The New York Herald Newspaper, September 22, 1852, Page 2

=< ANOTHER CUBAN MOVEMENT. IMPORTANT MANIFESTO ro mE i PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES. Of all the foreign questions which, for come years past, have fallen under the observation of the Amer- ‘dean people, there is none so little understood, and wo deserving of their special consideration, as that Smvolving the independence of Cuba—an island whose close proximity, controlling position, domesti> etitutions and commercial wants, bring homo to he pafety, the peace, the welfare and dovelopement ef America, all incidents likely to bear upon her fabare destinies. It is, therefore, meet that her elaims receive s proper attention; that the acts of her sone and their American coadjutors, being pro- perly appreciated, misrepresentation be silenced, and public opinion be righted where it has been misled. With this view I have undertaken to give a synopsis ef the causes which in Cuba have led to dissatiefae- ‘tion and open rebellion; to advert to the character ef the Cuban movements in this country, and of the persons connected with them, as far as the des- potism which still weighs upon that island may rea- @er it prudent; and to unfold, in self-vindication, the double-dealing arts of our detractors. This step I would have taken months ago, but for nego- diations then pending with Spain, involving the li- berty of Ameriean citizens. Thus,a daty to my eountry, and to the integrity of Cubans and of dis- tinguished Americans assailed by the sycophants of power, must be my excuse for placing my name be- iere the people. The thirteen colonies of North America rebelled against Great Britain roachments upon che granted rights of their citizens, and made a duty on fea and a paper impost the oveasion for a general vieing. Owing to their tion, upon a mighty con- tment, and on the borders of a wilder > they ¢ Seoted their emancipation, with the timely aid of menarchical European governments. Caba, know- e img vo rights, and groaning under oppreasions a | tbousand times more galling, has sought the indi- vidual aid of a neighboring republican people, heirs 0 the liberties won by the colonies and to the des- tiny they were called to fulfil. aid is based upon the following grievane & population of 550,000 whites and 600,001 about that cf Virginia—she pays in taxes ani | imposts the sum of twenty odd aillions o @ollars, or nearly forty dollars per head of he: white population, irrespective of the innum datery exactions of the swarm of of Eich and low, sent from Spain to enrich ¢ seives with the substance of our people. Englich pay, on an avi $9; the French, $7 < 39. In order to support an army of twenty ousand regulars, four thousand drilled militi an armed poliee, or gendarmeric, and a naval for ef four or five frigates, tix steamors, one sloop, two er three brigs, and ten or tw war, with occasionally the —all indispensable to enfore to bear the expenses of the Cow imtverest on her English loan, th made to pay $10 50 per barrel on imp ean flour, from fifty wo two hundred per cent the original cos e, slaughier, and other ne thas placed entirely beyond the reach elasses. By valuing some articles double or treble their original price, ealt fish, forinstanve, which bas a nominal duty of thirty-three percent., really pays, en importation, sixty-six per cent. So with flour, rice, corn, Ke, & Indigenous fruits pay aa export duty of from six to seven percent. Pianters pey an export duty on x of 2) "per cent, and all _agric productions ten per cent when gathered. Live stock pays the same duty, exclusive of that of exportation. T peor man pays $1 25 per bushel gait (about ons bundred weight), so indispen- sable in our warm climate. The Cul from 6 to 6} per cent on the v: or rural property which he may dispose of, bes! the heavy charges of notaries, reg stratio perer &c., whereby it vanishes into the gover nde after afew sales. Stamp paper, the use of which is enforced by authority, ld by the ernment at prices fanging from fifty cents so « dojlars per sheet; and a man mus: sv¥ear to u Gestitution to pay but six and « quarter cents por sheet. If from these, among other unparalleled ex- i ich check a developement and progress as ind als, we turn our eyes te the oppressions which completely destroy th tellectual, moral, aud physical well being people, what do we see? The governmen ef roetering education, es it and abroad. In Cuba, with her immense t jon, enly one child in every eighteen is taught how to read and write, and for this pitiful result is she chiefly indebted to individualexertions. About the The $1253; the Spaniards, the American people, ear 1826, a Spanish war frigate was sent to the take nited States by Ferdinand the Seventh, to back to the island such Cubans as wore th ee their education at the North ¢ have been issued from Spain, in 1849, prohibiting the education of our youths in the United States, and they bave accordingly to plead ill-health in order to obtain a passport to this country. Cubs has not the shadow of political representa- tion. In 1836, her three deputies were refused their seats in the Spanish Cortes, by the peninsular mem- bers, called to that congress ye the very law which escribed the election of our representatives. She is now held asaconquered province, not as the Jand bequeathed to us by our tathers, who toiled in its settlement, and gave it to usefulness and civi Hization. The Cuban is, moreover, deprived of all liberty of conscience, of speech, or of the press. The [ife, the property, the honor itself, of the in- habitants is at the mercy of the Captain-General, who, by a royal decree, dated May 28, 1825, and still in force, is invested with— Ail the powers which, by royal ordinances, are granted to the governors of besieged cities, In conseyuence thereof, (adds the royal mandate.) his Majesty confers upon your Excellency the most ample and unbounded power, not only to separate from the island persons, whatever their condition rank, class, or occupation. whose permanency therein your Excellency may deem ob- noxious, or whose conduct, public or private, may alarm you, replacing them with servants faithful to bia Ma- jesty, and deserving of all the confidence of your Exeel- jency, but also to suspend ‘the execution Of any orii- mance whatsoever. or general provision, o Thing any branch of the administration, as your Excellency may think most conducive to the interests of the royal rervice. y, superceding the law itself, has no In Cuba three persons can- not collect together hout being instantly dis- persed. Cubang cannot assemble to diseu interests, not even to petition for relief. The © won Council of Matanzas was severely d Court in regard to the ¢ soldiery against peaceab orged by ( ration of the colored