New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-02-24
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A CON TR.aST, IND NOT A FL.fT
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A CONTRAST, IND NOT a FL.aT-
% TERLNG ONE.
The following memorandum comes from.
source in which entire confidence can be placed
Ths Bltish thresdscker Cumberland, arrived in Ha-
vena on tie nth for the purpose Of se!sns expians
esny q British subjects in Cuba and about matters Of
1xylsnatioas we're demanded on the morning of the
lsth, ~ Gsn Cansdo offered ample apology and prom
ised 70 bsknvs bettsr In future
This Information, we repeat, comes from
reliable source, and it suggests reflections which
are BY no means gratifying to any one enter
tanning 4 sentiment of just pride in American
nationality.
1t must be admitted that Great Britain always
manifssts high sense of self-respect and prompt
ly vindicstes the rights and immunities of her
citizens, whenever and wherever invaded She
never pauses to indulge in the literary amuse-
ment Of q lengthy diplomatic correspondence
She never preserves q dull digni6ed, Pickwickian
Fat Boy" inactivity, by the voluntary and
clubbing suggestion that, after all, it may be
that her citizens are in the wrong, and that for
eign governments may be right in the exercise
Of harsh and arbitrary measures towards them
If one Of her citizens, at the uttermost ends Of
the earth" be wronged in property or person,
she promptly interferes with an imposing show
Of land snd sea forces
Now, she bombards Chinese towns. villages
and cities, and forces the authorities to submit
to the continuance of a trade which brutalises
their people, numbs every faculty and steals the
strength of manhood from every limb Now, the
white sails Of one of her ornaments CLEAN upon
the coast of Mexico, and her floating batteries
frown grimly upon seaport and vessel, threat
ening disastrous war, unless dilatory and
almost bankrupt country shall promptly iqui-
date the claims Of her merchant capitalists,
But The other day, her Liverpool merchants,
speaking " the naughty language of conscious
power, and in the full faith of the support of
their government, went the full length of resolv-
ing that special agents should be appointed by
themselves to assist in and supervise the revenue
selections Of Mexico, in order that they might
certainly secure the payment of debts due them.
What body Of American merchants could pass
such resolutions in faith of governmental sup
port OF without fear of becoming absolutely
ridiculous'
But the other day England spoke harsh and
decisive orders to Spain and Portugal, in favor
Of her merchants and capitalists, and her
feets lowered three.eningly upon their coasts,
like clouds in the distance giving apprehensions
Of somi1g storm. Now, she has settlement
TO Make with the Spanish authorities in Cuba
and SEP how she has done it
She does not 60, as the authorities of the
United States did, to the Court of Madrid Her
Ministers do not dance attendance in the ante
chamber Of obese, insane, ana impotent royalty.
She sends no long diplomatic letters from de-
partmsnts Of State. Her negotiator is a three
decker and she corresponds, briefly and dicta-
toriAlly, from behind huge cannons. In such
correspondence, there is strong, and Gas the
result shows) most effective odor of gunpowder.
Canedo ccolly recommended as to 90 some thou
sands pf miles, across the ocean, for desired ex-
plantations, but he answers very quickly to the
regulations of Great Britain, and "roars you
gsntlya sucking dove
This is rather mortifying contrast We
have had ten times more than Great Britain to
complain Of. We are party bound in treaty
with Great Britain to put down the slave trade /,
and, driven to face the point of duty by the de-
cirve and not very welcome action of Mr.. Wise
forcing Brazil to forego the nefarious traffic
Bat that we (our authorities, we mean did with
every show of modesty, timidity and irresolu-
ton Great Britain faces her portion Of the du-
ties Of the treaty boldly and manfully She does
not mince matters, and she makes Captain Cen
eral Canedo speak ont in apology for his deeds.
Again, we have had the Georgiana and Susan
Loud cases; we have had our trading vessels
imperklnently searched aud annoyed, and an U
y. mail steamer has been warned off from Ha-
vsna because she had on board " the individual,
Smith, whom the Captain General suspected
of-haying said something disrespec.fnl!
Some of these matters our Government has qui-
city passed over, and about others, we believe,
i is still negotiating in the most elegant of di
plomatic notes-heayen only knows with what
view Or to what purpose.
In making these remarks we do not pretend to
say that any and every pretext should be re-
sorted to for the use Of armed power. Wewould
slmply say: That the American flag should
cover the American citizen the wide world over
as tht British flag now covers the British sub
ject That represented wrongs and injustice
TO American citizens at the hands of foreign au-
-~~~~fAeS Sauuiu We cAauiueu lutO IN something
iess than the period of human life.
IN the present order of things the pettest
power may trample upon the rights of American
citizens, with a positive certainty that, in the
very extreme, the whole matter can only result
In notes and explanations. In reference to the
treatment Of Mr.. Brace and other Americans by
Austria, matter for which Great Britain would
have had stern reckoning, we do not believe
We even obtained the dull and senseless but die.
nihed satisfaction of an explanatory correspon.
dence Not long since IN intelligent American
gentleman, resident in Central America, told rs
that there, to be secure himself from wrong and
insult. an American had to forswear his nation.
atty and represent himself as an Englishman.
This, certainly, is not very fattering to the pride
Of :" the greatest nation in all creation
There is one thing in the action of the Gov.
ernment of Great Britain which is noticeable,
and needs no comment 1t is plain recognition
or rsther declaration of the responsibility of the
spanish authorities in Cuba for their acts to-
wards foreign nations, without any reference to
the Court Of Madrid. Negotiating at the can
mons mouth, there was, doubtless, no prosy CON
trOvQfBy upon the et;ooetta of Az -. 49,.