The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-05-17

The Washington papers have present.
ed us with the resolution and speech Of
Mr. Slidell of La in relation to Cuba.
He recommends that the President be
authorized to suspend our neutrality
laws which forbid our citizens acting the
part Of buccaneers, and fitting out pirat-
ical expeditions against nations with
which we are at peace. This slave hold.
ing Senator is indignant at the thought
that that Spain may abolish slavery with
in her donn,ions. He says
1t is the design Of the Captain Gen
crnl IF Cuba. acting under instructions
from Madrid, to bring about the eman.
CITATION of The negroes. To cup Mc
riimoG Of uu,pation and oppression.
az oycter has 6cen issued oAon,ng al
s/orcs 10 hiyc Meir time at eigM do/iars
pcs ~oatb. The Spanish law has al.
WAYS fayce cd the emancipation of the
slave, ard enabled him to acquire his lib.
eriy tariff has been llaced on his la.
Dor Accord To lis convertible value or
'h, p'i'e p..A for hm. This was ten
en'N Ter ia. ON ever 500 value -
Thus Il Save 'oith 500 by lr,irg
- na~tcr Fifty c'uts per day or fifteen
dollars per mou Il could Apply the bal
ancc of his en- uings to the accumulation
u. the fund for the purchase Of his lib
erty."
His holy Indignation is excited to the
highest pitch at the thought that old
Spain should excel in justice and hu.
manity the slave holding States Of thi.
Union, aud make provision for the extern
sion OF freedom in the island of Cuba
While he and his friends are attempting
to extend slavery into Nebraska, Mr.
| Slidell cannot endure tho thought that
| Spain should attempt to extend freedom
Aud what punishment does he propose to
lnfl,ct upon Spain Does he recon
mend that our government chastsc her
No. he would only let loose upon hcl
our toicicSS piunderers lie says
i counsel neither negotiation nor re
monstrance on this subject we have tn,
remedy in our own hands, it is that in
dicltcd in the resolution which hav,
submitted Arm the President with tn,
simple power to unfcttcr the limbs ofou
people- and the government will have nj
occasion to put forth the energies of thu
nation; ,mdiridmal enterprise and h6er
dlity wiH at once furnish The men ono
the material that will enable the nativ
population of Cuba to shake off the yok
of their trans. Atlantic tyrants"
The foregoing will give US prctt
fair view of the feelings of this venero
bic Senator, tho particular friend 0
Franklin Pierce, and hi. administration
But We will give one extract more, tina
his democracy may fully appear in all it
beauty.
" And here it may not be iDappropr
ate to say how much it is to be rcgret,c
that in the Russo-Turkish quarrel tn
attention of tho country has not bee
more directed to the question in its a
poets as affecting our own political inter
ests AS between the rude aud vigor
ous barbarism Of the Cossack and tn
ctfcto nationality of the Moslem, fin
no room for active sympathy scarccl
even for an abstract preference. TIL
gratuitcus and unwarranted declaration
, of our Minister, Mr. Spence in his pre-
sentation to the Porte, call for sOmC
thing more decided than reprimand =
II made in the terms stated in the new,
papers, with every appearance of auther
ITCHY there is bu: ole fitting remedy
his Immediate and unqualified recall. p
Boston AtldS