The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-11-27
The "UniOm'' again.

II fustian were physic, the habtual readers Of
the Union would be the most ver-dosed and i'll
dosed class in the community. Ancient Prs
great exemplars in sentiment and diction of our
ex-diplomatic neighbor.
If the Union has any object in the articles
with which it has lately INDUCED the public on
the subject of the invasion of Cuba, it must be
to demonstrate that the expedition of LOPEZ
and his followers was in all respects meritori-
GUS and laudable and in this regard it is evil
dent that the Union is doing what it can to de-
bauch and demoralize the national mind. I'm
der any circumstances, such an abuse of the vo-
cation Of the journalist would be disgraceful
enough but it is rendered peculiarly so in this
case by the circumstance that the Union is now
about the only press in the country that per-
sists in a course which has provoked the just
condemnation of all honest men. The journals
in the southwest, which at one time lent their
sympathizing influence to the fllibustering
cause, have repented of their sin and folly, and
now either rebuke the wrong doors, or preserve
becoming silence The Union alone enjoys
the unenviable notoriety of apologizing for an
outrage of which everybody else is heartily
ashamed.
Our contemporary says:
eve affirm, without fear of dispute contra.
dction, that, on the Republics own showing, it
stands convicted of having exerted its whole inge
nuity to make out that these men were, by the
spirit if the of the treaty ITSELF pirates,
under every conceivable circumstance OF aggra-
walton. Tho argument is: These men would have
been pirates by the treaty, which is the supreme
law, if, in time of toar, they had, with hostile
purpose, taken regular commission from
tional government at with Spain. But they
did what ,oorse in every particular. They
began their work in time, not of ,cdr, but of peace
They took commissions, not from national gou
eminent, but from a Spanish traitor and outiatD.
They commenced hostiitiss under the flag OF frea-
son. And they commenced those hostilities against
sovereign towards whom they were bound to
maintain friendship and peace Such the
dreadful judgment pronounced on the 18th Sep
TENDER, in advance of any judicial examination, by
the organ of their Government upon these hap
less men-hfty of whom, under the outlawry of
the proclamation, had already been shot, without
any pretence Of that legal trial to which, captive
American offenders. they were entitled by the
laws of God and man; and one hundred and fifty
Of whom, under the same outlawry, and also with
out trial, wero then waiting their doom in Gu
ban dungeon"
Well does the Union deny the literal accu-
racy of any Of the allegations which, it says,
constituted our argument2 Does it deny the
truthfulness of'the terms applied to the expedl-
tionists in reference either to the time of 'thelr
work." the source Of their Commissions" or
the character of their "hostilities2" If it does,
-, cDr, rar1 in ctr aiub for,ua nd
manner, and abide by the consequences If it
does not, what can it hope to gain by abusing
us for an argument justand true in all its parts?
The metropolitan organ" proceeds TO ex
claim:
"Mark the cold blooded magnity of the whole
extract Not one solitary circumstance of extern
uation in their case is alluded to, or in any way re-
cognised Not word is said of the belief in which
they Joined the enterprise word of their
wretchod and pitiable dcluson-not word Of the
then well known fact that, soon as they found
there was no revolutionary war, they hurried into
an open boat TO get back, and were SO picked up
unarmcd on the open sea! Every one Of these
circumstances circumstances which essentially
change the aspect of the case-is studiously ex-
cluded while every fact which make against
them is set in the most imposing attitude, and
shown up in the strong light of contrast with the
alleged similar but inferior guilt Of the privateer
whom the supreme law characterizes and pun
ishes as pirate :"
'Mark the" blind "malignity of the whole
extract" The Union declares that we have in
no way recognised any circumstance Of extern
uaton in the proceedings of these prisoners;
and that we have wholly overlooked "their
wretched and pitiable delusion." little fur
Their on the Union actually quotes the follow
ing sentences from our last article on this sub
ject, in which, it will be seen, we did precisely
what the Union says we omitted to do
"But we have also felt and said, just as uniform
ly, that, though unquesionably guilty, their youth
and other circumstances might, with propriety, be
urged in their extenuation. They were deluded
by unprincipled presses and ambitious men into n
belief that their one of liberty, and was
symputhized in fully by the Creoles of Cuba"
What more is needed TO convict the Union
of fraud and falsehood in this matter2 Both
are committed in the cumsiest manner imagn-
able-a manner altogether unworthy OF our
! contemporaries diplomatic skill and experience.
First he arraigns us for alleging what he can
not presume to dispute; and then he convlcts
himself of manufacturing and giving currency