Burlington tri-weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1852-1855, 1855-03-20

hounds On the track of fying negro, we are
endoneering the Union; that if We oppose
the further spread of Slavery, we are endan-
re,;nc the Union; that If we do not stop dis
cns.inp the subject of African bondage, and
doing forty other things, we endanger the
Union but, till now, we did not know, nor
did we dream, that if Spain would not let Us
have Cuba, the Union was to be dissolved
But so it is.
IF Spain will not sell US Cuba, we must
steal it in order to preserve our national ex-
istence! Such is the proposition OF these di. |
plomatic sages and we confess that, in all
our experience of political absurditias, we
recall nothing equal to it. We trust the re-
nownei Soule, the only ono Of the shaared
tri d who has got home from his search for
wool. will lose no time in ascending the
rostrum and demonstrating the position tina;
the Tn on is in danger if we do not get Cuba.
Let US know, we pray, who Will dissolve the
Union if we don't get Cuba; who threatens
to dissolve the Union if we don't get Cuba;
and also on what day the Union will be dis
solved if we do not get Cuba. We are all
.mpaience to know in what quarter of the
heavens the impending danger hoVers, and
when we may expect 1t to burst on.our de-
| voted heads And while the honorable Mr..
i
| exp,ain the grave ince lisency in which he
| has been involved by this manifesto. Be-
! fore he went to SPAN he declared, in one
public speech, If not ia two or three, that
Spain would not sell Cuba, and that it was
/ idle for us to think Of such thing. He en-
/ larged upon that Castilian pride of charac-
| ter which forbade the hope Of our succeed
ing in negotiating for the Island upon any
such basis. But 10! here, in this manifesto,
he is insisting that she should and must sell
| j, to US! . agile Soule! Changing posi-
ticns and eating his own words with celer-
itv that rivals Falstaf.
By singular blunder Of the copvist, who,
it seems, was ord red not to disclose the sum
proff,red for Caba, IL turns out that 1t Wis
one hundred and twenty millions Of dollars.
An enormus sum to be given to Spain for the
simple parpose Of preventing emancipation
and preclrl ding freedom in ,ha Island. There
is no doubt that this bold push in the inter-
est Of Slavery, so far as our Minister to
London is concerned, is bottomcd on the same
atrocious foundation with the Nebraska Bill.
1t was with him Presidential job. The real
reasons that induced the Administration to
n reject it, are probably two fold; because the
political hurricane which was sweeping over
the country while it was being concocted,
alarmed them into fit of anti annexation as
resp cts Catholic ana nero territory and
sec1ndly cause they had no objection to
overseting the Cuba coach in which Mr.. Ru
catnaa sas 50 evidently steering for the
Whit House.
The reasoning Of this buccaueering docu-
. ment, that Cu9a in tie poSs ,sston Of Spain
endangers our national safety, ls sheer val or.
Ia. fathars Of the Republic discovered nc
1 a. ~ + t.,
!, war OF tn RevoIu ion, or thai of 1872, OF
I a. Of 1916. Joha Quincy Ad 'ms, VIII n Sec
reta v Of 5 ate. Speaks If our commanding tht
: Gulf: but Andrew Jackson bellcose and
fearle, 8, let Cuba alone. The WHO argu-
! IN mt, then, Of Cuba importing our safe y is
a ficl ion. 1t is utterly without foundation
Take away The r,bble, who are too lazy &c
J worh, and wish to grow rich by plunder
! whenever it may come, VIII ,ther in domestic
: iohbing or the invasion Of foreign territory,
and there is not a re. pectable man in the coun'
try who liev-s the wretch ID chin IRA tina
ia. Ostend Conference has cooked. Buchal
an himself does nor believe it. Mason, even
does not beli.ve it. Soule we do not cOnsid
> err sane where his vanity comes into play
= and tn 1t in luced him to go upon tn Quixot
!. ic exp dtlon, rs arrant farce, md ed, a.
any reco in the adventures OF the here
Of La .Ian.hi. But that honest era 'kbrair
!. var match d the atrocities which our fill
: !uster champion cody proposes. Spain viii
!. not b. cajoed or bulliei into selling wha
/ belongs to her, and thrreupon Soule tel
! US she must b. robbed and murd red
: 10 this have we come! Even the solemn
:, measured, old fashioned Buchanan condos
: s To sing such a pcnltentiary tune-th
. vrv ribal Try of rohb RS AMI cut-throats
rhetoncised into formal phraseology. W.
want 70 buy-say they; SIP lin does not wisl
. to sell why, then, we will steal the goods ant
= murier the own r. Apply this to the min,
and tn ne Of individual intercourse, and wht
, is owner of bis house, his Land, his coat, hi
!, shirt? The VOLTS dialects settle all dis
. putes
a In this doctrine we see the brutllizins
m rch Of slavery. The sense Of honor and
justic under its banners becomes each yea
! more iniur,trd. The strong necessity o
! keeping millions in bondage, and Of open
{ ing Afresh the por ais of he revotng insti
; tn ION, incite the demncr ICY Of whips, chain
i d bloodhounds to adv nee more and NOR
on the $ me career which made Rome howl
70 grasp, to rob, to mu der. TO grow rich OF
the spoils Of provinces an the tolls Of slave
! these all are completely the phenomena o
: South I'm oligarchy as they were of Roman
) impera llsm. They are blu. changed in name
Democracy il mere gauze viii n does no
: cloak the hlieous fgur.. There is not ma,
: VINO was, Is, or hopes to be engaged in fill
;. bust ring, actual or sympathetic, who doe
h not look TO the part ZION OF 'ands md the con
!. fsc 'ton of chatteis for his reward. Span
/ was thus parttioned BY Napoleon for b.
). brgand generals before the Invasion: an
d the disastrous fllibustering expedition whc
: GUIDED in the wholesale garotting Of Lope