The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-04-19

to outside friends that he should take a strong
and decided position in regard to the Cuban
outrages.
| From the New York Times of April 49,
To-day, (the 13th,) according to the formal
| announcement in the Washington Union, Com
modore McCauley, having received his instruc.
tions from the President, sails in the steamer
San Jacinto, for the Gulf. This we take to be
| another evidence that the President has not re
coded, and will not recede, from lis bold deter.
mindtion Of several days since, to bring on the
crisis n oar Spanish relations, unless Spain
herself shrinks therefrom. This is
no time for Spain to expect the slightest aid
from England and France in her attempts to
create new law for the United States; and our
duty of standardization is Hus reliered of near.
~ all ITS danger and cost. The time is propi.
tious, as it is fully ripe. iSingle-hdnded and
alone, as Spain mast nom be, she could not Iona
maintain a struggle wh as and she aoW not.
because a week of war will lose her Cuba
From the Baltimore American DENY of April IL
The IssUE.-Commodore McCauley will i'm
mediately repair to Philadelphia, from which
point after hosting his broad pennant on board
the steamer San Jacinto, he will proceed to the
Cuban waters. The ships assigned to his SQUAD
ron and now subject to his orders, in addition
to the flagship, are the steamer Princeton of
ten guns of the largest calbre and range, the
steamer Fulton of six Paixhan guns, the ship
jamestown of twenty guns the Falmouth of
twenty guns, and the Cyane of twenty guns.
Besides these, it is understood that the Sarato-
ga of twenty guns, and the Vermont of eighty
four guns, will be added to the fleet in due time,
and even others will be assigned should the oc-
casion require. We are sGffSed that the in
structions of President Pierce take decided
! ground that they direct him and his officers to
resist by force every attempt on the part of the
armed vessels of any Power TO overhaul Amer
lean ships upon the high seas.
From the New Orleans Delta
There could be no greater blessing for this
nation than a vigorous war; it would he heal.
thy expansion of the hugs, a breath of pure air
at last. 1t is evident that the war
policy will be strong element in our Federal
elections henceforward. Everywhere the chance
of its occurrence is discussed. Everywhere its
possible results are investigated. Everywhere
there is a stirring and throbbing of the popular
heart Everywhere are longing ewes fixed upon
the banners Haunting afar off. Everywhere the
idea of fight is entertained. Indeed, the ma
ton is clearly in the condition of the Irishman,
who stated that he was "blue-moulded for want
OF beating" THE Time is at hand rhich ,cHi
try mems souls.
THE KANSAS ELECTION FRAUD.-The C0l,,D,-
bia (Missouri) Journal, of the 9TH of April. in
an exultant article on the triumph of the pro-
Slavery candidates in Kansas at the recent
elections, gives the following despatch from In
dependence to its readers:
"Several hundred returning emigrants from
Kansas, have just entered this city. They were
preceded by the Westport and independence
Brass Band Immediately following the band
was about 200 horsemen in regular order; fol-
lowing these were $50 wagons, carriages, &c.
They report that not an Anti-Savery man will
be in the Legislature of Kansas JFe have
made clean swept"
The Journal adds:
GA citizen of Columbia who has Just return
ed from Kansas, informs us that reI'y mann of
the Ab0lHioniSts skulked Of, and did not ottentlt
to cote. Governor Reeder, probably considering
that discretion was the best part of valor,' kept
alocf from tie election. The Aid Emigrants
were not probably accustomed to seeing the
precincts so thoroughly guarded to protect the
ballot-box from corruption and fraud. Finding
how familiar the 'slaveholding barbarians' are
with arkansas tO0th-picks, sir-Sh0oters and
larger ptdythingS Of a simildr character, and
yet that they will not trihe with them-that they
will not disregard the rights of others, nor be
guilty of acts of aggression-cool and dcliber-
ate, but determined, and if necessary, regardless
Of life and reckless Of danger Many of these
Anti-Slavery minions will probably seek associ-
atoms moro congenial to their tastes"
We arc here informed by the organ of these
protectors of the ballot-box," after its own
fashion, all that the world have any need to
know respecting the infamous manner in which
the Kansas elections have been carried by or
ganized bands of armed outlaws and bullies from
Missouri. Governor Reeder is on his way to
Washington, we are informed, and unless he is
either more or less than man, we shall surely
have from himself truthful account of the vile
doings of the creatures Of Senator Atchison and
his associates.
The Weston (Missouri) Reporter, of March
18th, the day before the election, asserting that
the fanatics of the North" were endeayoring
to make Kansas free Territory, (which is true
also assumes that they would do it by unfair
means, and avows fighting the devil with FIRE"
as the policy of the friends of Slavery and it
accordingly says:
81 Our minds are already made up as to the
result of the election tomorrow in Kansas. The
Pro-Slavery party will be triumphant, we pre-
sumo, in nearly every precinct. Should the Pro
Slavery party fail in this contest, it will not be
because Missouri has not done her duty to aid
her friends in the Territory. For we Judge it a
safe calculation that two thousand squatters
have passed over into the promised land from
this State within the past four days, and taken
claims, and become bona tide residents Many
of them had claims prior to this time and have
only gone over to possess them; others will Sc
cure themselves like claims, and we trust will
remain ON them"
But they came back the next day, two hun
dred horsemen and one hundred and fifty wag-
ons in line. Bona tide residents are not
wont to do this