American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-04-30
CUBA.

The New York Sun is always very earnest and
very eloquent upon the subject of Cuban indie
pendence, but is at the same time unwarrant-
ably severe in its condemnation of what it re-
CARDS as the unnecessary interference Of our
Government in the doings of the sympathisers
In a recent paper it says:
"Spain should at once either sell her title
(bad and almost worthless as it is,) to the
Island, to the Cubans, or else to the United
States. If she adopts this wise policy, she
viii save herself from ruin, but let her go on
in her present course, and before long she will
be cast out an impoverished and despised ty-
srant."
This mode Of annexation would be more to our
liking than the fighting method.
The following is in pleasanter vein, and we
doubt not unexceptionable to all our readers
"During the seventy and odd years since this
country became free, the Cuban people have
been in close neighborhood with us, with every
opportunity to learn the character and blessings
of our institutions. Their principal trade has
been with this country. Almost every article
of furniture in their houses is of republican
manufacture The chairs on which they sit,
the tables off which they eat, the very knives
and forks they daily use, are all American made,
and suggestive Of republican ideas. Every
piano in Cuba is American, and her beautiful
daughters love to sound the notes Of freedoms
sweetest music. But what is of still more i'm
portance, thousands Of Cubans have travelled
over the United States, learning our customs,
our laws, and our liberties. They have sent
their sons and daughters here to be educated,
and they have gone home again to be the mis-
sionaries of republican freedom. There is not
house in Cuba but contains teachers or sug-
gesters of liberty; not an estate upon the
island on which there are not American steam
engines and machinery, with American engi-
neers to superintend their erection and work
ing. Surely, then, the knowledge of liberty has
been spreading in Cuba, and strange indeed it
would be if the desire to enjoy liberty had not
been spreading also"
The Sun concludes with flourish:
Expedition after expedition may be crushed,
but new ones will be begun after every reverse
The fame of freedom cannot be put out. 1t
would be just as possible for man to extinguish
the great orb of light, or to stop the motion of
the earth, as to restrain the feeling of liberty
when it once takes possession of the hearts of
any people Thus it will be with the people of
Cuba. And all the despotisms of Europe may
league with Spain, and our Government may
continue to prostitute it's power to aid their
deCign; but with all their efforts, the fire of
freedom will not cease to burn, nor will the
spirit of revolution be broken until Cuba's name
shall be enrolled among the Free States of the
Earth
The steamer Cleopatra, at New York, is in the
possession of marines under j. G. Brain; she is
subjected to the discipline of a captured vessel,
and more thorough search confirms the suspi-
cion against her Twenty-four kegs of gun
powder were found slowed away, and four
heavy bales of soldiers blankets, each contain
ing probably one hundred.