The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-04
wi.h Of the Cuban. 10 pl.e. hsr liberty under the pro.

wish OF the Cubans to place their liberty under the pro-
lection OF our flag. il thus that such sympathy
would moi be responded 10 by the opposite party
But passing from these general views, 1t is obvious
that the immediate practical question before our gov
eminent is as 10 its powers in executing the laws
of the United States preventing the organization OF
hostile bands with view TO take part in revolutionary
quarrels of State with which we are at peace, Is
il competsnl for the Presdent 10 treat as outlaws
and pirates, punlerers and robbers, those clhAens
Who GLIDING the vigilance OF our public oflcels,
reach the high their way to the theatre oil rev.
oluiion with which, and lis consequences. they are
resolved take pa Aud can the public armed vessels
of the United States egaiy carry into effect orders OF The
President. thus condemnng his countrymen when
they beyond the jurisdiction OF laws In other
words the force OF the United States be employed al
the mere will and pleasure OF the President to pursue
our citizens on the high seas, and in conjunction with
the forces OF England France. and other foreign powers,
capture them as pirates II this be law, then will the
ntimation OF the London Times not only be true,
but the United States will be as efsctually aiding
England in preserving the despotism Of Spain they
could do by becoming member of the Holy ALI
in Europe. Before you make pirate, you mus,
have proof of intention TO make ndiscrminae wal
for plundera war upon individuals. wherever they may
be found In this the war is against nation, not
for booty or plumber but for political rights as sacred
any which can be protected bya national flag. To con-
found such war with piracy would exngush forever
all revolutionary movements, and fix desposm upon an
immoveable and Interchangeable basis II would be to en-
ull.x cNs
punished at home treason, and pursued abroad as
| litca force.
Whence comes the power OF the President, the In
tsgeneer Of yesterday morning officially informs is
assumed send the Saranac ard Vixen 10 the coast OF
Cuba, with positive orders 10 intercept and capture any
vessels from the United States engaged against Cuba
the Republic informs he has DONE to issue spsciai
commissions to usty individuals uayious quarters
powering them TO employ the iani and nauai forces and
the militia ofMe United Stacs." to prevent what he may
deem suspicion, military expedition against Cuba or
other foreign terrtory'
Such omnipoten, power is against the spirit of our in
sttuons, and we shall endeavor TO show in our next
paper, has not been supposed in the judgment of Of
most distinguished usts, TO be conferred by existing
laws tits we'll known that, notwithstanding the very
ample authority given to the President to call the
militia to suppress insurrection oppose invading
foe Congress and the Executive felt the necessity of an
additional law, in 1882. to the distractions
threatened by the State authorities OF South Carolina
but that that additional law deemed to place too
great discretion in the hands OF the President TO remain
permanently the statute book
But our article is already spreading itself beyond our
limits to-day. We shall state more fully to- morrow the
laws which quoted jastfyng the instructions said
to have been issued by the President the officers of the
army and the navy We close these remarks by an express
sion of our establishment that the National Iategencer
should have received into its columns communica ton
which lsbors to make the execution of Arbuhno and Am.
bris'er by General Jackson authority for the idea that
the followers ofLopez outlaws and pirates Arbuthno
and Ambrsier hal violated all laws, human and divine
They were hoGekers in human scalps, implicated with
The Indians IN the ndscrmina,e slaughter Of our women
and children, and were instgated by no other motive
than that OF plumber. They merted death, whether we
consider them as spies pirates savage murderers
1t cannot be pretended that the brave and gallant men,
whose letters were recently published in The Iategeneer
are pirates or outlaws in the in which Arbuhnot
and Ambrster were