Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-24
SOUTHERN SENTIMENT.
PROM THE NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN OF JUNE IA.

FROM THE NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN or JUNE IA.
The Washington Sentinel of the It'll tries to
throw ridcule upon the selections made by the Ma
tional Intelligencer, from many Southern journals
opposed to the Nebraska bill, headed "Southern
Sentiment" Says the Sentinel: " The Intelligen-
Ger knows, and every body knows, that Southern
sentiment as in favor of the Nebraska bill, warmly
and cordially in favor of it."
Our Washington Nebraska contemporary is alto
gether in the wrong. The Intelligencer does not
know, nor does the Sentinel know, nor does any
body else know, that "Southern sentiment is
"warmly and cordially" in favor of the Nebraska
bill; for the very opposite is the Its intro
duction fell coldly upon the Southern public, the
fierce discussions that followed awakened no sensa-
ton and its passage defeat would have produced
no widespread excitement. Indeed, we believe the
shareholders of the South would have preferred its
defeat. We believe are perfectly safe in saying
that represent, editorially, more planters than
all of the Washington papers put together, and we
have yet to meet one who does not look upon the
introduction of the Nebraska bill as ill-timed, i'll
advised, and injudicious, if not positively wrong.
Congress can 60 to work and repeal the Nebraska
bill, and there will be no indignation among slave
holders, no excitement, not billionth part of the
agitation that its passage has created among the
Abolitionists of the North. The political traders
might attempt to raise breeze, but they would fail
just signally as they did in attempting to get up
enthusiasm in favor of the Nebraska bill
Spanish PRIDE rags, hunger, jealousy ignorance, and
yndictveness have passed into proverb 1t is neither
fit right that such race should longer live in the
worlds way by occupying the finest territorial division
of North America If the Spanish people were enter
prisng and intelligent and governed by enlightened
policy the case would be entirely differentiated Dem.
! This is perhaps the most naked and revolving
statement OF the argument for the immediate acqui-
sition of Cuba that our readers have seen. And
yet, coarse and shocking it may seem and is, it
is simply the philosophy of Young America strip
pedof all renements and presented in its essential
character. 1t is nothing less or more than bare
assertion of the esuitical principle that the end
sanctifes the means-the skeleton Of that specous
and splendid casuistry by which Eugene Aram
transmitted murder into philanthropy. 1t is the
chosen theory of cultivated bandits, the darling
creed of philosophic cut-throats, the gospel of all
fllibusters, the vital dogma of Locofocoism, and Of
every other ism that infests and defes the age. Il
is aptly invoked to justify the arbitrary seizure Of
/ Cuba.
There is no pretence that this island is not al
4 rightfuly the possession of Spain as Nebraska OF
Minnesota is that of the Union; none whatever
that our Government has the slightest legal claim
upon its territory; none that our paramount int
rest in its destiny invests with the suzeranty oil
protectorate or any other authority over its nhabi
tants It is SPANS as absolutely as any other jewe
in her crown. But then, says Young America, it
marvellous beauty and fertility and its exhaustless
wealth render it too glorious possession for race
whose pride and poverty and jealousy have become
proverbial! The Spaniards are race of stately
beggars who have no right to live longer in the
worlds way by occupying the finest territorial diyi
sion of the continent. So magnificent possession
outrages the prevailing harmony Of their wretched
ness. If they were enterprsing and intelligent
like ourselves the case would be entirely different
As it is we want their island, we ought to have it
and we ciU have it. When such incredible loose
ness of thought and morals prevails in inteligen
and influential quarters, it is high time for the en-
: lghtened conscience of the nation to awaken.
-. "'~." ."&~E .'#% Louisville Journal.