The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-06


by ignorance and selfinterest on all sides,
deprived ou1 cause of those sympathies and moral
support which 1t go much required for success. On
the other hand il knew how with singular certainty
to touch the sleeping chord of race and nationality,
scattering doubts and preudces, which serve to ex-
plain why the revolutionary movement La CUBA was
not more rapid and powerful. IT,,
The few Cubans, who in good or bad faith. aided
Spain in that Machiavelian movement, Will in pro-
per time strict account to the country for the
inopportuneness Of their cooperation. There was
time enough afterwards to discuss the merits of an
nexation considered as the end of our tolls; the
only consideration then was the means concerted to
accumulate material and moral powers against the
tyranny of Spanish domination; and it Is not con-
ceivable that that being the dominant and primary
object which animated all, there could have been no
friend of our revolution who would Illustrate it with
an opposition as imprudent rs it was premature:
Certain it Vs. that on one side calumniation OF the
motives and object of our enterprise planted in
foreign SOIL and on the other the excitaton OF SEN
timents which will always preserve their empire IN
the human heart, were counter principles employed
to combat in its vulnerable side the revolutionary
programme Of lS4S. Lopez and his heroic band
the numerous Cuban victims sacrificed since ON the
terrible scatod still sleep in obscure graves withou
the universal sympathies Of the surprised and
shocked world having come to console their noble
and patriotic shades
Perhaps. aso-and we must here speak without
dsguse-the exaggerated hope OF an unlimited co.
operation coming from abroad, may have influenced
dsadvantageously the maintenance and kindling in
the soul Of that ardor and patriotism which are SO
necessary for people to acquire with honor and dig
nifty, the supreme good of freedom. Without that
very important consideration, some grievous events
which took place in Cuba and facilitated to our enc
mics the opportunities for new calumnies and impos
lures, would still remain unexplained.
But even as it was, Notwithstanding all this, our
combated enterprise would have triumphed, were 1t
not for anomalous and unforeseen obstacles which
have arisen against in the very land where it came
to seek at least favorable neutrality. 1t is event
which will remain marked in history for shame and
confusion by the detraCtors Of the American govern
ment that in the midst Of most proptious circum-
stances and even of most ineXcusable provocations
by the Spanish authorities notwithstanding the most
perfect accord between self interest and the vndica
ton Of its outraged honor it still resisted temptation.
and did not only not favor, but did not conceal the
plans which were being formed here, within the
range of the law to overthrow the common enemy
To-day the truth must be told. The greatest enemy
that the Cuban revolution had it has always met in
the administrations of this country, whatever may
have been the political color of their elevation to
power. Hence the repeated embargoes and confsca-
tons of means of action hence their searches
and prosecutions; hence ALSO the constant espionage
and the denunciation of our movements, which have
more than frustrated the best laid combinations
against the OppressOrs of our country.
| That such conduct should absolve the government
| of the nation from every ambitious view towards
impartial people, of the motives which dictated it, is
| thing which cannot be conceded without serious
uncertainty 1t may be said that the desire Of ncor
poratng Cuba in the confederation is innate in every
American heart as precise postuate OF that law of
expansion which is the soul of the Anglo Saxon
race. On the other hand, without the possession of
that key of the Mexican gulf the geographical stra.
tegiCal and commercial eXigencieS on which depend
its future greatness, would remain unsatisfed. But
that clear and universal intuition Of the value and
importance of our territory, in ascending from the
individual sphere to the councils of the federal rep
resentation to be interpreted into executive acts,
arrives there debtated and obscured by the clashng
Of political parties and the strife of the interests Of
the house, which dispute among themselves prepon.
fvnh AZ <1,nvn
always appears at distance but each time more in
volved among the mist arising from internal agta-
tons, prolific in the parliamentary history Of the
| Union.
Besides, this is no time for deception. This giant
people, in the developementof its internal strength
andresources is deficient in xity Of purpose and reso
luton in the march foreign policy 1t might be said
on looking at the vacillatOns and specuat0ns OF its
diplomacy that it still wishes to grow and strength
en- more, before promulgating its thought and its
will before the assembly Of nations. Therefore the
Cuban question has been for all administrations,
without distinction of party, the touclstone of its
incipiency and inaptitude for the debates of in
| ternationa policy.
And if past administrations can find no excuse for
this in their political antecedents and the cOnserva-
tive principles which they represent, for the hos.
ty which they displayed against the efforts Of the Gu
ban revolutioniss, still less can any excuse be formed
for the present administration, which owed its cleo
| ton to the most democratic and progressive ele
! ments, and to the most solemn engagements in
| favor OF the cause Of our country. No other was
more openly wanting to that condition Of its plat
form-surprised doubtless by the secrets OF the
Anglo-French alliance, no less than by the agitation
which the Nebraska bill created through the coun-
try IN which the energy OF internal parties was to
he lMprudently evaporated Whether through alarm
or through calculation, or through motives perhaps
less excusable, because personal it knew not how
TO attempt more than an unde6nable mission to the
Court of Madrid for the regulation Of the difficulties
pending with the government Of Cuba; and when 1t
received for response denial and insult and the re-
petition of annoyances, it had neither the force Of
win nor the prestige sufficient to propose to and OBJ
tain from Congress its approval OF the adoption
OF open and energetic measures, nor did it think
proper to combine any other than those OF aggres-
sion upon our operations aud preparations. And if
these tgmas were the only ones which the admins
tration cast upon the national character they might
! perhaps be washed away in the bath Of its own
cOwartlce and inapttude. But there are other re-
eponsibilities which are perhaps reserved for the
| great day of revelations which may then condemn
the national character to the animadverson OF all
| the generous hearts of the world
But If we depore the past, we see nothing in the
future OF American policy to justify hopes, some
times even exaggerated, Of its moral cooperation
II naught else-in the success Of revolution At
least II new causes or unusual motives are not brought
into play to overcome its present inertness, Cuba
would have in vain cast herself in her oppression and
misery at the feet Of the Colossus which might have
raised her from her abasement and prostraton. And
can this be anticipated when the ferlnent Of old and
new political parties is more than ever agtated
Above all there Is one OF those parties which sprung
geneous mass of most opposite views, but which
nterlaced and COMPOUNDED in the common formula Of
natiyism, which is another word for hostility and
intolerance toward the foreigner Add to this that
Cuba with her social institutions, is standing
threat for the balance of power between
the two great sections Of the country,
50 much desired to-day, BY all the friends
of the national pact, aud it win he seen that If
the programme OF ls4s were useful and necessary
for the rt steps Of our revolutionary infancy, that
programme only deserves to-day to Be preserved in
cur archives historic record for the annals of
our struggle with tyranny For our own part, at
least, we must declare openly that that timid and
has hitherto pursued that constant opposition to our
plans, that underlined position in which the internal
| agitations Of the Union place the cause Of Cuba,
can neither conduce ~ the honor and dignity of our
revolution nor satisfy the exivcncies If tho eyis