nous for the recognition of Texan indeDend- |
ence within sixty days after the invasion of |
that province, and at the subsequent cost of |
a bloody war with Mexico.
Those who are now indifferent to the |
cause of freedom in Cuba because it may |
rebound still further to the repeal of bond
age on the entire continent, should remem-
Der the unfortunate faltering OF Mr.. Clay |
and those who with him feared the political
effect Of Texas anne ration. What would |
the Union have been without this region
which produces food and | clothing in mex
saustable abundance Cut off the Texas
trade of New Orleans and what would be
left her2 Statesmen who look steadily at
the good of their whole country are always
by results, partisans who pre-
Ter temporary or local prejudice 70 per
nanent development Of public prosperity
are only remembered to be despised
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'ympathy from those who were themselves,
ike the Cubans, engaged in an effort to
separate themselves from a government
which they no longer approved. These
'evolutionists appealed abroad for foreign
and active intervention. They
'eceived it to some extent by exactly such
IN act on tbs part of Great Britain az free
Cuba now solicits from the United States. We
hould have imagined that the friends of
Jrittenden and of Fannin and Crockett
would have wept at the obsequies of the |
murdered Cubaps, and manifested some in
crest in the still doubtful fate Of one of
heir own exContederate citizens W no was
aptu1ed in command Of the unfortunate
1irginus,
There is, we are aware, no use il appeal
ng to a partisan for the commercial and
ractical advantages Of freedom in Cuba, |
o moro than there would have been in re-
TO the opponents Of Texan indie
endence the vast advantages of the ac-
uisition OF that empire State of the South. !
We know that there beats in the hearts of
ro11art .'npf.nar ~, h. hot !
ns country will at least raise the soldiers
Cuba to the rights of civilized combat
Mt We are satisfied that hundreds of
nose who voted with the anti-Republcan
arty are satisfied that an open trade with
uba would better the position and prestige
New Orleans as nothing else would do,
ct we have a right to hope from the alb
,nce of the Fusion element at the Cuban
7mpathy meeting, that their leaders have
bjected to any public manifestation OF =
aspect for The brave men msrdered in cold
.ood, or Of intervention n behalf of those e
merican5 now in custody and subject to a il
tie which nothing but the fear Of the ,
nited States postpoLes for an hour Such :;
artisan calculations can not, however, re- 3
rain the courage and pity Of all D
The Mobile Register has promptly and in !
gnantly denounced the treacherous and ~
human conduct OF the Cuban authorities
insists that the government will remem- HI
r the shame heaped upon Millard Fill III
ore for neither protesting against nor st st
.enging the slaughter of American citizens
ID take immediate and positive measures ,.
yindicate the national honor and protect
c,tizers from 6ee.b