The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-10-05
The Intervention Issue.

The manifest desire of General PIERcE's
friends in this locality to gloss over the North
ern agitation in favor of the annexation of Gu
ba, and the adoption of he Intervention policy
generally, is not calculated to inspire the South
with confidence. The tendency is, on the
contrary, to strengthen The apprehensions felt
by the South in regard to the impulses and OBJ
jects of the active section of the Democratic
party, and to convict the PIERCE managers
of an attempt to make ilibustering influences
subordinate to the accomplishment Of their
purposes.
1t is stated that "PIEscE, KING, and Gu
BA" formed the inscription upon banner used
at recent Democratic gathering in Ohio; and
considering the doings Of the party in that
State during the KossUTH excitement, nothing
could be more consistent 1t is consistent not
only with the principles avowed by the De-
mocracy of Ohio, but with the character of the
rhetoric employed by Democratic orators to
recommend General PIERCE to the favor Of
their auditors. The superstition is that even
the South, where the conservative element
preponderates, will not be indisposed to accept
cry which implies the extension of Southern
influences. Judge DOUGLAS has not disguised
his reliance upon this view. He has not for
gotten to remind applauding filibusters that the
forcible annexation of Cuba may be cunningly
disguised under the plea of increasing the su-
gar-growing area of the United States, and that
under this pretence the South may be tempted
to regard the policy as distinct from the gen.
era question of Intervention.
In this view, we think that General PIERcE's
active partisans only deceive themselves. They
cannot begule the calm-thinkng portion Of the
community into the adoption of policy which,
beginning with the seizure of Cuba, must even
Intervention upon its broadcast basis. Interior
ence in the affairs of that island cannot be
regarded as an exceptional movement on the part
of Government or people. FIVE are to take Cuba
this year because we want it. Canada may be
taken next year for the same reason. II we are
to wage war against Spain because Of her treat
ment Of the Cubans, we must prepare to wage
war against oppressors everywhere in either
hemisphere. Whether the proposition be looked
upon as one affecting eur interests, or as one
affecting principle. the result is the same. It
is not tenable for an instant except as part of a
system, and that system-whether called COM
mercal extension or political emancipation
has war for its immediate consequence. The
whole tone of Judge DoU GLASS and MI. SouLE's
speeches indicate their consciousness of the
fact, and their determination to profit by it as
far as possible. They know that the domes-
tic policy of PIERCE cabinet would be re-
pudia,ed by the country; and hence their re-
lance upon foreign aggression and foreign
quarrels as matters calculated to divert the
attention of the people.
The game which these politicians are play
ing is desperate, and must end in their own
discontinue and the discontinue of their can
didate. The issue is too plainly one of war to
deceive any observant man; and for that ca
lamity, as the price of General PIERcE's pro.
motion, the country is not prepared.