Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-03-28
Gbe .aailgg SPY.
TUESDAY, MARCH g, 1854.
war for Cnba.

IL ia evident that the administration AnVenu
81 oot nm n quarrel with Spain, for the sake
.stot;na cuba. The precipitation they have
s0.risestea in sending special envoy to Mad
"A h.s,re all the facts of the Black Warrior
case could be fairly investigated, shows that
the affair has either been got up for the occa-
sion. or has been considered too opportune an
accident to be allowed to pass. The slave
mower wants Cuba, and Frank Pierce is will
ing to do all he can to let them have it. The
BLACK Warrior case will, therefore, make as
oood a casus JelR as anything else; perhaps
better than anything else, for it has the one
grand advantage of being perfectly convenient.
Great Britain and France, who have guaran-
tied to Spain the integrity of her colonial pos
sessions. are about to go to war with Russia,
so that our gallant chivalry do not expect to
receive any appreciable obstacles to their de-
signs, in those quarters We can whip Spain
easily; but we are not SO certain about whip
ping Britain and France. Our chivalrous he
roes prefer to allow those two powers to get
into a fight before they challenge them. This
may DC very politl0, Oue ~ 10 NV A0ln@A AaoAy
bruve.
But, even though the Western European
powers are at war with Russia, Cuba will not
be taken so easily as some men imagine. The
free commercial States of this Union will have
to pay dearly for any attempt that may be
made to annex that Island The enormous
fleets Of Great Britain and France will not all
be employed against Russia; and, and in the
event of war about Cuba, they could detach
enough steamships Of war to destroy our com
merce, and batter down our most exposed
commercial cities.
They could cripple our industry, carry panic
into business, and reduce families to poverty
and suffering. Weshould not be able to compel
reparation to be made for all this, for Cuba,
even if we should take it, would not compen-
safe us for our losses and suferings. If it
came into the Union, as slave State, it would
81 come as counterpoise to the North, and as
an opposing power to the principles Of free
dom. lit did not come as slave State it
would not come at all.
1t is true that we can capture their ships
upon the sea, and we can destroy large
amount Of the wealth of Britain and France
but this would be almost as much calamity
to us as losing our own commerce. We should
be sacrificing civilization, industry, and pro-
gress, in order to strengthen and sustain bar
barism and tyranny. We should be running
the prosperity of our own country, and of our
best customers, in order to crafty the ambi-
ton Of paltry politician, and in order, al
SO, to make broader the foundations of slavery.
With good cause, and on our own soil,
we are invincible. We offer no inducement
to any power, to go to war with us. We are
strong. resolute, and rich; and any nation that
should wantonly assal us, would soon find
that it had committed grave error. We
would make any sacrifices to maintain the
true dignity and honor Of the nation, and
would consider the severest privations as
nothing, if they were suffered for truth, JUS
tice, and freedom. But if we go to war, to
steal Cuba and extend slavery, we enfeeble
ourselves. We lay ourselves open to the
ScoIA anu cOhteinpt Oh CnrlStenQonl, ana VIC
expose ourselves to sacrifices, for which, con.
science will offer us no consolation 1t ma,
do very well for young, thoughtless, ambitiou
filibusters to talk about whipping the French
and British, but it should be remembered tina
the steam marine Of Britain alone, is greater
than that of all the world combined, beside
It is easier to talk about whipping such a
power, than to whip her. Besides, this whip
ping business has never been profitable to
any nation. 1t would be ruinousy unproit-
able to us, if Cuba were to be the motive.
If the Car of Russia was to back out sud
denly, in this Turkey business, and concede
to the Western powers what they demand of
HIM, we think the Black Warrior affair would
very soon be settled. The administration
would then, we think, see that it was prudent
to act with care and dignity in the premises.
1t is humiliating to think that our rulers
should not only wantonly expose us to the
chances of war with France and Britain, but
should, at the same time, make us seem cow
ards, by the mode adopted, and the time
chosen, to embrol us in that war.