Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-11-27

not be disbanded without disregard of all the maxms
of just precaution.
To what object, then, will the new republics direct
their powerful and victorious armies! They have COM
mon interest and common enemy and let it be suppos-
ed that that enemy weak and exhausted he Isl refuses
to make peace will they not strike wherever they can
reach And from the proximity and great value Of Cuba
and Porto kco IS II not to be anticipated that they will
aim, and aim successful blow too, at those Spanish
islands? Whilst they would operate from without
would doubtless be at the time employed to stimu
late the population within revolt and that the dis
position exists among the inhabitants considerable
extent to throw off the Spanish authority is well known
1t is due to the United States declare that they have
constantly declined to give any countenance to that dis
position
1t is not then for the republics that the President
wishes you to urge upon Spain the expedency Of
cudng the their interest is probably the side Of
its continuance if any nation can have interest
in state Of But it is for Spain herself for the
cause of humanity for the general rpose of the world
that you required with all the decacy which belongs
TO the subject to use topic Of to impress
upon the councils Of Spain the propriey by formal pa
cihcaton, Of terminating the war and the views and
OF the United States in regard to those islands may
possibly have some influence you authorized frankly
fed with the present condition VI those islands in the
hands Of Spain, and with their ports epsa com
merce as they are now OPEN this Government desires
political change of that condition The population itself
of the islands is incompetent at present. from its compo
stion and Its amount to maintain self The
maritime force of the neghboring republics of Mexico
ana Colombia is not now, nor is 1t likely shortly to be-
adequate to the protection of those islands if the
of them effected The United States would enter
tain constant apprehensons of their passing from their
possession to that of less friendly sovereignty and
Of all the European Powers this country Cuba
and Porto Rico should remain dependant on Spain. If
the war should continue between Spain and the
pubics and those islands should become the object and
the theatre Of it, their fortunes have such connection
with the prosperity of the United States that they could
not be Indifferent spectators and the possible contingen
ces Of such protraced might bring upon the Gov
of the United States duties and obligations the
performance of which, however painful it should be- they
might not be at liberty to decline subsidiary consi
deraton in favor Of peace deserving weight is that
as the has been the parent of the shocking
pracies in the West Indies its termination would be pro-
badly followed by their cessation; and thus the Govern
ment of Spain by act would fulfil the double oblga
ton under which it lies to foreign Governments Of
pressing enormes the perpetrators of which find refuge
not succor in Spanish territory and that to the Span
ish nation itself of promoting its real interests