Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-12-02
Cuba and the Mail Steamers from thu
United States.

The National Intolllgencer expresses its
belief that the information contained in the
following letter from the Washington cor
respondent of the New York Express is
substantially correct. We, therefore, trans
fer it entire TO our columns for the infor-
nation which it will afford to our readers:
From the New York Express.
WAsuINGToN, Nov. 10, 1852.
The Administration have been for some
time past carrying on correspondence with
the Spanish Minister here, and the Ameri-
can Minister at Madrid, relative to the
Crescent City. With the Governor Cen
eral of Cuba the Administration can have
no direct intercourse: it can only act
through the Spanish Minister, who commu-
nicates with the Governor General. You
are aware that, by the consent and sanction
of every preceding Administration, from
Gen. Jackson's day down, the American
Consul in Cuba has received what is called
his erequat1tr from the Spanish Government
only upon the express OF condition that he
shall have nothing to do with the negotiations,
be removable at will, and without preiudicZ
ing the friendly relations of the Spanish
and the United States Governments. This
official notice was given March Oath, 1929,
in Gen. Jackson's time, and was accepted
by him and all his successors. The Con-
sui is only tolerated, and is far from being
acknowledged as representative of this
Government to Cuba; and Since 1929, be-
ginning with Gen. Jackson, we have as
tol b ala
Hence Judge Conklin went via Cuba to
Mexico, not to stipulate nor tonegotiate, but
to report upon facts. His report is, nc
doubt, now in Washington, and will at an
early period be laid before Congress.
/ have no authority whatsoever o speak
for the Administration, but can readily see
that it has been and Embarrassed by Mr.
George Law. The Administration recog.
: nises, as it must recognise, the power, and
hence the right, to exclude Purser Smith
from Cuba, if the Cuba authorities will
This is a power inherent in and exercised
by all Governments. 1t is right frequently
exercised by the Southern States against the
, Northern fanatics, and it is power exer-
cised by Indiana and other States against
free negroes from the South, or negro cifi
Gems from the North. The United States
under Gen. Washington, exercised such ;
. power, and it has been exercised since in ;
| great variety of ways. We cannot claim
admission for Purser Smith as a right int
Cuba, without throwing open all our owl
ports to incendiaries and criminals and pau
pers from all quarters. No Government
3 can be an independent Government which
a viz A 4 -.
ton, therefore, will never attempt 10 fore
Purser Smith into Cuba.
The right of the Crescent City or of 9th
o err American vessels, to enter and trad
I there, the Administration will not surrend
er or qualify, but will maintain to the last
The rights Of commerce and Of trade vii
n be vindicated to the full, and so will be tn
personal rights of every American either
II who respects the Laws Of Nations upon en-
e tering Cuba. The Administration, if it ey
= err goes to war with Spain, is not going t
n war upon wrong: but it means to star
= right. 1t is not going to force Purser Smit
upon another Government, as it would tol
crate no mans being forced upon the Uni
o ted States; but it is not going to surrende
= one lota OF the national honor or the nation
n rights.
y If Mr.. Law insists upon forcing Purse
n Smith into Cuba, with the threat that in cas-
. he is not admitted he will abandonthe Ores
e cent City to the Cuban authorities, he put
5; his own nation in the wrong in the eyes {
e all mankind, and the Administration will d
what is right, regardless of the consequer
: ces. Nothing can swerve it from rectitud
u and duty TO the Laws. 1t will never cor
d sent to the establishment of principl
II which would degrade its own country to bC
n ing the home of Every European outcast, {
i open fifteen of the slave States of this Unto
to every ilrebrnnd and every incendiary a
/ sorts of fanaticism might send there.
e Cuba is to be annexed as a slave State, an
: forced into this Union under sucoeedin