The New York herald., 1851-09-30
Op,nsons on the lrrsnoh Press,

| become the wstchw0rd-the war cry. II is the
name which Is in all mouths, which is heard in
II the reports are not exaggerated, it is possible
that, in all the ports ofthe United States acrusads
will immediately be com menced for oonqusring the
| richest colony left to Spain In the mssntme the
Americans, according to their custom, are rstalia-
| ting upon their own territory. As We published
yesterday the patriots Of New Orleans besieged aud
sacked the residence Of the Spanish o,nsul in that
city. The consul took refuge in the prison, whore
he was guarded by the police and an armed force,
who we're not certain of being able to protest him.
Before this beautiful exploit, the same patriots
plundered and sacked the Office of Spanish paper,
published in the city, and performed the same ops.
ration at the cigar stores Of Spanish merchants.
The Americans seek to justify these savage acts
on account Of the execution which the inv Aders Of
CUB Cuba justly deserved. We may regret she sad and
sent to plunder and to death by Now Orleans
speculators, but it is impossible to doubt the
justice which overlook them. The adventu.
rers, who, in q time of peace, plotted aud
cognized, in the face of day, an armed expedition
against the posse ssions of friendly nation, were
according to all the rules Of the law of nations
purely and simply pirates Those whom they we're
going to attack, in their property, in their wealth.
! in their houses owned by them, one other answer
than that owed to thieves, who, with arms in their
hands, attack you in your homes. The expedition
which has 50 fatally termiasted, was only the Sc
several months before. After the first INVASION the
Spanish authorities had the generosity or the weak
ness, to release the pris with the warning that
in Of another invasion they would execute tho
law in all its rigor. second invasion took place;
it took place under the most aggravating circum
stances. The American government, even, repu-
satsa the buccaneers who disgr the federal
openly declared that those who thus violated all
the laws Of civilized nations, had right to the
protection of their, country, and that they should
word, they were put beyond the law; and the Span
ish government, in shooting fifty in the public
plaza, acted strictly right. The American, are in
the greatest excitement, but that happens to them
very often. They think very hard that the Span
iards received with guns band of pirates, who
came to burn their houses; and they declare that
they would execute, without mercy, those who
should 60 to their country, and that they would
long time past set up 2 Law of nations, for their
particular use. They entertained of Themselves, of
their dignity, and Of their involabty, such an
opinion, that in their mind, all is permitted upon
the earth and upon the sea, free citizen of the
United States. Another fundamental article of
their code, is that the New World, withsut excep
tion Is owned, by right of birth, to tho msricao
republic. 1t is an idea, to which they always gave
utterance, which has been proclaimed, more than
once, in the presidential messages, and which they
viii always preserve in their mind 1t is their
Our old Europe, 80 much calumnated, has, how
ever, more distinct notions of meum and tmmm. The
young American republic has, in this respect, a
larger conscience. Our democras said, lately, that
spoliatiens. We ans wered them, in giving the ex-
ample Of America; and we did not kao then that
new facts would come so soon to u,tify pnion.
Surely We will not say that the Americans are pi-
rates, because they are republicans. First, we
can give that name only to such citizens Of the
Union Who take part in such acts and as for the
federal government itself, we acknowledge that 1t
has disavowed them. But it is impossible for US
of government which is every day presented to -
as model, as tpye. Spain is, at this moment,
at peace with the United States. They are two
friendly countries-two allied nations; yet that
does not prevent, in the ports Of the Union, the
American citizens from openly org Inizing armed ex-
petitions to land upon the territory Of that allied
country. first attempt is unsuc ,essfu; the fede-
raj government puts beyond the law all those who
would take part in similar violations Of the inter-
national law. They laugh at the government. Pre-
anew upon alargsr scale; enlistments
are openly made with all the resources Of tbs most
unlimited publicity; the day and the hour Of the
sailing Of the expeditions are known, and the 60
vernment m axes no attempt to stop it. Now, either
the American government Is without power to re-
press the crime or it is an accompce; and in that
case in the other we do no. find that it presents
to us most glorious and most honest model.
The apology given BY the Americans, We mean
those who seek to justify the expeditions directed
illaries of q national movement, which has been
declared by the population itself Of the Island in
order to aid the nsurrection Of the Creole party.
The last events must nave destroyed all the illu-
sons th they had formed in this respect. 1t is
now acknowledged that the entire po pulAtion Of the
island fought against them, and they have no.
found in the cities, and in the fields, the sup
port upon which they counted. II ha, been
often said, particularly In the New Orleans papers,
that indignites were committed upon the remains
Of the unfortunate men who were shot BY the Span
ish military These reports hare bee contradic.ed
by the papers Of the federal government. Tue
to display an armed force, for the protection Of the
condemned against the anger Of the population;
and the executions took place ami ist tn: cries Of
"Long Life to the Queen" by the exaspera.ed
colonists. An American paper gives some just re-
fectons on that execution.
The Americans who speak thus are right. The
pretended national movement Of the Cuban popula-
tion was an American invention; 1t was n story
invented in New Orleans by specu ltors and axitl.
tors, and entertained and pufed by the journals Of
the Southern States, for lucrative end, perhaps,
but not very honorable one.
"Ihe American sympathizers have been mistac
ken, since they reckoned on proHuHcfdmsh,o Of
the creo.es but the inhabitints Of the island know
perfectly well that their Independence would not be
Of long duration, but would lead to what is :alled
annexation-to an absorption into community TO
reign to them by habits, religion, and language.
They had also re,kOncd ON the rca1iness of the
blacks to take yantsge ofthe quarels amongst the
whites but there In the island Of Cuba two classes
Of blacks, the free men and the slaves, neither Of
whi,h has to gain by an annexation TO the United
states. The Americans who get up these expeditions
to Cuba are from the Southern States. The slaves
gain by change of rule, and the free blacks would
have every thing to lose. These latter about
10000 in number, and they have al ways offered
the gieaest possible resistance to all attempts at
INVASION, havirg, in fact, in that respect, disco
yered TO the Spanish government tae existence OF
force, which IL, perhaps, had suspicion of. Tast
the island Of Cuba Is destined TO free ITSELF sooner
or later, from the bonds which unite it 10 the mother
country, is question Of the future, which II is
lees to enter into at present. The same may be
said Of Canada with respect TO England, a1d, in
deed, of sll colonies wbatever. But TO condne our
selves to the present. IL is certain that Spain can
still assure TO herslf, for great length oftme. the
voluntary dependence Of her magnificent colony,
on the simple condition Of making some admins
trative reforms Whatever may have bsen the
result of the Introduction Of the constitutional
regime in spain herself IL Is incontestible tha. the
tlsnd Of CUBA has not to congratulate itself the
chat &c. The island s rich and pre- ductve, and Is
in that respect what Sicily was formerly to the
Romans, their granary. IL has, therefore, come
to pass that electoral necessities have led the diff
f,rept m pistere az Snan to nd of nh