The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-07-10

we might put any faith in the state ments reite
rated Dy the most disrePItable portion Of the Anne
In spite OF disappointment and defeat the project
apiIatical expedition to Cuba had n ,t yet been
abandoned in the United States. If, too, we we're
sure that the same mirror gave US true reflections
we should be compelled to conclude that the whole
American people were aggrsvAting the criminality
OF their design by hypocrisy as gross and nauseou
as ever was practised by Tartufe at is we'll
known, remarks an American newspaper of the
description to viii Oh We have referred that there
exists in the breast of every American an earnest
desire that every people under the should par
take OF and enjoy the blessings of liberty and self
government as they exist in the United States, and
that every descendant of the men who formed the
government and the institutions under which we
i've considers himself, to a certain extent an apos.
minds of the oppressed Of every CLINE the great
truths which were transmitted to him by his fathers
and which are contained in the Declaration of In.
dspendence-the modern Magma Charta of uni
versal liberty" In pursuance of this reasoning
the writer goes on to assert that there has been
ere ated in the United States, ga feeling in favor
Of aiding and assisting the Cubans in their
efforts to establish their Independence, which
no administration can control" We do not
imagine that there is much difficulty in plac-
ing oneself on level with the "feeling' here
attributed to the Americans. Enter the Great Ex-
hibtion by the eastern door, and-it being supposed
that you have written your name in the great book
on the right, as newcomer from Concord city,
Providence county, Massachusetts-tak your stand
on the great railway bridge in the centre of the
nave Above, you behold omnigenous preparations
of soap, most artstically disposed. On your right
and left hand are symbols Of the practical genius of
the masses you have left at home. The Immense
spaces are scantily covered by implements, uupre-
tending, indeed, in their uses, but miracuously
simple and light in their construction-apt repre-.
sentatve of intelligent industry applied to the til
lage of bounteous SOIL Garry your eye little
further on to the right, and you just get peep ut
the compartment adjoining your own. There are
the great candelabra, the diamonds the gold plate,
the jeweed cabinets, and, resplendent in the dis
lance, the malachite vases and doors. Gaze for
awhile abstractedy at these magnificent products
of compulsory labor-and then, turning to a group
OF Engiishmen, Frenchmen, and Germans az your
side, remark that, If your countrymen intend to
subJugate the country which produces such trea-
sures it is not for the sake of the malache aud gold
oh, no nor for the sake of the serfs who mined
and worked them-oh, no they are an "insttu-
tion"-but for. the sake Of Prince Demidof VINO is
said to own mine of the precious metal and a
mountain OF the green ore, and whom you burn.
ingy anxious to release from the thraldom in which
he is held by the Gar.
The Americans would be insulting the common
sense of the world, if they really to proclaim
that they mean to annex Cuba with the view of
diiusing the blessings of liberty among a tyranni-
cal oligarchy Of sugar-pianiers. We sincerely be-
leve, however, that they ha ye been caumaiated by
the newspaper we have cited-whose position in the
New York press has certainly been misconcsved in
Eng though we wish that some of our Trans
atlantic visitors would explain away the fact of its
immense circulation So far as the Northern
States concerned, it may safely be averred that
the invasion of Cuba, if seriously brought home to
the conscience ofeach man question for decision,
would be regarded ut the present moment with
horror, rather than sympathy, by the great ma
ority Of the people 1t is true that, even in those
States, there desperadoes who would join in the
attack on Cuba, because it is rich country, filled
with old wealth, of which portion, at all events,
would be confscated on compassionate there are
fourth ffth-rate politicians, who traduce Ameri-
can liberty by DrOcaiminQ that liz is nlica
in the conspiracy-and that, in q community
which, it must be remembered, furnished three
fourths Of the Mormons, there some simple
minded persons who are deceived by the collision
OF the first two clauses into contributing their per-
sons, their money, or their votes, to the cause.
But the existence Of such party tina, which is
reputed to be forming for the annexationsof Cuba,
is the penalty occasionally paid by the Americans
for the progressive genius of their CONSTITUTE ms
Cupidity is disguised with them under color Of en-
thusiasm for the diffusion of freedom-just as it
turks With us in the guise of reverence for the past
In both cases, the appeal to the ndsncy charac-
terstic OF each nation is enforced by the fouest
license Of la oguage, and accompanied by the most
transparent hypocrisy OF pretext. American de.
mocracy Is, however, as much illuminated by the
annexationists, as English conservatism is by the
terrands and loungs Cuba is quite safe from at
tack on the part Of the people of the North ,rn
States-at least, when they are in the enjoyment
OF their reason This last qualification must, ur-
be added. In the tumultuous ex-
ctement Of Presidential electon-when the
balance Of popular favor is trembling the of
the decisive day-and wnen the acceptance of an
immoral tcheme may secure the votes of n whole
faction, perhaps of whole section of the Union
1t is unsafe to predict what permanent pledges may
not be given as the consideration for a momentary
advantage Ii was under such circumstances that
the formal assent of the American people OBJ
tained to those famous acts Of aggression which
have not yet been sufficiently expiated by the
confusion and the perils they have produced.
II would be highly unjust, upon insufficient know
.ft
TO accuse them of coming to a different conclusion
on this subject from that which is demanded by
common sense and common honesty. Yet one can
hardly take up Southern newspaper without ind-
rg the late descent on Cuba being spoken of with
more OF less tenderness; and juries taken at ran.
dom, and without favor, from the citizens of Lou-
iapa, have obstinatey refused to give verdict adj
verse to the participators in that enterprise,
upon the clearest evidence Of their guilt Ii seems
too, that such barefaccd sophstry as that which we
have quoted above, may really be employed by n
>outherner without any positive consciousness of
nslncerity; although, from the lips of Northern
citizen, II would conclusiyely Argue both hypocrisy
md impudence. Most Of US are aware that, when |
man has violently constrained his intellect TO ae-
Iuiesce in paradox, the perverson IL sure 10 sx-
END to host of matters besides those which con-
'tituted the first contradiction Now, without pro-
bouncing slavery good or an evil, justifable or /
we may fearessly assert that a man /
,annot combine the advocacy of negro servitude I
With the most unqualified doctrines OF dem )cracy,
without doing woiul violence 10 his judgment in 1
general. Tie Southern par ter who pcrceives no 4
contradiction bet seen the "rights of man" and the 1
ights Of property in human flesh, may very well l
ieude himself into the belief that, ia abetting /
'iracy in Cuba, be Is acting San apostle Of liber-
y, whose duty is to nstil, into the minds of the |
oppressed OF every cline, the groa. truths"-and 4
,aTucul nly, We suppose, the first great truth I
contained in the Declaration Of Independence" /
such deusion is possiblc-only Just possible, il 4
rue; but, considering how po yeriully il IL backed /
y the groupings Of those who remind the south /
hat Cuba would be possession TO which the /
'Wilmot i'roviso' could never be applied, we may |
zee reason TO be thankful that the rength
ind uranirnity Of opinion in the North, on the sub
ect Of slavery, have nerp 3scd new OBJ taccs in the
way Of worse outrage on international morality,
han the rape OF Texas and the raElia On Mexico. |
British Titles OF Honor.