The republic., 1851-09-04

In keeping our readers advised of the current
news, our reporter gave on Tuesday an ac-
count of the proceedings at the Cuban meeting
in this city, and the resolutions which were
9 enthusiastically" adopted We did not think
it worth while to suppress or withhold the
facts stated by reporter, and the ''opinions"
Of five or six hundred Of our own citizens are as
well entitled to publicity as the illibustering
resolutions that adopted by bigger crowds
and with more noise in the larger cities. They
are all of the same fashion, and those of our
Washngtonians as little Objectionable as those
If any other sympathizers. They are all
equally harmless, and answer an useful purpose
by giving vent to feelings and passions that ex-
pode through other channels in countries where
there is no liberty of speech and liberty of the
press. In such countries men conspire, and in I
cellars and garrets devise mischief which ripens
into gunpowder plots and Internal machines
Our citizens come together in public, have good
long and strong talk, call great many hard
names, sympathize awfully, reason about the
propriety of collecting large sums Of money to
aid rebellion all the world over, then button up
their pockets, walk away very quietly, and the
next morning are busy about their usual avoca-
lions. People in this way expose themselves,
and utter and endorse in general way great
variety Of nonsense, but then it is open and
above-board, and we have all the gunpowder
plots and internal machines the next day in the
newspapers, in the shape of kissing hot speeches
and combustible resolutions.
We do not suppose that any of the worthy
people who take part in these meetings really
intend to advise the Government to 90 to war
with all the naionso the world for the purpose of
improving their religious or political institutions,
or Of giving them larger share than they now
enjoy of civil and religious liberty. We cannot
imagine that they design to advise the Admin
stration to dispense with the execution of the
laws of the United States contemplating the
preservation of our neutrality, and designed to
prevent and punish all infractions of it COM
mtted within our own jurisdiction. 1t is diff
cult to persuade oneself that they mean to coun-
sci war with Spain, because the CAPTAIN GEN
ERAL has discharged his duty in executing the
laws Of Spain in her province Of CUBA, after
liIc DPdHloll ldSHiO anu mas IlOl given hHleIl-
can sympathizers any better treatment than he
would have bestowed upon the citizens of Cuba
guilty of rebellion against their sovereign. We
| never heard Of one nation's going to war with
another to compel the mitigation Of penal
code, or because her domestic institutions were
not after satisfactory pattern. And yet, if
men mean half they say, one would hardly
doubt that large portion Of the population Of
some Of our cities were just now bent upon i'm
| plicating the UNITED STATES in hostile rela-
tions with SPAIN, because she has executed her
own laws on her own soil in her own way-a
privilege which we believe is claimed by every
sovereignty on the face Of the earth
The resolutions of the Washington meeting
were introduced with general expression of
sympathy and pity for all the nations of the
earth who are not so well of as the citizens Of the
United States. This is right enough-sympa-
thy and pity are cheap commodities, and may
well be given in any amount. The third reso-
luton ventures into rather deep water. 1t de-
clares that our nationse PROCESSES to be gove'ned
not only by the holy impulses Of sympathy, but
by law" Now, we apprehend that our nation
processes no such thing. Our nation is gor-