The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-04
The Position OF tho United tho Cuban Quss-

We have transferred TO columns to-day an article
from the London Times dated August l6th in order that
citizens may the British view Of the present rev
dictionary movement in Cuba. That journal is the ever
vgant observer OF British interests and its information
is often reliable index of the policy OF that gov
eminent than its diplomatic instructions and correspond
II will be that the true point in the present
Cuban movement is at seized upon and that this
point is stated with full appreciation OF the tendencies
Of parties in the United States, and the expectations
which the consequence of the supposed bias OF Presl-
dent Fillmore and his cabinet against the popular feeling
Of the people Of the United States. The conclusion
drawn from general survey OF the considerations which
will determine the conduct of the American government
is stated in the following emphatic terms find. from The
cisdom whieh the cabinet Of Washington mas sometimes
euineed in AVOIDING The blind aud perilous impulse Of
popular feeling for annexation, zoe hope .a may mol
be choy disinoned to nth other governments
endeauoring to prescrpe The permanent union Of Cuba
Nth The Cro,On Of Spain"
Tie permanent union Of Cuba pith the Crown of Spain
Here is the object OF Great Britain and it is reference
TO tins object that examine the conduct of Pres
like ours, has laws preventing the Of bands
revolutionary movements set on foot in other countries
but all who recoect the recent events in Naples know
that these laws do not always prevent the tanspor,a-
ton OF both and arms from Great Britain to aid the
cause of insurgents and that the British feet though
ensiby employed to protect the lives and property of
Queen Vicorias subjects, served the far impor-
ant purpose of preventing the revolution from setting up
government which might prove adverse to The con-
troll possessed by England the commercial well
as the political interests of the Neapolitan domnions
AS genera! rule British vigilance, in the execution of
laws preventing the agency Of its citizens from aiding for
eign revolutions, has been measured by the probable
effect OF such revolutions its commercial supremacy.
Secure in this respect its influence the continent of
Europe seems rarely have been felt the side of those
movements which were intended free the people from
the shackles of despotsm. The governments OF Naples,
Austria. Italy, Sardinia. and the German States, are
still as distant as ever from those reformalions which
justified the noble sacrifices made by the people TO obtain
them. Blu, on the continent of America the condition Of
that commercial supremacy could be better answered by
permitting revolutions to take their natural and
hence the movements looking TO the separation OF Spain
from her continental provinces in America have been
unopposed, that of Cuba only excepted and for
which do not alter the general principle which seems TO
control the policy Of the British cabinet.
Aud why should the permanent union OF Cuba with
the Crown Of Spain be now the settled policy Of
European cabinets. any more than it should have
been in the preceding revolutions which took from
that Crown, Mexico, any of the South American
States What is there in the present international
relations OF the world 10 make that expedien, in
reference TO Cuba which was not 40 with the other pos
n ~,
would require more space and more profound examna-
ton OF the policy Of the parties 10 The Holy Alliance Of
1915, than we can a, presen, command; but /, is be-
eved that they will warrant, whenever made the ap
prehension that there is a settled determination the
part Of the European monarches TO dispute the ground
taken by Mr. Monroe nregard TO the duty OF the United
States to protect the people OF the American continent
against European interference in all just efforts esab
sh their Independence position which has certainly
received the of the people Of the United States so
far as il looked TO such contingency that arising
in Cuba should the inhabitants OF tina, Island be Sc
riousy engaged in struggle to shake of the Spanish
yoke
We affirm that in such contingency the ground main
tanned by Mr. Monroe makes it the duty OF the United
States that Spain receives foreign aid in the
contest against her subjects in Cuba and that whatever
is legitimate in the performance OF this duty be done
openly, and in spirit directly opposite to the sugges-
lion OF the London Times, that the government OF the
United States may cooperate with England in maintain
ing 'ths union Of Cuba Nth The Crorn Of Spain"
The questions of Cuban independence and Cuban an
pexaon have no necessary relation whatever to each
Others and the London Times in blending them together
could only have aimed to enlist the side of British
policy the same preiudices which were relied upon to
prevent the incorporation OF Texas into Union. In
the case OF Texas, the United States dealt with power
recognised by England independent, and capable OF
maintaining her independence certainly any Euro
pean State be and the considerations which governed
the question Of annexation had nothing whatever TO do
with those which grew out OF the claim OF Mexico
The latter power treated abe deserved to be- when
urging pretensions TO sovereignty which she had LOST
by the fair course OF war; and which il manifest she
could never regain II Cuba should be free. ia by
no means certain that she would desire to follow the ex
ample OF Texas in asking admission into our federal
Union Nor is il certain il that desire existed that Il
could be gral6ed for already find the organ OF the
wing pauy-the National Tnteiligsn0r-de precatinp
such event the greatest calamity that could befa
the United States However naturally the democratic
party might be disposed to sympathize with the debeat.