Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-17

We cannot have Cuba. This Texatious
question is settled at last. Spain has given
her final, irrevocable negative TO all our prop
ositions to purchase the Queen of the Antil-
les" That jewel is still to remain in the
crown of Spain and Mr.. Soule, no longer
crowned as the representative of our AFRO
gance, is to come home and go to raising mig
gers in Louisiana, instead OF raising political
fracases in Madrid.
There are several reasons why we cannot
obtain the consent of Spain to the sale of Gu
ba but these are the very prominent ones
One is the pride of the grandees, which re-
volts at the idea of trading off upon any con-
sideration, the proudest-almost only-me-
mortal which remains of Spanish greatness
and Spanish glory. There was time when
Spain was second to no kingdom in the world
either in power or infuence-when her adj
venturers filled the western seas with their
ships; and when the steeds of her grandees
neighed beside the temples of the Incas, or
shook their bridal reins before the palace Of
the Montezumas There was time when
she was Qneen of America, claiming supre-
macy over both the Northern and Southern
continents; and sustaining that supremacy
by her crozier and her sword Cuba is all that
remains to her of those "brave days OF old !"
and the proud, though poor, descendants of
her ancient cavliers would consider it worse
than sacrilege to sell for money this last rem
nant of her imperial glory. We, who have no
such poetic notions about buying and selling,
as Spanish grandees have, may consider this a
very frivolous reason for "poor Dons" holding
SO tenaciously to an almost proftless depen-
dency. But VIC cannot estimate the strength
of their ideas any more than they seem able
to put proper value on our money.
But the second reason is amuch more prop
er and we think much more noble one than
the first. The Democrats of Spain would not
consent to sell Cuba at any price to quasi
republic, which wants it for the mere purpose
of rendering still harder the slavery of the ne
groes who inhabit it.
A Spanish noble, who is in principle re-
publican, stood up in the Cortes, at Madrid, a
short time ago, and, in the noble language of
CASTLE, expressed his absolute repugnance, as
well as that of the entire democratic party of
Spain, for the policy Of republic which holds
slaves and which only desires the acquisition
of Cuba in order that she may still further
extend her system of cruel bondage. We can
not have Cuba by consent of Spanish aristo-
Gratis because their veneration for tradition is
stronger than their love of money. We can
not have Cuba, by consent of Spanish demo-
Gratis, because they absolutely loathe thesys-
tenn of slavery which, like a final leprosy
and cancerous sore, we conceal below the
mantle of repubicanism that we year SO
vauntingly.
Those Spaniards have taught us a very good
lesson if we would only take it. One party
of them has shown us that they have more
love for the memory of their fathers glory
than we have for our fathers principles and
the other party has shown us that though
they live under a monarchy, they have more
respect for democratic freedom than we have
who make our own government. What les
sons there are for Americans 70 learn from for
egners