Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1855-03-30
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

SPIRIT OF The MORNING PRESS.
Tee Union again argues the Ell Dorado
question, and seems to conclude that there il
10 hope that Spain will manifest common
sense in the explanations she will give of the
act Of her cruiser. Such We take TO be the
drift Of our neighbor's long article on the sub
ject The same paper makes the value Of the
American commerce, which necessarily passes
in and through the Gulf Of Mexico annually,
to be $500, 100000, and argues to show the
danger to lis interests involved in according
to Spain the right Of search, visitation or de-
tention- Commenting upon q mistake made
Tot long since by q correspondent Of the In
tsiIigsneey in improperly transiating the
Spanish minister of foreign affairs al having
said that Dir. Soule was recalled or dismissed,
when he said replaced, the Union says of
that speech of the Spanish functionary: .
SIN the intifnation of the Spanish minister
IN the speech referred to, that an adjustment
OF the Black Warrior case was declined be
cause cur minister was not acceptable, is as
inconsistent with his professions Of devotion to
Justice IS II is wanting in respect to our
government, whose representative Mr. Sculc
vas. II Mr. Dodge should not happen to be
acceptable upon the same ground the other
demands Raae upon the Justice" Of Spain
yiD he refused until he has resigned and
Withdrawn from the country. To avoid any
sUch poor pretext for further delay, we should
be gsstifed il she would settle all the pending
cases upon her own free and voluntary sense
ofj0stice before the arrival Of Mr.. Dodge, as
her minister claims that the Black Warri u
case was settled This, however, is too much
10 expect OF Spanish Diplomacy We need
hardly add that Mr.. Soule's resignation was
ea;irely voluntary, and Its acceptance by our
government was In accordance with his earn
est request, and not with any view of concili
atiag the Spanish government
The Istsiiigenesr, in rerublishing from the
Union surdry complimentary notices Of the
Te:ent appointments of officers in the four new
regiment, takes occasion TO say
g As 10 could not in courtesy refuse Major
&cCullveh's request for the Insertion of his
letter, which We lately published, in regard
10 the appointments for the four new regiments
We think it Incumbent to copy any proser re.
PLY IN defence OF the course pursued by the
tresident and Secretary of War in the Der.
forDa1ee OF the delicate and di fhcuit task de.
yolSei On hem by the increase of the army
and the moro as We think injustice has beer
done them, and that in the selections for ths
AiAtiNdIJ poluS1e1Is tl6y doubtless
acted fOE The best, and in the main acted in
dieiously. We therefore COPY the annexe,
paragraphs, which we find in a late numbe
OF the Union"
Ii strikes rs that If, instead Of making hir
msJoF, the President had conferred a colo
nels commission on Major MeCulIoch, VI
would have beard nothing Of that gentleman
indignation against the alleged mal-treatmen
OF civilians in besto"iag he Offices in question
at leas: from Major Nice. From tho persona
intimacy which existed between the Presidsp
and that gentleman, the latter having bee
his guest at tee White House, it was YER
generally believed in Washington that b
would come out of the mill at the head of OF
OF the new regiments. and he was very genel
ally credited with having been dreadfuII
disappointed at bagging bat Majority. PEI
maps this explsaation may shed some Iiph
upon tae 9t0 GniAsO Of his so-indignant letter
IN which lie, with very good sense indeed, 70
trains from utteIirg q word by way Of eniea
Foflng to create the impression that those fo
whom lie processes to write, would have dis
charged the functions Of the field officers o,
tbs Few regiments better than the gallant and
thoroughly trained gentlemen appointed to
than.