New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-11


heldness and gfandeursof the achievement may
POSSIBLY disguise the iniquity of the act. and
siynvert the wcrla' censares upon the theft into
fuimiration Of our audaoity.s
The NewYork Commercial Advertiser, a l3aper
.ldom deWasing from what is most sensible and
lst falis in still more closely with what we
aSe ourselves said;
me speech Of the Senator from Louisiana, on
7 ionday lst, was bold stepin the career of
ational Generalization The honorable gen
iemAh's resolution deliberately proposes, not
The Purchase of the Isfand Of Cuba. not its ac-
anisition BY bold and open seizure under autho-
|SaHy Of Government orc. Congress, but BY the
nean and scontemptible method Of suspending
ne neutrality laws, 80 that notorious hibustier-
ng adventurers may make successful forays
apen it
There have been days IN the history Of this
,epubic when member of the United States
senate would have biushed to connect his name
NTH such aresoiution-sD retrogressive in civ
| Iixation and in elevation of national character
sixteen years ago Congress more fully empow-
red the Executive to punish Americans who,
citing at defiance international comfy and the
sligations Of good neighborhood, perpetrated
,iratical assaults upon the territories of other
nd friendly nations, because it was felt thai
q lE.
that it had not the power to punish its citi
ems for robbiug and numbering the citizens of
dher territories. Congress redeemed the coun-
~ from that disgrace, and placed the United
states upon a footing with other powers in that
aspect. And what does Mr. Slidell, a Senator
the present day, propose Why virtually
/ nat the laws then passed shall be repealed !;
nat this great country shall go backward in
tead of forward; that it shall again be open
the taunts of other nations, which the legis.
alton of 1883 had etfectually silenced, and that
itshall now be proclaimed to the world that the
swless hibustiering residents and citizens Of
ne United States. from Lopez down to Walker,
rave full permission from Congress and the Ex-
cutive to roam, and rob- and slny, and over
arm, wherever they list
This is Mr., Sidell's proposition, fairly de,
eribed. And such he himself knows il to be
His language was: g Arm the President with
che simple power to unfetfer tie limbs of our
oeopke, and the Government will have no coca.
sion to put forth the energies of the nation
}ndtpsdudi enterprise and liberality will at once
barnash The men and the material that aeHl
adbte The native population of Cuba to shake
1T the yoke Of their trans atlantic tvraatsn
And again: Z" desire no mo cement on the part
II our citizens until the Cubans shall have put
heir own shoulders to the wheel They have
Deer reproaehed for their pusillanimity; but let
be once understood that if, by their own eff
orts to yindieate their rights, they show them
elves worthy of our sympathies, the arm of the
sederal Government will not be interposed on
'ehaf of their oppressors, in less than six
months the flag of freedom, the lone star, aoonld
rare ooer the ehote tstand- the Moro may,
9-rhaps, hold out somewhat longer" So that
te DO no wrong to Mr., slidell by the exposition
'e have given of his resolution. It is deliber.
To lat tha
ON of our population to take by force, and BY
he most lawlees and irresponsible proceedings,
ne territory of friendly power. That such a
ashonorable proposal should be openly made in
lie Senate Of the United States, that it should
le seriously entertained, discussed and re-
erred, is matter for deep concern and regret
tnd this not alone, because it involves great
sroog to Spain, but, because it proposes to ac
,ouplish that wrong by the most dishonorable
leans by relaxing all the obligations of
morals and, Of law, and by giving unbridled
teense to, the coarsest passions and the most
.efarious practices.
But, we repeat, admitting all that it is al |
eyed; that Cuba il about to be Afrieanized |
Which no one seriously believes that England |
nd france are intriguing and coalescing to |
deet such change; and that the change would |
ga substantial injary to the States of Louisi-
M, South Carolina and others--admitting ALL
ais is this great country, which By its honora. |
lie fiiplomacy thus far, it's integrity of adher-
ace to international obligations and comfy,
as now SO high position among the powers Of
re world. so TO demean itself as to adopt the
curse recommended by Mr. Slidell? We mag
le not. II our national interests are in aily
ny or degree perilled, let the Government take
lie only course open to u great and honorable
alton. Let It's Executive represent the matter
the powers offending; let it distinctly state its
wn views and the policy it desires to see adopt
4 ; let it make its proposals, with their alter
ative, with candor, dignity and frmness, as
ecomes power conscious Of its rights and its
trength, and if its representations and just de
lands are still undecided, then let the Govern
ent act up to it's responsibilities, and not leave
le assertion and its maintenance of the Repub.
c's right to 8. individual enterprise and liber
lty"--to freebooters and f1ibusters
Really, the more any man reflects upon Mr.
idell's proposition, the more Indignant and
must he feel indignant that such
mode Of redressing real or imaginary national
'ongs should be proposed to his country, aud
initiated that it should be gravely discussed
the Senate Chamber.