The daily union., 1854-07-26

How strange il is that Mr. Marcy should be achieving
such wonders in diplomacy and yet afflicted with 'de
plorable ignorance of everything relating to foreign
ons - But not only Mr. Marcy thus lamentaby in
voved in adeploabe ignorance but the President Col
Davis Gen Cushing Mr.. Dobbn, Judge Campbell, Mr..
Guthrie and Gov McCleand, all alike wholly
informed of everything relating to foreign nations As
to Spanish affairs the members of the administration know
absolutely nothing they never would have pepetrated
the folly of supposing that the purchase of Cuba pos
sibel We undertake to defend the administration
against such denunciaton it would be stretch of pre-
sumption of which incapable to undertake to set up
the intelligence of such ignorant obscure, and weak
the President and his cabinet advisers against the
wonderful modesy and boundless information as to for
eign nations possessed by the editors of the Delta
Having thus summar disposed Of the idea of buying
Cuba the article in the Delta proceeds to denounce the
alternative proposition of taking possession of the island
upon the principle of self fpreservation, follows
'But then we told of the energetic prompt, and de-
cided measures which will be employed in Spain does
not sell the island For administration which
talks loudly of national honor, think this is bold
proposition There is nothing in fibuserismJudge Camp
bell being judgehalf bad this The immortality of such
scheme revongits puerilty contemplate II is little
better the compromise of the highwayman who de-
ands of the traveller his or his life with the pistol at
his breast"
1t will strike the reader remarkable that any ed
itor could be blinded by his passions to write the
foregoing and Immediately afterwards insist that the
simple manly direcr scheme for obtaining Cuba is by
and aiding the oppressed people of Cuba
strike themselves the blow for their Independence, and
caing upon our citizens to rush 10 their aid The logic
of the Delta is as bad its morals. 1t repudiates
the acquisition of Cuba by our by resorng
.,.. a,Il; uf
ter Spain shall have refused to sell the island for fair
price and such proposition to be dishonora
BILE and no better than highway robbery but at the same
time it insists that without even Offering to buy the
island and with our peaceable relations Spain unbroken
and with our laws against illibusering nnexecuted, 1t
would be highly honorable in government to encourage
and aid the Cubans strike for their independence and
then to call upon citizens 10 rush 10 her dm! II IS
hardly necessary comment upon the contrast between
two such propositions The administration start out upon
the conviction that matter of selfpreservnon Cuba
essential to our government To acquire it they pro-
pose to exhaust oil the powers of diplomacy; they de-
termine acquire it peaceaby if that IL found prac-
ticabe, and to that end they are willing 10 pay to
Spain liberal price for the island. But, in spirit Of
frankness and drectness the administration declare that
upon the conviction that Cuba essential to ma
tional safety if Spain refuse TO negotiate SALE and
determined hold the island to be constant nu-
sance to ouS government then will be policy and our
duty to take redress into hands, and abate the
nuisance by our strong Such is the policy at
tributed to the administration by the organ of the fbus
ters and for the argument treating it the real po
stion OF the government Upon this superstition the
Of the administration exhauStng diplomacy will at
once be approved by all just When it is clear that
diplomacy do more the momentous question must
be decidedSha our existence united conederay be
permitted to be longer endangered by such neghbor
Cuba with such government it is groanng under or
sbaii we assert and maintain thhgh right of securing
future peace and un;1 by openly and boldly exerng our
physico strength in the acquisition of the island? We
know that the administration will incur heavy re-
sponsibiy when it has to decide so momentous
question: and hence it cannot proceed with too much
caution and wisdom in seeking TO obtain the island by
peaceable This policy preserves national honor
untarnshed and involves violation Of those great prn
cpes of right and justice which must regulate nations as
well as individuals. All these however, the organ OF the
ibusters would set at defiance and have the ndmnisra
ton 10 become particeps criminis in grand individual
scheme ir sGrpg up revolution in Cuba to enable the
leaders acquire the hoGora G heroes and the wealth con-
sequen upon the possession Of a worth hundreds of
millions of dollars In the message sent to Congress in
March, by the President in regard to the Black Warrior
affair the suggestion made that contingency might
arise in which the Executive might require provisional
measures to enable him to protect the national interests
Congress has adopted such measuresdoubtess under
the hope that negotiations would end in satisfactory
result but with this recommendation before them and
in view Of the present ta'e of things Ia Cuba in onr own
country and in Spain do not suppose that Eopges viii
adjourn without placing within the disposal of the Execn
tive the means necessary enable him act efficiently in
any emergency that may arise during the recess.
CAPE FEAR BILL.