people were nes, Cardenas, a pilitee mi from Spain their lave trad ried on for the the Queen her, the Captain-Genera!, a erful Spanieh clique at Havana. Co in Jess than a year $200,000 in imports 3,000 slaves, at $51 per b Through traffie, declared piracy by existing tres cretly connive by tho cabinet of Me estimated that er half a million of beings have been imported into © 1826, when Mr. John Quincy Av President of the United States », at the Congress of between Cuba and the re- and Mexico, for the liberation , 88 now, not only o mart for t yut the point d’appui a sm in Am furnishing th , and the treasury, from which expedi- been started, intrigues have been plotted, ey supplied to attack and invade Hispano- American republics, prop up the lingering monarchi- eal party therein isly undermine American can interests, as is the While slaves and hite colonization is colored popu 24,000 bay- ho Cubans hue introduced, that the thr ] to the Cubans, w ed at their br Asiatics are t Her claim to this —With : | to draw from our the 8. night, unlese he carries a lantern is abroad. Mayors of cities are no! people, but by the aldermen of the common ils, and under the dictation ot the Spanish aldermen serve for dife, pet hel yi rd. var, aceord- . Thus, Sp be the immediate guar- peoples often become speculators, who far from extending them protection, extort the fall interert of the capital invested in the their offices. A t_military tribunal (co- mision militar) s all criminal offences beyond the limits of the city, and all disloyalty to the Spanish government. It is sammary in ite proceed- iny ey its unheard of tyranny bas been well ex- fied in the case of John S. Thrasher. No affidavit is required in Cuba, but a suspicion, or a secret denunciation, to tear a man from the bosom of bis family, at any hour ef the day or night, throw him into a dungeon, there to linger for weeks or months, if it so please the authorities, and then set him free with the bare acknowledgement of his in- nocenee, or send him to transatlantic exile, if, though innocent, he still remains suspicious. Such is our governmtat. A hideous compound of base rapacity, wanton insult, and dire oppression. And to this government, worse than the tyraunic rule of Austria, are we to be subjected because Cuba is forsooth a fertile spot, a desirable position that Engiand covets, monarchs protect for Spain, and bersona cannot disenthral by unassisted efforts? Aud this js to be the Lombardy and the Constantinople of this continent, the arena for despotic princes or ambitious cabine jontend upon, unless the sturdy arm of Amer evil ten- dency of events. None, I hope, wil! deny th dowe muck of what was possible for + i » adverse circumst or crown at public auction, for quisites thereof. e a ask why we baye not comina they obtained. They sho situation wi x The r were free, ed, and linked by the s association eever been en ignorance by the Mac! | cy of d y held a vast ¢ | were surrounded by the wilderness | island, without the possibility of r ves, or of access for our friends, wi and exces y used to arm 0 wi name, are unacquainted with the use of and can neither carry nor pc them with three millions of in ad sea ay English troops among them. We, with but halfa million, have quartered in our midst twenty-four i They met, discugsed a ed poke, and weut abou wu We cannot do one of thes: movements are watched, our thoughts are seanned, oui ts are hired lie were We have yand only Spain a aad the me of the blacks, of the United States, and the denup of the republican government aspirates and freebooters, our only plank of with the world st us: the moral aid free country. We have had, it is true, and th for the future our rainbow of promise, the encou- ragement, the aid, and the gallant devotion of very | many of the generous citizens of this republic; bub of what avail they could be against the leaning of irown government towards European policy events have clearly shown. Since 1825 revolutionary clubs have existed in Cuba, under the name of Soles de Bol and other designations. ed each other, and arrests, imprisonmeate. banishments, and executions, have invariably followed in their * wake. The ast of the Spanish Cortes, in 1836, de- nying the right of the Cuban de t ats therein, ¢ it Ise to th olu- I in the Spanish nish Cor‘es tor the v tram that very day : y experience, his lofty lic “a les, untiring energies and iron- le of Cuban freedom. He accordingly resigned his h gh position, and ca Juda in tle company of his friend, Don G les, appointed to the Captain-Gen nd. thi sia r tra’ the central y litary gover id was also Presi dent of the Supreme Military (comision mittar). On the removal of ODOR, no longer in office, applied himself to tbe work ha had beer preparing in his mind. The revolution of S48, which brought the emancipation of the blacks indolent and supine ot the Cuban planters to the abolition policy of England and France; they joined the more patriotic ones of their own ciass, and with the mass of Cubans, who dreamed of liberty for liberty’s sake, formed the revolutionary party of which General Lopez naturally became the lealer. position, and popularity with the army, was, in the tace of a military despotism, an important acquisition to the cause. The American army had, et this june- ture, conquered Mexico. From Scott and Taylor to the merest private laurels had been won which the of their palms. A host of braves awaited under arms the orders to disband and return to their homes. The opportunity presented itself of obtaining the aid of 5,000 Americans to the impending Cuban re- volution, when no longer in the service of their country. Among the generals under the orders of Scott, W. J. Worth seemed to combine the qualities of head and heart—as he possessed the gallantry and the chivalry of the Bayard of the American army— requisite for the acceptance of thie noble trust and its successful execution. He was consequently ap- proached, at Jalapa, by Cuban delegates. The im- pression made upon me in conversations with those directly connected with this subject hat e accepted their propositions, contingent upon hi recignation of his rank in the army. Bu i 8 were not disbanded in Mexic | had been anticipated, and nothing could have b | done while they were in the pay of the United | States. About this time, General Lopez's conspira- ey was discove. d he, toget) h some i hed Cubans, bad to seek in | \he United Stat against the nal } ty of the §& laws. The ion of i our plana, throngh the sleepless vigilance of Spanish authorities, the paucity of o the unbounded means of our emigration of Gen. ope, the movement, to the Un t that the re i esatutly comme manner, alre at of the intel bination, then w nt. Jt was ther bring it back to Cuba, like Minerva, ste mnoplicd, there