The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-10-02
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE
From our New York Correspondent.

part Of England and France 10 interfere on behalf OF
Spain IN the relations existing or supposed TO exist, be-
tween this country and Cuba, and JOINT representation,
OF somewhat suavaory character from the three powers
to the government of the United States spoken of
the first measure likely be adopted. When the true
state of things be understood. and those phi.
lanthropc courts, which anxious TO riyet the
chains upon the white man, and TO turn loose the gno
and irresponsible black to plumber and destroy, find
out that order regns in Cuba, as in Warsaw, we may
perchance be spared the grauous insult Of
and reproof But we have already seen, and shall
enough OF the disposition OF the Old World despotsms
towards this republic to put guard. and to call
into exercise the strongest feelings OF brotherhood among
ourselves, and the most wa,chful vigilance against for
egn interference.
We are quite aware, while speaking of the Old-Word
despotsms that France and England arrogae TO them
selves the merit of possessing liberal governments-hat
the even calls itself republic and The other con-
stu,ional and strictly limited monarchy But what
the facts Were the prisons of France under the Napoleon
or the Bourbon dynasty ever more crowded with ps-
oners for political offences Was the press under
more rigid censorship Was the army ever more en-
trey the arbiter OF the destnes OF the State Or were
the FIVE and twenty millions OF barefooted, rootcon
Stunning peasantry downtrodden or oppressed
II is true that the sovereign of Great Britain longer
monarch like the Henrys and the Edwards Of the mid
die ages, like the last George of ungracous
memory Reform, so called, has swept away much of
kngy power and prerogative but TO whom has il trans
erred III Parliament reigns supreme and absolute But
whom does it representative people or the property OF
the realm 1.-THE men or the money! Let The landed
arsocacy, few in numbers but resstess their strength
answerle the merchant princes and the cotton lords
swerle the overwhelmed enantry and the starving op
eraves ANSWERED. furnishing Ireland and the desolated
highlands OF Scotland answer; and the reply will be-
that not TO its natural and legitimate sourcethe people
has the power wrested from the sovereigns of Great
Britain returned. any than it has to the Russian
ser the abect slave of Franz Joseph, of Austria No.
call the nominal head of the State by what name you
will-Cxar Emperor constitutional King Queen, or
Pesident-wh the exception OF beleaguered, surround
ed and threatened Switzerland, the nations of Europe
are swayed by despotc rule. whether the supreme
power be vested in the hands of solitary autocra in
those OF equally irresponsible arsocracy-a styled
republic which governs by the bayonet, or absolute
monarch whose persuasves powder and ball What
ever the occasional minor points OF dispute which from
time time arise between the cabinets of that quarter OF
the globe, upon amportan subject universal and
unbroken entente co,diaie exists between them. By
taci but perfectly werecognsed and sustained compact,
all bound preserve from the grasp OF the people the
sacred alisman OF power and thus in the very vital prn
cple of their existence, they Numerically opposed
and irreconceably hostile - this country with its free
institutions and the aid comfort support and refuge
offers 10 the victims of their tyranny and oppression
Such the an,sgonisc positions in which placed
the land of the despo and the land of the free However
cordial and friendly may be our external relations, there
is the bottom difference of principle positive hos
lty in the elements which compose the social existence
OF either community must later lead to
collision and already from afar off from
whence this is TO come, and in what manner and under
what preext il to be brought about Some real fan
ced infringement upon the rights OF of the leagued
despotsms Of Europe this eide of the Atlan,ic-some
attempt perchance the part OF young America to in
erfee between the oppressor and the oppresseds be
a1a he If tlacEa
is be put forward as the phianthropic the religious
motive for preaching up crusade against the last home
OF freedom. the great republic of the West.
This tremendous contingency may not for gen.
era,on il may be hand than the most wary and
suspicious among anticipate In fifty years." said
Napoleon quarter OF century ago, Europe will be re-
publican Cossack." Three years since the uprising
OF the downtrodden and oppressed shook thrones and
unseated dynasties which had endured for centuries
Napoleons problem seemed upon the OF solution
and in favor of the rights OF man but the fair pros
pect was soon overcast: the march of the Cossack
checked for the moment, burst through the barriers
which had been raised against il, and Europe over.
whemed by the reurn-tide OF reaction its lib
critics PROSTATE than In France alone remains
the unreal sembance of popular government, OF France
il is difficult say what she ia and Difficult, still 10
say what she will be- With many of her talented
sons in prison and in exile, with press manacled, and
half million of sodiery in to preserve order. she
surely cannot be said 10 enjoy what in this country
call freedom. But what of her future Can the presen,
state OF things continue What will be the result OF the
struggle which seems almost inevitable, and so near al
hand Who shall venture prediction One chance in
thousand perhaps exists that in the coming convulson
the rights OF oppressed humanity may be elevated TO the
surface may possibly gain the ascendency, and commun
eating the elective spark OF freedom other countries
give Europe one more chance be republican But how
much more probable is divided, she u.s. into selfish
factions, each seeking its ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and
not it's countrys good, encountered with huge military
establishment long accustomed live upon the earnings
OF tong people, and djaccnt myriads Of Russian
and Austrian bayones ready upon the moment TO assist
whichever pretender has the airest chance TO win
crown-tbat France too will become Cossack and des
po,sm reign supreme undsurbed by the sembance
of freedom in Europel This state of things consum-
between liberty and slavery-between the New World
and the Old-may commence at any moment Let tina,
moment. come it sooner later never find us unpre.
pared.
In view OF the possibility OF such occurrence-and
who will deny that il is only possible but probable D
what is the duty of every in whose bosom beats
true American beaul What is his first and most mpera
tive duty HIMSELF his country, and his God What
but draw closer the bonds of brotherhood which bind
every section of this glorious Union ogethel Is there
misguided and illadvised son of the North who from
ignorance prejudice. has conceived ILL founded hos
tiy to the domestic institutions of the South and il
ready respass upon the rights of his brethren TO re-
tbe the severance of tho