Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-09-19
From the Washington Union.
The Spanish Despoti.m in Cuba, and the
WING view Of it.

present aspect of affairs in Cuba, puts
forth certain astounding declarations,
which we deem it our duty to expose.
The PRONUNCIATION of these doctrines by
one of the leading whig organs is the
more significant at this time, when the
indignation of the country is reused
and excited by the rumor of unprece-
dented barbari,ies perpetrated upon A
merican citizens, and even extended to
their dead bodies after they had been
slaughtered under the eye of a high
public functionary of the government.
This officer, we regret to say, is report
cd to have felt himself restrained by an
ill-judged and most unfortunate decla-
ration of the President of the United
States, not only from the slightest Of
ficial action in behalf of thesa, his sn-
happy fellow-countrymen, but also
from any manifestation of that sympa-
thy and compassion for their dreadful
fate, which would have become him AS
NAN, and which they, however, erring
and misguided, together with their be-
reaved relatives at home, were every
way entitled TO expect and to demand
from an officer of their government sta
toned on foreign shore, and there by
law clothed with full authority, and
bound by imperative obligation, to
maintain the right, protect the interests,
and succor or solace the sufferings of
every American citizen.
Writing in full view of these facts,
the National Intelligencer, whose rela-
tons of credit and confidence with the
administration and the whig party are
well and widely known, sees fit to
say:
"Few Intelligent persons, infuenc-
ed by personal interest or by purposes
purely factious and disorganizing, but
know that, could those persons-who,
in the language of the proclamation is
sued by the President of the United
States, (this day four months ago.
"dare to make our shores the scene of
their guilty and hostile preparations a
gainst friendly power, and seek, by
ialsehood and misrepresentation, to Sc
duce our own citizens, especially the
young and nconsiderate, into their
wicked schemes''-sUCcEEDi in bringing
about a revolution in the government
of Cuba, and thereafter ANNExING it to
the United States, there is no possible
riew in mhich such success wouM not
be a ours: !: and a plague, rather than an
advantage to this country, if 1t did not,
at the first contact, sAiuer this Union
into fragments. There is, in our opin-
ion, no consideration of policy uhich
should induce the United States to &C.
ospt the island Of Cuba, wih its present
population, as a free gift, ,cith the con-
sent Of all the nations of the earth to the
act.
"But were it, on the contrary, ercr
so oonsonant with the policy of the Uni
ted States that Cuba should conquer he,
o,rn independence, the government OF
the United States, and all the people
of the United States represented in the
Congress of Nations by that govern.
ment. are bound By the highest Of all hu.
man obligations to abstain from taking
any part IN it, or seeking or accepting
rithom the consent Of Spain, amy conner
ion ,rith It,"
Observe the character and purpor
of these declarations of the whig organ
They do not profess in any way to toucf
the judgment which ought to be pro
nounced upon the expedition of Lope;
or the conduct of the "sympathizers.'
They do not hinge in any way upol
the character Of the present ATTEMPTED
Cuban revolution in its aspect DE FAC
TO or DE JURE. On the contrary, thi
language takes a far higher and bolde
sweep. 1t contemplates Cuba in al
attitude of rightful and successful rev
olution. 1t pictures their island in
position of established independent
and self-government, won by her un
aided arm in battle against the tyran
ny of Spain. 1t portrays the republic
thus formed, knocking, with the con
sent of all the nations of the earth, a
the portals Of the American confedera
ton, and then denounces the extension
of the American constitution over tn
fair and fertile and adjacent realm
thus profered to us with all its Nigh
!, ty advantages Of nature and position
as calamity and a curse. It goes be
yond even this, and, in full view of tn
odious foreign oppression under whic
Cuba is now groaning, proclaims tho
Il Is contrary to the policy of the Unite
States that she should conquer her osC
Independence!
We confess our astonishment that a
this day any respectable journal can b
found willing to proclaim such sent
e ments in the face of the American pet
|, pie On what dark day and by whs
ill-omened solemnities was It settled I
: be cosfrayy to tie policy Of this repul
lie that Cuba or any other oppresse
: realm under Heaven should break Ii
4 arm of oppression and set itself free
/ And does the Intelligencer deny, or pr,
r tend to deny, that the Spanish govern
> ment Of Cuba IS an atrocious tyrann,
: The fact IS notorious. The details
+ it are truly set forth as follows by Il
z New York Evening Post, in q leadin
!, article which reaches rs Is we write
The colonial government at Spa
IS ono the WORT forms ofRovernmeI
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