New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-14
FORAY on CUBA.

brought upon the antbor OF the Nebraska b.l
the adherence Of the people OF the Free States,
10 oresnizs new bell gerent demonstration
sssipst Cubs. We tfu.t that the President. and
hi, fDbl,teIpg sdv sers " i'll not, At least forget
that this is Il representative GoSe-Dm-us. soi
ttst other cooroiUste branches Rave, Of right.
iom.'bii 10 cay 90 the question of going to gar
with foreign power Soce rbe Aiminsrsaon
became bankrupt on the Nebraska question, and
its fortunes p,s'ed the possibility Of being re-
trieyed, we are not 10 look for m15ersdDa or
state msnsbip in our affairs. Toe President
bss esmbled away toe entire capital ny which
lie va, carried into the White House, ald
is thus ready for any desperate throw. He pro
clivity for extreme experiments gss e7tbcsf
on Ksrss. and Nebraska, when there Gas m
c,uie for ANY thing Of tue sort, except what grew
out OF bis ambition 70 play the email 'tciso
Oh a large scale. He was then 10 no real strait,
ND il he had bad either sen.e or prndsnce ne
would rot bavs ~ ned biD.lf aud his pa''y ia
the wsy be old. Nov BE- i. restrained by n con.
sttIa'icD of losing ny tbog whatever, for be has
Dhtt'rg to lose, either in character or % ser.
in every quarter. Not even the bodysu.'d Of
bis own State remains. He ia at the NOT, At
the bead Of forOrb hope. Utder such circqn-
star cer We may Anticipate any rockies" prscssd-
ing wbstever, which bis shallow mind IN ~ be in
fpirtd into adopting uJder the guidance Of tue
tao pro-s!Aveiy disubioDiss, Pierre Soule and
JEFF. Dsv', and the general outside pressure from
their tlsve -dIisiDg conf.derates.
The movement again, Cuba il a tang led skei1,
~ oil IL sy req. IL cones Of the political de'pe-
ration Of the President the persistent purposes
OF the slave power, intensely bent at this present
moment il driving up and hn4l, securing the ad-
vsDtsses Of aggression on tho free territory OF
the Union, the personal III rt ications and bitter
DesE Of the only returned member Of the noto-
riOus Ostepd triu NITRATE and toe extreU'ties to
which our Minister 10 Engl,nd has reduced bic
po itcsl fortunes BY psrtic pstipg in aud effect
tatbe ring, that conference. These are the ND
tives to bellieerent demonstration agaust Cdos.
1t is union OF little polite fires, set by vacoqs
adventures to nurse each Lis little fortunes,
linked TO the perpetual furnace kept burning by
the s'avebolders, and all famed into one great
fame Of war; TO subserve the scandal,u rus pur-
poses Of Its various authors They are, ons and
all, daring to play with the peace and the desti
Dies Of great nstiOn for miserable purposes of
personal end party, ard sectional ambition. AS
TIE conservative element Of the Cabinet WAS too
feeble to keep the President out Of tne Nebraska
ipiquiiy iii. lih.ly to be too feeble to resist the
Contemplated Outrage on Spain.
On the pretext under which 1t ID all feigned to
be doIe, We have on previous occasions com
mented. The assertion tina, Spain has outraged
aid iIsulted our flag. il lying subterfuge. Aud
oil the special pleading now put forth 20 stoE
that our mari lme rights have been invaded IL bat
20 much rhetorical gas let on to ilIumin..e free
bOotipg descent upon tbe coveted leland Bat
we will once more advert t. the grOadd we have
already touched upon respecting the police OF tae
ftas; Of which the enforcement in limited DO
gree by Spain, is nos made toe occasion for the
fihbusterDg demonstration In question.
No writer or s'atesman Of intelle-t AMI repu-
tat,On bias gone any further on the c.im of the
exemption of our vessels from the right Of search
sDd visitation Of foreign ships Of war than Me.
Webster did, in his celebrated oi.qaiatiOns
msritime rights, In bis letters to Lore Ashbuttoa
and Nr Everett. Indeed, be went TO the eI-
trene length Of denying In toto the RICH. of
searching and Of visiting our vessels on the nigh
seas. of the ships OF foreign Powers. He cl.'med
that the right Of Welt, was not dfaed or at least
established as in any respecs different from the
right Of search; bnd that ID deoying the rigot Of
ODE. we necessarily denied tue righ' Of the other.
Mr. Websters doctrine tb ugh popular as home,
ana perhaps ju.t and ,ouod is, aud slwsys Wa,
courroveried. Great Britain, while abe re
lipquIsbed the right Of search in the memorable
correspondence referred to, insisted 10 tue last
upon the tight Of visitation, for the purpo.e Of
determining the DstiOr slty OF the vessel ex
snined. And this rigtt Lord Ashourton Coo
coded 10 terms, so far as British ships we're
concerted. Bat while sMr Webster thus
went to tie extreme length Of the doc
time that every regularly documensed Aueri-
can ship wss part Of the soil OF the couosrY.
over hich DO power on esrth had sny claim or
jurisdiction or spy sht to enter, while ,hs vas
upon tie high seas, be nevertheless made an ex-
cep'iop. He declared that DO RICH. TO visit exists,
,1e.pt where the vessel justly suspected Of vio-
lstips reyei ne LAVE or the law of nations, by p-
ratic,l sssressien. Thus the most stringent RUE
# exemption is brought down to this thar no
foreign ship Of war can visit q ,hip under tue
American flag. unless .be Is suspected vessel.
Where vessel is suspected aud visited, but the
suspicion is found to be witbou, foundation, then
it 10 10 invasion Of rigbts bu. case of involao-
tsIy trespsss 1t is an itjary by m'ssake, and not