The Arkansas banner., 1850-06-25
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The press has tssmed, for some weekSpsss' with speculatiOns upon the probability Of a war with Spain. growing cat of the execution of certain Amstlcau prisonen taken al Cardenss. sud the re- fUsui to deliver upotIsFs arrested on the high seas apd bound In Anerieaa vessels for an American pors. Every body wss indignant, and felt that in- stant stonenent for the injury Ito our national hOuor should be promptly demanded. MT. CLAYTON writing diplomatic notes ts Gen. CanrsELL. the Consul at Havana Old ZAcK was getting wol6sh after all he had dose for tho Spaniards but dd not exactly see his waF clear through the seraPs, and consequently commenced preparation for fight Mir. Clayton's last despatch was short, sharp and decisive, and the Har-ships Congress, Sarauac, Al bany and others, we're hastily fitted out to enforce the Presidents denand for the prisoners. The next news that reached Is from HavsDa informed ns that the Cardenas prisons were not executed, that those taken in the "Georsiana' and ''iSarah Loud" had been well treated, and would be surrendered to the United States, to be fried by the laws of this Gov ernmenL How f< ths threatening instructions rom the Secretary of State backed IL by the simultaneous apparance off Havana of United States squadron, Influenced the Captain General in his concliatoTy colrse, we do moi pretend to say; but, from his tyrsuIcal and brutal conduct toward the Creoies of the island we should judgs Mir. Ai- coy was operated upon more by fear than from sense of justice feelings Of generosity toward the unhappy prisoners. ltwas stroke of policy which secured his services short time longer to his royal mistress and saved the beautiful island from fulfill ing her manifest destiny'a free territory of the United States
 But, while the gasconadng governor of Cuba was planning schemes to soften the indignation and anger aroused in tbscountry by the report that an execution of the prisoners had taken place, what becomes of his fercs declaration that "al persous engaged directly oi indirectly in the expedition should be shot immediately after their capture" and of the avowal b, the Spanish Minister. 10 Mir. Clayton that"no inerposition in tbeiF behalf would be listened to. and h, wished this decalstion dedi'' How speedily does the representative of Cas- tian royalty reracths terrible edic, and criuge in l terror al the consequences which might have result
 ted from his carrying into effect any part of his ! cowaydy and brutal threat. when our Government 1 adopts warm and fcided tone and the people ex 1 hibit an earnesuess and determination upon tho subject that will admit of no tamperng with their l rights or outrage uptn American citizeus.
 l From the sympathy exhibited by the aiministra- ton for the cause of royalty in Cuba, aud the constitutional stretcI of power 10 cut off all aid ! from the patriot C'eoles, the Governor, no doubt. induced to belsve that the mos, rigorous peu- alty that could be enforced against the prisoners, would meet with he approbution of Gen. Taylor and his Cabinet The following letter, however, which appears in tte correspondence of MT Clay ton on ihis subject has probably opened his eyes, and forced him to smortifying change in his nten- ded operations We like the spirited tone of this
 letter. and the wsinth exhibited by the Secretary of State