New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-31
0NRAY MORNING, JANUARY 81, 1862
.s CUB.a IN THE q. s. SEyN.aTE,


\ posed negotiations for the purchase Of Cuba.
must BE- evident, that, if such negotiations ha
~ Ten place. the official publicity could not ia
exAggerate the suspicious and sharpen th
vigilance Of the great Powers Of Europe; and
thereby, embarrass our movements to secure
desired object
Immediately upon the appearance Of the pa
y prs called for, Gen. Cass introduced resolu
tions rem 6rning what is known as ssthe Mon
III Doctrine, and applying it to Cuba. Gu
4 n thia, has spr ing debate which seems as I'm
yerbisge.
Thcre does not appear to be any necessity Z
y re- Affirming the Monroe doctrine at this partic
4 MAR juncture; nor is it all plain to us in wha
manner its affirmation can be practically appli
sable 70 Cuba. The language Of Presiden
Monroe is as follows, and plainly refers solely tt
- question Of colonization. 81
In the discussions ia which this interest has rive
1se and Y tho by which they may ter1
Aat ~ occasion has been Judged propsr for asserting
principle IN which the rights and interests Of tn
Unted States involved that the American continents
the nee and condition which they hay
sesnnsd nd maintain are henoeforth pct 70 Be con
y pean power = 4s8
Tie Congressional resolution OF March S
1o11, il Of the same tenor and both it and tht
declaration of President Monroe had a direc
reference to passing events and Immediate prob
abilities In fact, in the progress Of the discus
slon, It was clearly proven historically tina
. the Monroe doctrine = sprang from well-reas
oned Jealousy Of the movements Of the Hol,
Alliance Was designed to restrain it, and orig
mated partly from a friendly hint from ths
brltlsh Ministry As there is no reasonable
pfcspsct pf any European power now attempting
70 colonize Cuba, and as the very idea Of The
/ thing savcrs strongly Of the ridiculous, General
Vase y merely beating the air in all his labors.
" would have been wiser to have waited until
cass actually presented itself for the applica.
zion Of g the Monroe doctrine.'' To apply 1t tt
Cuba, ass an advanced declaration Of principle,
amounts TO exactly nothing at all. II The
Senate wishes 70 give any expression in refer
ence % cur relations with Cuba, let it be done
IN q manly open, ineligible manner Let it
escAeW antiquities, and let the country and the
world understand what it means.
Gen. CASES resolutions and speech are a mere
mounting of nothings. They are even contra
Mctory One moment, be talks softly Of the
most profound respect for the rights Of Spain in
Gnba, and the next, he is in ecstacies over the
mere idea Of q successful Cuban iusurrection.
and lntimates that through such an insurrection
as otr pest means Of acquiring the Island, though
he has Just expressed his willingness to purchase
y upon the most liberal terms and, then again,
@ further obscure his ideas, he tells the Senate
that he deem it inapp ropriate to announce our
Willingness % purchase Cuba. One moment, he
5disclaims any Immediate designs upon Cuba,
and, next, hespeaks Z Of the Importance of the
Island to the zeal of England to possess it,
or prevent it falling into the hands of the United
satates, and OF the necessity of or making the
dty Measco practically an american
lake
NoH, Two things puzzle us. We cannot be-
Aeve that statesman, like Gen Cass, would
express fervent hope for a successful domestic
insurrection in Cuba, without believing that it
Rould be o just and noble revolution. and, SO
saying boldly, give the reasons for his faith.
Another thing which puzzles us, is by what
process, if that the Gulf Of Mexico should he
practically an American lake is a necessity I,
o. our national future, this result is to be reach
Cd without the annexation of Cuba, the kew Of
the whole Gulf, and also of several Mexican
States,
Thus confused and contradictory in all his
expressions, the leader in this Senatorial move
ment seems to us either not to understand him
sell. or TO shrink from facing consequences which
must inevitably follow from his theories. These
are n every way vague and pointless In his
language he il eauivocal; in his resolutions in
comprshensible. He threatens possibilities which
exist only in vague suspicious; he oyerloeks
probabilities which are full in the eye Of every
onet and he ignores facts which are upon record,
He fires ii the dark, and then fees in terror.
lest he might have hit any conceivable point.
He addresses the mnltitudes Of Bnncombe. and
so masters ito meaningless idioms that he really
believes that he has made something like de-
claratlon OF opinion and resolve When Sancho
Panza was first installed as Governor of Bara-
taria, there was an inconyenient old doctor, who
only let him have scent Of savory dishes to
experience the stomachic misery of seeing them
all disappear at the touch of the medical atten-
dant's wand. 6 Young America ;, fares quite as
badly under the trea ment of Gen. Cass
u the distinguished Senator from Michigan
wished to speak or resolve in reference to Cuba,
ne might have found practical matters where.
with to engage himself-the fate of Crittenden
and his companions, the Crescent City affair, etc
To borrow another illustration from an appro
pirate source. if sancho Panza thought it proper
ana necessary to issue proclamation about
something, tno matter what, so it should be a
proclamation we do not think it necessary that
our Government should follow his illustrious
example.
We must confess that, as an American. wa
feel mortified at the color Of the debate mon
Gen. Cass's resolutions, in the United State Sen.
ate, II has placed us in ridiculous light be-
fore the Worla--as the very PAROLES of nations
Boosting largely where we have no intention of
doing anything -digging out Of the sepulture Of
history, not the heart Of the Douglass, but Of 4
monldering braggart, Gen. Cass talks Of
z timid conservatives =! Better we should be
such, in pretensions, claims and peacefulness--
better, ten thousand times, than, Falstaff.
like, hack our swords of honor upon bar
riers carefully hunted up for the purpose !!
Better We should be SO, than be jeer and scotf
among nations, as the overgrown, shrinking
bully in the family of Statesl Better we should
be SO, than make professions which have neither