Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1854-06-16
The Cuban Press on American Affairs.


The Diario of May 3D. publishes article of four
columns in relation to Mr. Thrashers pamPpet on the
Cuban Question, reproduced by. the Washington
Union, and the comments of The latter journal upon
the same. The article opens with some OF the Gus
tomary insulting observation respecting the United
States, which it accuses of being anxious about
national honor, at a moment when the attention OF
the European Powers is engaged elsewhere. II then
goes to hint, very broadly, the probable embarIass
ment at American cotton growers, and threatens the
action OF prvateers upon our commerce in case OF
war with Spain. s.su
Taking Thrasher's pamphlet in review, it justifes
The casssI { the Georgiana and Susan Loud by sim
and Lamartine, in 1851, it declares that the Go
vernment of the United States would be unworthy
of the name had she allowed the outrage, alleged by
Mr. Thrasher, to pass unredressed. These vessels,
it asserts, were fired upon because they failed to
show their colors. as repeatedly requested to do by
Spanish vessels of war Their hesitating 10 do is
styled provoeatinn, and the evidence OF desired
! cause OF complaint The detention of the Ohio at
Havana, in 1882, is referred TO an infringement of
the sanatory laws and justified. The boarding and
the detention of the Manchester in the same year,
is explained by the fact that the ship in question
was found among the keys, along the Cuban coast.
without valid reason for her having altered her
destination, and that the Spanish cruisers would have
been direct of their duty had they failed to arrest
and register the suspicious vessel.
| The repeated violation of the United States mails,
in 1858, is defended on the ground that suhrersve
documents &c. shipped into the Island of Cuba
The repeated violation of the United States Mails in
| 1853, is defended the ground that "subversve
documents" &c, were shipped into the Island of Gu
ba, in the said mails, and that the Captain General
was determined to execute the laws prohibiting such
papes. The arrest of three American sailors. sus-
pected of being engaged in the slave traffic. is decar-
ed to have been proper and they released when
their innocence had been made apparent. The seZ-
ure, imprisonment, and expulsion of various Ameri-
citizens in $780, 81 and '53, are justified upon
the charges of conspiring with the "6IIihus,eros,'
distributing incendiary publications. and in par
tieular for disorderly and vicious conduct, which
caused his own family to request his removal.
The Diario proceeds to crticise the note of Mr..
Soule to the Spanish Government, and by algebra
ic calculation more arbitrary than sensible reduces
the outrage inflicted the U. States, by Spain to
| nothing. The cases of the Spanish brgantine San
Jose, at Baltimore in September last, is then diIaed
upon a se-of to the complaints of Mr.. Soule. In
summing up, this heavy article ntimates that if the
inofensve and pacific Republic has shown all the pa
tience Of Job and the confluence of Joseph IL it has
for many years borne the insults it enumerates
through its Ambassador. The present reclamations
OF our government treated a sudden display of
senstiveness, and the article ends with mysterious
| threat couched in quotation which recoils upon
the writer fortuna nimiuw 9uem fouet Stultun fa-
cit