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


Those who were ready to censure the Admins
tration for its prompt performances of treaty obli-
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
tured 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
mens with foreign States to defend its own citi-
sens from despoc and cruel by such States Yet have
heard little in the way Of commentator for the latter amidst
the unmeasured vtupson for the former Of those proceed
ings In the vocabulary Of many of journals even hand
ed justice, in this respect finds pacehe preceps OF
public law form part Of their argument 1t indeed
amentabe to behold the imperfect standard Of political
ray BY which journalism is too generally characterized in the
United States Il is sufficient that the flag is unfured, in
any part of the world inscribed with the word liberty
gage not only their sympathes, but their active efforts to
arm their countymen in hazardous and illegal adventures
We that in the Hungarian Instruction. nothing but the
distance of the theatre of precuded array in the
United States to aid the insurgent forces II the inde
neness and uncertainty Of that which saved Amer
leans from the fate of hundreds who suffered on that
sion, military execution. The unreguated impulse to
uh into every contest of the oppressed against their oppres
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 in supplying smuants to this morbid desire
fight the battles of the oppressed in every part Of the world
Now, the American press only guided in furnish
ing this spirit Of chivay with provocatves where
nary instincts its source the world would form its
opinion accordingly But it that motires rarely
entered into the judgment by large number of
papers adventures Of this character Expedency and
the probability Of form with them the sole constituents
Of the important question: shall enterprise oe sustained
ostensiby for political liberation, virtually perhaps, either
from the love Of adventure the appetite for plumber Now
it this morbid passion in people, and this low standard
of political morality in our public press that should like
corrected. 1t 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-
sentaves in Congress sustain the Executive of the Union
in its endeavors to comply with the national faith in the strict
observance of treaty oblgatonseven If against the popu
lar tendency lose sight of these obligations, in the pursuit
Of objects by which they conavened There be
sorry spectacle than behold those high in authority
lawmakers and expounders Of lawgvng the gloss of limo
cent intention such impure aims and invest with the
of liberty and patriotism that have other
mendation than reckless daring if something
prehensble.