Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-03-15
6TWe take the following able articl,

0TWe take the following able article
rfom the Cincinnati Enquirer of March 4th
THE ISLAND OF CUBA-A BRITISH AND
FRENCH PROTEcTORATE EsTABLIsHED.--Th
late fillibustering rumors of an expedition
against Cuba if they have had no other eff
feet, have convinced the world that a British
and French protectorate has been estab-
lished in the island of Cuba. Suspicious and
conjectures upon that point have ripened into
certainty. British and French vessels of war
have been employed by the Cuban Captain
General, in the conveyance Of troops, and for
the defense of Havana, rs readily and openly
as if they sailed under the flag of Spain
Their protectOrate over the island can not
now be denied or questioned. 1t is no lon
ger under the control of the decrepit monar-
chy of Madrid, which has been compelled to
call in the aid of the self-consttuted consta-
bles of the world to maintain her Jurisdiction
To all intents and purposes the Queen of the
Antilles may be regarded a British and
French outpost in the West Indies-a station
where they can concentrate their power ia
time of war TO destroy the commerce of the
United States. Havana is the Western Con-
stantinople which they are endeayoring to
hold for the same purpose that dictated the
sending of their armies to the Crimea.
The two Western European powers seem
to have entered into a league, offensive and
defensive, to exercise a supervision over the
political concerns of both hemispheres-to
regulate them to suit their own interest which
Lord Clarendon and Emperor Napoleon have
declared to be identical. Our Government
has repeatedly said that it could never peace
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to any of the great meritime powers of Eu-
rope; but the event has practically occurred.
The nominal jurisdiction of Cuba is still al
lowed, as a blind, to remain in the hands of
Spain, but the real power there is that of Eng
land and France. Our great commercial and
political rivals hold the key of the Gulf in
their hands.
Beyond all doubt Spain has transferred it
to them. We want better evidence than that
which has been recently afforded us of the
fact The fleets and armies of England and
France are employed to rivet the chains of
despotism upon the unfortunate Creoles of
Cuba. The Court of Madrid has called in
the aid of those roval "fillibusters," who
claim the right of monopoly in that business
and are very much offended when they have
competition in the shape of expeditions from
the American shores to aid the other side
In the course of time we shall have long
diatribes from the British and French press
about the unscrupulous and periduous con-
duct of the Americans = their disregard of
the laws of nations and of good neighborhood
as evinced by their repeated "piratical - dem
onstrations upon Cuba; but not word will
they say about the fillbustering demonstra-
tions of their fleets and armies. How insult
ferably arrogant is this position of the two Eu-
ropean powers-that it 3 their mission to set
everything right" all over the world by a
system of political interference and interven-
ton in what is properly none of their busi-
ness 1t is time that the two "high consta-
bles of the seas" " receiving a rebuke in their
ing more and more proof of their hostile di-
plQmacy and of their determination to throw
all possible obstacles in the was of the growth
and prosperity of the United States
They are determined to bring this country
within the sphere of the idea which prevails
! in Europe about balance of power IA
standard we have always uniformly rejected
and repurliated. They are exceedingly jeal-
Gus of the increasing power and Importance
of this rising Republic, which, within one
mans lifetime, has taken leading position
among the great nations of the world. To
meet and oppose successfully the intrigues of
England and France, to thwart th9ir views OF
national aggrandizement in this hemisphere,
to defeat their plan of surrounding us by a
network of hostile fortifcations, command
ing prominent points, TO the detriment of our
national interests, a new and most vigorous
foreign policy upon the part Of our Govern
ment is imperatively demanded. We have
had enough of diplomatic manifestations and
paper declarations about the Monroe doc.
trine - something more practical is required
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