Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-06-22
Spain, Cuba, and this Country.

Spain, Cuba, and this Country.
The following extracts, ridiculous As they
appear, cannot but make the blood rise to the
face of every true American. They are taken
from a letterof-the P%icayune's correspondent
at Havana. What! Spain throwing her AFRO
gance and threats at this Union, because a
handful of adventures were forced to leave the
priest and tyrant-trodden soil that they had
hoped to free? Spain has awakened from a
false dream, if she thinks that the future has
any thing in store to recuperate her fading glory
and wasted energies. The day and the race of
Ferdinand and Isabella, of Cortez and Pizarro,
have passed, and nothing remains now of all
that sic once was, but vain glorious outbursts
of presumption and frenzy, which, in the period
alluded to, might have been made with some
degree of truth and reason. But where are her
power and chivalry now? If she wishes war
with US, it will be her last stroke of nationality.
The press of Havana are occupied in en-
tightening their readers with the views of Ger
tain papers in the United States, regarding the
"pirates," etc. 1t is a little curious, that while
the note Of preparation was heard, scarcely a
voice was raised against the expedition, but so
soon as it had failed, the pack opened upon
them, and we have them now full-mouthed at
the flying foe. Among the curious articles re-
published here, is one from the Cronica, of
New York, ascribing the long term of peace
enjoyed by the United States to the forbear-
ance Of Spain. 1t opens with the following
rich bit-"Is it wished that the Spaniards shall
take vengeance in their own HANDS, and show
to the United States that they know how to
oppose force to force, and even piracy to piracy,
when they are outraged, or when they are
threatened with robbery and assassination"
and winds up with a fulsome appeal to "the
honest Gen. Taylor" ''the valiant soldier
holding over him at the same time the "indigna-
ton Of the Spanish people, and the terrors of
Spanish heroism." OF a truth, you "Yankis"
must shake with fear! How it was possible
the editor omitted sthe Pelayo" and "the Cid"
80 pertinaciously, brought forward in every
piece of bombast, l cannot conceive. In sober
seriousness, if Gen. Taylor holds firmly to the
American doctrine of the immunity of our flag,
we may be nearer a war than is generally sup
posed.
In many quarters it is confidently asserted
that Spain has accepted the championship Of
European chivalry, and will bodily enter the lists
against the Monroe doctrine. She not only will
submit to no dictation as to her course in Cuba,
| but will extend her sway over st. Domingo
thence she will proceed to the Nicaragua terrific
~, where the Indian ex-President Carrera shall
be his yicegerent, and from there will she send
forth her c%onquering armies and place Gen. Flo
res upon the vice-regal throne of Venezuela.
| Whether her course will end there, or whether
| she will carry her victorious arms to the utmost
| confines of her ancient empire, is not yet known.
That Florida and the fertile fields Of the olden
Louisiana may yet behold proudly floating in
triumph the Spanish flag, is within the dream Of
the Spaniard's ambition.
June s.-The news brought by the schooner
Fairy from your port, whence she sailed on the
evening Ut the 3lst ult., is startling. It is an
nounced that the steamer Fanny would leave on
the night Of the lst inst, with 700 men for Gu
ba. The two regiments that were to go to st.
Jago are stopped, and last night, at midnight,
the Pizarro left port with 500 troops on board, of
the Napoles Observation-Disclosures unknown,
supposed to be westward. The press are hard
at It, working up the enthusiasm of the people.
They say it is time that Spain gave = lesson to
that insolent people, which cannot be controlled
by its own Government. Its "voice 10 still for
war;"