The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-02

place OF honors ard Of power row II addresses itself to
the most brutal nstDcs il excites the poorer classes by
making them covert the property of others. These
symptoms are calculated TO cause alarm when call to
mind the little strength possessed By the central govern
mont in Spain particularly at the present time for it is
the government slole that check this
Of social war The local authorities Imposing them TO
have the win and the courage TO DO So wanting in
the necessary means We observe in toe Madrid journals
and 10 some letters that much reliance is plsced the
result Of the elections The elections in Spain have
slw3 been just what tie OF the Gay wished
them to be- but from the very fact that they the
production Of either copassnee OF carelessness they
give but little moral force 20 the government.
What took place in france, after the disaster of l848
whore tho general spirit and Influence Of the elections
contributed much to the gradra Enlistment Of
order, cannot occur in Spain.
Mn. SOnlc, Cuba and the X now Nothinxs
from the London Chronicle, Sept. H..
Mr. soue, the American Plenpotentiary at Madrid,
has recently addressed a letter to mmitae of the
Spanish metropolitan press, in which no informs his
correspondents that Spain sm2y il she wishes paci6
caly consolidate and in few months what ing
England could only achieve at the price of two revou
tons Of war Of twenty years. of despotism of twelve
of change Of dynasties aud Of century and half of
internal agatons and struggles" This effusion has
not perhaps, been dictated by the best taste nor does
1T breathe very reasonable political philosophy: but il
is salts actory symptom that the government of Es
pareto viii have material advantage its predeces-
eGn difficulties. Mr. Soue universally believed in the
ULited States to have been named to the Spanish legation
az the best adapted Of all American politicians to
nfactuIe casas telh on the of Cuba-the qua.
ifcaions attributed to him being FIRST very irritable
temper and secondly, great violence Of opinion the
paIcuIs question which was to be the subject of his
negotiations The famous duel with the French Ambas
sador appears 70 hare justified the Impressions of Mr.
soues on one point and they not far
inf rmed that he had ed in brngrg up the Cuban
business into ripe order for declaration Of hostes
on. mat PRESIDENT Pierce anc his Cabinet '.hai not
o. mind however which made This gentleman the most
explosive of diplomatic representatives probably de-
rived from the circumstances OF his personal history
A Frenchrnan by birth he was forced to expatr,ate
himself in the sequel Of the earliest disturbances Of
10, louis Phippe's reign and he evidently retains at
istics Of continental ultra liberal These very prepos-
sessions placed him in perpetual antogonism to the me-
constantly Sued his susceptbties by their strong am,
ogy to the objects OF his early hatred and opposition
Inc revolution which has Just taken place COM
memo itself TO the same sentiments which made him IN.
manageable before its occurrence and If we may Judge
BY his letter he has been converted into an active par
tisan OF the men who are uppermost ia Spain As
there really obstacle nhdter 10 The settlement or he
immediate difficulties beitceeR the United States and Snoin
sIeems aua,ed aecndonmen q al reason and temper on
fore retiring from his post may have 80 far mitixated
his claims to make it possible for Espartera to oer
the dignity Of the Spanish nation.
