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

Ile PROOF vi Inese IaclS, as well as OF va
rlous circumstances probably affecting
tavorably the situation of individuals
Wah trial, there could never have taken
place such shocking horror of indiscri-
inmate massacre, as that which those
thirsty Spanish cut-throats were thus swift
to perpetrate. Now, a trial thew were
entitled to under the treaty; a trial they
ought to have had, and it was an insolent
abomination on the one side to massacre
them without it, and its federation base
submission on the other OF the subse
Quent treatment of the remains of the
murdered young men by the half cannl-
bal rabble of the Galatians of Havana, we
will not speak And then, when the fury
Of popular resentment awakened by this
intelligence at New Orleans led TO street
disturbances. in which the house of the
Spanish Consul, the printing -offioe of the
Spanish newspaper organ, and a few other
Spanish stores or houses were attacked
and demolished or injured, why, then, all
is apology and atonement on our side -
unmitiSated condemnation of these viii
lain outrages by lawless mob-appeal
to Congress for Observation-Disclosures ce-
remonious welcome back OF the needless
ly fugitive Consul to his post, with srsci-
slsalutation of honor to his flag and per
son on his arrival. An ocean of submis-
sive regard for the Spanish side of the
question, to pennyworth ofjust conside-
ration for the American The proper
reply to have been inside to the Spanish
complaints, respecting the mob outbreak
at New Orleans, would have stern and
indignant refusalto notice them until good
atonement should be first rendered for
the outrages which naturally, necessarily,
justly, had provoked them. Let us imagine
Democratic President replying to such
complaints Under the smoothness of di-
plomatic phrases, it would have been in
substance somewhat to the following pur-
port " You have murdered in cold
blsoded massacre fifty of the citizens of
the community which has thus provoked
to this natural popular outbreak You
did 1t without trial, and therefore in VIC
lation of treaty right. They were not ia
ken fighting, or armed, or on your soil, or
even approaching it. They had left it,,
and We're on the water. Withdrawing from
an enterprise which their situation proved
that they repented Of They had gone to
1t at least under generous delusious, in the
spirit IN which foreign friends came to aid
US IN our infant revolutionary struggles.
Their act may have been unlawful, and
You from your point of view may call it
criminal, if you please; but your conduct
has been equally unlawful, and in the eye
of all humanity tenfold more criminal
our troops beaten and put to shameful
flight by those of this unhappy expedition
who fought on your shores at vast odds,
you have wrecked cowardIy as well as
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS upon these unfortunate
victims whom you We're able to run down
with your steamers, unarmed and defence
less IN open boats. Wicked and bloody,
as well as in violation of treaty obligation,
and equally cruel and cuwardly, your own
public act was 6ttingly followed by still
more revolving outrages, by your own to-
Ierated mob, upon the dead remains of
these mistaken, but gallant and generous
young men. 1t is only wonderful that
the people of New Orleans, under such
evaporation, visited your Consul and
your newspaper, and few of vour citi-
zens with such comparative moderation
as they did eYince. Atone now, first
for your own abominable wrong, before
you call on us for indemnifcation for its
consequences. Dismiss your officers and
functIonaries guilty of this wicked horror
before the eye of God and man, and this
violation of your treaty obligations to us.
Apologize. atone, as now you best cam
Then come and ask us for indemnities to
your citizens who may have been injured
among us. But as for anv other apollo
gIes or atonemeuts, or any special de-
monstration of honor to your frightened
Consul. or to your bloody and disgraced
flag, be well content and thankful that
we do not descend upon you in just
wrath, as the seasonable instruments of
the divine, as well as of national ven
geance, and sweep you from the neighbor-
hood in which you are disgrace to the
continent, nuisance to us, and hated
and hateful incubus to the fair island &C
cursed by your evil presence" The sub
stance of these ideas, smoothed, polished
and drapsd to the courteous forms of di-
plomacy with high consideration would
have been the proper answer from our side
Instead of this manly and righteous tone
ofreply, how all-Submissive, how ail-in-
dulgent to the Spanish side of the question,
how all-regardless of any American side
to 1t. was It's entire treatment by this cold
blooded and cold hearted Wing admins
tration, which to our lasting shame and
sorrow has been at the head ofour national
affairsl True, it removed the recreant
Consul Owen, thereby, indeed, admitting
recognition of the true character of the
proceeding which it was his sole crime to
have witnessed without energetic interfe-
renee; but what was this but mere SOD to
the angry Cerberus to the public feeling,
tub to amuse the foaming and flashing
wh"le?-while TO Spain there was not adj
dressed syllable of the rightful American
language on the subject. 1t was, in fact,
the meanest part of the whole proceeding,
for poor Owen had Clnnrlu hnnn nnthinn,