The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-10-12

~. Alleged s.ss Legal Tsi.i the caban ps,..
onsys
II will be remembered that few days ago wa chal.
.ossd the Republic TO produce the record, which il
.,yed 10 be in official hands in this city, OF the fai,
r. in due form Of Spanish law" TO which the mss,s
cred Cuban prisoners entitled under our treaty with
so.iu. and which the Republic alleges they received
W. find in the Baltimore Sun OF yesterday brief notice
II this point. which we transfer to our columns After
abiding TO the doubt which hangs over the question
whether the prisoners fairly and legally tried or not
The Sun says:
Tb. question important, our treaty with Spain
.y guarantees fair and legal trial. 10Th The 6sms6t of
.., 10 offenders from the country or against the
Nv, Of the other The Washington Republic in an arti-
i. replying the Unon the subject the massa.
ere, says
"W. have as YET evidence that the ftty prison
- we're condemned and executed sc,thout q trial We all
Ino that our consu Mr. Owen, has stated they were
duly tried We now inform our oosmpoIay that the prison,
torn Of Spanish and that copy of the com plee
ord of trial now In the hands Of an official gentleman
IN The city of Washington
Tbe Republic has been challenged to bring forth this
sco bvf has done The alleged trial was dou
ubs, would be considered in this country England no
,;aI at all and The Spanish nsr Losdon ,Dho found
q ..es,ory 10 the Times there justify shoot
lar
ment which was particular and o6fciai distnc ty
remember that merely said thar the fy oert shot
On their eonjsion. Therefore Is PLAIN that they
had iraL-such worthy TO be called by that me.
The summary in which the two Americans pick ed
up in boat were, more attery, condemned ut Havana
md for whom Capt Patt demanded and finally succ
In procuring the promise OF fair legal trial, is exem-
plncation Of what tho Spaniards consider due form
law
Tho proceedings of Com Patt ia regard to these two
i
sui should have taken in behalf Of the fifty who shot
Ri well known that confession beforehand by prisoner
made unguardedy, or by force part of eudence
- GIN. Coreha Informed by Com Plat, for it seem.
that Coreha Span ideas Of usce had before ao,od
him to tki~k of that"
The points which we wish to bring to notice here gre
ls That the proceedings Ct Concha towards the fifty
prisoners. which took place, the official journal at Ha-
rama tells under the sanction OF the Presidents proc.
amaton, and which the proclamation expressly pledged
this government not TO inquire into or interfere WITH
proceedings which the Spanish Minister felt con-
strained, by the force OF British public sentiment to apol-
ozs for and justify in London by official publication
the subject II appears that only no such
apology justification rendered to our government by
Concha anybody else, but that the proclamation
les repudated binds ties administration not even TO ex
pect ask much less to demand it. 1t is we are happy
to say undoubtedly that previous administration
in this country has stood in attitude OF such ag
r,va,ed and unuuerabIe humiliation Spain apologizng
to E.gand for the lawless cruelty which subaltern
acting by Spanish authority, has dared 10 wreak on
American prisoners appealing in vain to solemn treaty.
which miserable presidential manifesto not only pracii-
cay abrogaed in advance but expressly forscosed
any demand by government for reparaon or expla-
nation under the treaty spulations under the law of
nations! tits the very agony Of insult
I'd But the next point is if possible, still worse The
proceedings which thus resulted the mercess butchery
OF some fifty American prisoners and which Spain thus
made the subject OF apology TO stranger power are
openly justified by the administration through the col
umns Of its organ, protesting TO speak from the record as
being in fact, all that treaty demanded and guaran-
ted-ramely, fair and regular trial Sin due form of
Spanish law" We put TO the sense of all candid men
to say whether this is not the very eronery Of shame
Sd third fact completes the series. The apology Of
Spain is made 10 that very power which, as is plainly
inferred from the British journals, and not denied here
had ordered It's fleets 10 seize. the high seas as pr
rates. any American ships and any American citizens
engaged in the Cuban expedition. That is 10 say, the
British government, acting in view OF the proclamation
prepares TO treat citizens pirates, and then receive,
from Spain an apology for the in which those
sane citizens have been treated in Cuba, and meantime
sses our own government inhibited by its proclamation
from asking any questions about their fate
And this is the pligh, in which at this moment by the
iaul' OF this administration, great republic stands be-
lore the European powers while having upon its statute
book more stringent neutrality laws than any other indie
pendent nation with federal government fully empow
cred TO execute those laws 10 jus, this result iha
We have come by administrative laundering, while on,
neutrality policy faithfully adhered 10 from the com.
meneemeni Of our national existence has made us stand
alone among all nations in scrupuous regard for The
nights OF foreign States 1t is to thus result that we
nave been brought by this wing administrations when al
ways I'll now, the maintenance of Mr. Monroes princi
ps' orbdGng foreign intervention on this continent. ba,
been held to be sacred point no, only of American in
eresi bu; OF American honor
IL any administration can be sustained by the Amer
Gan people IN such state Of facts this we may well
ask whittier have fled the brave spir, and patriotic pd,
ofour country'
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