Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1859 — The Cuban Filibustering Expedition [ARTICLE]

The Cuban Filibustering Expedition

The brief statement we published a few days ago announcing the failure and foolish filibuster attempt to conquer the Island of Cuba, furnishes nearly all that is of interest in relation to the matter. The official accounts in the Havana papers,, and formally verbose statement from the thirty-five brothers of “El Ave Maria,” who cpnstitu’ed the expeditionary force, merely repeat the same facts. It is credible to ur own countrymen that not a single American participated in the expedition, all the names ot the aforesaid thirtyfl . brothers being unmistakably Spanish. Tiie II.;v ma Diairo de la Maria selects out of the thirty-five, twelve who have fled from Cuba to escape punishment for crimes, such ns murder, theft, negro stealing, &.C., committed there. General Concha had despatched a war steamer to Port tin Prince to capture the party. Committal for life to a lunatic asylum would be about tne most appropriate punishmen .