Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-06-22
CUBAN INVASION.
FROM TIE CHARLESTON "sIws."


Those who were ready to censure the Admins
traton for its prompt performances Of treaty obi
cations in the matter of the Cuban invasion, should
have the candor to bestow appreciation for its no
less ready interference to protect our citizens, cap
ured under the orders Of the Spanish authorities in
neutral waters, and transferred for trial and punish
ment to the Island of Cuba. A wise and just Gov
eminent will be equally ready to perform its engage
ments with foreign States as to defend its own cit-
sens from despoc and cruel by such States Yet have
heard little in the way Of commentator for the latter amidst
the unmeasured vupen for the former Of those proceed
ngs In the vocabulary Of many of journals hand
ed justice, in this respect finds pacehe precepts of
public law form part of their argument. It's indeed
amentabe to behold the imperfect standard Of political
ray by which journalism is generally characterized in the
United States. is sufficient that the flag is unfurIed, in
any part of the world inscribed with the word liberty,
gage not only their sympahes, but their active efforts to
arm their countymen in hazardous and illegal adventures
We saw that in the Hungarian Instruction. nothing but the
distance Of the theatre of contest precuded array in the
United States to aid the inurgent forces II the nde
nitenes and uncertainty Of that which saved Amer
leans from the fate Of hundreds who suffered on that
sion, military execution. The unregulated impulse
ush into every contest Of the oppressed against their oppe
so gave rise to the idea of forming several bgades in this
country at stage of the outbreak in Ireland for
cooperation with the Irish patriots The press failed
in each case in supplying smuants this morbid desire
fight the battles Of the oppressed in every part Of the world
Now if the American press only guided in furnish
ing this spirit Of chivay with provocatyes, where
nary instincts not its source, the world would form M
opinion accordingly But it that notres rarely
never entered into the judgment passed by large number
papers adventures Of this character Expedency and
the probability Of form with them the sole constituents
Of the important question, shall enterprise De sustained
osensby for political liberation, virtually, perhaps, either
from the love of adventure the appetite for plumber Now
is this morbid passion in people, and this low standard
Of political morality in public press, that should like
corrected is possible for the leading minds in
Congress to mpart proper impulse in the right direction
We accordingly hail every effort of Senators and Repre-
senaves in Congress to sustain the Executive Of the Union
in its endeavor comply with the national faith in the strict
observance Of treaty obgatonseven against the popu
lar tendency to lose sight of these obligations in the pursuit
Of objects by which they conavened There cannot be
sorry spectacle than behold those high in authority
makers and expounders olawgvng the gloss Of nno
cent intention to such impure aims, and to invest with the
Of liberty and patriotism that have other
mendaon than reckless daring if not something more
prehensibe.