The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-07-09

M We'ee""S afticie rom La fTes8 appears In our
columns. The writer comprehends very clearly |
the position. Of Cuba, but The anticipated ultimate
results o. the situation of that island are not likely
TO takv place, unless some extraordinary event
precV ,stss them. The simple truth is, that our
coVntry does not desire the annexation Of Cuba,
=. cept natural events bring about such consum-
nation. Our own ia,ernal connections, still ag-
gTAvated and extended ny the polite al qascks in
the ccnfederacy, give Sufficient trouble without
seeking any additions to them, by completing
our siiaiIs The immense rapidity with which
California has sprung into commercial importance,
arrests osr deepest attention, and demands our
most active and earnest consideration and thought
New Mexico, also. adds to our snxieties; and 1t
would be folly 10 increase the series of political
snxi~iies which now distress US, by going beyond
our own territory In search Of causes. The slavery
agitation II the Northern States, for twenty-five
years past, has been preparing path of therns for
discriminating ut the South kind Of defensive
action, which springs naturally from the ssnseess
and unnatural sggressions Of the abolitionists
Men have departed from the exercise of reason,
and havs broken down the proprieiies of life-even
going 60 far, like Horace Mann, as to entertain
cOsored persons at the family table, and IN the
drawing rocm-with no other result than to excite
hostililies and TO embitter those sectional preju-
'dicse, which ought not to exist in a confederacy
lrhe our own. When men sacrifice to questionable
and theoretical freedom the great interests Of an
enlightened country, and merge their patriotism
into single barren emotion Of abstract theory,
then we cannot fail TO doubt the results Of
their peculiar taste and ambition. Too much
of this spirit Of aggression prevails; and il was
an unfortunate hour, when the political parties
OF the country consented, in decided opposition
to the letter and spirit of the constitution, to
draw from the discussion the means of anass-
ing political capital. This movement, on the
part Of political iactcians is now doing its work
In direct opposition to every form Of the will of the
people at large, for nearly year, have had the
public time sacrificed in the halls of Congress
In our political calendar this Black Year will long
be referred 10, the disgrsceful in the annals
Of the confe deracy Its cabinet hisory-its execu-
tive history-its congressional history, can never
be wiped away. The escutcheon of the country
has been blurred beyond any and every precedent,
and we have only now the prospect of hope for
an agreeable future, in complete reconstruction Of
the elements of the government, in a general
turning out of the degraded partsans of folly and
fana,cism, and in the introduction Of a new order
Of men, devoted, first and foremost, to the Union
in all its integrity and prosperity and party lines
end party policy as only and wholly secondary to
the one patriotic idea. We shall look for the
White Year Of the republic, and 30 arrange our
political atmosphere as to produce il.
Till this great desidersmm is accomplished, Cuba
must lie beyond our thoughts. The cabinet may
hurry on war with Spain, to force the annexation
Of the island upon ne; or it may be worked out by
= change in the two republics Of the island Of
Hsyii buf, unless the government first embroi
MS with Spain, Cuba will remain in the posse ssion
Of the Spaniard. No doubt, Mr.. Clayton and Mr..
Crawford would be gratif-d to have war to cloak
the cabinet intri:uts Of the past twelve months;
but they, probsbly, will fail even in carrying out
this darling idea OF their political dotsge.
ANOTHER FUNNY FLARE Up IN TIE House, OF RE-
rRIsENTATvEs-THE Union AeAm IN DANCER
We recommend our readers TO look out for another
funny fare-up in the House Of Representative,
about these warm days, which will be- more ludi-
crous and mere exiravsgantly funny, than anything
that has taken place in Washington since the com
mencement Of the present session. Ii will knock the
"ssDeuiDary war" with Spain into a cooked hat
throw into thesshade Dopez's invasion and rapid
retreat from Cuba, and go ahead, in an infinite
degree, OF the famous tobacco case, and the funny
correspondence between Secretary Clayton and Mr..
Poussin.
II appears that one of the letter writers in Wash
ineton. generally understood to be the puIergene-
rsl OF the cabinet, alleged against Mr.. Giddngs,
that that gentleman had distracted certain papers
relating to certain post-office in Ohio, from the
archives Of the Poet Office Department in Ohio
Mr.. Giddings was indignant at the charge, and
denied il, in his seat in the House, in unqualified
terms, insisting, AT the tsme time, upon having q
cswmiiee appointed to investigate the matter
This was at first refused, but was at length
granted, and we suppose the committee will soon
enter upon their duties, il they have not done 20
slesdy.
The best Of the joke, however, IT, that the charge
has since been reiterated. The person who made
the charge, says that he has evidence in abundance
10 tubsantste IT, and that he is ready and willing to
prove his assertion, the proper time the sasfac
lion Of the committee, if not to that Of Mr. Giddngs
himself OF course The country will be in a terri
bic stale Of suspense until the committee 81 inve.-
tigaiiou will have made their report and Informed
the country whether Mr.. oiddings hooked chem
documents" or not.