The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-22

conduct, in Others, such course degenerate
into what II called the degradation of nation
and what country suffers such an affront? I'll
surely not that which battled seven centuries
and never rested till it saw the disconsolat
Bobadil cross the Straits; nor that which a
Levant destroyed all the maraiime power of th,
East, nor that which at Pavia and Saint Quentir
forced Francis l., and his most glorious generals
to deliver up their swords; nor that which from
1908 to 1914, was armed to man. and neve
sheathed sword until it had driven the imperia
eagle beyond the Vidasoa, and forced il to seel
for repose behind the Notifications of Toulouse
That every State from whose bosom hordes o.
pirates are now rushing forth against Cuba
that republic which has tolerated the idea tina
the property of onr brethren Of the Antille,
should be publicly divided--that government
which has allowed the open and universally
known enlistment of soldiers, the purchase Of
muskets and military store, for such crmina
enterprise, and which has lent its cannon to
strengthen the attick of Bahia Honda, has
reason to remember that the Spanish nation
does not suffer a shameful humiliation. II
doubtless believes that the time of Charles TIL
is past, and that we no longer have thirty men
of war to send TO the canal of Bahama; but the
circumstances in this case are clear and we'll de.
fined; and could II come to the worst, the lion
Of CASTLE would not have to put forth his claws
against the stars that symbolic the Pluribus
Unum.
II ia now three years since the territory OF
North America served az place of refuge for
those who would revolulonize Cuba. Acts have
been committed which it is no longer permitted
US to overlook, for we would forfeit our title to
the esteem of Europe and the world, that are
anxiously expecting the stand that we are going
to take in this emergency. AT present, no one
is alarmed on account of the enmty of the
United States against Spain. On the contrary
there is feeling that it is true that we should
make ourselves be respected; and when the
government at Washington shall know our de
cision, it will doubtless take measures to oblige
it's delegates in other States to act for differently
from what they have heretofore done
The country at large has right to expect OF
the government a worthy and honorable solu.
ton of the serious complications and the grave
questions to which the urjustifabe invasion OF
Cuba has given rise. Will it be such as it ought
to be? This will depend OH the energy shown
by the honorable Secretary Of State.
From the same paper, September Is, 1851.
Yesterday we received newspapers from New
York, up to the 30th ult II is impossible to
read, without the most profound indignation,
the outrages which have been committed in va
rious parts of the Union, the persons and pro-
perry of diversSpaniards,t the one being maltreat.
ed and the other devastated by mad and blood.
thirsty populace, burning to revenge the just
punishment suffered at Havana by a part of the
Vandals who left their dens to carry death and
pillage to the Cuban shores. Such outrages,
such acts Of iniquity, to be expected only at the
hands of u savage people, demand just and
eficacious reparation; nay, more than reparation
Immediate revenge. The government that
would refuse to seek it would be execra ed by
the whole country, which cannot look on in 81.
lence at the continued insults heaped upon its
flag, its representatives, its sons. All! mere
hesitation in such crisis would be a crime Of
high treason TO the country. We desire that
our name should not be condemned and despised
that our national colors should shine to the
eyes Of the world, bright and pure. Never did
y government have so glorious and patriotic
a mission. Never did any country have an op-
portunity to reclaim its rights with more force
and energy than ours. We shall not so lower
ourselves rs to become a by.word 10 the world
for all that is contemplate. Let us not abdi-
cate our proverbal pride and sense of honor;
and let US not degenerate from our valor-that
valor proved and tried since the birth of our time
honored monarchs-for if we do, the shades of
so many thousands of noble and brave heroes
that once shone so brightly, would rise up
against us.