New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-04-19
CUBA AND KANSAS.

WHAT WONDERFUL 0luerenCe II MdkeB WnoBo
the COW is that suffers, and whose OK does the
mischief. TIE President and his Cabinet, Oh up
in arms about Cuban Outrages, are sending out
ships. of.wtr with guns loaded and matches light
ed. Not content with having vindicased the
honor of the Cabinet in the famous Greytown
csse-ihe country did not gain much honor on
that occasion-Mr. Pierce and his political dry
nurses, are, if all accounts be true, resolved and
determined to assail, sink burn and destroy, any
Spanish steamer they may light upon-slways
provided her force prove to be 20 inferior
to thst of the brave attacking squadron as to
make the assault perfectly safe operation.
That the Spanish authorities in Cuba should
presume to protect themselves against 6llibuster
ing invasion, which our Government has neither
the sagscity to foresee-thoueh the preparations
for it go on under their very noses, and perhaps
in some of the Government ofices-nor the eAer.
gy if, indeed, they have the will, to prevent is
made the occasion Of great outcry. Reported
plots of invasion and insurrection Matched in the
United States, and some of them actually carried
into execution-plots which our Government has
shown itself rot only unable but actually unwil-
ling to prevent or to punish, have naturally and
reasonably or ough invested with certain cloud
of suspicion every American citizen resident in
Cuba, or transient visitor there's and every un-
known vessel, especially if 1t hoists the Ameri-
can flag, which may be seen approaching the Gu
ban coast 1t may, no doubt, be vexstious to
quiet citizens who witt Cuba in pursuit Of health
or business, TO be subjected 10 the Snuoyances,
sometimes even to the extent of arrest and i'm
pritonment, 10 which these unfortunate but too
we'll found ed suspicious may expose taem. But
they ought to recolect that they have gone to
Cuba on their own mere motion, without any in
viIaIion from the Spanish Government; and that
they are only suffering the penalty Of that breach
Of the Tenth Commandment which, In relation to
Cuba, not only our numerous filibustering fellow
citizens but our very National Government have
VIGOROUSLY been guilty Of.
Bot while Mr.. Pierce and bis fllibustering al
viters are so sensitive TO the suferinss of their
COW out in Cuba, We doubt, after all, il they
will get much milk GU. of her, and whether they
are not committing the very folly of which DR..
johnson accused David Hume-thst Of trying TO
milk the bull. We hope they will not entirely
forget that they have mischievous OK, or m.d
buffalo rather, lurking in the border counties Of
Missouri that seems, also, to need little look
ing after. While the Secretary Of the Navy is
fitting out ships to keep the Cubaus in order,
would 1t not be just a. well for the Secretary Of
War to dispatch two or three regiments to Kan.
'as, to guard the unfortunate iDhsbtan,s Of thst
Territory against being invaded, bullied and muir
dered by their slavehOlding neighbOrs.
What are all the eutraees alleged to have been
commiHed in Cuba, compared with the violen.
invasion Of Ksnsss, By an army of DULLES and
blacksuMds from Missouri, who took possession
OF the polls, and assumed TO themselves the res
possibility Of electins Legislature for the new
Territory When Sp,in commits an outrage like
that, or an outrage twentieth part as atrocious
as that We shall be perfectly ready to fghs her.
Charity begins at home; and until the ri ghts
of our suffering fellow. citizens in Kansas are frat
vindicated-until our people who stay within the
limits of the territory of the United States, are
first secured in the quiet enjoyment of their
rights, and especially of the great right of suff.
rsge-we think the Administration might a. well
postpone the going out Of the territory of the
United States, TO seek outrsges to be punished
and wrongs to be indicated.
Perhaps, in the case of Mr.. Pierce, the result
Of the recent New Hampshire election may have
so disguised him with everything at home, that
his eyes and his thoughts are nov solely fixed on
Cuba as the only place Of refuge for him aud the
fragments Of the late slave. catching Democratic
party. No doubt there il much in the state of So
ciety and feeling in that Island which might lead
him to seek refuge there, Like another Cato at
Utica and to select that Is the closing scene of
the political suicide he has so nearly completed.
But, however it may be with Mr.. Pierce, we
trust Mr.. Cas- 10 not going to fail us. In this
moment Of danger to the great doctrine Of popu-
lar sovereisnty-dAnger to it, too In that very
Kansas into which he worked % hard to IN ro.
duce it pure and intact even at the risk Of bring
Ing In Slavery LsDs with it-there cannot be
doubt that Mr.. Cas- will step forward to the res
Que. No d0abt 10 already has prepared speech
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