The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-04-07

uuo SUSTAIN SPANISH DEsPoTIsM IN CUBA
.ustruetiye to watch the tactics Of the abolition
:, n The United States which while seeking to vo-
\, III. laws so as break up the American Onion, a,
sane time indignantly protests Its devotion 10 interna-
-. law In order prevent the deliyerance Of Cuba
Aou The fangs OF desposm. In both the ruling
rple i hostility TO the white IL matters moth
IA the abolitionsis If emancipation In this country
ala iaanqurAte ssrvile war with all lis horrors In
4 ,osthem States Il matters nothing II emancipation
ruba should prove 10 be repetition Of the San Domn-
drama Of blood and rapine. The end TO he attained Is
,ke down the white race and 10 place what = called
, n the hands OF those upon whom God and Nature
~. .,.nped the brand Of depravity and Ignorance
hu,yb every age Behind this experiment. meanwhile
goo..n ses,otism gIoriss In undssembed triumphant
- ma, il do 90 for is victory is twofold Like aboli-
,i.m i, entertains profound terror of the growth Of
american institutions and like aboliuonism Il prays that
sba NAV not bcrescued from the hands Of Spain Hence
xltatou Of the banded foes Of rational liberty In the
oa World as every movement Of the abotonist of the
rud States is disclosed the public view These alb
uists are the Zouass Of the tyrants Of The earhhe
ssns Of the haters Of American ber,ythe cutthroats
ad spies OF the Conchas Of the Spanish government
when we recur TO the complications of this Cuban
susson aud the known and eariyavowed purpose Of
President Pierce all fair to put end to
,tem OF oppression and nhumanity that has parallel
the face Of the EARTH we are more than reminded
the perseserng efforts OF the aboonists and the con-
ryavss TO paralyze the of the Executive The ar
and the insults the acts and the secret assas
na,ions Of Spain in Cuba have followed these efforts
Sep by step and every abolition apology for these ag-
essous has been succeeded by Others still wicked
and deliberate At this moment Spain can boast not alone
the alliance of France and England but also Of the Ameri
Ian aboonists and the last are the most potent OF all,
because they look confidently to their speedy elevation to
federal power in the United States.
has often been said that Spain has erected and main
aned in sight of our shores unmgated despotism.
N despotsm than Russia for in the latter tn,
masses love their ruler 1t than Turkey because
lin Turkey there is little espionage secret murder
ing Austria educates her people, but in Cuba ignorance
lis the good right arm of power. Even China opens her
gates civzing religion; but Spain almost denies to
Protestant decent burial in Cuba Spanish power located
and entrenched at Havana is not with nhicting
av and political disabilities upon natives residents, or
Oournerst imprsons upon the merest suspicious the
test and most upright 1t Furnishes whispered word o.
Complaint with exile expulsion And those no
like poor Pinto Esrampes and their compatots Spaniard
a dare to indicate disposition break the chains of
uaerng and stricken people They die the death of TIT
on their bodies left to rot naked the earth anc
dogs eat them undisturbed Such the despotsm over
which Greeley rejoices for which Phillips has no tears
Dir Sumner sympathy and the London Times no thun-
Her Such is the despotism which rewards its votsres
with titles which feeds corrupt court which holds GU
1.-THE brbe of emancipation the blacks of Cuba and for
maintaining which England and France proer their naves
aud their armies
There Is of mock philanthropy, prurient and prof.
a,e withal which closes its eyes all these things and
goes into paroxysms what il is pleased call nfrac-
lions of the laws of nations Nothing affect this sem
timent No national insult can arouse it to action Its
instinct of the enonites have disclosed
its practice rail President Pierce for daring guard
he can the sacred rights of our country from in
suit and from wrong Those who repeat this sentiment
however not all of them aboltionists but they TAKE
their text from the abolition leaders and guided by their
Interests thar their feelings aid organization and
offences which only be avenged by united
purpose and united action
Weare not now disposed to refer length to that other
class which at first eager denounce the avowas OF
President Pierce in regard Cuba which at first so ready
declare that he preparing the public mind for war
ided the general and the anaca opposition this very
Caban question: for the meres party purposes These men
now complain that he does forthwith resort to hosti-
ties although North and South East and West they re.
Gently upbraided him for being too ready for TIE crisis
They saw him appealing to Congress-they knew that he
suggested preparations for just such contingency as now
mpends usbut they protested against clothing him
With the very powers which they call upon him TO ex
ercsel How much better or how much worse such men
are than the aboldonss themselves is problem we ARE
not able TO solve
Meanwhile, the country needs assurances that the
resident VIII do bis duty according to his best ability
aud with all his energies but it is right that the obsta
ce which an abandoned opposition has thrown into his
pathway should not be forgotten or moderated.
ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC
ihe steamship Baltic arrived at New York Yesterday
ron Liverpool Her dates are to the cath utmo inclu
a'e The news il not of an important character
OUR HOME SQUADRON.
MAJ 49, ~.