Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-19
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The nations of Europe are now fairly en-
broiled in war, and our government seems
extremely anxious to get into muss Also
Frank Pierce wants ''to distinguish his reign
and as he has not sufficient capacity to do SO
by craftsmanship, he is anxious to exercise
his genius in picking quarrels, without prov
ocation, and in robbing weak Queen of the
crown jewels which she cannot defend. He
is DESTROYS of having his name associated in
American history with the acquisition of Gu
ba, and he seems to be perpetually on the
watch for some pretext or other for taking it.
Cuba has long been the Ell Dorado, and the
resort of pirates. The names of many bole
buccaneers are linked with her annals, as
their necks have been linked to her gibbets.-
Perhaps our chief magistrate may be gratifed
by having his name placed upon the same dis
tinguished roll. 1t cannot be expected that
the Queen of CASTLE will ever be able to Sus-
pend the COMMANDMENT Chief Of our armies,
but history may take revenge on Frank Pierce,
as it has on Captain Kyd, should he succeed
in his grand scheme of flibustersm.
That the slave power wants Cuba, we all
know; that Frank Pierce wishes to get it for
his Southern clients, we also know; but when
the attempt will be made to disposses Spain of
it, we do not know, although, at this present
moment, it seems not far off.
The Washington Union, the government
organ, on the 10th inst, published leading
article, in which it was stated that Spain
meant to emancipate the slaves of the island
of Cuba, and that such an act was almost tan
tamount to declaration of war against the
United States.
1t is law of nations most strenuously in
sisted upon by the United States, as vital to
her own original act of national organization,
that call nations have the right to make their
own laws, and regulate their own internal af-
fairs" This is the States Right doctrine, so
strenuously insisted on by the Democratic
party, and so often practically repudiated by
Pierce, Caleb Cushing, & Co., SO that our in
reference with the acts of Spain, regulating
the social laws of Cuba, is gratuitous, illegal,
onO AAueCus Jul AA-
ibusters at Washington know, that, unless
we had brute force sufficient to sestain this
outrageous plea, we should be overwhelmed
with moral scorn for advancing it. 1t is only
when the eyes of the civilized world are blood
shot with the passion of combat, that the IN
ION dares to make such a proposition. 1t is
only when the nations of Europe are mingling
in the red rift of battle, that Frank Pierce
would dare to sustain this monstrous doc
trine.
But what are we to think, and how are we
to feel, who have been educated in Northern
notions of liberty, when such proposition il
made by the organ of the national govern
ment? We have been taught to believe that
slavery is local and sectional and that the
doctrines of universal freedom, which are the
basis of the Constitution, are the doctrines of
the national government. But the Union ig-
nores all such IDEAS 1t practically declares,
that the United States viii go to war, to rem-
pose bondage on the slaves of Cuba, if Spain,
in the exercise Of her sovereignty, emanci-
patcs them. The United States cannot do so,
unless she is betrayed into false position by
the Douglasses and Pierces, who have already
betrayed her, and sought to rob her of Ne
braska.