Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-10-16
The Late Outrage at Havana.

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The papers inform us that the largest meet
ing ever assembled in New Orleans, took place
In that city on the 18th inst, to give a nantes
tation of public feeling relative TO the late out
rage at Havana, m ordering ont Of that port an
American ship. in reference TO this act, so
insulting and outrageous, Mr.. EosELGUs is re-
ported to have said in his speech on the occa-
sion alluded to, that our Government cannot
do otherwise than demand the immediate dis
missal of the Captain General of Cuba-or
1rar. We have no doubt this will be the uni
vcrsaT sentiment of the American people. The
act is so gIaringly wrong and absurd. that it
appears, Uaking past events and ruhors into
considerations that some such insult was pre-
meditated, in order to draw this Government
into war. Spain knows that she cannot retain
Cuba much longer. We have heard Of various
rumors relative to the manner in which she
will get rid of it. In this disposal her honor
and her purse are both considered. England,
we believe, has Il large claim against Spain, for
the payment of which Cuba is held AS a kind
Of security. Therefore, if she were disposed,
this claim probably prevents her from selling
to any other government than Great Britain,
while we have repeatedly proclaimed to the
world that no European power save TIE one
that now holds it, shall possess Cuba. This
alone, doubtless, is a source of much aggrava-
ted feeling against us by Spain-and probably
she has got to that point of her affairs and in
terests on this continent, when a war with US,
aided by English arms, as she doubtless antici-
pates, would be a grand finale, in which she
could but lose Cuba, the eventual result, while
it would in a measure be gratifying her enmity
and her pride.
Events which swiftly follow each other, point
a portion of this country-that the stars and
stripes will in a short time take the place of
the pale yellow, sickly banner that now waves
over the Moro. But how this result is to be
or will be effected, there is a considerable diff
ference of opinion. Whether it is to be by
Jflibusierism, or by conquest or purchase by
the United States, is the question. The first
has been attempted and failed, and we think
that such means will not again be tried and as
Spain has repeatedly refused to sell, We see no
other way of acquiring the island than by con-
quest, if the authorities of Cuba are determin-
ed to persist in insulting our flag, and commit
ting repealed injuries upon the persons and
rights of our citizens. However much war
may be considered an evil, and however much
our people as a nation may be averse TO it,
we hive no Notwithstanding the known
hostihties Of - Cuban government to this
country-the insults she has offered to our flag
and the repeated injuries she has committed
upon our citizens for a long term of years
that the intelligence that war had been pro-
claimed in consequence of the late outrage,
would be received with shouts of appreciation
throughout our broad land.
Subsequently to the meeting above noticed,
another and the largest ever known in New
Orleans, assembled at Lafayette Square on
Monday evening last, an account of which is
given in another column, which will doubtless
be read with much interest.