New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-10-06

4 be put to constant and heavy expense by the
conauct OF Power that processes to be at peace
win her. There must be something very faulty
IN the organization of the United States Govern
ment II It cannot enforce its laws aud proclama
| hons and that too, when, as we are informed
land the refusal of the $4,000, 900 to the presl
| dent seems to confirm the truth of that informo
tion;) large majority of the population Of the
States is opposed to the annexation OF Cuba II
Things be SO arranged in the great American
Republic that an unprincipled minority NAV set
law, right, and the wishes of the remainder of
the nation at defiance, and prosecute by means
differing in no way excepting in the greater
| magnitude of the enterprise) from those en-
ployed by the daring pirates, the Blackbeards
ana Kids, who formerly infested the Spanish
| main and lurked in West Indian creeks and in
lets, II this be the case, the United States will
become public nuisance and other nations
will be compelled to combine to check her en-
| croachments.
The lnordinate self-eonceit of the Americans
seems to blind them to this. The rifles
from behind the cotton bags of New Orleans,
although they killed Packenham and repulsed
MS men, had, perhaps, for Americas own sake,
oeensbetter never fired That affair, and some
other trlfiing successes during the short war,
have largely contributed to initiate our brethren
across the water with an exaggerated idea of
their own Importance and invincibility What
IS now passing in Eastern and Northern Europe.
might, one would think, make them reflect IN
the great changes that have occurred during
the last forty years. The single word &c steam :
should suffice to remind them that the same
fleets and armies which now check, and proba
bly, soon will humble the Colossus of the North
might with equal facility be transported across
the Atlantic. 1t would be deeply to be de-
plored that such an expedition should ever he.
come necessary; but it is impossible not to fore
see the possibility that when the Eastern cues
ton is disposed of, there may be Western
question to settle.
Looking at things in a practical light. and
putting aside the fictitious prestige which
America owes, in great part to American boast
ing, what could the United States do to prevent
a combined English and French feet from
steaming across the ocean, destroying or Selling
her navy, and capturing and garrisoning some
OF her seaboard cities Should not the posi-
ollity OF such humiliation and damage suffice
to deter the Americans from the course they are
pursuing with respect to Cuba? The statistics
l nave given prove that nearly the whole of the
spanish navy, and at least one fourth of the
whole effective force Of the Spanish army, are
now required for the protection of Cuba, while |
the revenue drawn from the island by the
mother country is enormously diminished by the |
expenses of warlike preparations, and trade is
injured by state Of anxiety and doubtful Sc.
curity. If the holders of the repudiated Span
ish Coupons could prevail upon England and
France to guarantee Cuba to its present rightful |
possessor, it would be their best chance of an |
early adjustment Of claims which otherwise, / |
fear, must yet for considerable time stand
over,