Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-25
MONDAY, MARCH 90, 1854.
A SUPPLEMENTAL ARTICLE.

supplement to the Presidents Message to Congress
on the q Black Warrior affair. 1t is due to the
Government, and no less to our readers, that we
should place in our columns every authentic expires
sion of the views Of the Executive in master which
possibly involves our peaceful relations with friend
ly foreign Power That the Power in question was
among the first to give aid and countenance to our
country in its infancy, when it was struggling for
liberty and for its very existence an independent
nation is consideration not offered in palliation Of
any real wrong or aggression on her part, either
now or at any other time but as one which ought
to incline us to weigh her conduct toward u.s. in all
cases, with candor and iberality We therefore
copy the article referred to, only regretting that we
obliged to present the views Of the Adminstra-
tion on so grave question in garb so offensive to
proprety and even to selfrespect. In regard to
the greater part Of this article however, it is in the
highest degree cxceptionable on more serieus
grounds 1t embraces, as the reader will perceive,
venomous and purely gratuitous assault upon ano-
ther Power than Spain, with whom this country,
for aught that we or readers know, is on terms
of the most friendly intercourse. The whole Of this
part of the article, cannot but trust, has found
its way into the columns of the official organ not
only without the formal "advce and consent" Of
the Administration but without either its sanction
or appreciation, and will have surprised our Minister
of Foreign Relations at home as much we have
no doubt it will (when it shall meet his eyes) our
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Government OF
Great Britain. ..~
FROM THE WASHINGTON UNION OF SATURDAY "
Our RELATIONS WITH SpAIN.--The "Arctic,'' which
departs from New York to-day for Liverpool will convey
special messenger from this Government with insruc-
tions Minister Madrid to demand, in emphatic
terms immediate and ample reparation from Spain for
the outrage committed by the authorities at Cuba in the
instance of the Black Warrior We shall impatiently
await in with every American citizen the answer
which will be given by the Spanish Ministry to this de-
mand If it be favorable and prompt and Spain shall
consent, within reasonable time opening dipo-
matte relations with the of Cuba for the
adjustment Of any questions which may hereafter arise
in our intercourse with that island then will be
disposition the part Of the United States disturb the
peace which exists between the two nations.
But if any hesitation is manifested by the Cabinet Of
Madrid disayow the outrageous procedure against
flag and the property of citizens, and if the contin
gencies be removed by which similar
be occasioned shall advocate the employing of all the
power which the Government command in support Of
slider US as weak as we would in reality be if
to suffer the first Power of the earth to offer
ns insult added to injury, repeatedly as they have
been perpetated upon by Spain during the last FIVE
years The time has arrived when torbearance to
imbecile nation, whose obstinacy ignorance has
brought it to the verge Of run ceased to be virtue
We must not only receive redress for the past but
have abundant security for the future Its relations
with US viii have to be bettered, they will have to be
discontinued.
1t has, aware, been formally as pompously
announced in the British House Of Lords that England
and France Of perfect accord with respect the affairs
Of this hemisphere. This was intended as threat by
that Government which has been engaged in sowing
the seeds Of discord in way another in this Union
and in consprng against its expansion whenever she
could enlist in her service formidable ally Great Bri-
tain tried her hand at intimidation when she formed the
entente cordale with France, and put forward Guzot to
the "balance- power doctrine the Ame-
rcan continent at the time Texas asked for admttance
into the Union We disregard her Vaccinations just
as We disregarded them in that instance Louis Philippe
was not France nor is Louis Napoleon.
The entente cordale adverse this republic evenuated
in the dethronement Of the it may upset the throne
upon which the other reposes Let the inmate Of the
Tueries mediate well before he endangers his amicabe
relations with this country. Frenchmen have almost
paramount interest in well-being They sympathize
with us just the proportion as they sympathize
against Russia That interest and that sympathy their
ruler whoever he may be, cannot dare not arrest He
is acting in obedience to it in the East In the affairs Of
the West it will, in due time, make itself known.
In the of the Black Warrior, England Is to great
degree responsible for the wrongs committed by Spain
The authorized speech of Lord Clarendon to which
have adverted at the bottom of the temery Of the
Spanish authorities. 1t nstgated the deed precisely
the Indians nsgatod under British dictation
the ruthless buchery Of citizens on our frontiers
the war Of 1912.
We tell Queen Victorias Government frankly that as
Cuba is the key to the gulf through which large pro-
portion of commerce passes consent to its
exercising the slightest control that island The idea
of her having any other interest in the than that
of throwing obstacles in the way of prosperity is too
absurd to be entertained for moment. She may envy
our growth but she shall not close doors She permit
ted Austria contrary the stpulaons Of the treaty
Of Vienna to which she party, to oblteIate the
free city Of Cracow because was alleged by that EN-
pre it was q dangerous neighbour She encourages
Spain to consummate of bad neighborhood which
are little better than positive piracy and efss Louis
Napoleon to cooperate with her in supporting the Of
fender This is the downright old-fashined British
policy.