The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-22

organization, at these points, OF q piratlcal ex-
petition against friendly country. Such was
their duty-a duty imposed upon them by the
law of u nations by civilization, morality and
honor. What they do now, is 10 admit the
charge of suspicion with which they are marked,
and to be beyond the considerations that every
government owes to itself and those which they
owe to Others.
From La Espagna, Of September IA.
The unanimity which reighs in all the Spanish
press, in respect to the manner Of judging the
events Of Cuba, and the conduct of The govern
ment of Washington, is for US guarantee of
the successive results OF this important question.
The Spanish ministry have now to look ut this
subject in diplomatic point of view The con-
duct of the government is traced. The de-
parture of new expedition Of pirates from any
of the ports Of the American Union, must be
considered as an inevitable casus beli We
have suffered sufficient outrages in silence, and
we say that, because we do not know the steps
already taken by our government for just
reparation. The general curiosity upon that
important event, in which are interested the
most noble sentiments of people who aspire
only to be respected by Others, having been al
layed we were filed with pleasure in reading
the manifestoes which appeared, the day before
yesterday, in the paper which is considered to
be the organ of the administration. We have
never, for single moment, doubted the firmness
and the patriotism Of the actual advisers of the
crown. At the opening of the Parliament, they
will be able to give an explanation, permitted
by the State, of the past events After all the
national and foreign press have spoken of that
question, having placed the scandal before the
eyes of Europe, and silence would be perhaps
interpreted by the Anglo-American merchants as
80 g al ~; -,
that case, AMI we should desire that the organs
of the government manifest, as soon as possible,
their sentiments, without violating the rules of
prudence.
From The same paper, Of Sept Is
The clamors and vexations of the annex
ionists have taken such colossal proportions
that the government has thought necessary to
raise its voice in the midst of the tumult, with
and having no more efficacious means of at.
tanning its aim, it caused to be published, in
almost all the papers, what we reproduced in
our number of last Sunday.
For the better understanding of these lines,
we think it necessary to publish the comment
aries of the National Iatelligencer of Washing
ton, which is considered the organ of admin
istratioE.
Here La Espana reprodnces the article pub
lished On the 26th of last August, by the INTEL
hgence-, in virtue Of an express authorization
Of the United States, sending to Havana Com
modore Parker, in diplomatic character.
If what the National Inteiligencer states be
true the question would he soon solved. If
the government of the United States wish
faithfully to execute the treaties-to observe
and cause to be observed, the right Of nations
all will be concluded The island Of Cub will
continue to enjoy peace and prosperity, and the
commerce of the United States will increase
every day its relations and its means of gain.
But, unfortunately, the journal has gone far
already known by the public, including the
recent disembarking of Lopez, in the same
lines communicated by the government of
Washington we find proof of the want OF
sincerity which is used in fret, they must have
great share of iinpndence to hide, under thu
term of expatriation, the intentions of the
pirates who embarked in the Pampero. IL is
hard to understand no v such thing can be said
in Europe, by one acquainted with all these
events, which would excite laugh if bloody
drama was not in question.
Though the sending to Havana Of Commo-
dore Parker, and the mission confded to him,
were not perfectly in unison with the proceeding
diplomatic customs, we are not astonished that
the Anglo-Americdn government has taken that
step. All that contributes to put the facts in
their true point of view must be satisfactory,
because by il the justice of our case will be en-
tirelY shown, and it will also lay bare the system
Of fasehood which ms besn practised with such
GOODNESS by certain portion Of the press of the
United States.
The statements Of our correspondent in New
Yo,k, and the papers Of that city, both unite TO
dispel all the doubts that might have been en-
trrtained of the yexations suffered by her Ma
jesty's Consul at New Orleans, and several Span
iards established in that city. This is an episode
Of the great question, and must not be con-
founded with it; il will doubtless be treated
separately. Our flag has been insulted, and II
is right ard necessary that we should have suit
able reparstion. Oar countrymen have been
veSed and injured in their persons and inter sta,
and II Is indispensable that this should be at med
for to them. The government OF the ". States
cannot refuse the one nor the other. The ques-
ton which il has lately brought up in its claim
against Portugal, for the loss Of vessel at
remote period, and that claim, too, or certainly
doubtful justice, is for US a guarantee that no
trouble will be attendant upon what we now
ask, and that this affair will be speedily and sat-
i.taptoriIy adjusted We imagine that her Ma
jesty's minister at Washington has already Ia
ken the first step IN this important matter
Besides, no person of ordinary common sense
and reasoning faculties could ever imagine that
Europe looked with Indifference at this unheard
of scandal at the hands Of raving democracy,
which, not content with the vast territory which
II already possesses, covets those OF others, en-
ploying for the furtherance OF this object means
more sanguinary and cruel than those employed
by highwayman to despoil the traveller For
Europe there is here question not only Of i'm.
portant national interest, but also of inviolabil-
ity Of possession, and public order. The great.
er part of Angola merican commerce 10 carried
on by means Of foreign capital, principally Eng.
lish, and this capital would be completely de.
stroyed or neutraized the day on which neces-
city would obige US 10 have recourse TO arms.
1t is not within the limits Of possibility that a
band Of rufiiins should be left arbiters and mas.
tiers Of so many lives and so many fortunes.
From La .Nbeion, Sept is, 1851.
Three days since we referred to the tumultu.
Gus meeting held at New Orleans by the accom-.
! lces Of the expedition Of Lopes. We recon.
II hat hat ~