Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-08-20
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

-DhAt OE LIZ hOnn1No EhES6.
Tho htsihgrncsr regrets exceedingly the
disposition of this Government to acquire Cuba
with the consent of Spain, and explains that
Mr.. Dodgc is already making efforts to that
end, if the information on which its predicates
its remarks on thu subject is reliable. The
editor says: 1eL
so long time has elapsed since the pub.
lie jOurp@is Of note, either in Spain or In the
ULitsa States, have ceased to discuss the
questions growing out Of the overweahing de-
Sire Of portions Of our people to gain possession
Of Cuba, by lawful or unlawful means, that
we had really begun to hope that the whole
II tier was at an end. The active and yigor-
Gus measures pursued by the Executive of the
United States in arresting the fllibustering
expeditions, and the very decided refusal of
cpain TO listen to any proposition for the trans.
Ter CT Cuba to the United States, were both so
strongly evineive of a settled and unwayeripg
Polcy that We have been struck with no little
suPiiSe which we think will be partaken by
great majority Of our readers-at seeing in
The Paris correspondence of the New York
Times something more than a mere intima-
tInn that cur new Minister at Madrid has been
ticking steps to bring the affair again under
consideration. The manner in which the cor
respondent Of the Times" mentions the fact.
VIC WHICH, mas Deen LaKen OF IL
the III idrid papers, which he quotes, cannot
ave been without some foundation in truth
We are truly sorry TO see it but the present
state OF our inform Ition upon the subject is
not such as to Justify our doing more than ask
Ing the attention of ur readers to the follow
ing extract from the letter referred to, bear.
ing date the lst of Augut:
as Things look as ii Mr.. Dodge our Minis
Ter, had been making some propositions, or
DGYhQnS OnnA ind 70 I'll.
CONS, upon the convenience of Spains ceding
Cuba % Us pCaceably for large sum and il
appears tho susceptibility of the SpaniarGs
has again taken the alarm, and the press is
frli OF new protests repelling every PROPOSE
ton. The EPoca. Government paper) the
Novedades (popu'ar paper,l and the Espana
(Modsrado,) express themselves with much
warmth On this subject, and recommended the
American Minister not to allow himself to be
led away by vain hopes. The Government it.
self has thought proper to reply to all this in
the Ct1ial Gazette with the following declara.
ton:
Let the public press and the uewsmon-
gers say what they please, the conduct of the
Spanish Government relative to the sale or
cesslon OF the island Of Cuba will be always
strictly eoEfoi med to the national vote mani.
tested IN n o ner unusually solemn, explicit,
and significant, in a memorable session of
the nstituent Congress-
The Union discusses Senator Benjamin's
appeal to tie South to unite in Southern
party, and the Simultaneous effort of Mr.. Sew.
ard to unite the North in Northern party,
saying:
" The letter Of the Hon. j. p Benjamin, of
Lcuisisnl, suggesting and urging the forma-
ZION CT an exclusive Southern party, is not q
rev ifea, though 1t has been entertained By
oineT southern statesmen on higher grounds
than those which have manifestly controlled
ar b,hJhm.n. Has recommendation comes
al q mo2eut when the Democratic party is
nore Completely united upon constitutional
principles than it has been in many years;
aL2 most Of these who have believed In the
remedy which he low so urgently advocates
10 not tail to see and to say that a southern
sectional party is only desirsble when the
Nnith beeCmes entirely AbolitiUniTed. There
Is much in Mr., BeI jamih's letter that we sp-
prove; but If reasoning is right, as we think
IL Is, n's remedy is wrong Mr.. Benjamin ad-
mlts that the Wing party is gone, and, with
all his prsjudices, be cannot deny that the
Democratic party stands firm; and vet be
would break down the Democratic party,
which is confessedly the only barrier between
the South and the Abolition fanatics In
other words, he would hasten the catastrophe
of separation by dividing the people by geo.
position OF Hon. +. W. Pickens of South Car
olina, one of the most decided advocates of
Southern rights, Is IN happy contrast with that
of Dir. Besj amin
In letter in reply to an invitation TO the
dinnergiyen 10 Col. Orr. he Ia kes strong grounds
IN favor OF Corporation between the people
OF the South and tho Democracy of the North.
We have seen how ably Col Orr has defended
the sims proposition /; and we have now before
Us the admirable remarks Of Hon Preston III.
Brroks, also Of South Carolina, in which he
assumes the SEINE ground We do not doubt
that these wise cOunsels will prevail against
sectional party at the South and that all
honest wings like Mr. Benjamin will see that
the way to insure peace for the whole Union
and security TO all the rights of all the States
IS by supporting the Democratic party. Mr..
Benjamin will shortly realize that the very
next step of the Know Nothings in tho South
will be an attempt TO take refuge in peculiar
Southern party, no mG ter how this may con-
hlct with their yesterdays coalition with the
odth-b, uud fanatics Of the North This is
their last card t...
"And how is it in the North? Simultaneous
with the defeats of secret party in the South,
thers seems to be general break in the
ranks OF new-fangled opposition in the free
states, and q cry from different quarters Is
rIised IN favor of "the republican party"
This last movement is intended to supersede
tie Know Noting order, and to combine all the
elements OF fanatioism, with abolition at its
head. IL Is a sehsme.iG will be remembered
started IN Congress after the passage of the
ia" erecting the Territories { Nebraska and
Kansas. Lost sight Of while the Know Moth
ing nhrensy prevailed, it is re vived now that
TIE Know NOthiDgs have served their purpose
Of helping lhe abolitiOnists
"MT Seward leads the columns Of the repub.
Hean party In New York, and there is every
prospect that his ranks will be filed with
Know Nothings aud Wings. Mr. Pessend,
and Mr.. Washburne have 1t in hand in Maine.
N Giddings and Mr.. Chase have it fully Or
gani1ed and under way in Ohio; and in Penn
sylyania Gov. Johnston has unfurled his Tag"
a Recent Occurrence near Constantinople.
Tie last European mail brought news of an
occurrence near COns,sntinople, not long since,
which will be read with much interest, as fol.
lows Near the villa of the Pasha Of Constan-
tinop!s is the hospital where the wounded and
debilitated French ofhcers are healed and
quartered Some of the convslescent man.