to ran This is the key j The un- ler the circuiste sent to the s a commissioner to erals I 2 and Worth, as well as to some Cuba patriets re: in this country Worth accoptedthe oventual command o: which was to act | in supp nail force, headed, in advance | Gen. Lopez. For the raising of these expedition | three millions of doUars were to be contribn‘od | Cuba. A member of ¢ ami a gentleman of hi w self into the state of afta | with the ability of they movement to carry out their promi | nished by them wit cations as Worth was desiro’ at once set forth the cha end shew it to have wealth, posi Worth ling an him- ed be idea of a tri 3 of & make room for The Captain er, pl sides, by law, ever the Supreme Court of Justice. All offices, with the exception of a few of the lowest rder, are in the hands of Spaniards. The law and the medical profession being overstock- Pos vee Men former neg we pervading in- uence of @ corruy stem, i - sh Sas os sy » Cubans of high intelli =. con avenue to distinction to the di * hans f Io phe) oy Foy constrained re im order to carn a livelihood. Emiighunne ment is invariably with the Cuban a sufficient canse of suspicion, annoyance and persecution. He is for- Bidden to carry arms. fruit knife is not allowed him, Even canes, which fro their size cannot pare ugh a ring in the hands of the senci$ nee at the gat lavana, are seized and bro's be poe ty S43 sorry icg Weapees pny venir yon i otherwise high honor and renown n and other e« ofthe American F counte’ nd even en- na for it, bad it not received the uage judgment, the encouragement hi “pr of tr sanction of their in- 3 | this country by the present announcement, or contem- | into the | he French Antilles, opened the eyes of tha more | dangers which beset them on all sides from the | The services ofa man of his qualities, of his military | Cubans would have fondly interwoven with the leaves | * | Minister at Wash | Y | Union, and how the power of | | reaction the I i pee Me ttc nies tha i en the fied him-eif, in og f i the States, to the raising of a foree of about 1,200 men, intenued ‘ion to rally around. A in the F to sail frem New York. The Canegrcene thie foree were the steamship Fanny, pi in New Orleans, the Sea-Gull, purchased, and tho steamship lew,Orleans, chartered in New York for the purpose. ‘This is the first and the largest expedition raised in this country for the liberation of Caba; end it is as worthy of remark as it is meet to keop in mind, that of the $80,000 with which, accoriing to General Lopex’s estimate, it was gotten Ups not one solitary cent was procured or contributed by Ameri- cans. "The whole was Cuban money, raised entirely by voluntary donations among the patriots in the United Btates, andin the fatherland, Hero is, then, the uncontrovertible fact that the nucleus of theCuban revolution—the leadership, most of the courage, the intelligence, the spirit, the energy, the ill and the means, which constituted its very essence— though originating in Cuba and though Cuban in its nature and its object, was then in the United States, and was from the United States to be re- instated upon its native soil. Thie state of things cannot be attributable to Cubans or Americana, but to the despotism which ejected all these o ements, and compelled them to prosper upon foreign though friendly soil. That its character commended it to respect and protection from bigh places is deducible from the fact that although the proclamation of General Taylor was issued on the 7th of August, 1849, the Sea Gull, ladea with arms and ammu- nition, and with her complement of Cubans, was permitted to remain untouched and uumolested in the harbor of New York until the eartier part of September; that when broken up, because of the too long delay in its sailing, not one of the Cubans was g arrested, and no one, Cuban or Americar tried for participating in it; d am- waunitions, were all returned to Vash- ington Republic, the government organ, ished long articles, portraying the evils under which our groaned, concluding with a significant de- ion to the effect that a péople who could e such a tyranny were deserving of it. fact that Commander Randolph was or- dered to blockade Ro Toland, starve the unarmed citizens encamped upon it, and that the governor anda high justice of the sovereign State of Miss , Were. on the following year, dragged from their chairs of office by the same ad- ministration, to be tried in Lonisiana, on suspicion of sympathising with Cuban liberty, only proves | that someshow was required in the matter, and that | of all men, politicians are the most apt to profit by the o pera, and to turn upon them the stop thief of lower derelictors, when success is no longer to beexpected. But sntagoniatic press was not satisfied with the aspect ofa movement which pre- sented no object for attack. They demanded of the leaders to show themselves, that they might become | the target for their slander and virtuperation. This - | greatly contributed to the formation of a public | junta, the nature and object of which, are sufficient- | Jy explained in the following announcement :— Yo tHe Eprron ov He Henary: The undersigned beg leave to avail themeely widely distributed columns, to annou: be concerned in such ap announcemen ment from General Don Nareisco Lopes, wi | the United States, as well as in Cuba. as the bead of the Jate projected revolution for the liberation of that island from the oppreesions and degradations of its present con- } dition, they have accepted ‘and undertaken, in concsrt | with General Lopez, the duties aud responsibilities of & “patriotic junte for the promotion of the political interest of Cuba."’ Withovt infringing on the laws of plating hereafter any action which they will not | prepared to justify before all tribunals, busnen vine, they feel that it is alike due totheir cause | ations | and course; at the same time that they ve enabled to serve as a centre for correspondence with @ view to con. | cert. to the thousends of noble spirits who in a ions | of this Union sighs to behold the slavery and » | of Cuba, and long to contribute any aid, bon | legitimately in their power, for her relief. This honorable trust, as: ng the undersigned, for | the purposes indicated, with the illustrious patriot aad | chief who will preside over the junta, they hove aecept- ed as aduty not to be declined, protoundty distro-tfol indeed of their own ability or worthigess, but supposted | by the conscious rectitude of their motives and by an un- | hesitating confidence in the tavor of Iieaven and in ‘be | Kenerous sympathies of the noble and five Amesiew Copies of same time reo de los the prevent. annomneement sept to the editors of La ¥% lve, Sun and Tribune. of New hi city, aod lic before the re cept The Junta Promored will shortly estubti-Ie its which city may be (post pald) ell correspondence of ‘its fei | Post office. With great reapect. your AMBROSIO JO JOSE SAN( JUAN MANU los Invereses f at the dressed dire 08 de Coke 8% TZNAGA, U MACTAS, | CIRTLO VILLAVERDE, | Spain could not allow this step to pase unnoticed cruopunished. it brough: upon its authors the followin, preceedings ef the authorities of Cuba, published in the Charleston Mercury :— SENTENCE OF THE PERMANENT MILITARY COMMIT- MITTEE OF THE COUNCIL OF WAR FOR TRE IS+ LAND OF CUBA. | | Havana. August 19, 1850. | Im consequence of the decree of Don Fuigencio de Sa- las, President of the Military Executive Committee of the | Island, dated 27th December. 