The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-01


mons Of jur'sdietion. color nation occupation, Of
aoy portion OF me Central American States This
is seeordrg To the first aItci. of the Clay ton
ty. II is the duty Of our cabinet TO insist upon it,
and at ali risks, to en- force its Observance l, NJ,
Webster eaDnct do this, lot him stand stll for &c
presume Me subject may be trusted with the next
administration.
PROGRESS OF THE CUBAN REVOLUTIONS The
Wall street organ Of thu Association recently started
IN this country for tne rsvOlutionizing OF Caba,
gives some further interesting information With
respect TO its progress. The news in the Col1i.r
and Enquirer is Of twofold character religious
and secular. As to the latter, we find that the
principal editor Of the rebeliious sheet secretly
issued in Havana, called The Voice of the C,.ba"
People, has found 1t necessary-to evade impending
detection-to break up the private Office from which
his sheet emanated, take the press to pieces, and
bury it and the type in a neighboring cemetery,
which done. Don Jose Luna managed to effec. his
escape to this country in the Crescent City. We
are also informed Of the movements of the chiefs of
the Lone Star Assoeiation in ramifyng their order
throughout the different cities of the Union and
organizing their prospects for final effort to ami
hilate the Spanish power in Cuba.
news, in relation 10 this vast conspiracy. is
Of more interesting character, tending as
it does to impcate in the movement the
venerated Catholic Archbishop of New York,
who few would expect to see manifest any
sort of sympathy with such revolutionary un-
dertakipg. 1t would appear, however, that His
Grace Archbishop Hughes, lends the JUNCTION of his
holy Office, and the influence of his highly respected
name to invest this conspiracy with greater sancti
ty, and recommend it to the support and sympathy
of the faithful throughout the land. As evidence
Of his Graces cooperation with the revolutionsts
he has permitted them the of his cathedral to.
day, for the purpose Of solemnizing q grand high
mass, beginning at 10 o'clock, in commemoration Of
General Lopez and the victims of the Atares who
were, twevemonth since, executed for levying war
against her most Catholic Majesty of Spain. To IL
vest this ceremony with greater force and signf-
cance it has been arranged that like ceremonies shall
be performed ut the time throughout the island
ofCuba, thus making the anniversary ofLopez'smar
tyrdom the occasion of grand concentration Of
the fires of Cuban revolution, and bringing the
mystic soemnties of their holy religion to sanctify
the idea.
The enlistment of Archbishop Hughes under the
banner of the " Lone Star Association which his
sanctonipg Of this ceremony in St. Patrick scathedra
would seem to imply, is Of the most novel fea-
lures in this wide spread organization, and is even
more significant fact than that Of the Courier
and Enquirer reversing its former policy with
respect to this question: and becoming the strongest
and most influential of the fHibustro organs.
The reasons which actuate our revered prelate are
not very obvious but his position will be the cause
of tremendous accession of strength to the ssoci-
alton. Archbishop Hughes is true, straight for
ward, and unwavering in all religious matters; but
the same consistency does not govern his political
opinions, which seem to be very variable and er.
ratio. At one time he is the staunchest friend of
hish revoution and subscribes five hundred dollars
to the fund of the Directory and then again he is
opposed to any such project. At one time he is in
favor Of revolutionary government altogether and
at another he lends all his influence to despotism
At one time be thinks that Catholicism is not in
consistent with republicanism, and at another sup.
ports the principle of autocracy. Therefore, we say
that it is impossible to know the secret springs
which have actuated Archbishop Hughes thus to
throw the weight of his sacred Office and character
into the same scale with the Lone Star Association.
But whatever may be the motives which mpellei
him to do so certain it is that his course will exert
the most beneficial and widespread influence the
prospects of the order. Another distinguished Dig
nary of the church, eminent for pety learning, and
accompishmcpts-Fatber Larkins, the President
of Fordham College-has probably adopted the
other side of the question but, although Of the
most brilliant lights of the Catholic Church, and
the best authority theology and ethics, yet he is
not well versed in the merits Of democracy as his
spiritual superior, is he SO convcrsant with the
secrets ofthc revolutionary movement on foot to
hberate Cuba. With the Courier and Enquirer re-
presenting the capitalists of Wall street, and with
Archbishop Hughes representing the Catholic feel
ing of the United States its side, the Lone Star
Association has assumed an Importance and magni-
tude which will set at defiance all the forces
that the Spanish government can bring to oppose
its designs on the island Of Cuba.