The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-11-19
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"Under which King Begonian :"
Our readers will remember that weeks ago. be.
fore the wing administration and the wing cause had
become utterly hopeless the Repu; sought exclude
the conclusion that the organ Of the adminstra
ton, or Of anybody else We begin now to believe that
such il the fact.
. Our readers know how pertnaciously the Republic
stuck 10 it's attempted justification Of the wreched Cuban
PROCLAMATION. II wrote column after column to prove
that the American citizens with Lopez were pirates and
Oulasos Notwithstanding their admitted "belief and eI-
pectation" that the expedition in which they took part
was designed not for private robbery plumber but to
participate in public revolutionary war in Cuba 1t
contended to the last that under the Spanish treaty. these
men had no rgh, the regular trial secured 10 all Amer
lean offenders by its terms 1t justified the pledge given
BY the administration in its proclamation not TO interfere
in their case "to whatever exremtes they might be re-
duced" II steadastly refused to say one word against
The right of British and French cruisers pursuance Of
"orders to seize, shoot hang our citizens on their
wsy 10 Cuba with hostile intent. and for that pur-
pose TO stop search any American ship suspected Of
having them on board The Union, on the other hand
took Just the opposite ground all these points We adj
med these Americans be offenders against our law,
and 80 liable its due process OF arrest. trial. and
punishment We admitted them 10 be offenders, and
lriabe and punishable by the Spanish authority
against whom their breach OF international law was
directed We admitted them also, when landed with
hostile purpose act on the coast OF Cuba, TO
be offenders against Spanish law. righfully 10 be
shot down by Spanish troops 50 long as they made
armed resistance and rishuully triable and punishable
by dse process of law secured by treaty. after they
should surrender or be taken into custody Admitting
nav asscr,ing-al this denied that they were pirates
in fact, or in intent or in law. We denied that when
sken prisoners they had forfeited their right 10 fair
legal trial, as guaranteed by Spain in her treaty to all
American offenders We denied that any power earth.
save Spain and the United States had any shadow Of
rsh, to touch hair OF their heads. And, above all we
ensured with whatsoever energy OF language we could
command the Presidents most unwse and fatal procla-
nation for having pledged our no, 10 inter-
se in their behalf. though the treaty should be all
broken through in their by Spain, though all other
governments in the world should seize say them and
though they should be given to any and every
heard Of extremity OF savage and awless cruelty For
taking these sound and just positions The Republic most
falsely and sra,uousy charged us with "hllbuslerng y
Since these things done in the two journals. sew
.l weeks have elapsed Not one new fact has come up
ia the case save that Mr. Secretary Webster has return
ed to his post and his duties And now behold II our
course be hlibusering," how boldly and openly have
Mr. Webster and the administration for which he speaks
begun 10 "hlbusterw Almost simultaneously with
Mr. Webster's return out came the Mexican proclama.
on plainly founded upon different principles, and mod.
.ed upon quite another pattern than tina, for Cuba, and
for the most part s,udously excluding all the language
which in the Cuban paper was 80 fatally Objectionable
and 40 loudly objected TO by and the whole democratic
press This was great step backwards, and was IN
SANITY 40 understood and recorded in our columns
the Republic by the way, not attempting to gansay us
On that point Yet this only The beginning OF 'he
cad MI Webster appears to have at once betaken nm
self TO the study OF the Cuban and OF The predica
uen OF the administration in regard TO IT, ascerianed
by the language both OF its proclamation and OF its organs
The r,sslt OF his Investigations is supremely noteworthy
we have before us plainly authorized, If not official
statement, Of As ground which he and the administration
have now taken upon the whole subject, in his ohcia
de.oa,eh 10 the Spanish Minister. IL throughout 'den
toau he sams ground spsry point an me case 'ehie'
,,a. taken nm m, Washington Union eight or nns rsek
sso opoiast The friou, opposition and condemnation
the spseial organ
stated. under date of 18Th instant, in The New forl
Courier and Enquirer, by the regular correspondent
tina, journal The minuteness Of the statement leave
liue doubt that the writer's Information y exact an
Authentic
"THs DssAsps OF rus SPANISH soVfHShtSf-m'
web.er say, the government deeply regrets both tn
sailing OF the expedition from porte, and the riots oI
which the dignity and safety OF the Spanish consul New
Orleans were compromised But he says the government
did all that, under the circumstances, any government
could b.v aop. 10 prevent these occurrences, and there
lore owe. neither resrstioD nor apology Tor them 4,
lo..e. suffered by private individuals subject. Of Spa
resident ut New oeaus he says the courts are open Tor tn
aggrisvsd, the they are any county :" o~
eu.n. lie also suerssn that the United States may hav
sous recsm.ons sgainst Spain, nnder the 9th article
the ses u 1875, account Of the massacre OF 'he hit
American prisoners on the 18th Of August The oihcis
and detailed OF bsse transactions establish that TN
Victims taken haeo~fs dseo, With arms IL thsi
hand but in open boats the without ertns, enc