Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-08-14
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WA1Euofox NEWS AND aossIp.
ouhs. I'VE know not "a what data, su. ,hsrs
certainly exists here, Just as this tine, strong
belief among the Democratic politisians that
before the government Of Spain becomes . Of.
tied In the new hands now holding It, ws will
surely have news of q formidable rebellion In
Cubs, based on the condition Of affairs In the
mother country. 1t is thought by he best in.
formed persons here, that tho system Of espio-
mage OF the present colonial government will
fail them under existing circumstances That
10, that the corrupt persons employed as their
spies will gladly betray them to any consider
able party In the island who may venture to
make revolution nominally In favor of the
Espartero and O'Donnel movement at home,
but, really, with the view of speedy annexa.
ton to the United States. While it ia yerv
clear that the present government Of the
United States will strain every nerve to pre-.
vent Americans from participating, unlawful.
ly, in the domestic affairs of Cuba, it is equal
ly clear to those who realize the condition of
feeling on tho subject of the future of the
Island existing everywhere on our Atlantic and
Gulf coasts, that without the special provision
to that end, which Congress refused, it will be
the most difficult task conceivable to preyen,
An avalanche Of sympathizers from being pre-
cipitated oa the island from this country,
shenever the Cuban movement, to which We
refer above, may be esssyed. Our readers in
the interior have not the slightest idea of the
INTENSITY and extent Of tho feeling on the sub
Jet which exists among the commercial and
maritime population of the coast country. That
which prevailed curing the ever memorable
march Of Santa Anna from the city of Mexico
70 the battlefield Of San Jaointo was not to
be compared to it, as wide spread and all per.
vadiDg as that was, it will be recollected
Within tho last three months, popular feeling
upon the subject of the acquisition of Cuba
has greatly increased in this quarter, owing to
the failure Of Congress to make some provision
for the contingency of an opportunity to OBJ.
tain It, and the occurrence of that opportunity,
ss Is generally believed, immedi ately after
the adjournment of Congress. 1t will be rec
objected that every possible honest effort was
made by the government of the United States
topreserve our neutrality laws inviolate during
the excited times Of the Texas struggle-when
Executive proclamations were worth no more,
practically, than so much waste paper. Our
government, for q similar occasion, is worth
positively less at this moment than then, the
military and naval resources at its comma nd
having by no means increased in tho same
ratio with the increase Of tho disposition
OF our people to take an active part in
such affairs Of their neighbors appearing
likely to lead to our acquisition Of more desi.
rable territory. The Texas affair was merely
the sowing Of the seed of the fllibustering
spirit, which is ripe to-dsy-that's evident to
all In Washington who scan the signs of the
times closely. We repeat, we have no doubt
that all which the General Government can do
towards checking the departure of any expe
ditions to Cuba in case of an effort at revolu
ton in the island pending the existing revo
luton il Spain, will certainly be done. IL
effect it will be literally nothing. There are
at least three hundred men in the District OF
Columbia alone who would venture on such
an undertaking, and their fellows exist in pro-
portionate numbers according to population
everywhere east of the Alleghanies. They
are manifest destiny men, every mothers son
OF them, and are shreWd enough to understand
that with the government of Spain in revolu
tionary disorder, and an existing rsvolut' Oh
in Cuba to conceal in . great measure the un-
authorised character of their proposed interfe.
rence in the domestic affairs of others, no ex.
isting power in our government can control
them.
1t Is we'll that the country should look the
truth in the face at once, and we therefore
| write thus plainly. All the Stars readers
| are aware that We entertain no sympathy for
hllibustenng, however ardently We desire the
legal acquisition of Cuba. The Government
| Of the United States contains no power cen
| tered in tho hands Of its Executive to NEE,
contingencies like that of the Texas revolu
| ton, or that which is soon to occur on oul
southeastern border. As much as this state
of things is to be regretted, it is certainly so
The history of the progress of nations tell,
that territorial acquisition is passion which
has beset every nation that has existed ana
became more powerful than its neighbers. n,
ono Of them has ever yet successfully reaistei
it, and we are the last known to history who
should be expected to do 50, owing to our pc
culisr form Of Government, which disoourages
military and naval preparation, and to oul
national theory with reference to territory
found in tho occupancy of tho feeble abor
| igines on our borders, which our people
laws, and customs have held to be ours-no
theirs-whenever We may DO ready to hell
Ourselves to it. Our pulpits, presses, aud con
| servativs' everywhere may inveigh constantly
against 6llibustering, from now 8 ntil tn.
moment tho standard of revolution is raised il
| Cuba; and when that event occurs an ava
lanche of sympathetic excitement is destined
70 sweep over the land, that will precipitat.
q hundred thousand armed North Americana
on the island in thirty days after the news o
the event reaches New York and New Orleans
in spite Of all that the Government of tn.
United States can do with the feeble means a
its comm and.
| A Mistake Of the Star.-In presenting .
comparative view Of the sums appropriated
under the civil and diplomatic bill of 1853 an(