184, authorizing Captiin Javier Mendoza, Fiscal for said tribunal for proceadings ordered by His Excellency the Captain-Gencral, against | Several individuals who had emigrated to the United | States. and created at New York a club under the title of « Junta for Promoting the Political Inteyest of Cuda” with the object of diffusing in this island andin Porto Rico their insidious intentions and avowed pucpore of | subverting public tranquillity, have been occupied. and | are engaged in conspiring against the legitimate govern- ment of Her Majesty, and the following persons appear accused es members and active agents of said criminal | association, namely :—Ambrorio J. Gonzalez, José Maria Sanchez Iznaga, Cirilo Villaverde, Juan Manuel Macias, Pedro Aguero, Victoriano Arrieta, Gaspar Retancourt y Cisneros, and Christoval Madan. on a review of the pro- ceedings inst the accused, and @ narration thereof in the Council aseembled under this date. and the accused not appearing, were judged by default, On hearing the report and opinion of the aforesaid | Fiscal, and the verbal illustretions of Don Manuel Gonza- | lez del Valle, the Aveesror of the Tribunal, the | taking into consideration the charges and proot condemed, and hereby condemns, by # unantmou: the following individuals to svffer puntshmen? by garrete, namely :----Ambrozio Maria fanchez Iznaga Cirilo Villa Macias. and Pedro Aguero ; and the following sh transmarine imprisonment ter ten years, with a perpe probibition of returning to thi | namely, Victoriano Arrieta ros, and Christoval Madan, with payment of also the demeges sustained by indi from the invasion of Cardenas. COL Approved, August 28, 1850 After the formation of the Junta re received from alin uding Californi urn most cordial hile Gen. L ‘ antege of ould ny pol suchas may nt uny time occur. de t island. your ation, in be moet n registered ac wation will ney affording the f of your fi portunity of Tam, & AMBRO3I0 J made nish | tary of State, | ngton Republic. | ogton | which was published in the W. | The movement wa | ee knowle no had a hand in it, but of the al Taylor, sugceeded shall gee, pre tantly, Hhw ed of this character by th then @ political one, to the | y of the men who ® who, on the death ost- he | » was invited enemies to the hief Magi Euro) against it, a8 against the deed o| human race Tn consequence of intelligencef-eceived from Cuba, Gen. Lopez and myvelt left Washington for New Orleans in the spring of 1850, with the intention of xalsing an expedition from the West and South- west. 1 General remained in Mississippi, while I proceeded to New Orlonns, where, throu A the ex- ertions of my friends, the Yon. John Hen | anda German vote of millions and a Cuban vot tive conviction, more asa testimonial of their ser- Vieeo to the eause than with a view to sudden wealth. The to the Monumen: the West, where he was born, rowed his passage to New Orleans In a fiat-boat, and by dint of his industry and rece to at tbe bar, and to the honorable distinction of in Con, “ of Missisei a cree his Btate ppl. Of sa ‘Stariels 8 cannot be pig Red pra be found, with lees 7 our movements. The result of the Cardenas expe- | dition is known to the public. Among its eonse- quences was the trial of Gen. Henderean by three successive juries. They were, on tho first, equally vided; a the last they stood one for conviction and eleven for that extreme care bad been taken to guard againe any violation of the neutrality laws of 1818. In April of the fcl- lowing year (1851), the third expedition, that of the Cleopatra, was gotten up in Sena by, the undersigned, J. L. O’Bullivan, Esq., of New York, having had char, of the purebase, of the lon, the superintendence in that city of other elements. All the efforts of the Cae to eonviet this gentleman proved itless. The result of his trial again made it ob- vious that the law had been respected, if the wishes of the administration had mot. As to myself, al- though I have surrendered voluntary to the author- ities of Georgia, and en bonds to the govern- ment, Iam as yet untried—a sufficient vindication that the pains taken by me, in guerdiog against any infringement upon the statuse, made the interest of Spain still more hopeless at the South. The means for this expedition were chiefly derived from Cuba, whose patriotic daughters, the women of Havanaand Puerto Principe, without distinction of class or sta- tion, generously added the offering of their jewels to the contributions of their brothers and husbands. About ¢12,000 ot Cuban bonds were taken in Geor- gia, by gentlemen of the highest respectability and political position, among whom I will only mention the editor and proprietor of the leading whig organ i te, because of the republication in that an abusive article from thi tional Intele ligencer, against those whom it desiguated as spocu- After the discomfiture of the expedition of April, 1851, by the seizure of the Cleopatra in New York, I found it ary (0 re- eruit my heattl Sl apy by the incessant labor and anxious solicitude of the preceding months, for, under the circumstances, I was unequal to the duties of an active summer campaign. (General Lopex. encouraged me to do £0, with the under tanding that I should support, with a force of trom 1,500 to 2,000 men, the expedition which, in the ex- tation of a rising in the island, he was preparing in New Orleans. ‘* Citrese V. con esmero,” said he, in his last letter to m para que vaya @ apoyar & su amigo de corazon. r leaving, in obedi- ence to bis instructions, al! the elements which I hadcollected in April, in the bands of one of our friends, for their furtherance to the island as (eneral Lopez might direct, I set out for the Virginia lators in Cuban bonds. te th StS Oe ee ta iti iat tation, 0 ol own citizens, 63; tho youl {ito thelr ‘wicked e jon, and the fourth robably by this time a citizen of the United States. they led by despotism in republi- jt in monarebical France. In Pred ing our move- ment at “guilty,” the Executive undertook to sa; what it was not its province, but that of the judici: