The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-05-31

Our RELATIONS WITH SPAN-It appears at
last to have been discovered in the Spanish
Cortes that the imbroglio Of Mr.. Soule with the
holding one or more of Marcy's "sober second
thought" dispatches from the Spanish govern
ment This agrees with our statements of the
case published six months ago, and we presume
that there is little doubt now of their correct
ness. But we charge the whole of Soule's diff
cuities, Ostend convention inclusive, to the
double-dealing and treachery of the admins
tration.. It is not likely that he would have
persisted in his flibustering experiments at
Madrid without encouragement from Washing
ton regarded as of higher authority than
Marcy's official instructions. We understand,
too, that although Mr. Pierce affected to be
highly indignant about the Perry letter, he
was well advised of that document in advance
of its publication. What is to be done with
concerned in Mr.. Pierce's European Cuban di-
plomacy have been sacrificed TO the treachery
which has ruled this business at Washington
there can be little hope for Mr.. Perry. Our
new Minister, Mr.. Dodge, will most probably
refrain from exercising the slightest discretion,
however advantageous it may appear, and will
stick to the exact letter Of Marcy's orders, for
fear of the consequences. In the meantime, as
the Perry letter promises to bring out all
the suppressed correspondence touching Soule's
mission, we may expect in due time, some in
teresting Developments of the conflicting tao
tics of Mr.. Pierce, under the alternate counsels
Of Marcy, JEFF. Davis and the Kitchen Cabinet.
CITIZEN RoBEspIERRE MoELRATH ON THE
KANSAS DIsTURBANcEs.-The President of the
Nassau Bank, Citizen Robespierre McElratb,
like the Jacobins Of the first French revolution,
is thirsting for blood. Through the columns Of
his Seward coalition newspaper he is scatter
ing his frebrands of agitation and sedition with
most ferocious zeal. For example, he sug-
gests the getting up "an organized force in the
Territory, to repel the invasion of the slave
holders, and to repudiase the proceedings Of
the official scoundrels who will assemble and
call themselves the Legislature of Kansas"
This sort of coup d'ftat is the very thing
for which this Danton McElrath and his
revolutionary associate, now in Europe, Aua-
charsis Cloots, denounced Louis Napoleon as a
perjured cut-throat aud murderer. But Cir
cumstances alter cases, and where niggers are
concerned, the cutting of Threats is suggested
as positive virtue Our amiable conspirator,
Master McElrath, seems to have on echo in
Kansas equally amiable. In lettsr of his
published yesterday, this law-abiding Kansas
tree soil emigrant says that the people Of the
North "know very little Of the proper mode for
securing the freedom Of Kansas, which is to
fight" that "a battle or two must be fought-a
Regular pitched battles" and he accordingly
calls for a shipment of 'revolvers and other
weapons" of moral suasion Of the same deadly
character. Has it come to this? Is this the
way that the blood-tnirsty Citizen MElrath
deals with the customers Of the Nassau Bank
when they call for q discount, especially if they
be liquor dealers? When it comes to "revol-
vers and other weapons and call for "a
pitched BATTLE" the abolitionists, like quiet
people, keep within doors.