Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1852-12-29
HaRcouRr HOUSE, july 10, lsA7.

- HARcODRT HOUSE, July 10, AcFf'
Let the people of England remember that they
to whom these Spanish thieves owe an annual in
ter est of upwards of one million six hundred
thousand pounds pay every year, for the slave
grown sugars and coffees of Cuba and Porto Rico,
sum fully greater than this, mostly In English
gold, the hard earnings of honest English indus
try, to those very Spaniards, and then let them
ask the candidates for their sufffages whether. if
returned to Parliament, they will suffer any long
er this bare-faeed robbery to continue Let the
people of England ask the candidate for their
votes if they will tamely and basely connive at
the longer continuance of this freebootery at the
expense of the. hard, bony hands and exhausted
sweatof the English labor and English honesty.
Will they suffer this in order that the Queen
of Spain and her profigate court, and yet more
prohigate ministers, and continue in a lavish and
wasteful expenditure, greater by one half than
that which contents the wants, and maintains
the dignity of our own Queen, the greatest sover-
eign of the earth! .tz.y
Will the people of England be content any
longer to look quietly upon Cuba and Porto Rice,
producing in value upwards of ten millions ster-
ling of produce annually, on the one side, and on
the upaid debt of the forty-six millions due by
Spain to British subjects on the ether side-Cuba
and Porto Rico, at once 80 rich and 30 easy a
prize-and forbear longer to distran upon the
goods of their wealthy, their faithless their un-
principled Spanish debtors!
Finally, l repeat that the battle rests not with
the British bondholders to be fought by them ON
the hustings. Though my political opponents, +
think they ought to have confidence in Lord Pal
merston; but ifthe British bondholders do their
duty to themselves and Lord Palmerston should,
nevertheless, disappoint their just expectations,
then say, you will know where to look for one
who, in what he feels to be Just cause, will
neither fiutter nor finch, deceive, DESERT or be-
tray. Your faithful servant,
G.. BEsrINcK.
| The purpose of Great Britain to possess her
self of Cuba to indemnify her capitalists who held
the bonds of Spain, as exhibited in the above ex-
tract and in the other documents we have named
we think is very likely spoken of in the portion of
Mr.. Secretary Buchanan's despatch suppressed
| by Mr.. Fillmore. 1t can hardly be that he was
uniformed upon events of such Importance to the
country. Besides, there is internal evidence in
the instructions to Mr.. Saunders whcih mkaes it
certain that MIR. B. had information on this point
! On page 49 blouse doc. No. 1919 of the cores.
pondence, Mr.. Buchanan says to Mr.. Saunders:
'You may then touch delicately upon the danger
that Spain may lose Cuba, &C., &C., or that it
may be wrested from her by Great Britain, should
rupture take place between the two countries
arising out of the dismissal of Sir Henry Bulwer,
and be retained to pay the Spanish debt due to the
British bandholdrs." 1t will be perceived upon
careful perusal of the despatch, that this sub
ject is nowhere previously referred to in the in
structions as published by the President, and the
inference is therefore irresistible that it is the
subject Of part, perhaps of the whole, of the
portion suppressed. Why any portion of the des.
| patch was Withheld, when SO much was published,
and an additional injury could have been inflicted
upon the country by the publication of the re-
mainder, whatever it may have been, is wholly
accountable-expect, indeed, upon the hypoth-
esis that it the purpose of President Fillmore
and his advisers to do mischief, and that the pub
lcation of the part withheld would have neutral
| lied their whole effect.
If our inference as to the matter suppressed by
the president is correct, when it will be seen, as
indeed it will be seen by the tenor of our arti-
Gle above, that not only was it the imperitve duty
of Mr.. Polk's administration to make the proposal
to purchase Cuba, but there cause to fear that
it should have been made at much earlier day.