should the Amer government and s represe atative
mont the moment of accomplishing il would not be mop
portuney chosen, far the people Of the United
states are concerned The annexation of Cuba appears
TO he even now sharing in the general dscIedt in which
the policy of foreign hes been involved BY the
Grey town affair." and IL il DO delay longer
Of still greater depth and force win probably pas for
ever beyond the range of possibility Tbs Sudden
cess OF the old native American party under the appea
ton Of Know Nothings ,estiaes that the people have
at last become awake to the greatest peril which threat
ems their political establishment. The classes against
whom the attack Of this new faction at present direct
ed have more by their folly and obrusiveness
than by any real antagonsm TO the national spirit
temper. The Irish immigrants, By the discipline into
which they allow themselves to be drilled by the
Mchells and Hugheses the Germans by their habits
OF suky fsoation-have for moment, managed to on
vert into vulgar agitation against Popery and foreign
labor movement which has been silently in progress
for years, and which has its in we'll grounded
fear lest these constant dashes OF alien blood should u
mately weaken the common traditions and common ba
bits by which the republic is held together But the
danger is not from the Irish Germans. As we may
easily see from the Lamentations of the priests across
the channel the distinctive characteristics and the
faith of the lhman In America lest in the period of
single generation ard It is the opinion Of the German
their own country does not last much longer But
that most wonderful faculty of absorption which the
federation evnces would be eesed BY the obstinate
the jaws of the Republic, the appetite, once
whettcd, win crafty itself with province after
province rent from the feeble frame of Eexico;
but is quite another question whether these
stolen norsels would be digostsd span, easily
rum difficult to conquer Reproduced in her enfan
chised dependencies; and the Anglo Americans after
getting tho simple prelimneries of conquest and
annexation would find themselves engaged in q perma
nent domestic conflict with the lnifestatons OF
ona character quite deeply rooted and quite Pc
culiar Rs their The Irish kept apart from
the mass Of the American people simply by their faith
the Germans almost entirely by the difference of Ian
guege but these Spanish citizens, besides being
acted upon by the separating influence Of speech and
religion, would be banded together by distinct national
radtionsof which the Irish have few and the Germans
none and by local propinquity, which is merely tenn
porary bond of union between immigrants from Europe
1t would not take hall dozen, perhaps not couple Of
years from the admission OF Spanish State into the
federation to convert the Know Nothngs into the
ceus Of powerful anti Spanish party
The elere hts OF Know Nothingsm have long existed
in the American States in more or less Of activity but
which party embodying them has met with any con
siderable political success Seven or eight ago the
Native American party organized itself on the same
avowed basis as the Know Nothipgs-with the design,
that is to say Of carrying stringent law Of naturalixa
ton But 1T proved utterly poweress at tie polls, and
indeed lite i'll success garng that the mputaton
of having favored belonged to it has become sort Of
tsndr repoach evecd BY each Of the great parties
at obnoxious members Of the other. The pre-
and popularity illustrates strikiugly the efficacy Of
small causes In aiding great ones for the Na-
tive are nov sl ,Ssv T FormerV
possessed; EXCEPT the mysterious name Of Know w.
things and the secret organi which it implies The
immediate objects Of their anpathy are gnobe enough
but we must say that the Irish settlers have in great
MEASURE brought the attack themselves Ii ia cacu
lated that in spite Of the immense mmgrations Of late
years the number Of coalesced Irish 70 Catholics in
New York ard the Mississippi valley their two great
srongholds, has neither increased decrcased-all
that Is gained by the exodus from Europe being lost BY
descrton into the general Of the American people
But the body which does remain constant 10 the
peculiar characteristics of Meath and Tpperary, is
dragooned to degree of political discipline which
would lie perfectly uninteligble but for ones
recollectiops Of GconneIi. This compact little
commo nwsalih has hitherto tried precisely the same
game in the Northern and Western States which the
ssveboder have lorg played in the general politics
Of the Union. They have opened kind of bidding for
their votes and have uniformly bestowed them the
person party who undertook to promote some pet lit
tie protect Of tho Enthusiastically scheme Of
Archbishop Bughcsfor establishing an empire of his
own in the schools Of the State. But this is a policy
which may be overtone. Party heats will Every now
ard then cool down lttlc and to contendng factions
will bctpk them that nobody has gained BY their conflict
except the who agree with neither OF them The
soil agitation the greater theatre and Know Nothing
ism the smaller The occasional punish ments which
walt on sy stemAtic political selhshness.
MURDER OF EMronANTs IN KANSAS BY THE PAW
NEE ISpIANs.--The editor of the Democratic Plat.
form In his issue Of the 9Th instant say s-While in