The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-12 00:00:00

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THE IiNITED STATES AND CULL!.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The actiun of the United States towards Cuba
has excited much comment in Europe, where it is
considered to be inconsistent with the attitude of
the Republic towards England. The same Con-
gress which rejects the Convention for settling the
Alabama Claims, on the plea that England's pre-
mature recognition of Confederate belligerency was
au act as unfriendly as injurious, and actuated by
unfriendly motives, passes a resolution suggesting
to the Executive the propriety of recognizing, not
the mere belligerency, but the independence of an
island, portions of whose inhabitants are in insur-
rection against their Government, then on terms of
amity with that at Washington. In the same news-
papers, containing columns of denunciation of
England for favouring the American rebellion, and
allowing the Alabama and other corsairs to escape
to sea, are columns in sympathy and support of the
insurrection against Spain, detailing the aid, in
arms and money, forwarded from the United
States. At a glance, this is sufficiently contradic-
tory to shock the moral sense, but it is nc,t so
when more closely examined. 'The nature of the
Anglo-Saxon is to sympathize with rebellions in
every country but his own. Wherever men of one
nationality are in insurrection against the rule of
men of another nationality, his sympathy—suppos-
ing that he is ignorant of the causes of the quarrel
—is with the insurgents. As the mass of a nation
is always ignorant of the internal affairs of another
nation, it may be taken for granted that insurrec-
tions everywhere meet with the sympathy and sup-
port of the Anglo-Saxon, so long as they are not
directed against himself. As a mere matter, then,
of prejudice, American feeling runs in favour
of the native Cubans; and, as far as England
knows anything of the circumstances, her feel-
ing inclines towards the same groove. But
this would not have excited throughout the
States so warm an interest were there not Ameri-
can questions of deep importance involved. Cuba,
though divided by a channel, is a part of the North
American Continent, under a rule peculiarly hate-
ful to a liberty-loving people. The MoNRoE doctrine
simply announces the proposition " America for the
Americans ;" yet not only does a European power
sway in this, perhaps the most valuable tropical
island in the world, but a power marked in Europe
for the despotism, both civil and religious, by which
its own inhabitants have been degraded. It is,
then, but natural on the Cubans rising against the
Spaniards and becoming champions of the MONROE
doctrine, that they should excite in no ordinary de-
gree the sympathy of the United States. Cuba is
one of the last places of importance wherein negro
slavery has been maintained. By an Act of the in-
surgent Government a proclamation has been issued
of emancipation and freedom, to take immediate
effect throughout the island. The United States
has just closed a gigantic war which has enabled it
to attain the same end, hence another cause of sym-
pathy. In freeing the slaves the Cubans are but
freeing themselves, and their design is openly an-
nounced of establishing, as a temporary measure, a
Republican Government ; and in this intention is
to be found another cause of sympathy. The United
States has of all countries the most complete free-
dom of religion ; in Spain and her dependencies
there is the least. The insurgent Republican Go-
vernment which with emancipation proclaims free-
dom of worship makes another appeal, which
strongly touches the Protestant community of the
Union. Were there no other cause these would
suffice for the great Republic openly to espouse the
native and Republican side against the foreign and
Monarchical ; but there remains, without disguising
the fact, a very material and selfish inducement. The
Republic has long coveted the Spanish island, in itself
worth all the Westlntlies put together. If it gains its
independence its next step will be to enter the
Union as a State, and if this programme can be
carried out it leads directly to the attainment of a
desire, to gratify which, the American Government
is said to have offered £20,000,000 sterling. Such
a position differs altogether from that taken by
Great Britain in connection with the great civil
war. There the contest was domestic, confined
within the boundaries of a Republic, and purely an
American question, with which Europe had no
right and no call to interfere. The Cuban affair
differs in this essential, that it is the attempt of na-
tive Americans to free themselves from the rule of
European Monarchy, and, as such, is essentially an
American question, becoming when the revolt is
general a (war between an American island and
Spain. The main difference on this point then is
that England's recognition was an interference in a
domestic trouble on another Continent ; whereas, the
United States recognition would be in accordance with
the MoNuoE doctrine in countenancing the struggle of
Americans to throw off the rule of a European
kingdom. The war of the Confederacy was a
struggle to establish a slave empire ; in its suppres-
sion four millions of men became free ; in its success
over a great portion of the Continent, slavery would
have become permanently established. Aid and coun-
tenance then tendered to the rebellion went di-
rectly to advance the cause of slavery, and Eng-
land in giving them broke away from her pro-
fessions, actuated, as Americans have good reason
to know, by the desire to cripple the power of the
Republic. The essence of that recognition was its
animus, and here again the case widely differs from
the attitude of America towards Spain. The recog-
nition of Cuban independence is the recognition of
the emancipation of the negro, as well as of free-
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other action would be inconsistent with the whole
tenour of American diplomacy ; and if such aid and
comfort were not extended the Cubans might with
justice consider themselves betrayed, for a nation
has no right to lay down a policy of action and ,
adhere to it for half a century, yet abandon it at
the moment when another people calculating on it
have committed themselves to a position of great
peril. Americans are accused of inconsistency for
attacking Great Britain for ber premature recogni-
tion of the belligerency of the South, while Con-
gress urges on the PRESIDENr the recognition of
Cuban independence. But even were this grossly
inconsistent, the Republic was on the horns of a
dilemma, for, it would have been vastly more in-
consistent had she turned a deaf ear to the Cubans.
At the worst, the one is but the irritability of a per-
son who considers he has been insulted and injured
—the other would be the inconsistency of not act-
ing on the principles recognized since the birth of
the Republic, and of the two inconsistencies (pre-
suming that there be any) the Republic is right in
choosing the lesser. The weak point really is the
prospect of gain to the Union. If through this
means it gets what it was willing to pay twenty
millions sterling for, it will certainly make a very
considerable gain ; and we think it is a pity that
Spain does not voluntarily withdraw on the guaran-
tee of the United States for the payment of a round
sum, which, we hope, may yet be the solution of this
difficulty.

Twichell has been refused a new trial, and was
to have been executed on the day fixed. Meanwhile,
Philadelphia has been the scene of another tragedy.
Joseph M. Smith, who had saved some money, was
thought to have secreted it in his bed-room. Two
former attempts had been made to obtain posses-
sion and defeated, but on Wednesday, the 24th March,
he was found gagged and killed, his tin box believed to
contain the money rifled of its contents as well as his
pockets, and the room ransacked. It is supposed that the
murderers found their victim lying on the bed, gagged
and throttled hini, dragged his body to the box, and ended
by firing a pistol shot through his head. Two persons
are in custody on suspicion.

C. Dorwin, an old and apparently respectable Mon-
treal banker, formerly United States Consul in that city,
levanted with $lOO,OOO of the funds of the banking com-
pany, and with liabilities reaching nearly to $300,000, leav-
ing but $37,000 of assets. He fled to Vermont, and being
discovered professed such penitence that ho hoodwinked
a Burlington officer, who, on calling with the representa-
tives of the bank, fou,,d that the man who pretended such
a desire to make restitution to the bank had again levanted.
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