The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-03-25
WASHINGTON CITY
SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH as, 1854


gard 70 Insults W A@"N1A hohoks ~ hRe Niik0FS az
that journal choose accept compliment We can
eoascicn,oasly attribute 20 them quite Keen seen,
and qaiIe a. much ~asohialness IA maintaining The IA
iional honor q other governments as have manifest,
Cd in maintaining that ofour Il happens that n
every instance which We have taken the side our owu
government involving the rights Of is citizens o.
It's honor nation the Iaeigecss has been the pponp,
and persistent apoogst Of the Foreign goTernmea, Win
which the collision exists Whatever other virtues NE
Itegener lacks il does lack that Of consseac, in
being always prompt sympathiae with oroiga govern
In their controversies with government We
prefer to plead guilty TO the soft impeachment Of being
keeu-scentcd and excessively uatchful IN tyang aud
maniiesting our sympathes the side o,cdr own gov
ernment
As usual, and as il in duty bound the hisiagmov i
found on the foreign side of the late III Dorado outrage
It's sensitive nerves are shocked the idea calling
an outrage IL scc nothing unusual and moth.
ing condemn in firing shots At and over
mail when 1t is only done for the innoeu,
purpose of forcing them "hrng To- that they may b
boarded and searched and when the shots do not happen
strike the vessels knock anyhodys brains We
tempted 10 ask wha, would have been the judgmen 81
the icgeacer II q the balls had bored hole IN The
III Dorado and sent her and all on board 10 the bottom
Its then would have been that the misfortan,
was the result Of unintentiona had shot and rs N
was purely accidental the perpetrators ought to be
excused But the case, as IL occurred, Is this One
OF our regular mail steamers is sailing on her reVu.
lar track, eight ten miles from land, with her signal.
lights burning bright and clear, the night being beau
tifuly clear, when Spanish man-of-war, at the dis
of half 90 threequarters Of mile without signal a
any description fired shot a. hertha Is Capt Grys
language fell about twenty yards from the steamer
on port side abreast of the fore-ggng The cap,an Of
the steamer ordered the helm put a-starboara and ran
down towards her, intending to pass under her stern;
but when within three hundred yards Of her she fired
a second shot which passed but short distance
over the por, wheel-house from forward TO aft The
ranging up under the stern Of the iigate when the
captain of the FL Dorado asked what wished Upon
being answered by the Spanish officer that he wanted to
know what ship it and where she from the cap
tain informed him tina, il was the United States mail
steamship, III Dorado from Aspinwal bound to Havana
This was not satisfactory the Spanish officer be wen,
on board the and called for her papers These are
the facts reported consu Havana by Captain
Gray The Laegsacer so far from seeing any Outrage
this hghhanded proceeding actually gives Captain Gray
sharp rebuke for not stopping his engines when the first
shot fired al him, or thu bstettyencu has il
him. 1t says in common courtesy the steamer ought At
first have stopped But than that the Intelligence
says the Spanish frgae In the exercise of unser
saly-acknowedged right We knew that the British
government up high Chains The right Of search aud the
rtgm Of visitation the high seas and knew that The
hteiiigencr not lacking in admiration for British
rights but that government has will
cedc such right far from admitting But that
may be charged with msrepresenting the position
taken by the iteigenc and taken with all the conf
dence of speaking by authority for tho Spanish gov
ernment quote its remarks entire
The last outrage which the Union has heraded that
Of the shots fired by Spanish cruiser the American
steamer Ei Dorado, going in the night into Cuba The
armed ships of every independent government have from
time mnenoral exercised the right Of bringing to- as
termed in nautical phrase vessel at the character Of
which they desire to ascertain This the sole object Of
the Spanish sbpofwar in the Of the I'll Dorado The
shot, fred the bows Of the steane having bad
the expected effect OF arresng her course second fired
but neither Of them with the intention Of doing hc injury
II the exercise of universally right and
courtesy the steamer ought at first 10 have stop
ped to satisfy the shp-ofwar that there ground Of
suspicion her real character Il nothing than
the accustomed challenge which every sentinel Is bound to
make OF who goes thcrep to who ii approaching
passing military post.
We respectfully submit that people ought mol TO be
surprised at the repeated aggressions and insults Of
Spanish officials in Cuba, when they have guarantee
in the past that they commit outrage fragrant
that ii win not be promptly excused justified by the
Washington organ Of Of national parties We
venture predict that when he organ Of the Spanish
government Madrid speak Of the III Dorado A.
fair it will manifest quite much respect for American
rights and American honor contained 10 these re-
marks OF the hehgsRey. As that journal attributes TO
us "keen scent in winding national indgnes' u
will pardon for informing il that the sentiments
OF the extract above seem 70 to smell strongly Of
Spanish origin. The InteHigeacr kaogs what the
object OF the Spanish officer was IL hnows that be
had sole object-thet object TO bring to tbe
American steamer; Il knoos that the first shot vas
fired the bows OF the steamer and her as A.
serted by Capt Gray II knows that neither shot was fired
with any intention OF doing any injury and then, az y
speaking for the Spanish government asserts that y
the exercise Of universally acknowledged right
This way Of bringing to- American vessels the high
seas may be very acceptable the Laetgsnco, bat We
shall be disappointed II the American sentiment does not
regard L not only outrage which calls tor
exemplary reparaon II the armed vessels Of other couh
tries have the right TO FIRE balls and around
our merchant ships for the purpose o. forcing them 10 SUD
nit to visitation and Search the high are not a.
free as we bad supposed them 70 be- Bat the rgh o