Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-11-17

n'mous Tag seems beyond either their
impertiuent audacitv, or our inexhausti
Bile endurance. This third instance is the
conduct of this Wing administration IN
reference to the late Cuban trials in the
city of New York. To what depths OF
disgrace, personal and political, to what
extremes in the violation of the purity of
the public Justice, of the obligations of
professional integrity, and official oaths,
did it not descend in its eager efforts to
offer up to the Spanish government the
homage of success in its prosecution of
American citizens, guilty of the crime of
having sympathlzed with the oppressed
Cubans and the glorious Lopez The
acts of the prosecuting officers in New
York, who held the United States Dis
triet Court occupied day after day for an
entire month in their struggle to convict
! Mr.. O,Sullivan of violation of the Neu
trality Law, are undoubtedly the acts of
the administration which inspired them,
which necessarily saw and observed their
progress, and which sanctioned and adop-
ted them by It's continued favor and conf
dence to the official instruments by whom
they were perpetrated. And those acts
included nothing else than the following
!
Commerce with spies and informers, to
nurse along a supposed intended violation
of the law till it should ripen to head,
become complete in contamination, and
when arrested, furnish sufficient proof to
enable the government in malignant ex-
ultatiou to punish afterwards, instead of
more wisely and kindly preventing be-
| forehand.
! Seizure of papers as means to effect
convictions, by false and treacherous rep
reservations to gentlemen arrested, that
they were under compulsion to surrender
them, and also by unlawful opening and
plundering private valises.
| Negotiations with witnesses for testimo
ny, and its purchase by heavy bribery.
That bribery effected by means of false
certificates and sham subpenss, of nomi-
nal date six months anterior to the truth,
| given for the purpose of bestowing large
bonus, bride, or purchase money, fraudu-
! lently drawn from the United States trea-
sury, under the pretenee that the witness
thus bribed had been under Subpoena,
and in attendance as u witness from the
period of the said false back date, so as
to enable him to draw the ten shillinGs
per diem, allowed by law to witnesses ac-
tually under subpoena and detention.
I Lawyer like ingenuity is not wanting, at
the head of the administration to find
adequate pretexts in the facts of the case
to serve as foundation enough for some
solution or other to these cases, which
shall be satisfactory to Mr.. Calderon,
hattering to the arrogance and christianity
submissive to the insolence of the Spanish
ty-ro Of hn hn Nyn
are indeed at some loss to conceive but
that some mean course or other of this
character will be found, by which this
administration will crawl humbly out Of
the position in which these further recent
eutrages have placed their country, drag
! ging with them and after them the flag of
our nationality, now, unhappily in the Gus
toby of their unworthy hands,-we have
no manner of doubt. With a smooth
tongued cunning, which keeps even pace
with their couceited haughtiness, these
Spaniards always, as we have remarked
above, appreciate rightly those with whom
they deal, advance or hold back, frown or
smile, talk big or sing small, according to
the character, temper and habit OF their
adversary; with de1terous use of elastic
official forms and pretexts. Every case of
real, essential outrage, which in very truth
springs out of the bad heart of national
hatred, and systematic policy of covered
insult and indignation is sure to be accom-
panied with some points or incidents suf-
ticient to furnish available occasion for
acquiescence, at least, and affected con-
tentment, on the part of an administration
ever SO eagre to acquieSce; and so happy
to be content with anything which the
I Captain General and Mr.. Calderon may
think necessary or useful to the tranquil
maintenance of the Spanish dominion in
Cuba. The rifiing of the letter bag, and
even of the Captains private desk, of an
American vessel regularly cleared, and in
the act of issuing from the mouth of the
harbor of Havana, can no doubt be made
to appear to a vice presidential President,
and congenial Cabinet, such as the pre-
sent, as not only Lawful and justifable, but
as signal proof of national respect and
" high consideration The ordering
away, without landing of mails or passen-
gers, of an United States mail steamer, of
a semi-republic character, and commanded
by an United States naval officer, on the
insignificant and absurd grounds taken in
reference to her obnoxious purser, may
probably enough be made acceptable to
Mr.. Fillmore, as a delicate attention of the
most refined nature, to the dignity of the
American flag, the greatness of the Anne
rican power, the spirit of the American
] people, and the Importance of the Ameri-
can commerce. 1t is very certain that
bad as these cases are, they are no worse
than the former ones which have en-
\ eouraged, nay, almost invited them on
to the further lengths ofthese latter ones.
If you bore those so well, why not these?
may Mr.. Calderon very reasonably say
The case of the Cornelia is surely no worse
than that of the Georgiana and Susan