...r, and that has been much misunderstood as to its character and motives, and was generally stigmatized as Fillibustering. His was a far nobler purpose. He was induced to join General Lopeza first Cuba n expedition not only from an impulse of philanthropy, but from a patriotic purpose, i. e., to maintain the equilibrium of the States by strengthening the South. Several prominent statesmen, who wer...