Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1851-10-23

the Washington Republic. Itspeaks
the feelings OF the whole American
people on this interesting and excl
ting subject:
.ssats Cnba ahd England.
- We laid bsfore our readers yester-
day an article from the London
Times, on the Cuban question. that
they might be acquainted with the
: views Of this subject entertained by
aportion of the English press. As
well as we can understand the arti-
Gle, it expresses an apprehension on
the part of our English friends that
the government OF the United States
is TOO feeble to restrain armed expe-
ditions of IFS citizens against neigh
boring countries, aud that European
nations will be justified in assisting
such countries by an armed iaterven-
tion, TO defend their soil against these
aggressions.
We apprehend that the Times is
induIging in ill-lounded solicitude.-
The American government is abun-
dainty able to execute its laws, and
TO punish their infraction. The gov.
ernment Of Spain can protect its own
possessions without foreign aid; and
we presume will hardly entertain
the project of placing the province
of Cuba under the guardianship OF
Great Britain. When Lord Har-
court, ia 1894, offered TO ireland the
services of four thousand foreign
troops, in room Of greater number
that had been drafted TO America, the
Parliament of Ireland declared that
they would "accept OF no foreign
help, as they felt competent TO de-
fend themselves, or If not that they
tcere not ,OOrth defending;;" and this
too alta time when the fleets Of France
and Spain were in possession OF the
channel. If the Spanish govern
ment cannot maintain itself in Cuba
without foreign assistance, we appre-
hend that Cuba is not worth delen-
ding; Tor there is nothing more GER
tain than :hai the interference Of any
European nation in this matter will
lead to inevitable collisions which
may disturb the peace Of the world.
We sustain in all cases the laws OF
the United States, the expression oi
the will of the American people,
We desire TO see them enforced at all
hazards and TO the last extremity,
whether on Northern AbolitionisIS
or Southern Flibusters--in their
spirit, to the letter-wiih all the
power Of the country. There can
be no snch thing as government
where there is an absence OF the
power to enforce the law. We con-
slider, therefore, that all combinations
10 resist the law, on whatever pre-
tence, should be met at once with the
whole force of the government, and
that the issue should be made, in every
case which admits of il, whether we
are living under laws or in a state ol
anarchy.
In this we feel that we are sus-
tanned by the good sense and the pat
riotic attachments of large majori-
" OF the American People. There
lore it is that we would, under all
circumstances, maintain 10 TIE letter
the neutrality law of 1918. 1t is es-
sen.ial TO our position among the ma
tious Of The world that we should
maintain it in good faith. Our gov
ernment will protect Cuba TO the
extent OF IFS power from all invasion
from this country. But Il very dil
ferent question is presented when
European nations propose TO inter
vene, and to protect Cuba from the
consequences of alIedged illegitimale
interference. If the Spanish govern
ment cannot maintain itself in Cuba
without foreign intervention, il
would seem that the time had come
when il ought TO relInquish its do
minicn; for this kind of Intervention
can be prosecuted only under cir
cums:ances that will materially affect
the rights, interests, and relations Of
third parties. The time has gone by,
we apprehend, for the interference
OF Great Britain, or any otherEuro- |
pean power, in the affairs Of this
continent, beyond the limits Of IFS
own colonial dependencies, in the
expectation OF accomplishing any
practically useful result. We are
well persuaded that European ma
tions for the future will be much bet
ter occupied in attending to the affairs
of their own continent than in inter-
meddling with ours.
In throwing ont these views we
are speaking the universal sentiment
of the American people; and we
warn the Times, and all whom it rep
resents, that the first show oil British
intervention in Cuban affairs, will be |
the signal for a movement that
neither Cuba, nor Great Britain, nor
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