tribunale of the land to decide, after weighing the evidence; and they, at the North, the South, and e West, have uniformly given their verdict against hie agsertion. That ‘falsehood and misrepresenta- tion’ were used, is falsified by the record. No as- sertion was ever made by the Cubans, connected with this movement, the truth of which they do not at this moment stand ready to ve. Itisthe New York Express, an administration paper, the editor of which is afriend of the Spanish Minister, that published the famous letter from Santabuco, in the mountains of Cuba, representing the patriots as 2,500 etrong. It was this paper that published another letter from one of the Bahama islands, giv- ing false information with regard to cortain Ameri- can vessels seen on their way to reinforce General Lopez. It was with the Zribune, Ledger, and other administration papers most arduous in ublishing those fulee or exaggerated accounts from the island, which contributed, with the perfidions statements of Spanish emmissaries, to pre- cipitate the departure of the too confiding ‘iencral Lopez, and caused bim to land where he could be most speedily annihilated. If ‘‘falsehood and mis- representation” had been used, the men who'enlist- ed for the first would not have joined in the second exftedition; those who fought and bled at Cardenas would not, after goiag through #0 many perils and bardships, have volunteered to fight and bleed again at Los Poyas and Caferal de Trias, and on their re- their captivity in Spain, would not have xpressed their willingness to emb cary, in the service of the same cau d and inisrepregentation” bad b f full confidence im our integrity did not exist, neither Henderson and Sigur, who have beea im- poverished by their gencrosity, nor the persons who contributed in Georgia to the Cleopatra would have remained ever since the sie t d of ourselves and our cause, ready to serve it again with unabated interest. The American character is too enlightened in its nature, and too just in its purpose, to be obscured by misrepresentation, pri- vate or official, or to be turned by political leaders from its conceptions of right. Finally, if ‘‘false- hood and misrepresentation” had been used, would the authors of it have risked their lives, or even surrendered them, as Lopez and scores of Cubans did, upon the same field and scailold as their gonerous F Springs, the warrant issued for my arrest notaliow- ing me to repair to those of Georgia, While in the mountains, the intelligence reached mo of the rising of the patriots of Puerto Principe and Trinidad, the exaggerated accounts of which, published in the pa- pers of the United States, conjointly withthe decep- tion of Spanish agents, unquestionably precipitated the departure of the General in the steamship Pam- pero. I at once returned Becretly to (corgia, where, owing to derangements in the engine ofsaid steamer, already returned from tho island, { was sorry to find men, arms, and ammunition, which, in my crl- culation, were then on their way toCuba. With- out interfering with that movement, already in the hands of others, I at once proceeded to raise the promised reinforcemen’. The disastrous news of the fate of the General, and his brave Cuban and American associates, reached me in Charleston, while in the snecessful prosecution of this labor. J have been led thus to enter into details somewhat pereonal to me, from the necessity of answering the malignant insinuations of some of the friends of Spain in this country, who wondered, and perhaps regretted, that I and other Cubans were not included in the massacre of August and September Ist. I will add, for the information of these gentlemen, that I was severely wounded at Cardenas, thereby claiming the honor of being the frst Cuban who has ever bled in battle in the assertion of bis country’s rigats. With the details of the Pampero expedition 1 am comparatively unacquainted. I am, however, convinced that the means therefor were generously furnished, mostly, if not entirely, by L. J. Sigur, Esq., of New Or- leans, editor of the Daily Delia, who asked nothing for a contribution which deprived him of his all, but.a promise of General Lopez simply to refund it to him. Against such men thesangs of slander themselves. With the Pampero expedi- tin enda the last of four effort? made, in three suc- e e years, the diventhraiment of Cuba. If onediately succ ey bave produced one he results antivip: i its attainment, sacrificed position, home, friends, and incurred the obliquy of the ma and misinformed, to wit:—The replantin, Cuban revolution upon its native svi now is bel advancing to a snvces Having run through its preparatory sto Cuba that its future ones should be The defence of the acts. of Gen Cuban and American friends, woul! remein incom- plete, were I silent. Ist—Onthe abusive comments upen the sale of Cuban bonds; and 2d—On the de- nunciation contained in Mr. Fillmore’s proclamation of April, 1851. On the subject of the bonds, the National Intelligencey—an English hot-house for the exotic weed of monarchy, without whose fostering care and covert protection they could neither with- stand in republican America the incongeniality of climate, nor resist the sturdy tramp of freeman -the paper ever to be found on the side of any interest antagonistic to the Amcrican—has been especiall; severe. It has called these bonds a fraud, and their purchasers speculators, while it has characterized the movement they were issued for, as ** a desperate enterprise.” The reader may have noticed with what comparatively small ineans four costly expedi- tions have been raised, precluding the possibility of ee by the projectors. Had they speculated by it they would have felt inclined to establish a paper at Washington, in defence of some well-paying government, rather than risk their lives against it. Had such been the case, they would have com- menced by issuing the bonds, and not by spendin; their own money, as they actually did in the first an: largest expedition. Then, if the enterprise was des- perate, there certainly was more generosity than speculation in those Americans who furnished the meané for it. Ifthe chances of failure were as ten to one, agrepresented, then the bonds were really worth ten cents on the dollar and no more. But in the belief of the Intelligencer there was no chance whatever. Then, even ten per cent was a disinter- ested donation. Supposing the chances to have been of establishing a republican government in Cu- ba—and this supposition could not be made, without assuming, independently of circumstances favorable to the issue, that the oer majority of her people were willing to throw off the yoke of Spain. en it was exceedingly proper to invite a neighboring re- publican people, even as they invited a distant