The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-24

irM BY the Union at the Aext Presidential
election, the croalpars across the water will not
zee their dreams realized in hurry.
ATrExPF TO BoIsqxR UP THE ADMusrRA-
TON ON THE CUBAN QUEsTToN.-One Of the
members of President Pierce's Cabinet has
been recently visiting the South, and has
awaited himself Of opportunities to endeavor
to vhitewash an administration which is GER
family in great need Of publication. In
speech made by this gentleman in the town Of
Vicksburg, Mississippi, he felt 1t necessary, In
order to propitiate the ilibustero element ex'
listing in the home Of General Quitman, to
depict President Pierce as being in the highest
degree favorable to the acquisition Of Cuba,
whether by fair bargain with Spain, or by
force and arms. We know not with what sue
cess his eloquence was attended there; but we
do know that all the eloquence of Demosthenes
could not erase from the minds Of the Creoles,
and the friends Of Cuban independence, the
burning conviction that Franklin Pierce, while
he spoke them fair, played them false.
It is hard matter to argue in the teeth Of
accomplished facts, and it is an exercise Of
resolution which rarely meets any sufficient
reward. In the case Of Cuba, the facts are all
dead against the present administration.
Words alone are but poor evidences Of senti-
ment, when arrayed against the inevitable logic
Of Deeds The Presidential inaugural kindled
in the hearts of the Creole population Of Cuba,
and of their sympathizers In this country, the
confident hope that under the regime of its
author Spanish dominion in Cuba would be
extinguished, or that at least the government
of the United States would take no means to
prevent consummation so devoutly to be
wished. Under that justiiable impression,
new impulse was given to the operations of
the Cuban Junta. The Creoles in Cuba COM
menced to pour large contributions into the
treasury of the Junta, while those in the
South who ionged for the acquisition
of Cuba, engaged to contribute two dol
lars for every one given y the Cubans. In
this state of feeling on the subject, Mr.. Pierce,
with Jesuitical cunning, Of which we never
would have thought him capxsse, appointed
Soule as Minister to Spain, with instructions
to enter into negotia tons for the purchase of
the island. Look at the deep trick and its
natural results The Creoles in Cuba, aud the
Cuban sympathizers, reasoned thus:-"What
avails it for us to pour our offerings into the
Golfers of the Junta when the United States
government is itself about to procure our free
dom from Spanish despotsm by purchaser"
And SO the ardor which had been created by
the inaugural enunciations, cooled down under
the sense Of its inutility. The bargain was not
effected, but the object aimed at was obtained.
Was this proof of Mr.. Pierce's sympathy with
the cause? What difference is there between
such course and that Of false mediator, who
would say to a weak man or a weak nation in
arms for the protection of his or its rights,
"Lay down your weapons: Twill make your
cause my own" and then, having effected so
much, leave that man or that nation in worse
condition than ever? That has been the way
in which President Pierce eyinced his sympathy
for Cuba. II
But not IN that way alone. After the vision
of purchase had vanished, he protested the
kiDdest feelings towards the leaders and the
objects Of the flibustero movement, which was
revived, but under less suspicious circum-
stances; and through his creatures he wormed
himself into their confidence and obtained their
secrets. But did he keep them? The fate of
Pinto and Estrampes garroted, and of Felix
condemned to the chain gang, gives terrible
answer to the inquiry. We set up these acts
of Mr.. Pierce as testimony against his mere
words, and ask the country to find the verdict,
guilty or not guiltyr
Crproua Mrrrruc WINNIE -, rur ur,r9
In our personal intelligence of yesterday there
was the following notifications The Honora.
BILE Pierre Soult, late Minister of the United
States to Spain, and A. Dudley Mann, arrived in
the city last night, and are stopping at the Ne
tropolitan Hotel" This is very curious co.
We have shown heretofore, from
the correspondence of Mr.. Dudley Mann, that
he was the inventor Of the original red republi-
can, sans culotte, filibustering European policy
of Mr.. Pierce--that it was Mr.. Mann who was
the real author, not only Of Marcy's circulars
upon republican diplomatic forgery, but of the
Ostend Cuban programme, out and out We
have shown that Mr.. Mann was sent over to
Europe to carry out this programme. Oar
readers will also remember what followed The
Ostend manifesto-its rejection by the admins
tration-the resignation of the Spanish mission
by Soule-the Indignation Of Messrs Mason and
Buchanan, and last, though perhaps not least,
the resignation by Mr.. Dudley Mann Of his post
of Assistant Secretary of State: We repeat,
therefore, that this meeting of Mr.. Soule and
Mr. Mann in New York, just at this time, is q |
most extraordinary affair. Does Mr.. Mann come
on as mediator between Marcy and Soule, or
as an assistant of the latter in arranging the
materials Of his forthcoming book AS far as
with the public interests, we
should like to know.