New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-10

wrong to mcb the Spanish Consul ia
New-Orleans and sack the stores of Span
ish residents in that city. We believe our
Government has in the main done It's whole
duty in attempting to prevent these
wrongs; but it is not walking fully up to
line of Justice in regard to Z" Indemnity for
the past ard security for the future" Mr..
Webster is wrong in refusing to indemnify
the Spanish sufferers by mob violence in
New. Orleans, and in pleading that Foreign
ers have Suffered, and must expect to suffer,
BY mob violence in other countries as well
as here. TheTpoint which he evades is this
The victims in this case were plundered
and maltreated because they ,oere Spaniards
and in resentment for acts of their Govern
ment or its constituted authorities. There
is no parallel between this and an ordinary
case of damage by riot, and Mr.. Webster
ought to know it.
And then As to Intervention and the
Right of Search, on which our Government
seems ready to bully Great Britain and
France-what are the facts! In spite OF
repeated and most explicit Executive Proc
lamations. our citizens have united in con-
spiracies to wrest Cuba from Spain. In
spite of the earnest exertions of our Gov
eminent, armed Expeditions have sailed
from our ports, and, landing on the exposed
coast of Cuba, have carried fire and sword
to the hearths ofits people, causing serious
carnage and devastation. Does our Gov
eminent propose to offer any indemnity !
Certainly not. But, hearing that France
and Great Britain have ordered their ships
of war cruising in the West Indies to pro-
tect Cuba against future invasions by law
less bands, for whose conduct no Govern
ment holds itself responsible, Messrs Web
ster and Crittenden thunder protests against
this intermeddling between us and Spain
They warn the interfering powers not to
search American vessels They talk loud
" against imputations on our good faith and
good neighborhood, but offer no guarantees
that the outrages in the past will not be full
" paralleled, and even exceeded, by fresh
outrages in the future. And our Democrat
&c press, par excellence, is roundly assailing
them for not bullying hard enough and for
not forcing Spain to atone for her alleged
wrongs to Thrasher and the Crittenden
party without saying a word of atonement
to Spain for the injuries inflicted on her
colony and her citizens residing among us
and peacefully pursuing their vocations I'M
der the protection Of our laws.
1t is satisfactory to know that England
and France will borrow no trouble about the
sonorous protests from our State Depart
ment. They will be very careful of inter-
meddling with our legitimate commerce on
the high seas but if their cruisers catch
any Flibustiering expeditions in suspi-
cous proximity to Cuba, they will take ex-
cellent care of them, and let Messrs. Web
ster and Crittenden protest to their hearts
content. They will initiate the Ohio vii
layers who rolled off the pork, and let the
abstractionist demonstrate to the end of his
tether.
There is but one cause for which War is
iustfiable and that is the assertion and de-
tense of Nations Liberties. All wars for
honor, for conquest, for glory, or anything
short of Liberty, are fragrant crimes and
should be stunned and abhorred evermore.
We have no differences with Spain which
Justify us in even threatening her with hos
Titles and, indeed, the wrong done her
on our part greatly overbalances all we have
suffered at her hands. As to France and
England, the sacred cause of Freedom to
Mankind fOrbids that we should be involved
at this time in serious alteration or mis-
understanding with them, whatever the
faults of their leaders 1t must not even
seem, during the mighty events now pre-
pairing, that the comparatively Liberal Pow
ers are hostile to each other. And we have
only TO cease coveting and make atonement
for the wrongs done BY our People, to dis
pei the last cloud which now darkens our
sky in relation to Cuba and the powers in
terested in It's preservation from the grasp
of any formidable Nation.
ES The Committee of Democrats rep
resenting the different nations of Europe, which
Committee VIII this day wait upon kossu,h, has
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