The republic., 1851-09-13
The President, she Democratic Press, and
tho Policy OF Non-Intervention.

The President, the Democratic Press, and
tho Policy OF Non-Intervention.
Our contemporary of the Union continues to
press with great urgency and perseverance, his
higher law view of the recent expedition of
LOPEZ. He seems to think that the enIisting
an army in our territories to invade CUBA, un-
der the lead of a SPANISH outlaw, and in def
ance of the laws of our country, was highly
meritorlous enterprise, emitting those who en-
gagged in it to be regarded as LAFAYErTEs and
koscIUsKos. And this, too, when it is dis
tincty established that there was no insurrec-
ton or rebellion in the island; when we know
that neither SPANIARD nor CREOLE joined
the invaders, and when our deluded young
men write home that they not only found no
organized outbreak, but ''did not see patriot
in the whole course of the expedition 1t
would seem that the OPPOSITION press is not
satisfied with the blood that has been already
shed. In defiance of the statutes of the land
and our treaty with SPAIN, which is part of
the supreme law, the Union would join with
MIR. SIGUR, and the higher-law organs in New
Orleans, to stimulate new expeditions 'to over
throw the Spanish authority in CUBA," by re-
presenting such enterprises as the merely gal
liant, chivalrous, and honorable attempts of 'epa-
triots" and ''liberators." The PRESIDENT is
daily abused for his determination to execute
the laws of the land, and his proclamation,
which is merely the law of the American peo-
pie uttered by the voice of their EXECUTIVE, is
denounced because it did not speak in more
dainty language of the offences which it was
designed to prevent.
Let US see what manner of proclamation
would have best pleased the Union. Our con-
temporary is very much exercised because the
PRESIDENT, adopting the language of the law
of nations, Of Mr.. JEFFERSON, of our Supreme
Court, of our treaty with SPAIN, and with the
view of presenting the offence contemplated in
its full enormity to those who might be induced
to commit it, stated that the law regarded all
such expeditions as adventures Of plunder and
robbery. One would suppose that such Ian
guage was well calculated to warn the yorng
and inexperienced of the nature of the enter
prise into which they were hurrying. 1t might
induce them TO pause and reflect, and such
would doubtless have been its effect had it not
been that there were mschievous orators and
mischievous editors in the Southwest, who
were dissatisfied with the condition Of the
CREoLEs in CUBA, disapproved Of the internal
regime Of the Spanish government, and taught
the inexperienced and reckless to believe that
it was highly meritorious enterprise to in
wade the island for the purpose of "over-
throwing the authority of SPAIN" They
addressed the popular mind in precisely the
same language that is now employed by the
Union. They impressed upon the young
men of the Southwest that they were en-
tering on path of glory-the path of lib
erators-that they were following in the
footsteps of KosCIUsKo and LAFAYETTE, and
were about TO win for themselves a deathless
name in fighting the battles of freedom. And
the Union now denounces the PRESIDENT be-
cause he did not adopt the same language in
his proclamation, and assure the country that
the only objection to this meritorious achieve
ment was old statute of 1894, re-enacted
in 1918, which forbade all such expeditions :;
and a treaty Of inviolable peace and friendship
with SPAIN; which were only parchment
enactments that might readily yield-really
ought to yield to that "higher law" which
must be paramount in the breasts of good
men--patnots and friends of humanity-and
unite them to subvert all domestic institutions
that are not to their liking.
The Union, then, is in favor of such expedi-
tions. 1t applauds these lawless invasions 1t
is part of its policy to encourage individuals
to embrol themselves and the country in ef-
forts to subvert the governmental authority and
the internal institutions Of other nations, 1t