monarchical one, to lend them their aid; and any pecuniary sacrifice of those who risked their capital in what might possibly beceme “dexperate” should hare been amply remunerated by the country which, in the event of success, would not only have acquired the invalusble blessings of lib- Lope erty, but saved millions by the change. | Money has at sll times been raised in a | like manner for similar or analagous purposes. | Hungary isened bonds; so did Italy aad | | every country and people who has stood in need of it. Bonds were ‘nub in Texas, and sold at one time as low as five centson the dollar. This debt— strange coincidence—has been assumed by t So moy, probably, be, at come future ay, n. There was once a certain fund rtain rebels, called continental money. Now much wag it worth? Were not those who raised it the most moral people upon the face of the globe! Money hag recently been contributed in the United States for the Irish, the Hungarians, and the Germans, to fur greater extent and with far greater publicity than it has been for Cuba; and yet, neither the lers in the Irish movement, Kossuth nor inkel, have been held to bail, insulted cut 8 the Cubans and their friends Whence this difference ? perceive it in that which iste between an Irish not as much as hundreds. It is also to be found ia the want of equilibrium which has existed in late cabinets between Northern and Southern pol influence, I enter reluctantly into the exami on. of that unfortunate document—the proclamation of Mr. Fillmore, in regard to the Cleopatra expedi- tion. An American in feeling and education, a natural- ized citizen of this republic, in the folds of whose sis- terly embrace T long to see my native island, I am uawilling to show disrespect to the chief magistrate of my adopted country. But the honor of the Cuban exiles is a3 dear to them as Mr. Fillmore’s can be to him. I have reverenced Mr. Fillmore for his resist- ance to political fanaticiem ; but inasm¥eh as in our own case he has deviated from his wonted course to pander to the nage pervading the masses which were to greet him in Western New York on the occa- sion of the great Erie Railroad celebration, I am jus- tified in saying, that he who, if » common citizen, would have been subject to a suit for libel before a court of justice for his denunciation of our ¢; f tionsas “ advontures for plunder and robbery, which must meet with the condemnation of the ctvilized world,” has, ag President of these United States, tegr i] e'vetion of General Taylor to the a son, L. recideney tt. United States was a nevere blow aA 4 es iach suceeded ih forming that to he hopes 0 my countrymen, as they conceived ba ct Ras of the Ge Cantenne expedition. The that his party would oppose any change in their po- The proviows effect: eeaus having been exhausted Mtical condition. The death in Texas of the geno. | Oy {He Rrovious obort, necessity compelled us to re- rous soldier, who hesitated not to imperil his lifeand Sailers were tara ned ty, About forty thousand military reputation in the effort to achieve thecom- | 4 ‘mostly. th poche cause by Gen. Hon- plement of American liberty, cast an additional poy rd Bonds i et of a life of usefulnces gloom over their political aspirations Those who | gee oe en struck in New York, id risked themselves, ‘mainly eed dread of the metas fee of chant a ray emancipation of slave seeing that matters were e hot hinedistely menacing, drew back, abd, together | class I am sorry to say, who have lately ‘presented Brat * few pie stili hoped for comopeslons from ott et be Semtated So a a ee tate Spain, declined farther action; always peady. haw- ever, to peel bythe teehee ret wee ys netce. | Ouban freedom. They were given in New Orleans tht ches, WW Clee Line myvemgnt ebowd prove to our friends, who received them, I bave the posi- elevated a vulgar rsion to the magnitade of a national infiction, the shafts of which, outranging Dae sents coining, poet and. te trae = neve of a neighboring people, an nae in eretie cf Vie republics ae guarded by the pouicy of Vygesaens Meuroe, by virtually calling apon the in- associates? It is, indeed, impossible to read this proclama'ion without being forcibly re- eager of that all-pervading pe itical calumny, so justly deprecated by General Cass during his late speech in the Senate. Ifany of our agents in ibis country—and of this fact we are not aware— have appealed in any instance to the grosser senses of the people, in order to induce them to join our move- ments. euch action has been whoily unauthorized. Tt is the weak point in secret expeditions that the leaders thereof have to rely entirely upon the moral character of those whom, in some instances, they necessarily employ ona very short acquaintance— ived as they ure of the means of coercion and ion, which an organized government com- How much more excusable should any ir- regularity be, under such circumetances, than the frauds and the plunder but too often perpetrated upon the people by members of the latter? The character of our transactions has been sufli- ntly established by the fact, which I have men- med in connection with General Worth and the expedition of 1849, and by the very sentence of the Spanish government in which death is visited upon us, not for ‘robbery or plunder,” but for ‘creating at New York a club uncer the title of ‘Junta for promoting the political interosts of Cuba,’ with the object of diffusing” reads the sentence “inthis island and Porto Rico, their insidious and avowed purpose of subverting public tranquility, and for being engaged and oceupied in ¢onsphing against the legitimate government of her Majesty.’ it has been establish- ed by the history of the events of 1850 and 1851, pending which, both at Cardenas ond Los Pozas, the persons and property of the inhabitants were respected and protected, as became the friend of tho people. Guards were placed, at Cardenas, at the doors of jewellers, to protect ther from any irruy- tion of the popalace; and no reyard would the officers accept for the performance of what they just ly deemed their duty. Nothing used—not even wine—that was not paid for. negroes, even, who coaled the Creole, were paid for their work. It was established, by the magnanimous conduct of General Loyez, in setting free, while still in sight of Cuba, Governor Ceruti, a relation of Count Al- coy, and the officers of the Spanish garrison of Car- denas, on the simple condition tiat they should protect the lives of such of our men as had impru- dently remained at Cardenas, as well as in provid- ing, in the United States, for fourteen months, for the subsistence and welfare of the privates of the ae garrison who joined him at that place. e contrast between General Lopez and his an- tagonists may be drawn from the fact that