Washington telegraph., 1854-04-12
'ion is an awkward one, but the message is really

- 'ie, as ~ oeciareS tndu tnere nave been. the
! urse-oi lew years past, many other instances
OF aggressions on our commerce. violations of the
rights OF American citizens. and insults to the ma
tional nag, by the Cuban authorities all attempts
to obtain redress therefor have resulted only in
protracted and fraitless negotiations. expectation
U oi INDEMNITY having IN these cases not been real
lzed, il would have been well for an administra-
ton whose friends abused Mr.. Fillmore without
stunt for tamely submitting to Spanish insult to
| have bestirred itself little sooner and SO have
| prevented this last outrage
! Though the Black Warrior by entering and
clearing, on manifest stating her to be in ballast
when in tact, she had 400 bales of cotton on board
was technically guilty of violation of the Span
lsh regulations, and thereby liable to contiscation
OF such cargo, and heavy fine, nevertheless it is
true that these regulations had lately been suffer-
| ed to become obsolete, and other vessels had in
hundreds of instances been allowed to disreqa rd
the law in precisely the same manner: and the
President well says, that series of such acts can
not long consist with peaceful relations.
There is no doubt but that the President and
Congress will maintain the national honor. acting
with all necessary hTmness, and at the same time
with prudence and propriety, and no coubt the
nation will sustain them without murmur at
whatever cost, in any course that dignity and
honor may require.
Party politics now scarcely heard of except
In the newspapers. The Union with singular
want of lberaty, and in a very little and ungen-
erous spirit charges and attempts to prove that
the wing party. as party,is opposed to the Ne
braska bill, and the repeal of the Missouri COM
rromlsei after having authoritatively announced
that support or opposition to that measure should
not be considered a test of6emocrdcy. Impudence
and arrogance could not well go further. The
truth Is, that party lines all broken up. Sou
thern wings would far rather go with southern
conservative democrats, than with northern Sew
ard wings. The democrats hang together vet
because they are in power, and office and influ-
nrnf fr,I Iaor 10 ,.l1 Il "a
avoided. But you may be assured that there is no
cordlaIty between southern democrats and north
en Van Buren,, Hale, and Giddings ones. heard
prominent whig say the other day-a norther,,
whig he was, too,-that he had long been an ac-
tive and energetic Clay whie; but now he was
ready to Join any mind -your-own- business par
ty" That would not be a bad division of parties
those who mind their own business and are
willing to let well enough alone. against those
who mind other peoples business, and are for
meddling with slavery intervention, fillibusterism
and the other internal machines that are planted
about, ready to explode in every direction.
Nobody can guess who will be candidates or
how selected, at the next Presidential election
Gen. Cass is an antedeluvian relic, Douglass is
DEAD for the present il he wanted to be President
which he does not Sam Houston won't do for all
his efforts. Hunter, OF Virginia, is talked OF: but
in my opinion, Rusk, of Texas, an honest man. of
fine common sense, stands better chance than
any of them. 1t is very certain that, if he were
President, he, would have a mind of his own
Whom the wings will select, the Lord only knows
| believe that, If had to choose, | would take
Pearce, of Maryland; one of the ablest and best
men in the nation. But You may depend upon it,
that the Nebraska affair will make it very diff
cult for the wings to agree upon or in, national
convention.
The Homestead bill has passed the House. with
provision extending its privileges to aliens. |
suppose it will pass the Senate. That enacted,
and there is small danger of slavery getting foot
hold In Nebraska OF Kansas; nor will it be diff
cult soon to abolish it in Missouri. 1t will be
more efficient for the north than the Missouri
compromise bill or the Wilmot Proviso; and it
will be apt to give feo anti-slaveIy voters in
Arkansas For my part | think getting
foreigners fast enough already. l think the go
vernment ought to give land to its own citizens;
but there [ would stop. The south does not want
foreign emigration. We do not want thickly
settled population nor the vices, crimes and riots
of cities.
Europe Is gradually sliding down into great
war. Probably. by the time you receive this,
sixty thousand British and French troops will be
in Turkeh and the mightest fleet that ever put to
sea will occupy the Baltic, The Russian heets
must be laid up annihiated. On land, the re-
suit is not so easily to be prophecied. The Rus
slams may whip the Turks upon the Danube, be-
fore the western forces arrive. 1t they do not,
they will hardly do so afterwards.
Austria and Prussia will in vain struggle to re-
-
uproar. In this clash of arms, if we can remain
at peace, increased emigration, fleeing from Eu-
Topean troubles, foreign capital, seeking safe in
vestment. and the carrying trade with enlarged
markets for our cotton goods ard provisions, will
produce wonderful prosperity.
| sent you, some days since, Senator Johnsons
bill, for organizing the Territories of Chel-o.
kee, Muscogee and Chahta; for which need not
here repeat the details Having no partisan po-
litcal or sectional bearing. but being solely
measure of justice to the Indians. it is received
with great favor, and it is generally believed it
will pass with no serious opposition. | hope it
may; as believe it will ultimately open the lndi-
country west of us to emigration and settle
ment. Ultimately, | say; for should be sorry to
see it opened now. The acquisition of Texas has
deprived Arkansas of twenty thousand emigrants
and hope to see borders filled. before any
new country is opened to the west of us.
1t is to be hoped after the next mail lettings,
that the people of Arkansas will no longer be out
ragged, as they have been for years, by inefficient
mail service. 1t is hoped that daily mail from
Memphis to Little Rock will be secured, which
will be reality and not sham. There ought
to be daily mail to Little Rock, and tri-weekly's
to Batesville, Fort Smith. Washington and Shreve-
port at least. 10 people ever bore insult pa
tiently. as those of Arkansas have, in regard to
their mails and it is shame and disgrace that
the means of ingress and egress should be shah
by and at the time so expensive, as they
have been for years
| Mr. Gwin has introduced a Pacific railroad bill
into the Senate. You will find it, and the Black
| Warrior Proclamation, in the Union send you.
Gen. Rusk will probably introduce bill as sub
stitute for it. The friends of such road are
strongly in hopes of succeeding, at the present
session. If they do, new day will Dawn upon
| Arkansas n spite of herself her intestine squab-
! bles. her absurd legislation, which no term ever
seemed to me so well to characterize as that OF
/ drunken gravity" Our laws have, to me, a kind
of tipsy and fuddled solemnity, that is excruciat
ingly ludicrous.
The Masonic Fraternity here have set to work
in earnest to provide for building Masonic Tenn
ple to be credit to the order throughout the Un-
| ion They call on their brethren everywhere to
unite with them in the great work. hope that
! Arkansas will not be behind her sisters, IN pro-