Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-04-09
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.


SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.
The U,sion insists that the policy of Spain
with reference to Cuba, her policy pertina-
c:ousIy persevered in even now, is to permit no
reforms whatever in the government and Gus
toms regulations of the island, and, to insure
Its continuance under her authority, to set the
negroes there free. In the course of the arti.
Gle the editor says:
Net steamer arrives in the United States
from Europe or the Spanish colonies which
does not bring with it further intimation that
the public mind, the press, the Cortes, the
cabinet, ard the colonial agents of Spain, are,
II possible, more than ever hostile to this con-
federacy; and yet the National Intetigencsr
docs not scruple to excuse and to palliate the
acts Of the Spanish rulers and agents"
y
" II the National Intelligencer, however,
would point ont In the reported sessions Of the
Genes, or in The press, anything to indicate
future cOrciliatory snd liberal spirit, or
disposition to make the local government of
thecOloDy responsible for its acts we should
be glad to obtain the information 1t NAV
lock again and again, and always in vain, fer
guarantees against future aggressions. So far
from finding evidences Of n change in the
Spanish mind, we see the Minister of Foreign
Affairs actually too fearful TO aVow in the
fesSIOn Of the 9th instant that LIE Ind conceded
That Gen. PeZCela had been at fault Could
there be any thing more f-ior dly or courteous
than the clear and private exposition of the
case Of the Black Warrior offered to that
iunolOnaIy by Col. Robertson, the American
consul, long before his exceilency had COM
I1itted binself in the least possible manner
And what Of his successor? twas during the
former Standardization OF Gen. Concha that
NM lr. h-,fo1
lilly Americans Tero committed. Though il
wa PeZIeia who commenced the organization
q the negro volunteers, General Concha had
previously advocated and urged tia. mods of
defence, both IL his memoirs aud in the press
since his late appointment. If the Inteui
gencer You'll only read the former, il would
acquire distinct notions Of tho policy which
that chosen tyrant mas come to impose on this
hemisphere"
"Blthough We doubt not that q thorough
examination of the contents of the Spanish
press may draw the Iutefiigsncsr to a more
correct view Of eur international affairs, the
stesuer lately arrived brings some news which
supcIsedes the necessity of taking that PAL rs, |
AID, so far from encouraging hopes of favor.
able change, positively establishes the contra
~.
Thirty thousand men are to constitute
hereafter the garrison OF Cuba and the large
deficit waiting must necessarily be transported
with British funds, inasmUch as the Spanish
treasury is exhausted.
but the skill mor3 ir1cortant and decisjve
news is, that the Minister of Foreign Affairs
putting aside the byPOcritical mask With which
he "a others q, the session On the sale of Gu.
ba recommended ROT to alarm tie coionIsts
81 GHticipritHS III r. tie subject of negro
en- '-'e2patIOR, has boldly accomplished, be
Cause, frcu the authoritative utteranre of
hat Tn1O -invai 2 aS
March 10 lis terrific aud devastating echo or
the stand Ccbs. the dividing lapse is bet an
instant Was that the change expected by
tie IHtskigeRcsr?"
The HtskI;gsReer smells democratic
mares nest in connection with the Cuba affair,
saying Of its correspondence, wherein th at
subject is Treated:
lie (tbe Teader) will perceive 10 thcu evil
deIces OF desperate game now on foot fer party
or for meTcenary objects, or both combined in
cooperation With foreign nalcontents, which,
Inleis promptly frowned down by a sound
American sentiment, will be pushed by the
Glrcsteci, II pCrsuit Of their selfish ends even
IL The Plungpg of the country into war. In
the Prosecution CT this wicked scheme resort
Is Rad to every species of misrepresentation to
Ii "a axe ihnuence the honest public mind,
Sd prepare II for the dread arbitrament of
var; FOR With war will come Cuba, and wi h
C1oa VIII cone the redemption of the Demo
e-auc party. That is the fatteriug argument
and that Tie motive Of the political gamblers.
Bat ere The sober honest body OF the American
Pc PIE prepared to embark in this desperate
game Tor a Prize OF, to say the least, such
dCaotful value! We believe not Yet, should
iLsse reckless ministers of strife, by arlful and
e1dSpeEatIng misrepresentation succeed in
eliminating the nation into war, and II o long
coveted prize Of Cuba crown their hopes, still
viii 1t prove an uDfruitful prize for them The
conquest Of Cuba will be Of a0eut as much adj
vantage to the party which bids SO high for ii
as tao annexation of Texas was TO the Ruler
CT that day. A crooked and false policy never
redeemed any party, and if anything could
now rescTe those waning fortunes for which
the desperate fliibusteTing game is now so
Teck.essiy played it would be to adopt differ
CT aiEls, sUpPOr cd by far different means"