Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-05-06
ON MATTERS AND THINGS.


would be at in respect to Cuba. 1t has just been
announced that the Black Warrior affair has been
satisfactorily adjusted at Madrid. What else there
is to quarrel about we do not know unless it be that
an Havana paper made remark the other day dis
respectful to our President.-Jour. Com.
Excerpts from The Correspondence Of the paper.
The proposition Of Senator SLIDELL to repeal the
neutrality laws in regard to Spain upon very
expecedy. Judge BUTLER has lately declared in the
Senate his views in regard to our relations with Cuba
aud the rest of Southern islands, he called them
ours he said, by contguiy and commercial and political
necessity.
Granting all the facts to be asserted the question
arises whether the United States shall declare and
take the island, merely encourage the flibusers
take il. The former would be the honorable mode
but Mr. Slidelps resolution looks to the latter While
Congress in session it for them to take hostile mea
against SPAIN if they wish to do it, But Mr. Sill
dels resolution looks to the fact that Congress will
fuse to act directly and it proposes enable the Pres
dent to upon his discretion after the adjournment of
Congress 1t is to be presumed that has been some
way ascerained that the President will stand ready to
any power that may be committed to him. and in.
deed he says he will in his Black Warrior message
Thus have war discussion ere long in the SEN
ate, and perhaps the actual initiation Of measure"
The suspension of neutrality laws reprisals block
ade but premnarcs to active and open war; and
that point the President and Mr.. Sldell undoubtedly
look As the Southern mind shall be prepared
for hostile shall have the and the tendency
towards that result long been manifest The conser
vatve South has been very backward in coming into
measure, now looked to- of the forcibe acquisition of
Cuba Mr. Calhoun utterly opposed to the acQuis-
ton of Cuba and her annexation the Union, even
time when it thought that the scheme could be &C
eomplished without force.
The acquisition of Cuba, forcibly otherwise, will be
the cardinal principle of the next Presidential contest
unless indeed Cuba happen to fall to before that time
to wit three years hence 1t will require three years
finish six seam-frgates, and it to be admitted
that these may be requisite to carry out the policy in
view simple repeal of the neutrality laws in regard
to Cuba would give the Creoles all the which
they will require for asserting their independence, in op
position to the allied Powers of SPAIN France and Eng
land We not certain that with the steamers
we could settle the question at know however,
that very gallant and experienced officer of navy
expresses the opinion that could conquer Cuba with
force of fifteen thousand Probably we could do so,
with the aid of naval force competent meet the conf
bied fee with whose resistance Mr. Slidell threatens
The Administration is ready for any for the
acquisition Of Cuba. The President says in many
words in his Black Warrior message. The Union says
for him to-day that the Administration of President
Pierce will stand by their pledges made to the world let
the consequences be what they may 1t is only for Con-
gress to act and adopt nitatory of hos
tlity Congress will act when the South unit shall
come to the support of the This is very
nearly the The President to have been re-
luctan to take the responsibility of proposing definite
of hostility and the House Committee Foreign
Affairs would not take any action his message, for the
reason that the President proposed nothing
The Senate, pursuing the lead of Mr.. Slde, whose
course is highly commended by the Government organ,
may supply the default Of the President"
President PIERcE's first veto message in to-day.
The bill granting ten millions of Of land to the
vera States for the benefit Of the INDECENT insane
turned to the Senate with the Presidents objections"
81 find in these objections vetoes upon the Bennett
land distribution bill and the homestead BILL The latter
bill is distinctly advocated the ground of charityof
giving land to the lazy landless. The President, if
comprehend him. will not assent to grant lands for poor
houses, whether in the old the States. Gov
Brown, of Mississippi made very strong argument
to the Presidents various objections producing De-
mocratc authority in answer to them"
" The Committee on Foreign Affairs to which Mr.. Sill
dels resolutions for egalizing fbuserism referred
consists of Messrs Mason Cass Douglas Everett, Sde
and Clayton"