The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-10-24
The NATURALIZATION and the spaniard, in cnha

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The Spanish despotism in Cuba seems TO he secnrs in
pursuing lis crusade against the citizens OF this renubc
Since President Fillmores celebrated proclamation. and
the barbarous and bloody results tina, followed !,
there has apparently been established between our gov
ernment and the Spanish inquson at Havana an agree
able and cordial system OF CO. operation The repea,ed
ana ~ every instance the unprovoked nsolence mani
tested BY the Spanish officials in regard TO American cit,
zens, has not ony not been resented or investigated BIZ
The present administration, but has elected from The
wing organs the most violent assaults upon those who
have denounced the OF the Spanish yiceroy in
Cuba. Instead Of promptly taking such steps as our
wrongs demanded, the administration seems TO have
committed its 10 certain whg journals who
declare that the democratic party desire to make these
wrongs the ground of war with Spain, and loudly
declam that the conduct OF the authorities in Cuba
has been provoked BY tie course Of the demo
cratic press; aud both are used alone TO pacify The
troubled nerves OF the agens OF the Queen OF Spain bur
to excite the nerves OF the money market in the United
States BY The phantom OF certain secretly in,tgaied hos
ties. Meanwhile the administration remains lislless
satisfied that its cause best cared for and its course
best champoned by the abuse OF the democratic party On
the part of its organs The administration either wfuv
and wanonly forgets blindly and vnoraniIy disre
CARDS, the greater issue involved in these continued
insults to the United States by the authorities Of Spain il
Cuba Apart from The fact that the people OF the United
States cannot will not be- Indifferent to the transfer
Of Cuba any other power and wthou, discussing the
busbng ntrgues OF certain foreign governments 10
possession OF that island, the pusllanmiy OF this adj
mnisra,on will, unless il is abandoned for a man
lier and higher tone, precipate the very difficulties be
a. Il. - -.
and straightforward course would bring Spain 10 re-
speci American citizens and American rights This
would insure honorable peace Bat continuance OF this
sinking, feeble, and hafhesed policy, will force our
citizens TO protect themselves against the cruees OF those
who seem 10 prosecute and to insult them almost with
the approval Of our own rulers
We have already referred 10 the apparent Indifference
OF the administration 10 the affur OF the Cornela In
reference 10 that of the Crescent City, so far as the facts
have reached the public, suspect The same spirit of
tmltiy or OF codness has been manifested The pro,
eso the gallant officer commanding that vessel as pub
lshed IN yesterdays Union HIS cautious aud spirited
conduct and the extent of the insult ITSELF may there be
seen at glance He sent for to New York 10 coma to
headquarters and explain his conduct He comes once
to Washington, having arrived on Friday last He is
kindly received but the end OF the conference between
himself and the administration is that the Crescent City,
which he commanded on her last trip TO Havana, when
she was insued because an innocent man--Mr. Purser
Snithwho was supposed to be nimica 10 her Majesty
the Queen Of Spain, board. % has been ordered
off the line from New Orleans 10 HAVANA aud thence TO
New York and that hereafter she will run between New
York and New Orleans alone MIR Smith being on board
Itslrue, Lieut. Porter was only temporarily 10 command Of
the Crescent City, his vessel the Georgia being laid
up tor REPAIRS and Il is also that the Crescent City
belongs to the line that does no, stop Havana the
way between New York and New Orleans; bpt the
offence 10 the Crescent City, a vessel carrying