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eade, in daily paper woud. think. DO Inclined 70
cite these excuses for similar PocoouiR :"
the 18Th century"
II is here boldly asserted and with sang trosd that
be accounted for only from the habit oil lhough' Gre
ated by the fact that the policy OF Great Britain is one OF
continual conquest wherever her commercial interest
involved that would be entirely legitimate for England
to make the conquest which Lopez failed to make This
habit OF thought is already national with the British
people, that we doubt not they look upon the feeble int.
nation of the administration OF Mr. Fillmore that the
United States will have word TO say about the ndepen-
dence of Cuba, as mere childish phantom--a sort OF
Fillibustsrism TO be punished piracy, and which in
fact would be piracy if the proclamation Of the President
were 10 be taken as an index Of the national feeling OF
the American people Ii would be almost as legitimate
for the allied powers OF Europe make war on the United
States as for President Fillmore TO
declare the followers of Lopez pirates The argument
would be about the same, and may be stated as follows
Peace is now the want OF the age and there is no way OF
preserving it but by furnishing all those who interrupt the
existing systems of European government Against these
systems there is no organized counteractng force but
thar inherent in the principles of the American consu
ton, which derive power from the people, and are, OF
course always ready take part against the power which
is placed by divine right in the hands OF kings Thus
the people of the United States naturally in state Of
war with European governments, and il is therefore eg
mate TO apply them the logic which they apply to Lo
pez and his followers These last were Fulibusters be-
cause they violated the laws OF the United States IN al
lacking Spain they FILLIBusTERs in only limited
sense But the people OF the United States are FVh-
busters in more extended They are by profess
sion republicans and republicansm is war with mon
archy whereverit may be found it is in fact, per-
peual revolutionary struggle against the safety and tran
guilty OF Europe now governed.
Such is about the and substance OF the raocina-
ton by which the English writer's already exclude the
United States from all participation in the international
relations OF Cuba This does not, however, prevent
them from complimenng very ingenious nation OF
Yankee contrvers in machinery. Even in the article
upon which we commenting there is an appropriate
allusion to the invention OF citizen, Mr. Colt, which
is spoken OF as one OF the improvements that made the
followers of Lopez formidable and it is plainly init
mated that her Msjesys forces in the conquess which
they are making the East would be successful it
they were armed with Colts revovers In the hands Of
British soldiers these divers most potent engines
TO be used even against Spain herself and in the Island
Of Cuba as soon it suits the justice OF the Queen TO
collect what is due there 10 her subjects But in the
hands OF American citizens foolish and QuiEotic as to
imagine that there is anything in the idea OF freeing
people from the shackles of desposm these revolves
are most piratieai things and may be met as the Pres
ident of the United States did the Pampero, and all the
paraphernaa OF Lopez Fillibuserism-wi,h outlawry.
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