Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-08-09
SPIRIT OF TIE xoRNIxa PRESS

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SPIRIT OF Tx 10RNIke PRESS
The Inteliigenee- referring to the alteration
u the Minnesota land bill, SAYS:
The 81. Paul's " Pioneer" Of the 18th ul-
timo has long article against the propriety
OF Congress making munifcent grant OF
lends to the company chartered last year by
the Legislature Of Minnesota, which seems TO
Disclose to some extent the motive that induced
the parties intsreste 10 procure an alteration
In the Minnesota Land Bill. The Pioneer ~
ssys:
" The attempt Of the company aforesaid to
swallow the whole At mouthful by organising
slectiDg directors, DO, immediate after the
passage Of the bill, il nugatory, and can result
In no particular benefit to themselves or their
future prospects. The intention Of Congressto
nullify all former charters Of the Territorial
Legislature, disposing of these lands In ad-
vance, is too obvious to escape the notice Of any
bot those whose interest it ID to affect to believe
otherwise"
Congress, 1t will be remembered, after dis
covering the alteration Of word In the en-
rolled bill by which this company might claim
the lands, forth with repealed the entire act
Discussing the "Ten Million Appropriation, ~
the Union says Of the Cuba question:
ave admit that oil this presents most
dimcult question: but n the exigency exists,
as the crisis approaches, il behooves As to be
ready fer it. If even the editor of the Intelli.
genoer had full power in the premises he " ould
be compelled to move against his presen,
svowsls- No Administration will be tolerate ed
tof moment that allows Cuba to psse into the
hands Of other European powers or to be
made citadel Of abolition and negrodom
from which, in the first place, the uuion of the
States viii be successfully sssailed, and in
which, In the second place, the horrid rites Of
San Domingo Will be enacted with supe added
horrors. Not even those who clamor the loud
est and the longest against the idea Of making
Cuba slave State-Hot even those who den y
the possibility Of the contingency Of Afrioani
zation-not even those who declare that the
Spanish revolationists will not sell-would
dare to resist the torrent of public feeling ths,
would carry all doubters before /: the momen,
tho crisis alluded to was precipitate ID upon the
country.
president Pierce has done HE duty thr ough.
out, though he has not been able to please oui
hypercritical contemporary. Impelled by hii
regard for treaty obi gations, he efectually
South that was rapidly forming TO take Cubs
1t all hazards. For this he received few
cold and cautious compliments alone from the
lnteiligencer, and now, when, In reply to TIE
resolution Of the Senate, he gives his views al
frankly Is tho circumstances will admit, the
Intsiligencer rejoices with exceeding great
Joy because q contingent appropriation was
not made"
0the Greytown affair, the Onion also says
!" The affair at Greytown is q legitimate and
predicted consequence ct British occupation
where there was no right or reason for such
occupation. Precisely such results we're an
ticipased by some Of the wisest American
statesmen when the Clayton Bulwer treaty
was consummatsd. And now that the admin.
lstrstion has been called to account for re-
fusing TO treat this Greytown protectorate
an q genuine British dependency, instead of
a. 1t was, lawless band of men, assuming {.
act under the authority Of England, of course
their whig friends are indignant and aroused
The New York Tribune is grossly offended
and the echoes of that polite newspsper take
up the same cry. We are glad, however. to
Sc that such q paper as the Philadelphia
Ledger, so influential With all classes, takes q
jusssr and more comprehensive view Of the
Grsytown affair"
The Union also discus % Mr. Richardson's
criticism uDon the President 3 msssags vetoing
the river and barber bili, wherein, the edi-
tor alleges, Mr. R. intimA.es that that func-
ronary's Ideas of ths eonstitutionality of the
fystsm are bounded By salt water lines He
che EDITOR holds that Mr.. r. does the Presi-
DENT rank ir justice; inssmuoh ~ he attributes
West, because they Arc not on tho ses-eosst-
according to the Unien's understanding OF
Ny RS remarks. The organ points to the
inaugural to sustain his contradiction Of Mr.
R., and oslis puoiio attention to the fact that,
in the veto msssage In question, the President
promises to explain in his next annual mes.
sage Ills ideas Of the description Of internal
Improvements which are constitutional, and
which are not For the present, the editor
contents msslf with the asseveration that the
President stands on this question where Mr.
Richsrdson says he stands; that Gene
ral Jaskson's platform. IL strikes rs. how
ever, ,ass 1t would puz.le a jury Of Philadel.
phis lawyers to come TO An agreement a. to
What precisely, General Jacksor's platform
on internal Improvements was for, If We rec
olleet correctly, that wise old man was al
cautious about com hitting himself upon that
ueject, 40 when protesting his favor FOR q
jUSl1ous tariff.
TIE Senfinsi discusses the Presidents veto
and the probable effect of the revolution in
Spain on the future Of Cuba a. connected wi b
the United States.
The Cfppz,, protesting to be par excellence
tie journal Of the day devoted to American.
Ism, copies q furious assault on Captain HoI-
Inns from a Kingston tJamaies) paper, which
is in fair keeping with its own previous crit
sisaz upon the bombardment Of Grsytown
The Chp1er's professions Of Amsriesnism seem
70 b about on = par With Its professions Of re-
nSion-nsithsr being worth pinch q snuff.
TIE TRIBUNE AND rHK Soura AGAIy.-Not.
outstanding the severe rebuks sdministsred
to the New York Tribune, by the pres gen
orally both Of the North apd South, for it, In
fsmously malicious notice Of the murder OF
Col. Loring, it has tbs efrontsy totsrste and
rsfssrsts iu former fslsshooda In yester-
days issus. We find the following:
What We did imply was tbs tendency of
Ill IN nd