The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-11-19

making for an American port. They were not tried bat
only examined by military commission, whose sitt NJ
attended by fiscal The prisoners all IN AIDE the NE
answer. They had come TO Cuba part Of an expe-
diton to assist the Cabans in securing their liberty and in
dependence, under the assurances and full belief the
island in state OF When they discovered tn r
error, they Immediately without any delay threw away
their and left the shores OF Cuba by the rst means
they could procure BY their ment they were
peaoeable men, passing from Cuba 10 tho United States
They executed without any tria la which the con.
Iary could be shown
"The following Is tho applicable clause of the sh article
of the treaty III
.'And in oil Of seizure, detention or arrest for
subject Of the party within the jurisdiction Of The Other
the same shall be made dad prosecuted BY order aud
nss ea, The citizens and subjects Of both
parties shall be allowed employ such advocates solicit
in which they may be be the tribunals OF The
o,her parry ana such agents shall have free access to be
present Inc proceedings such and the
Of all examinations and evidence which may be exhibited
at the said trials
The prisoners were not allowed any advocate, nor
they permitted % sdduce any sstmony coroboaive of
their own assertions. IL will doubtless he urged by the
Spanish that the above stipulation never
meant to apply to the case OF invaders OF their country
lis provinces But il would that this offence
hardly be excepted from the class designated crimes
by the treaty
'There is also the conclusive evidence, in posses
sion Of the State Department that the charge OF nutang
the remains of the prisoners 10 true This is matter
which into di pomatc discussion between the
Secretary and the Minister but is well Gale uated
the popular sentiment agsnst Spain and
der the adjustment! OF the questions she has started the
more difficult
Here is the whole doctrine OF the this journal
understood il, and stated it from the first Here is an
armance OF the validity of the treatyo its application
to the case of the American captves-of their right
legal trial under t-of the insuficency of the private
military examination" TO constitute such tral--of the
liability of Spain serious recamatons for having shot
down our captive citizens without such trial In word.
here is everything now affirmed by Mr.. Webster which
the Washington Union affirmed at the outset and which
the proclamation surrendered, and the Republic unqua
fedIy and pernaciously denied The result is plain. If
Mr. Webster now understands the case, then the procla
nation is just what denounced to bea document
utterly dscredtabe 10 the administration. II Mr. Web
ser understands the then neither the admins
traon the Republic understood il al all during their
whole discussion of il with and up to the time OF MIR
Websters return! More than this the adminslra
ton could not be made TO understand the Till Mr.
Webster took it in hand though this journal gave hem
day after day. all the law and all the facts and the leading
presidents bearing upon the subject. They would not
learn.
The slranges Of all remains: The Especial organ
which showed such fatal facility" OF in aggrava
ting all the mistakes OF the administration
wholly unable TO understand or sympathze with Mr.
Webser's reputation OF them. II still cngs bndly to
lis blunder No longer ago than day before yesterday it
hunted up the indignant language used by General Jack
with reference Arbuhnot and Ambrser, to prove
that be would have held captive citizens in Cuba
be pirates and out Of the pale OF the aw We have
often shown the dissmillude Of the
make further explanation Of them quite unnecessary
and besides need add nothing TO the pointed and
conclusive statement, of Mr. Webster But the question
arises for whom in its view OF the case, does the
Republic speak Is the administration divided in this
ma,ler-Mr Webster on side. and all OF his
colleagues on the other Or has the Republic ceased 10
be the organ of anybody "Under which King. Bezo-
man"
One thing is certain The policy OF which the Republic
is the organ in the OF Cuba, so in the case OF
Kossuth is policy which finds echo in the hearts
OF the American people 1t belongs 10 that narrow and
bgoed form Of elfsyled conservatism which is really
the most destructive Of all political creeds and which the
wing party proessed 10 have renounced when II took up
General Taylor But, like the other pledges OF that era OF
delusion and folly. this pledge OF more liberal spirit
has also been flung to the winds. Neither " all the
principles nor all the Offices save such party from
the doom which the people have already pronounced,