The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-22

Robert Emmett, ct hoe genus onine. IN the middle,
and Horace Greeley and Henry Raymond at the
tail we should like to know what they have to say
for themselves. No doubt they have long since
come to the conclusion that the least said the
soonest mended. But this will not prevent an out
ragged community from thinking and spanking OF the
humbug practised upon them by a set Of political
knaves and nincompoops, who Aeeced them OF their
money, squandered in the manufacture OF cart
ridges, without guns to fire them, and IN sending
letters to Hungary at average cost OF SOU a
piece.
The CUBAN QUESTION, FROM THE FREE SOIL
VIEW THAT notorious organ of free soil phllan-
thropy, the Ne,o York EUening Post, in taking
the side of the Spanish authorities in their out
rageous proceedings in reference to Purser Smith,
Of the Crescent City, argues in their behalf the laws
Of South Carolina, in relation to free negro sailors
and employees, on board merchant vessels. The
Post says
The State of South carries this right Of exclud
ing obnoxious persons it's territory to till greater
extent citizen Of New York who is not suspected OF
tnuance of the established order Of things in the most
quiet untrou5ed times is not allowed ne nave not the
orthodox color of skin to come into the State. He Is
riedly excluded as the Cuban government excludes the
the Crescent City worse-f ne happens 10
be board OF vesse he Is taken out oy iorce anu con
harbor The federal government docs no. THINK tns
justipg its interference Yet this an dn
stronger than that Of Smiths which Is the SUBJECT
Of SO many Indignation meetings
The federal government does not interfere, be-
cause this law of South Carolina is a local lava
law of self preservation-a law of protection, espe-
cally against the designs Of Northern incendiaries
"a municipal regulation for the better security of
the lives and property of the people from abolition
emissaries-a law of retaliation against the North
for their various laws (before the passage of the
late compromise measures) in aid of the escape Of
fugitive slaves 1t is law, to be sure. general In
its operation, and Great Britain has complained of
it, over and over again, as unconstitutional, and
in violation of treaty stipulations and has insti-
tuted suit to test its validity in the United
I States courts of South Carolina. If the law is,
however, unconstitutional, it cannot be used as an
excuse for the late outrsges upon our commerce in
Cuba; and if it be constitutional law, or just
and proper law, it cannot be employed in palating
the Cuban authorities for their violation of all law
The laws between the United States and Spain do not
allow the exclusion of the Crescent City from Hava
ma under the circumstances of her exclusion, nor
do they justify the late outrage upon the Cornela
i The Captain General Of Cuba may exercise the
functions Of an absolute despot within the island
but he must respect the public laws Of Spain in
ference to the United States, We must hold him
and his government responsible for their infraction
| That is all The case is plain.
The argument of the Post was natural enough for
that paper Like its CO laborer in the work of ag
taton, the Tribune, it lets no occasion slip for a
fling at the South calculated to revive sectional AMI
mosities, and spirit of discord and disunion but
sorry to the organ Of the late Castle Gar
den Union Safety Committee-the Journal of Com
nerce-returnng to its old abolition instincts, as it
does in the endorsement of the abolition argument
Of the Post. Has the Union Safety Committee been
disbanded, IRIS there more money to be made of
it. that thus find the Post, Tribune, and Journal
OF Commerce, all pulling together