Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-09

our essn'y's k@s sna iAish bslors shs .mld Such
langu~ss, eemlngfr The mouths q great headers
"a pc~erfel party. received wish shauts and ho-
s&nnAhs, and echoed IN bssaen tones ~ the central
organ a The Demrrs,is party May well degrade
as ~ The syss q Al sbsr-sainded and rghishinkiag
men. fst \ hss ooBs B0w % b. one a the issues
bsfure the ysepls. Whether chs shall h. eur tons
and assissas hereafter Anks dstlor.bls viii !. b.
whether that 'one and sisisads h. mere hngxaloca,
O. pledge 70 b rcicemea a che expense a the
National honor sbd ne National peace.
We cAnn0, ID, leave a sAess manllsstacs n the
I" Progressive fsr - ~ regard Mr. DoCas.As's
two,psccbes before as) without ealing the ai,en.
ton q our resass . The following passage In the
Tammany haraague
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cheers Ma, vent further sililss n appropriate
from the public treasury ANY necessary smoaat q moasy
% pArehass Gaia lchssss wess fartAsr ssH said
that IL England any oA~ E.rapsan Powg wsss d az
tempt 70 tale cse, ~ PsseAas ~ sd<vvsss. sss a.
dry n az Iasd States ssass aud held ID "A a ri.ks
Tremendous cheers These are ssn M ssssimsuss IA
Is the destiny u the great Democratic party - carry out
these principles Loud cheers The whss caat A. u
withost violating their asoved prneipss and esealag
their understanding lcnes u that's fact sadiaagh
ter The Wings don't understand the decsras a pro.
gress.
Reallyg So long ago. Seven long years have
passed, then, since the honorable Senator ht upon
an idea which il is the destiny Of nc gycat Dsmo-
cratic party to carry out" An idea, too, ID seems,
which, in the nature Of things, cannot be otherwise
"carried OUT" for, says the Gentleman, q The
Wings can't do il without violating their ayowcd
principles and overriding their understanding. I"
"The Who's don't understand progress" No,
truly; and least Of all such crab-likc progress a.
this. Why, what win the Progressiyes say when
they learn that their auantcoaiey, when this bright
idea Of preventing Cuba from passing to any other
European Power struck him In 1916, was just
twenty years Jehiad these same wHIds whom
he fondly imagnes not only TO have no such idea,
but to be incapable (by reason of "instnct," we
suppose) Of ever comprehending it And yet 50
the fact is. This is progress, with vengeance
| So long ago as the 26th Of December, 1925, in a
letter to Mr.. MIDDLETON, then Minister Of the
United States to Russia, Mr.. CLAY, the lThig
Secretary of State Of Wig Administration, writes
as follows:
q For ourselves, ne desire no change in he pos
q session Of Cuba, as has been heretofore stated
WE CANNOT ALLOW A TRANSFER OF TUE ISLAND
/" TO ANY EUROPEAN POWER"
To Russia, France, and Great Britain, that Ad-
ministration distinctly announced that the United
States WOULD NOT PERMIT any European Nation,
except Spain, to take either CUBA or PoRro Rico,
under any circumstances whatever" So that, when
the Arch-Progressive, by desperate hard riding,
overlook this idea twenty years after HENRY CLAY,
under the Presidency of JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,
had given it to the world, he only mastered half Of
1t, after all And on the strength Of this achieve.
ment he makes bold TO require that /" Democratic
Administration shall be forthwith placed in posses
sion Of the precious prize because it is something
which the Wings are century behind, and which
if they should ever come up with it, they car
make no more of than the cock Gin the table, could
Of the pearl in the dunghill
But the matter does not stop here. Not only
was this favorite Wing idea five and twenty years
ago, repeated and reiterated on every proper occa
sion, but it was denounced and repudiatcd by the
so-called Democratic party, and with especial ndig-
nation by distinguished New HAMPSHIRE Demo
crat, the late Mr.. Justice WOODBURY., then in the
Senate In his speech on the Panama question he
said, among other things:
"Then follows that despatch, dated October %,
1926, in which he (Mr. CLAY deliberately avows
that zoe ,coud not consent TO he occupation Of these
Islands (Cuba and Porto Rico) by any other Eu-
4 ropean Po,cer than Spain, unOer any contingency
uhdteper, The same sentiment is repeated to Mr.
Middleton, December 25, 1926: We cannot al
'loac a transfer Of The Island (of Cuba) 10 any Ea-
ropedn P6tcer.' Has IT INDEED COME TO THIS
/ (said Mr.. Woodbury.; that we to tell the Au-
tocrat Of fifty millions he has not the same right TO
take transfer of Porto Rico as we had to take
transfer Of Florida? is THIS REPUBLIcASrsN,
equal rights, and received national law; on is 1T
SOME MARVELLOUS DISCOVERY OF THE PRESENT
'AGEY Are we prepared by this mission to back
up by war the menace to France that in no con.
tingency whatever shall she be allowed TO occupy
Cuba, although she buy it Of Spain by as fair and
honest a treaty as that by which we purchased
Louisiana of France herself? Are these the doc
trines Che Indignantly asked) of the American Con-
gress or of the American People OR DO THEY
SAVIOR OF THE Holy Alliance"
Let Mr.. DOUGLAS look to it. In his newborn
zeal to bring into the Presidency New Hampshire
Democrat Of the Woodbury. school, he may be I'M
Willingly aboring to strangle this young Hercules
Of an idea, seven years old, Of which he claims the