The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-04-07
CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES.

CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES,
From the London Times, March III
year or two ago, had any one been asked what
ths most striking proof of the advancing civilization of
the age, he would have answered without hesitation the
tendency OF nations and to abandon the
delusons OF conquest and 70 substitute for them the
seunder and more certain results of internal improve
ment The Russian has shown how premature
such speculatons would have been by the instance OF
nation which, with OF unexampled magnitude
wholly undeveoped, without roads, without railways,
with rude manufactures and little commerce. Is expend
ing all that borrow, all that IL exort by forced
contributions all that it raise by fraudulent de-
of the currency calling out for the
confronting famine, pestience bankruptcy aud depopu
ton in order to add few provinces to aresdy
svergrown empire But this may be said Ia the mere
impulse of Russia is 10 the aggre ssve state
which nation must through before she can apply
Turn then that nation which has for itself such
well mered distinction the srs of peace, and rivals
nnder the disadvantages OF dear labor and raw material
the most celebrated manufactures OF Europe Are the
United States content with the possession OF boundess
continent, with unlimited field for the develop
nent Of their and the increase OF
their population, and with the sincere desire Of all
other countries to live with them on terms OF
pssGe and 81 ,o hey know %avs Wna ans are ms
they know what the miseres of for they have
experienced them they have complete option bstween
the two, and not bound, like the nations that form
the old cenfe5eracy Of Europe to draw the sword TO
dress the balance OF power They threatened by
ambition, by lust of dominion, except their
Yet we examine the present condition Of the United
States we shall see good reason to believe that though
their business and occupations among the arts of
peace, their dreams and their aspirations Of war;
conquest AMI aggression.
Look their conduct with regard to the Island of
Cuba They have not the slightest claim to 1t; they
have not the remotest pratenson to interfere with it.
Between Cuba and the American Union there exists
relation EXCEPT that batween the covetous man aud the
OBJECT Of his desrehe plunoerer and the prey that he
10 eager to snatch As far as words go, the
government Of the United States is bound to admit
this 1t does not pretend to set any claim to tina pos
session Of this Spanish colony " Issues proclama
tiops cautonng the citizens OF the United Statss-'aod
how disgracefu that such caution should be
rypagainst invading the domioions OF friendly Pow
But, the Other band it selects ambassador to
nnbustering tendencies and thus needlessy in.
suits the very Power whose d0mnions her citi
nens have already attacsed, and are, If we mistake
not the point OF attacking again. The words OF the
American government in harmony with the law Of
nations but her acts accord much nearly with the
code OF Captain Morgan or Nar:so Lopez. We make
these observations now because orsee that
sion 10 not unlikely TO arise in which the of
the United States will be called upon choose between
s duties and its professions between the low popularity
1t has coured and the high obligations with which has
tampsIed
most formidable and sapgmnary plot for the separa
ton Of Cuba from Spain anu her union to the United
OF Copcba himself in his box at the theatre
the eoDspiraors were provided with arms, am
FUZZY kept for eleven months and the 18th of lass
month fxed for the commencement of the insurrsc
ton by the murder of the Governor and rising
the negroes The plot has been discovered the papers
Of the sonspirators sezed, their CIPHER unravelled,
and their whole plans made known 1t appears
Mons, but expected 70 be reinforced by from
two 70 three thousand American citizens, who
70 be landed on she coast and carried immediately
by railway to the Havana. The expedition, We
suppose. Is the same as that which has already
sailed, with the concurrence of the American
government, for the ostensbls purpose of colo
MIXING Central America. The pirates undoubtedly
IN most critical position. The island is carefully
watched by English and Spanish steamers. The ex-
petition cannot be Of the detection OF the
Caban conspiracy, and win If they effect landing
find themselves without the support which they
yeekoned. In such case, the result esanot appre
Americana, they must, II unsupported by the iphabi
tants find themselves unequal to deal with the large
all the munitions OF war, of whom General Concha
dispose What viii follow may be easily conjectured
Spanards have never at least In later times, been
able for mercy vanqnshed enemy, and In this
there every eement present which excite and
embtter their minds. The remembrance Of the expedi
ton Of Lopez the iasut offered to their government by
the mission Of Mr. Soue the pertnacious and lawl-ss
hostility Of the people Of the United States The feeble
and hollow professions of their government all tsnd
70 q state of feeling likely to yield 10 the
coupsels Of vengeance than TO the peadings of
nercy. Should these anticpations be realized, and
loved by bloody military execution shall expec. to
hear from the American press and the Of the
American cutlery for the blood Of their
"murdered citizens" and a demand of sangunary
prisas of war, fire and desolaton to atone for the
shock to the national feeling, and the insult to the
rational honor.
We win not wait till the amentable occurrence, the
probability OF which weforesse has taken place TO tell
the government Of General Pierce the truth of this
matter This pratcal expedition IL has either been
willing unable TO prevent It has been willing TO gain
al the popularity that to bs got by It's and
anxious to gain all the popularity that be got
by sympathizing with its failure and denouncing the
punif OF it's sbettors. But the civilized world
CARDS such professions and such practices with daily
insreasins aversion, and will have sympathy with
Movement too feeble and too nsncere to control its
own citizens, 70 maintain the faith OF treaties,
protect the rights Of weaker Powers.