the four Americans taken at Cardenas were, notwithstand- ing the pee of the liberated Govornor, inhu- manly put to death—among them, a lad of fifteen. It was go well established in the last expedition, that a hie went from Vuelta Abajo to Ha- vana to cg the Captain General for the lives of some of the captives, in consideration of their humane and generous treatment of his family. But were all these proofs wanting, and had not the expeditionists been for the most part men of stand- pel het regpectable families in the United States, and were not Americans well acquainted with the disaffection—nay, the inveterate and implacable enmity to Spain which pervades tho length and breadth of Cuba—common sense, no greater than falls to the lot of the dullest savage, would convince any one, that a force of four or five hundred men would not venture itself upon an island occupied by @ million of souls, and garrisoned by 30,000 regu- rs and 4,000 drilled militia, with ‘the object of “*plunder ard robbery,”—nay, without the most positive conviction, ill-founde if you like it, but sincere and evident as light, that they would be joined by the people they came among; and this very just presumption assumes the proportions of a certainty, when, as in the case of General Lopez, they send back their transports, and trust to Provi- dence and a principle for life and success. It was reserved for the America of the nineteenth eentury, for the government of a people that is to regenerate the world, to represent as criminal and abomi- nable what ancient and modern history re- cords as praiseworthy. Thrasybulus immortalized himeelf by leading an expedition against the thirty tyrants of Athens, and Aratus and Pelopidas encircled their brows with kin- dred laurels. Geveral Pepé has in our own time attempted the overthrow of despotism in Italy, Mina, in Mexico; Miranda, in Colombia, with the connivance of Madison and the material aid of Great Britain. So much for liberty. On the other band, Flores once attempted to subvert, with the aid of Spain and England, the selfgiven govern- ment of a repwdlican country, and is at this mo- ment on his second effort to establish therein one more & 1 to those two powe Barradas led against Tampico en expedition 1 in Caba by the Spanish government, aud paid for by exactions upon our own people Louis Napoleon, thu protec- tor of Cuba to Spain, invaded, by Strasbourg, the France which he now rales, and from the shores of Englond conducted the paltry expedition which re- sulted in what goes by the name of tho échauffourée de Bowlogne; acd yet it does not appear that those men, wko have conducted ‘hostile’ expeditions against ‘* friendly powers,” for their own ambi- tious ends, and not for tho wel/are of the people, 0 far met with such a ‘ condemoation of the civilized world,” a3 to he stigmatized as pirates and buccaneers. bat General Lopez was ungue- cessful, should be no reproach either to himsolf or to the people of Cuba—it was merely the result of circumstances. Bolivar made geve- 8 before he established liberty in Co- lombia, and Braco made nine attempts for the independence of Scotland. The great Napoleon himeelf, who, from Elba, landed three hundred men in France, and promptly seized the reins of govern- ment, was, with the same intellect, and when at the head of half a million of the best troops the world has ever seen, defeated in Russia by the premature fall of the thermometer and the torch of an incendiary. General Lopes’s mevement upon Cardenas was a judicious one.f Hemeant, by a coup- demain, to surprise that place in the dead of vight ; take immediately the railrond to Matanzas, roports eoscependents of _Dowepapers, and, above all, by emiasaries of the S; jh govern= ment, ai whom are said to been some infamous Cul the Arnolds of our: aban. doned this wise course, and, when at Key W directly accross to Vuelta-A bajo. of the wily Concha was thus accom; je had. as be expected Gen. Li thirty-eight miles from Havana, and a point upor which he could, at the shortest notice, pour, by sem and by Jand, t! h the war and steamers and sailing vessels, and the San Antonio railroad, almost the whole garrison of Havana, in addition to the two thousand soldiers ordered to march upon him from Pinar del Rio, the capital of Vuelta- Abajo- Even the ferry boats of the harbor—such is tho fa- yorable state of the weather at that season—were available as transports for the Spanish troops. Tha immense force employed against him may be de- daced from the fact tout of a pate m of overt seven thousand men stationed at Havana, only six hundred are said to have been presont a+ the funeral of Gen. Enna. It was palpable that Gen. Lopea had been foully decoyed. Too great a confidence im others, the result of his gencrous nature, was alike fatal to him and to the success of his expedition. Never counting the exemies he had before him, he never suspected those whom he could not see. His own prowess, and that of the heroie band of Americans and Oubans who fought by him, wera unavailing. Surrounded on all sides, and com- pletely intercepted from the Oreoles, the victo- ries of «Los Pozas and Caferal de Frias, by which he placed hors de combat % number of the enemy four times ns great as his entire foree-—by thinning his ranks without the possibility of obtaining reinforeements from tha country—could be productive of no good resu Ta those gallant strugg'es fell Gen. Pragay, the distin- guished Hungarian, who commanded the left wing of the garrison of Comorn duriag its memorable sally upon the Austrians; Col. Downman, head of the American jofantry under Gen. Lopez; Felipa Gotay, the AlVarado of that expedition, a Creole commanding an American company; Oberto, a Cuban, captain of the Cuban company; Planos, aid to the commander in chief; and scores of cou- rageous foreigners and natives, at the same tima that Crittenden and his fifty victims to Spanish, ferocity surrendered up their souls upon the brow of the hill of Atares, that their earthly remains might be mangled and desecrated by 2 Spanish rabble. The total want of information with regard to the movements of Gen. Lopez, eonvinced tha Creoles in the country and at Havana, at the very time of his victories over the Spaniards, that tha rumors of bis utter destrucsioa, cironlated by the latter, were entitled to credit. The execution at Havana of Crittenden ard bis party but served to” confirm them in this belief. In spite of these adverse cireumstances, it is estimated that one hundred and sixty Cubans were shot on the roads, in their blind at» tempt to joia the liberating forces wherever they might bemet. Tho rage of the elementscompleted the disastrous issue. Out of ninety-five muskets loft them only four or five were sorviceable after the gale which, at this juncture, swept over Vuelta-Abajo. General Lopez then urged the shattered remnant of his Spartan band to scek the clemency of the Cap- tain General, while he, sure of his fate, but detcr+ mined to meet it, surrendered, not to a Cuban, thank God, as has been falsely represented, but io Castaneda, a native of Palma, one of the Canary Islands—a man whom he is said to have generoudly saved from the galleys, when president of the co- | mision militar, and who repaid his kindness by hunting him down with blood hounds. The last words of this great and good man were phe and expressive of his love of country :—** fate will not change thy destinies; adieu, dear Cuba.” A monument to his memory, testifying to future ge- nerations of the nobleness of bis deeds, will, with — the certainty of Divine justice, be erected, ere many years elapse, upon the scene of his beroic martyr« 0 m. In the foregoing brief review and examination of Cuban afiairs, the following points would appear ta be clearly established :—~ 3.