American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-09-10

Cuba.
Never before have we seen the humane anu
moral sensibilities of public Journals. % in-
tensely affected as have been those OF the ven
cradle and respected editors OF the National IN
tellioency: first, by the attempt OF q Few OF our
fellow citizens, upon their individual RESPONSE
bility. to aid in the liberation Of Cuba; and
secondly and chiefly, by their total discontinue
in this attempt.
From that journal we learn that France and
England have expressly guaranteed to Spain
their protection in the possession Of Cuba;
while Washington correspondent OF the New
York Journal Of Commerce confirms the report
of secret treaty in which the United States
are pledged to preserve Cuba to Spain. The
writer states, that Sin the archives Of our Gov
ernment we have an engagement made, in
sJackson's Administration, between the United
States, England and France, to the effect that
sCuba shall not be seized by either party, and
that Spain shall remain in undisturbed posses
ssion Of the island"
In the face Of all this, of course no argument
is expected to be offered in defence of the right
of the people of that island to work out their
independence, and certainly none in vindication
Of the right of any other people to give them
aid in such an undertaking! Nevertheless, our
Declaration of Independence sets out with the
position that +" in the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve
the political bands which have connected them
with another; !" and proceeds to aver that gov-
ts ~ IL
sent Of the governed" together with sundry
other vagrant and heretical notions of the rights
of man.
That the treaties binding Cuba to the yoke Of
Spanish cruelty and oppression are superior to
such primary laws as these, We Of course have
not the temerity to doubt, and we bow with
Difference to the authorities we cannot gainsay !
If it be said that four hundred men are not
sufficient to effect the liberation of Cuba, and
that it is the very folly ofrashness itself to invade
that island with so small number, we have no
disposition to object. If it be said that the peo-
pie Of Cuba have not yet made such demonstra-
tions as afford pledge of their desire to break
from the thraldom Of their masters, we are
equally unwilling to enter into a controversy
But when we are told that England, France,
and the United States, are pledged to protect
Spain in its possession of that island, we at
once yield to the impulse that bids us defy
every such guarantee, and to menace the govern
meats that dare usurp such power The soiu,
on the part of Cuba, and her ability, with such
aid as she can procure, are all the warrant re-
quisite for the procuring her independence; and
these three governments have not the power to
resist her in such an effort The great republic
of the porld contains too much of the demo-
cratic spirit to tolerate this unholy league; and
while the people Of both France and the United
States would hurl from their high places the
Administrations attempting to enforce its stipu-
lations the wounds of Ireland and of the laboring
: classes of England would bleed afresh, and Eng
land would find enough to do in the preserva-
ton of quiet within her own dominions. The
revolutionary spirit that ragged to excess through
out Europe a few years ago is not extinct,
and the faint cries from Cuba, borne on the
winds to the Eastern Hemisphere, would revive
the smothered flames by which the monarchies
of Europe are yet to be destroyed.
1t was never hope of ours, except through
the influence of miracle, that any thing but
disaster could attend an invading army of four
hundred men in Cuba; and could we have pre-
vented their departure, gladly would we have
done so. But even this certainty of defeat
could not induce as to denounce their motives
and invoke discontinue upon them. Cuba and
her freedom are the same to us under all cir
cumstances; and We shall continue to pray for
her deliverance from the rule Of Spanish ty-
ranny, until the arrival of the happy day Of it's
consummation. The darkest hour Of the night
heralds the near approach Of morning. The
present hour is not without hope-hope of
brighter morrow and just revenge.
AN AMERICAN STEAMER.-The steamer Geor
gia, which plies between New York and Chagres,
has been q remarkably successful vessel In