The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-10-16

The Rspubiics Bia.tsEinE.
qh,,s il kind OF buliysm in statement and language
shich demands to be put down by appropriate castiga
ion inst as much as the vulgar insolence OF the
h.sr who tries jostle civil passerby off from the
walk aud then relies for his justification upon the
,.ybt Of his fists case OF such delinquency occur
in, in the Republic OF yesterday has imposed upon us
bs unpleasant necessity of promptly administering an
a., o this penal literary justice Here is the offence in
question;
Thu Union has again and again asserted that gave
at APPROVAL the statements and Recommendations OF
the foreign press the intervention OF France and Eng
land ia the affairs OF Spain. The Union published that
,,,tement distinctly the 9Th inst. On the following day
!, met the accusation by reference previous articles in
,bs Republicone Published many days previously and
We proved, by quotation of passages that we had uni
rmy and from the first, deprecated everything like inter-
msddling as between this country and another OF these
proofs the Union took notice, but IL nevertheless again
But forward the charge the lh In next issue we
repeated the denial referred to our file in proof and cha
enged the Union to the issue as one OF veracy
In yesterdays publication IL evades our challenge and
seeks TO hide Its falsity by paltry equivocatioh'
ls The first t,oo and the last three sentences OF the
above extract are untrue as stated Let the Republic so
correct them as to make them state The facts, and will
then answer any charge against which they may
.n Since the Repsbie has chosen raise question of
w,
pe secondly clear up its confusion of IDEAS in order
that thirdly. il may state with precision the issue of
yeracity which it means to make.
3D. We aver that, before the Republics article OF yes
,erdsy appeared we had given that journal, in our
columns more credit than it deserved for the few meagre
and poiness genealies in regard to foreign intened
ding in The affairs OF this continent, which II had pub
sbed pror to its comments Of the 9th instant, the
,icle which it cited from the London Times.
So much for the point OF veracity. which leave for
the present with the remark that the Republic has in
that matter made charge against us which il must
either react or else state with precision and then PROVE
a, stated or il will find itself placed by us in position
bsfore the public which not vanity itself deny
TO- humlatng
And now as to the main point of the total failure of
the administration and the Republic properly and season.
ably to denounce the Intervention of foreign powers
on this continent, we charge and challenge the Re.
public to deny
l,t That for several days, and even weeks past, the
administration has had to know and has known,
that British and French fleets have been under orders
from those governments TO seize the high Amer
lean vessels and sailing under the American flag.
on their way TO Cuba; and that this act OF armed inter-
vention by those foreign governments has never been
denounced or objected to by the Republic.
3D. We affirm that the proclamation OF the President
opened the way for the issuing OF such orders OF armed in
teventon by those governments directed against such
American crews and vessels their cruisers might sus
pect to belong the expedition of Lopez and that the
Republic, in its whole line OF argument justify the
proclamation, has justified such ORDERS and we af-
firm, further that government under its Broclama-
ton. inhibited from interfering TO prevent the execu
ton Of such orders in the OF the Americans en-
gagged in that expedition.
3d. We affirm that the administration, through the Re-
public has declared that foreign powers have Just as good
right 10 make armed Intervention in the civil wars or
the international of the nations of this continent as
the United States and that this doctrine is an unqualified
surrender Of the principle Of MIR Monroe which excludes
such foreign Intervention this continent in any con-
tingency whatever.
Ah We charge that, several days prior to October 9th
the Republic stated its conviction that treaty guaranty
ing Cuba to Spain had been already entered into by Eng
land and France that the Republic professed 10 regard
the consummaton OF such guarantee treaty not be-
ing an overt interference by foreign powers that instead
Of protesting against such treaty at once it contented
itself with unmeaning denuncation Of the detaiion OF
foreign powers 10 government in a manner plainly
implying that in the conclusion OF such treaty of guaran
tee there was such dictaiion and that finally. the
Rpubes first protest against the guarantee treaty
not made till the 9th OF October after had been for
weeks trying to badger it and the administration into
some show Of proper patriotic spir, and policy in the
premises.
These lverments one and ALL we make, in so far as
The Rspdoiie is concerned from the record in its own
columns; and we challenge that journal TO quote any one
Of them, and deny stated n shall do So we will
prove all we assert. And meantime we submit that our
avermsns leave the administration and the organ in
anything but respectable position.