The North-Carolinian., 1854-04-01
OR Relations with Spain.

lie indigenous are daily multiplying that we
are not longto enjoy uninterrupted peace with
Spain. We haired much when Pc
zuela appointed captain-general of Cuba under
what we believed at the time to be British die
tation. Lord John Russell has since admitted
that the selection of this functionary was in ac-
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istry. And for what did Victoria's government
desire him.? Because of his known invcterate
hostility to the United States and their institu-
tions. as manifested during his residence at
Porto Rico, as captain-general and afterwards
at Madrid The virtue which that government
found in him was this and this alone: 1t had
confidence that he could he employed under its
dictation as an instrument to Africanize that
beautiful island of the Antilles which lies near
est to our coast, and thus with the incendiary's
torch produce general coniagratlon in the
south Of the Union! His mission, from the first
we regarded as of evil omen, and his acts have
unhappily justified worst apprchensions.
He seized the first occasion-in fact, the occa-
sion was of his own creation--to perpctrate a
wrong upon us to which puny nations alone
would submit with impunty. If Eng gland and
France think proper to endorse this wrong-if
they send their vessels to the coasts of Cuba to
protect the authorities there in the wanton out
Black Warror-our duty will be too clear to
admit of doubt upon the subject. But when
we mention England and France we do not in
cludc Englshmen and Frenchmcn. We believe
that the day that either of those powers i'll
wolves itself in war with this country-thc
beloved of all countries by the masses-will be
fatal one for those who administer its affairs.
Enlightened civilization everywhere is the un-
compromising friend of liberal institutions, it
is the implacable enemy of autocracy and au-
tocratic tendencies It's influence is too pow
crful to be resisted, as may be seen in its tri
| umph over all the sovcreigns of Europe, by the
Car himself-the idolized of despots. The
! governments Of England and France would not
| interpose III the Eastern question until the peo
pie of England and France told them, in EN-
phatic language, they must do 1t! 1t is mis-
take to suppose that any credit is due to til,
one or the other of those governments for th'
warlke demonstrations which they are maxim,
in the Baltic and Black seas against the grea
champion of reaction in continental Europe
Imperative necessity, if not absolute self-pre
servation, caused them to yield to that poten
arm which not unfrequently demolishes throne
public opinion. In any just fight which ".
may have with Spain, that arm is as certain t
be upllfted against the enlightened, so-caled
Colossus, who pronounccs knowledge to be ''in
compatible with orderly government"
1t is evidently our duty to begin to prepar
for the worst We must demonstrate to tn
good OF every land-those entertaining sent
| ments kindred to our own--in an unmistakabl
manner that we have not only good cause
but that we are so prepared that, with God
blessing, we shall be enabled to maintain it
/ We should thus contract an alliance more fol
mIdabe to Our enemies than any ever cOntracte'
between crowned heads for the repression Q
political liberty WasAimgton Tnion.