The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-08-26
EDITORS CORR ESPONDENCE.
FROM our Nsv. York Csr.,....a..,


the OF the at Havana and the
atrocities committed by the fierce sodery and the brutal
rabbe upon the remains OF their victims Upon no occa.
sion have we witnessed intense an excitement;
and so FAR we can learn, the feeling spreads and in
creases in yehemence through the country wherever
the intelligence Is transmitted with aplity eonal 10
that OF the telegraph which communicates it, Il is in
vain TO say that the sufferers exparated themselves
that they knowingly renounced the protection OF their
country, and embarked IN an unlawful enterprise ava
that the penalty in of failure would be death The
American people be made to believe that the
part taken in their own struggle for freedom by Laay
cite and Kosciusko, Pulaski and Steuben, was illegal or
patca and even could the abstract truth of such po
sition be established what effect would il have upon men
who had seen their countrymen who were engaged in
similar undertaking butchered in cold blood before their
eyes, and their eless bodies subjected TO such foul and
inhuman ndlgnilies as the contemplation of
the blood to curdle with horror'
The universal feeling is, Government. protect your
citizens. or the people will !" Such is the sentiment of
every hear-such are the words in every mouh--such
was the cry OF the twenty thousand voices and the motto
embazoned on the banners OF the meeting OF citi.
zens who came together in the Park last evening
suit on remedy for their grievous wrong And here
let us remark that at no time and upon occasion has
there ever been in this city, this continent public
gathering which, point OF numbers, weight of charac
ter ardent feeling and firm resolve. could claim the ad
vantage OF that which called to denounce the Cuban
massacre. It's numerous list of officers comprised the
OF most respectable citizens, of every class and
calling; and the spacious grounds of the Park were
filled with dense mass of the bone and sinew of the
community, abundany adequate, in strength OF and
strength OF purpose avenge the wrongs for which they
geved and drive every Spaniard in Cuba into the sea-
If permission accorded them The addresses from
Mr.. Carr, (our late consul at Tanger) Capt Rynders,
(who among the foremost where the honor of his
cnu mir ia rnpdN Iudu Raad Mr. ShaHar Mr.
Reid, of New Orleans, and others, all conceived in
the best spirit, delivered in strains of thrilling eoquence,
and received with enthusiastic cheers, mingled with
shouts Of vengeance and deeply murmued resolves that
redress at all hazards should be obtained
Several resolutions expressive of the sentiments of
the meeting were passed by reclamation The wanton
insult to the American mail steamer Falcon was an
madverted upon in forcbe terms, and the attention of
our government to the matter earnestly called for The
conduct of the American consul at Havana was stg-
matzed unworthy the post he occupied and the nation
he represented and the outrage itself characterized
cruel, covardy atrocity calculated to awaken in
every heart profound sentiment of horror, deesation
and disgust.
The general result of this movement, so far as we can
discover, powerful and rapidly increasing
lion Of public opinion this effect that gross violation
of national law has been perperated by the Spanish
ton, and that if not in itself sufficient to warrant deca
ration OF war by this government, il affords ample
grounds for the withdrawal OF that entente cordial
which exists between and all nations with whom
peace in short, that it places Spain precisely
upon the footing upon which the Blrbary Powers
when they claimed right to levy tribute upon
commerce in the Mederranean-liabe to be summary
chastised upon the slightest provocation that more
than sufficient provocaion has already been given by
their wanton attack upon all steamer performing the
mail service of the United States with the national flag
flying and being, 10 all ntents and purposes, national
-. Al, nj
should at once put all its dsposabe naval force to
with orders make reprsas. by the capture or destruc
ton of all vessels belonging to the Spanish marine which
they could fall in with; or, il that be considered too
strong measure that it should withdraw all restraint
upon individuals who, either sngly or in organized
and armed bodies, should fit 10 aid and assist the
Cuban patriots by land or by The latter step would
doubtless be the acceptable and the impression is
that il would be entirely unobectionabe, the ground
that Span having by her atrocities placed herself with
ou, the pale OF national law, has claim TO the protec
ton afforded by il, and that any treaty with such
ton is abrogated upon the same principle as the marriage
tie is dissolved by conviction for capital felony. The
people, all events, look TO the government TO do some
thing and that speedily and to the purpose, they will
take the matter in their own hands.
The Herald OF yesterday publishes extensive colec-
ton Of letters purporng to be spondence between
Messrs Greer of Iowa, Donaldson OF Texas, and other
members OF the national democratic general committee
upon the subject OF the coming presidential convention
From whom or from whence this curious and incongru
Gus uaange comes not informed, any further
than that some one" has sent 1t TO the Herald, proba
bly, because the party without organ in this city,
and are DESTROYS OF publishing the proceedings Of their
meeting to the world" Now, mention OF any
meeting OF the party, or any proceedings OF meeting
No such party certainly has any organ in this city, and
we trust never may have But if they had, are very
certain that il would not be desirous OF publishing TO the
world JUS, al this lme OF the developments included
in the correspondence. II there is any clique com
bnaion OF calling themselves democrats, and Union
democrats at that, who contemplate starring candidate
for the presidency whom they expect to make acceptable
at once TO the abolition, Free SOIL and democratic parties
and TO whose support they hope 10 bring together such
men as VIM. r. King and Joshua r. Giddings. Robert
Strange and Salmon p. Chase, doubt very much
whether they would not prefer to work in darkness at
present and to conceal their modus operand" at least
until they had managed to hitch their Unmatched
team and secure them, If possible, efec,aay, that
they could not kick out OF the traces 1t would certainly
be fatal 10 the prospects of any democratic aspiran to the
presidential chair, il il were known that he pledged
to sustain what Mr. Giddings considered the OF
truth and freedom . and there any such undertaking
on the tapis it is very fortunate that the party is thus
early apprized OF it, We aware that General Hous
ton has his friends among the democracy here and else
where but if he is to obtain anything like cordial and
hearty support from the party at large must be upon
his me rts az an open, avowed, unhnchng Union man,
in favor OF the compromises and OF awarding full justice
10 the South and not upon his availability being