Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-04-24
SPIRIT OF TIE MORNING PRESS.


The UNION replies to the Inteiiigencer',
chuckling over the article In It's columns O,
the 1sth wherein the editor intimates that tn,
Administration is not responsible for his posi
tons and views on the Cuban question. II,
insists that the President and his Cab;na
think with him that Spanish outrages should
not be submitted to. We have no doubt that
so far, ne Is corrsct-ba. no further; 1t beins
well known here 10 hundreds that the views o.
the Administration upon some Of the point,
alleged to be in issae between this Govern.
ment and Spain, are by no means identical
with those Of the Union. OF the Inteil,gsn.
GERS course on the Cuban question, the editor
says with unaisguised bitterness: =
ave have no appreciation Of that species OF
regard for the reputation of the President or
for the honor of the country which appeals to
the evils of war by way Of frightening the
government into cowardly submission to az.
greesions, or, If war should come, by way Of
embarrassing its prosecution by charging the
response bility of its occurrence upon the ad.
ministration. That is just what the InteIl,.
gencer is daily doing whilst clsi inning to be a
well-Uisher Of the President and a friend Of
the respectability Of the country. 1t would
have the President 10 falsify the pledges he
has made to the country by looking on with
folded arms upon the repeated outr ages upon
national and Individual rights committed by
spanish ofdcials-and this 1t calls relieving
MS character from odium and promoting the
respectability Of the nationi The Presiden,
knows full we'll how to estimate such friend.
ship, and the country knows how to appreciate
such patriotism"
The InteH'gencsT, Geprecating the aca uisi
ton Of Cuba at sny time or under any circum-
stances, says:
1t IS BOT that We revolt simply at the mo.
-ahsy Of the Ostend sale or seizure doctrine
touching the acquisition Of Cuba that we have
with some esrnestness opposed the fllibustsro
scheme CT provoking a Spanish war with a
view to the conquest Of the island but be
cause Of the conviction, long entertained and
0ftsn expressed through the columns of this
Journal, that the annexation of the Island.
large and rich and tempting as it is, would, at
no very distant day, prove o misfortune for
this Union, and therefore, as . question of pub
lie policy, affecting deeply the general veal,
greatly to be deprecated We do not con ar
it strange that many honest people majority
perhaps, should think differently, nor do we
blame them for thinking so, nor question
their intelligence, still less their patriotism
tcr advocatiag the acquisition, by fair means,
Of what they deem so desirable But We b ave
seen nothing in ali the arguments advanced
on the subject to shake oar opinion On the
contrary, while reflection has had the effect
only to strengthen cur conviction of the i'm
policy of measure, We have not found in 90
small compassion indeed in any form,
since the masterly speech Of Mr. Boyce, OF
South Carolina-so strong an argument in
support of cur views az in the condensed good
sense Of the letter from a Southern man given
below"
The argument to which the editor refer:
ABOVE Is from The pen of the Washington cor.
respondent Of the Journal Of Commerce, q
boston man criginally-not southern man al
our neighbor supposes