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


they argued for it as compromise; but it
was refused, because the sovereign people Of
California had settled the question for them
selves. Kansas and Nebraska have only been
placed upon exactly the same footing as Cali
fornia. The dividing line is obliterated; the
people are left free to decide in their own
sovereign right upon their own domestic insti-
tutions; and in remembrance of California
the South will insist upon fair experiment of
"squatter sovereignty /" in this latter case. 1t
is but the California principle applied to Kan
sas and Nebraska, nothing more, though the
positions of the bull and the OK may be
changed. It is an issue, moreover, which
comprehends the equality of the Southern
States in the Union, or their future de-
tendance upon Northern protection and
forbearance and, therefore, to speak of
the restoration of the Missouri line, through
the agency of the admission Of two or three new
free States into the Union, and their represen-
tation in the Senate, is to speak to the South
of the direct issue itself Of submission or Sc
cession.
1t is too late to talk Of the restoration Of the
peace of the country by restoring the Missouri
line. The day has gone by when it was either
practicable or possible to stand longer by that
compact. 1t received its death warrant with
the admission Of California. 1t has been since
extinguished, and can never again be reached
in the Senate. The South, and a sufficient
number Of the conservatives of the North, will
adhere to the straight and plain doctrine Of
the Nebraska bill. Our Wall street cotempo-
rary, in his new service, fights upon a pretext.
Enlisted with the Seward rank and file, Gar
rison included, be should 60 the whole figure:
mo more slave States-no more slave terri
tory-the repeal of the Fugitive Slave law"
&c. In these propositions there is something
definite, while the restoration OF the Missouri
black line is q chimera and delusion. AT all
events, the plan Of Gen. Webb's Seward col
sion, is more practical than his estimates Of y
free soil majority through the admission Of the
new States of Oregon and Minnesota
Our venerable contemporary, in due time,
will discover that, hereafter, the admission of
any Northern State, with the acquiescence of
the South, will depend upon a similar conces-
sion to the South, though it may require the
division Of Texas, the purchase of Cuba and
the annexation of Mexico. The South may
still control the Northern majority of two in
the Senate; and while they feel that it would
be perilous to them to consent to lis increase,
they will hold their ground Let the Cheva-
lier Webb bear in mind, then, when he speaks
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the shareholders from Kansas thai before he
cooks his rabbit he must catch it,
THE CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT AND
THE JrNrA.-We publish to-day, in another por-
tion of our columns, the translation Of mani
festo issued by the Cuban Junta of this city,
and addressed to the Cuban people This is
very interesting, important, and highly sugges
tive document, and will naturally attract
expose Of the causes which led to the premature
and sterile disruption of the recent fliJusleyo
movement-that we are promised in a subse-
quent paper-but it is rather reasoned dis
QUESTION on the past phases and present condi-
tion of the revolution. We think, however, it
would have been just as appropriate to have
addressed this manifesto to the people Of the
United States, for it is quite evident, through
out every sentence Of it, that the object of il
was to excite public attention in this country
towards the subject; and certainly it is one in
which we are as much interested as the people
Of Cuba themselves.
Concealed under mass of verbiage, there
are several points in this statement designed
and calculated to effect the object contem-
plated. One thing, however, is prominently
and undisguisedly brought forward, and that
is, that in the prosecution Of the struggle with
Spain, Cuba need no longer repose any conf
dence or hope in the cooperation of the United
States. The greatest enemy, say the Junta.
which the revolutionary movement has met
with has been the federal administrations of the
United States. no matter to what political
party they belonged; and they intimate in
very plain terms that though one of the chief
planks in the platform Of the existing govern
ment was sympathy to Cuba, no former admi-
nistration was so faithless to its pledges or SO
derelict to its duty, when not only the interests
but the honor of the country were concerned;
and, therefore, they admit that though the lay
ing of the foundation Of the movement in the
United States was Q work of necessity, it was
at the same time an error. and All error which.
they insinuate, must be abandoned.
II would be difficult TO declare n brief 10
what this manifesto amounts It contains
hints, inuendos and insinuations which may or
may not be properly interprcted-hin about
foreswearing the contemplated scheme Of an
neyaton hints about the 1'ripartite Conyen-
ton for guaranteeing Cuba to Spain: aud
hints about that peculiar and delicate question
in which the feelings and desires of the civil |
lied world-say they-and the interests of
humanity, arc absorbed meaning the question
Of African slavery. But what these All tend
to, If not solely TO fix public attention in this
Il would be difficult to declare posi-
tiyqlv Tho onIy noint in which thnrn Il onv