The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-20

u w kO1th A1x24tAhAAAS MO
that the selfexis.ence Of the Cuban question, its
rim, its spontanety, its real color, have paed evel
70 extinguishinehs in the injurious mystidcation
which Spain and the governments OF Europe and
Of America the foreign tribune and the foreign
I.css have been encouraged in giving it. The Gu
ban question, as It always was, they have made 10
anpeal EN- American question; aud the worst VI IL
is that the whole world arrived to regardngt.
Seng thus tranSplanted 10 foreign soil, It's dena-
iuTalizao has deprived it Oh The attributes OF its
vitality Everything noble and sreat whfs. 1t com
pIiscs everything heroic alld sui lime IN he strife
Lotween the oppressed and the oppressor, al Tie
afinities which morally Lind peoples through the
sentiment Of community OF cause, all this and more
still have we lost in chat unncky degeneration.
United States have been saturated, and have
felt the poison OF that Transformation.
Well, then III The contest of humanitaran principles
against the mnrpation Of the rights Of man. it =
rTorer TO ssk whether our moral cause, abandoned
by Inc iniiuence os the enlightened opinion OF the
CloEe, is moi already conquered in the exclusive, linn
tied. uuruitful soil in which, through fatal though
useful and opporune necessity, We lad to place it IN
the beginning.
In Luiope, al those who sustain the principle of
arthority have be.n disciplined to cioak our aspra
tons with the arapery of american usurpation, and
our cause, regarded there in the exclusive coors OF
tho star fpanglcd banner, has been looked cpon by
the people, ~ the representatives, OF progress ~
Kossuth himself llJterly, as % melancholy appendix
to the law OF expansion OF the American Uiion Inc
first have raised tue cry ae inst what sney call ian
kee acts Of immortality 1t is thus that Our asking
for coOperatioD ard our exterior operations observ
cd through the prism of annexation. are qualified.
They have invoked all the laws Of human associa-
ions all the obligations of treaties, O. international
law, and of natural law, and they have succeeded IN
forming mass Of opinion so compact and general
that it is worthy Of observation that even here, and
among our best friends, that fiction has been
succnhod to-that the criminal vestiture has
been given 10 it rs il Europe, md that in all the
branches Of the government in all the organs Of pub
tic opinion, and in all personal manifestations, there
always appear as necessary Cha ner COMBINATIONS
e ilibusterisln or protests against Icing mixed up
in tina. piracy OF the nineteenth century.
IL it strange that The Clear ard pure individuality
Of revolution raised 70 that eyecrablo situation,
has net many enemies TO combat it? The present
Anglo-French league may very well have had its
origin in the conditions OF European eq brun; but
il ID very singular to observe that cvcn at a time
when no cause had changed the status quo Of that
continent, Tie two nations had united ca THIS side OF
he ocean TO give their Joint opposition not to the
revolution Of the Cuban people but to their calling
in IT, their aid the spirit Of dcspotioA and the thirst
for territory Of the United States. The Oldest fact
in orr possession on this subject Is the following =
TIE SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS TO TdE FIRST
LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY.
OFFICE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, April 10 tto2.
My Lodwth reference to that portion q the despatch
Of Admiral Sir George Seymour, OF 18th February
last in which he asks whether other instructions have
been issued to a. guide in the event of any
oI Mapeqbuty beg that you will be kind enough to
inform the Lords Of the Admiralty that his iordsp will
consult with the French government concerning the pro-
prety Of giving still further orders to the English and
French adnrals West India station with respect
Cuba and whom such orders gyen my Be- idsn
Behind this unanswcrabe document may be taken
into consideration the proposition of the trpartite
ieaty, which speaks volumes; the letter OF Lord
John Russell to Mr.. Champion OF 10th OF February,
1863 giving point to that project, engaging Great
Britain to work separately, or il union with other
powers in the question Of Cuba; the Elimination
afterwards given TO the league in the remarkable
words Of English minister repeated on two occa-
sions BY the Emperor ftbe French; and, above ALL
The naval forces OF both nations acting in concert in
the waters Of Cuba, inialliblc signs Of an alliance,
which has had its influence in tie Cabinet councils
Of Washington very nnfavor,bly for Is.
And If the course purscd by us were a de-
Walton from the straight path which we should
have followed, like fatality which accumulated
evils evils, the idea Of annexation has brought to
this country the danger OF the identification OF q
grave social question which has threatened it here
toioIe, anu which to-day, even without that motve,
appears to be prcpar1nga commoiion throughout the
Union True in the Nebraska question conservative
principles triImphed, but il was very oppotune
occasion for studying, il and out OF Congress, the
progress which radical ideas have made, thanks 70
he triumph over TIE wings by The democrats. and
10 the REORGANIZATION Of the latter through the
weakness Of The present administration. And at the
present moment the fraction which represented
these destructive ideas has taken tho proportions OF
Iarty, with the fragments of the others, and IS
preparing to enter into the tournament of 1856 with
,le strength on an athlete. While this was passing
in the interior CT the Union the annexation which
we Culans proposed had the effect Of kindling
tn torch Of dseord, not alone by means OF the
question Of abolition but with that OF the
increase of slave territory and with that OF
The equilibrium Of the States in TIE federal
rt1reson neutrality-suspicious. which are dreaded as
he eleatest calamites. Annexation, then, Civ
ing sIstenance 10 an intestine division, has come to
increase the sum OF The difficulties which we have
coun.elcd in the :.rduoUs task OF Our operations.
Anxious to place ourselves in position complete
~ neytral in treating Of annexation, we would de-
sire 70 Iuect in this country rs many favorable effects
thereof We have pointed oat adverse effects. We
can hardly reckon a scanty number OF influential
reSons who adopt the idea as offered ~ the Cnbans.
nnt. to up in single sentence the pages which
Nc might fill on this point, i appears that we must
confess that the secure confidence entertained by
the United States in The contamination OF anncxa-
ton as d broyidential fact, has despoed that
question OF all the eXigencies of The opportunity
which revolutionary movement impresses on it,
and that the sympathies FOR cause, trodden upon
and heaped together uldeiincdly, have completed
The irsgniicance Of our fiatcrnal offer.
I,tt MS now lie permitted to ask what the idea OF
aunoxation has done abroad in tayor OF our reyolu
tien. in subject Of 80 much gravity and trans
,pdoncy, which has rooted high desires, and which
his ialalded the opinion OF D whole people, il would
be ,res ainptuous for private judgment to reply in
any other node than by pointing 10 the facts Of con
tcmporapoops history. Behold enough 10 consult
them aud say whether the idea OF annexation, "a a
rcars, has cOrespon1ed TO all the hopes which il
fliorld ciryc birth to- and whether il it was useful
and necessary in the first steps Of revolutionary
infancy, should still trust to it for the consunria
ton IT tie sublime enterprise which we have under
taken. PoRFiEIo VALiENrE.
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