The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-11-24
Cuban Anairs-Reported Removal OF the Cap
tain OF the Crescent City.

Our readers will find in another column copy OF the
official notice served on the commander of the Crescent
City, which mentioned yesterday, informing him that
be would not be again permitted TO land mails and
passengers from that ship il Purser Smith should be
tanned on board.
We are sorry to see tina, the organ OF the adminsta.
ton speaks OF that official notification inima.
lion and then charges Captain Davenport with assuming
an unbecoming and dcatoria in his reply 10 il The
inmaou was an official order. according to the tele
graphic despatch in The Rey~sas ut the telegraph
gave versions OF Captain DAvs1eons reply which
differ from each other materially One represented
that officer as saying that Purser Smith would be on
board the Crescent City her return. and that the Span
ish officials would be responsible for the refusal TO per-
nit the landing OF the mails aud passengers The other
represented him as say ing that lie would land his mails
and passengers on his return notwithstanding the official
order to The contrary Captain Dayenports reply, how
ever 10 the Official notice mentioned above, which we
publish to-day shows that be made threat 10 land his
mails and passengers In defiance OF the Spanish auhor.
ties.
On the nth OF this month the Republic stated ex.
pessy that the refusal TO permit the landing OF mails
and passengers fro the Crescent City, because Purser
smith was on board violated the spirit il not the letter
OF the treaty existing between Spain and the United
States !" that, in view OF the pursued by Mr. Fill
mores administration, was an unfriendly manifesto.
ton !" that such aprocedure was offensive to the gov
eminent OF this country" and tina, il was /" an act
which admits Of no justification"
If should turn out that the administration intends 10
concede the right OF the capaingeneral OF Cuba to ex-
clude the passengers and mails Of the Crescent City be-
cause Of the presence of single individual will
bbit itself in most unenvable attitude before the world,
and create the belief that il is willing TO submit TO any
ndgriy or that il TO do all il can TO leave our
foreign relations in most dangerous condition. in order
to psrpex and embauass the coming democratic admnisT
tration. And must here express the conviction that
the course OF the administration has been eminenty cal
cuated 10 produce rupture between the United States
and Spain at defiant day. by inviting sggressions on
the part OF the Cuban authorities And we will also
embrace this opportunity to say that the course OF the
leading wing press, during the canvass and since the
election, has been such to give strong impulse
to any associations OF vicious men having for their
object an illegal descent on Cuba. During the whole
canvass, such journals as The National Ipteigeneer, in
order to accomplish mere party purpose attempted
convince the people that the democratic party COM
nlWed 70 an aggressive pollcY ana since the elecuon
such journals, urged by party vindicveness have made
The most strenuous eyerions TO ns into the public mind
The belief that aggressive policy bad irumphed the
second OF November, and that the government about
10 pass into the hands Of party which would counie-
and encourage depredaons ueghborng nations
n there sapy course better calculated than this 10 induce
awess men to engage in awless enterprises we do not
know it, Thus far has the spirit Of party led the whig
journals and they must be held responsible for the con-
sequences OF their acts,