The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-03-13

It, but fortunately not COO late to
have it ordered to ,se printed and
laid before the country. We ask our
readers to perus"se it attentively, and they viii
find such record OF shame on the part Of Mr..
Pierce lad his Cabinet as will make them
blrsn, and cease to wonder at the lamentable
truth that whilst ct home the administration is
viewed with indignation, abroad it excites no
higher feeling than contempt, unmixed and
overwhelming.
Mr.. Soule accepted the mission to Spain up
on the express understanding, as he took occa-
sion to place on record, that the acquisition Of
Cuba was the great point to be attained. Pre-
vious to his acceptance he had long and fire.
quent interviews with the President, and be-
ore leaving Washington he wrote out his
views fully. This despatch the administration
did not see ct to include in the correspondence
sent to Congress, for obvious reasons /; but it is
in the State Department, and may yet find it's
way into print. 1t will more completely show,
if such thing is possible, the traitorous de-
sertion of principle which has taken place on
the part of the President, and the cruelty with
which Mr.. Soule was sacrificed when coward
ly retreat had been determined upon.
The changed policy of the CabiRet as regards
Cuba, was brought about by Mr.. Marcy, osten-
sibly on the ground that the whole North was
in blaze because Of the Nebraska bill, and that
if the acquisition of Cuba were persisted in, the
abolitionists would carry every thing before
them, and the administration would be swept
away and annihilated by the food. What an
admirable system of checks and balances!
First, the South is coneiiated by forcing the
repeal Of the Missouri compr omise; then the
North is quoted by smothering the patriotic
pulsations Of the Cubans. Nor is this all Fear
full that the South might be exasperated when
it was discovered that the Cuba policy had
been abandoned the President FASTENED to
prove he was truly national man. Accord
ingly he vetoed the French spoliation bill, the
claimants under which are principal
ly Northern men; and he sanctioned
the Texas debt bill, Southern mea-
sure. He vetoed the bill to improve
the st. Clair flats in the Detroit river, and he
sanctioned similar bill for the improvement
Of the Cape Fear river, in North Carolina.
Principle has nothing to do with the conduct of
affairs at Washington-all is expediency, Of the
most contemplate character.
It will be remembered that just before the
meeting Of Congress, it was stated by our
Washington correspondents that changes in the
Cabinet were talked Of, and that there was
strong probability Mr.. Marcy would retire
from the State Department. This division in
the Cabinet was in consequence of Marcy's de-
termination to abandon Cuba. It was suppos-
ed that if anything could infuse spirit into Mr..
Pierce, it would be the dishonorable course which
Mr.. Marcy insisted upon. But the feeble nature of
the President soon gave way, and the Secretary
Of State continued to be the governing mind Of
the administration, moulding Mr.. Pierce to any
form he chose. From the day, few weeks
after the formation of the Cabinet, when
Marcy dashed his portfolio in the Presidents
face, at Cabinet meeting, and when Daniel s.
Dickinson 1n+n-rr;-na -r-- g ~ o-1a--
tor of this Port, to the present hour, he has
kept Pierce under his thumb. Poor Pierce,
frightened at the idea that his Secretary
of State might leave, at once sent
Guthrie to beg him to resume his place at the
council board; and he did so, with the know
ledge that all he had to do for the future was to
play the bully to achieve succ ess
If the shutting of the administration has only
the effect of postponing the freedom Of Cuba,
bad as the evil already done has been, it may
yet be retrieved. Unfortunately however,
there is reason to fear that the chains of the
Cubans have been rivetted with ten.fold
power. The evidence that England and France
have become parties to Spanish policy is too
plain to be resisted; and that policy is the abo-
liti0niziDg the island, and thus rendering it
curse to itself and foul blot on humanity.
General Concha, in his memoirs, speaking OF
the landing of Lopez, declares that he con-
siders all the creoles disaffected, and that If
the necessity had arisen. he would not have
hesitated in arming the negroes. And to
prove that he is in earnest-that this was
no idle threat-he has recently enrolled
more than one black regiment, and the
work goes on. Spain, weak and powerless,
has easily fallen into the hands of England
"A power which has never let slip an opportu-
nifty to do us wrong, or attempt to check
our advance and prosperity To use the Ian
guage IF Mr.. Soul6 since his return, Spain
never would have dared to throw herself into
the arms Of England but for the weakness dis
play ed by the American governmental weak
ness all the more CALLING, since Cuba, like a
ripe apple, would ere this have dropped into
our lap, if the advice contained in the joint
despatch from Aixla Cbapelle had been carried
out.
Even the poor excuse Of ignorance cannot
time, the people of Cuoa are organized and
armed, and that the slightest evidence of aid
from without is all tina. is necessary. 1t is at