Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1853-04-16
Our New Minister to Spain.

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For the last week it has been known that
PIERRE SoULE, Louisiana's famous Senator,
has received what everybody long since sup~
posed that he was eager to obtaln-the post of
| American Minister at the court of Madrid.
Taken in connection with sentence in his
inaugural, the people cannot otherwise than
consider this appointment as evidencing a de-
sire and a principle OF the part of President
PIERCE to extend our territory under his ad-
Enthusiastically diplomacy if possible, by
arms if that fails. He has sent to Spain-and
it is said, vested (by what authority we know
not) with extraordinary powers 20 negotiate
for the purchase Of CUBA gentleman whose
flibuaering hanings are too we'll known to
be disputed, who gave them to the world in
his late speech in the Senate, whose presence
as ambassador at the court of Spain cannot be
otherwise than r~epulsive and unconciliating in
consequence of this very speech; and who
may be expected, both by that Government
and ours, if negotiations fail, to be very expli-
cit and determined in letting it be understood
that by fair means or foul, our safety demands
it, and that Cuba must be ours.
In sending to Madrid q Minister in the person
of MIR. SouLE, President PIERCE threatens
Spain, and throws the gauntlet at her feet:
she may have peace or war, whichever she
chooses, but she cannot have Cuba!
While the appointment of Mr.. SouLE will
doubtless DO regretted by the peaceful and sos
ber-thinking portion Of our people, as one ex-
tremely indiscreet and injudicious, under the
circumstances and relations at present existing
between the Two countries, yet, notwithstand-
ing, it will be a popular one throughout the
Union. So rapidly has military ardor increased
among the masses since the war with Mexico,
that we verify believe any act of the President
would be hailed with delight, which would
have a tendency again to make the exciting
sounds Of the drum and the fife heard in our
quiet and peaceful country, and the call for
volunteers, for strife and bloodshed, proclaimed
throughout the land. Such feeling is the curse
of republics, and has hitherto been the pre-
cursor of their downfall. The appointment
alluded to cannot fail to raise hopes among the
military and flibuaering portion Of our eeun.
trymen.
We conceive Mr.. SouLE to be a dangerous
man as a government political agent, whatever
others may think to the contrary, and peculiar
ly dangerous in the embassy which has been
rendered him, and which he has doubtless look.
ed to and sought with all that enthusiasm and
excitement of which he has SO plentiful a stock
in the composition of his temperament. Our
readers may rely up it that he will be heard
from in a short time after his arrival in Spain.
He seeks to create o great name, and most
probably has views connected with his present
mission, known only to himself, which he
hopes will effect the fame he desires. He knows
our people well-and we'll he knows that any
demands he makes for Cuba will be acquieseed
in by them.
There is a clause in the Constitution of this
Republic which must be expunged before MI,
SoULE can reach the topmost ladder of his am.
bition in this country-and seeing how consti-
buttons are d~isregarded in the land of his natl
witty, he probably thinks that a leviathan repu~
tation, such as he might possibly carve for him.
self, would cause our own to be tempered
with in a like Manner, and a loop.hole be open
ed for him to reach the highest honor in the
world. Who doubts such exalted hopes?-
and who knows but that such great aspirations
may be realized!