The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-01-12

and flth eonsummate ability! to retrieve
whst has been lost by the miserable policy
Of III present administration. Already has
the attention Of the country ben called to
this subject in the United Stats Senate, by
the movement Of Mr.. MAsox, Of Virginia,
Chairman Of the Committee Of Foreign AZ
fairs, apd it is fortunate for thesountry that
we haS a gentleman of his nette and abil-
ity at tie head Of this important committee.
Mr.. AAsos laid down the DeROcratic pol
icy in Eference to the acquisition Of Cuba
in the allowing remarks, which we think
will NEE. the approval of the people of the
whole country;
"Mr. President: / regretted, deeply re-
GREETED, to see, Just before we were assem-
bled here lt the preseat session, that the
PreidenE0f the United States had thought
it proper, upg1 a general call for the cores
pondence by lhe other House, I'd divulge all
communication which had PASSED between
this Government and Spain on the subject
Of Cuba from It's first commencement. / do
not mean to question the sndtiyes of the
President in so doing, but l do q~aestion his
judgement. Whatever it was INTENDED to
effect, one consequence must be the result
the ~postponement of the acquisition Of that
island 10 a more distant period than if the
correspondence had not been diyulged; and
| apprehend that it is not very usual in the
diplomatic intercourse If nations to bring
from the secret archives, where they proper
ly belong, matters that have confdentially
passed between two governments on any
question in which others hold themselves to
be interested. The administration which
has published the correspondence is about
to 90 out of Office. / shall make no war
upon it for what it has done; but will say
that as far as the acquisition of Cuba is in
volved, il has done little to expedite It by
diyulging that correspondence. Yet the
publication may have the less injurious eff
feet for the reason that urgovernment deals
but little in secretdiplomacy. The ends and
objects we desire 10 attain should not be idly
or u%selessly pronulged; but if they become
so, | apprehend tie world will find nothing
10 them at which we have cause to blush
Let them have the Information for wha. ii
is worth. They all know mean the Eu-
lopean powers all know-not only the deep
interest our whole country feels in the AZ
QUESTION of that island, but they know, also,
that it will inevitably become ours at some
day. Let them have the information for
what it is worth. 1t may postpone the ac-
QUESTION; 1T cannot prevent it"
"Cannot prevent it," is the language Of
the honorable Senator-''Fhe combined
powerof Europe annotpreventit." Watch
ing the tendency of events, lad anticipating
the inevitable result, the SPEAKER excll ns
''Sir, who can doubt but hat the act ui-
sition of Cuba by the Unied States u a
question of time only--pur4y a question Of
time? In the progress of empires, in the
formation of nations, they grow from infancy
to youth, and so to manhood. Greatfand
powerful as our country. is4it is vet h its
youth; anu II Is OF little niohent touJ~hetn-
er we acquire Cuba in hi degeneration or IN
the next; but zone ii will just as certainly
as that the world revolvesupon its ais"
There is no purpose ofrapine or scheme
of conquest, involved in lhe mystical phra'
sology of the manifest destiny" school,
The honorable Senator contemplates the
acquisition of Cuba by no compulsory Oh
equivocal means. On the contrary, he il
most explicit and emphatic in disclaimins
any aggressive designs against it:
"Now, sir, l am here free to declare, rep
resenting as | do a sectiDn Of the country a
deeply interested in the future relations o
Cuba to this continent as any other, in m,
place as a Senator from the South, and up
on my responsibility as a statesman of Amer
lea, that / am content Cuba shall remain
in the possession of Spain, unless it gan b.
acquired from her by voluntary cessln o
her part, or unless the people of CtgsS, b
their own act, shall sever all politic con
nexion with their European mother, 4 voI
unfairly propose annexation.
"Sir, the honor, the dignity, thATtgoo
name of America, for all time to COZ, d.
mand at the hands of the Americar Aople
not only that they should not symath| wit
or encourage, but that they shoulda Ildlg
nantly form upon and suppress any al sppt.
by violence in any form, to wrestfrom Spal
any part of her possessions-whether The
be stimulated by political ambition, or by
spirit of speculative marauding on tle pa
> of those who engage nit"
Is this tilabusterism? Yetit is precFel
the policy upon which the Democratic p'rt
+ stands. The language of Senator CAss Is
the same import. He says:
r "Such were my sentiments then, and ruc
are they now. So long as Spain retainsCI
ba, or should the island become indepnt
ent, truly and honestly, we have no riglt
interfere with it. And, for myself, shuI
: be willirg--desirous indeed--at any tine
purchase it of Spain, and at a liberal, W.
at an extravagant price; but no transfe
another power, either by peace or war, "a!
the resistance of such an attempt by ait
means which God has given us"
These are the views which are Aolcoitl
. the policy of this country under atDsn
cratic administration. A Wing Preside
. may shrink in dread from any extension
! American soil, and may be willing TO gu
4 reends or the island of Cuba and the Gulf
Mexico to the dominion Of a foreign pow
r but his alarm will meet with no sympatf
and his passive palicy with no support,
the Democratic nartY. The country "