—Tkat her people have done tow: f what they could possibly do. .—That our movements originated in Cuba , 5 —'Thatit wes the fanit of Spanish despotism thst the “ nucleus of our revolution as ejected from the island, and compelled to prosper in the United States, : .6—Tbat the first end largest expedition was raised en- lirely with Cubon mommy, ia it received the couutenance of very high offi- 8—That Cubs had a right to aid fi vai a A ig rom the people pf the — uch aid has been sought by th a ee ce bap geting Political party. decode hoa was granted by Americans highest ye oe principles, sd oe aig —That our movements are proven, on Spanish offf- cial authcrity known to the government, to bave bee assertions contained in Mr. Fillmore's urely political, Pao Pat th for this reason, worse than gratuitous, ards eflecting ik 13.—That the judicial tribunals of the land 4 every instance, given thelr verdict to thineaee re 14.—That the measures pursued for the raising of meana are the sme as those adopte: under the same eircumstances, amend 2 maa that Gen. ie ‘was not La Pi by the Cubans, 17.—That the Cuban revolution is been, by our ef- forts, _Teplanted upon its native soil, where it now pro- grene of 18.—That, consequently, we have a claim to the sup- port of public opinion, aud to the ald of the Americas ' le, and the moral countenance of their government any future struggle with the tyranny of Spain. y How this aid is to be granted by either, it would 7 be presumptuous for me to dictate. The people have the strict construction of the statute for their * chart. Their government has for its guide the poli- 4 cy of President Monroe, the true interests of Amer= | ee 4 % ‘ 16.—That it was merely the result of circumstances | f ee ow its oe us ed aa ae behalf it as become the most potent an le agent of the Almighty. In the aoe th rous people, and to the lor eral American administration, as to the instrament of a just and retributive Providence, one should be willing to commend the cause of one’s own doar’ land. 3 Amprosto Jose GonzaLEgs. , Warrenton Springs, Va., Sept. 1, 1852. 1 , of a free and gene- of a prospective lib- News rnom Brazit.—We learn from Mr. Rust, pason- ger on board of the bark Republic, from Para, the 20th ult. that the yellow fever prevailed to somo extent at Para, but was confined principsily to the shipping. He ‘ a also reports that a French war steamer arrived front 3 Monranity av Se only thirty miles distant 3 seize that important city in tho sane manner ; and with the aggregation of thousands of our people, who would have joinedhim there, fall back upon the interior and wait for tho Spaniards, in case he should not have folt justified in marching against the capital. The government could not, at that time, dispose of more than two thousand men as @ column of operations, without ungarsisoning the most important points and giving them up to the people. But our boat was taken to the wrong Whart, and having run aground before reaching it, our landing, instead 0! in- sta’ ous, was delayed for more than an hour. The alarm was given, preparations were made for defence, and the town had to be taken by force and at great sacrifice of life. Intelligence wae sent by couriers to Matanzas, and the main object of the enterprise, the surprise of the latter, was rendered imporsible, On leaving Cardenas the Crecle grounded again in the shallow harbor. In crocr Wo ighten ber, most of our ammunition and The Collision in the River, TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD, ‘The verdict of the coroner's in the case . lision of the steamboat rae with ayen book si Pay dete ine pera ‘0 blame tothe captain of eald boat in renderionase setae come to that port in search of provisions, as the inhubi- explore tke river, but the authorities would not al- yerterday morning from San Juan, Nicaragua, reports the passengers had also been sick the whole passage, from the 27 years; September 1, Jonathan Reed, of Oakbam, Mass. years, passengers; and September 11, Peter Henry, of Telegraph reports. on the authority of a letter from Char- mackeral were gcarce, manted, {Translated for the Herald } Th information of thore who may have intended making, in rendering my verdict— the conta! Omnibus Fare. Mx. Worron:—The railroads have reduced ‘ = tants of the colony of Cayenve were in a starving condi- low It. oss of three of her passengers and one of the crew, by feve , same disease, The following are the names of those who aged 48; September 4, Alfred Hastings, of do., Rweden, seaman, the 7th instant, and was to be sold on the 10th. Two ov Sate of Quickstiver SuPeMINTEN DENCY GENERAL tase dispose of the fifteen hundred quintals of quifksilver de- aanounced in the paper of ihe 2ith August last caunot, proposals for said quicksilver a : 9 4 ptain baving, I think, erased his name from ing th could other, five cente, Cogan ‘all the custom, I Cayenne, and returned about a week previous, having, tion, The commander of the French steamer wished to —The bark Elizabeth Mears, arrived on the paseage home. The remainder of the crew ant died :—August 18, Barnard Barman, of New York, aged aged 25 From Tue Fisnina Grounp.—The G'oncester lottetown, that the schooner Siortda was condemned ow three arrivals at Gloucester report no mews exeept that t suavana Counters supreme government having thought propor to poritedin the Custom Lou: stores of this city, the sale therefore. take piace, yn which is made public for the ASTASIO DE OROZCO, Seoretary. e verdict, and not to form. MARTIN — ome of the Bix Jurors. boost to the omnibus put down to cents, and of the fra Veen practiced long enough. to say nothh Of the Qnivere bh me kiny cbange. Havana, Sept. 13, 186: New York, Sept. 20, that customers refure to pay more, The extoriion haa FIVE CENTS,