The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-08-06

liberal, if thus &C. .Aveyea, would be rejected by
Spain In terms. 80 Indignant and Offensive as 10 |
be in themse ives cosrs 5eli. Thirdly, that war
would Necessarily follow, and that, pending the
struggle Of England and France with Russia, our
con9Eest cf Cuba would be accomplished and the
island secured, at the cost, perhaps, Of only
milioz or two instead Of the one hundred and
fstyo two hundred millions which would be re-
qafed by the slow processes Of diplomacy and an
honest bargain.
To an administration like that Of Mr.. Pierce
hankering for the honor of acquiring Cuba
by bullying or by robbery and beating about,
here an5 there, for little cheap military glory,
it must be admitted that this Ostend manifesto
| was tempting bait. We have every reason to
believe, too, that had this bait been left to the
discretion of Messrs. Pierce, Forney, and the
| Kitchen Cabinet, they would have swallowed it
| whole, and that the answer to this flbustering
/ appeal would have been -" Mr.. Souls make to
| Spain your ofer-gve her three days to answer
| it-and if she declines, pack up and come home,
| and let Messrs. Buchanan and Mason hold them
selves in readiness to follow you." But Marcy
was in the way and upon all wal issues, and
/ all questions involving "a decent respect for
the opinions Of mankind Marcy has had
wonderful power, either Of persuasion
or of fear, over the weaker mind OF
Mr.. Pierce. We are, then, wholly and solely in
debted to Marcy for the rejection Of that inta-
nous Ostend war policy, and for the preservation,
at least to this extent Of the decency, dignity,
honor and responsibility OF this country among
the nations Of the earth.
The reply of Marcy is in his happiest vein
when his purpose is the skinning of refractory
subordinate He is very courteous and guarded
in his Words he evidently feels that it is deli
cate job; but it is also manifest that he feels that
the eyes of an intelligent and honest people at
home, and of the world abroad, are upon him,
and that he must denounce that which the world
would unanimously condemn. He processes not
* understand exactly what the Ostend triumvi-
ate are driving at but he is fatty of the opinion
that the time has gone by, or has not yet come,
and will not come for some years yet when We
may with impunity repeat the experiment of
Lopez. Marcy, too, throws pail Of cold
water over the pitiful apology of Mr.. Buchanan
and his colleagues. that Cuba is indispensable to
the safety OF the Union. and must be taken by
fair means On by foul; but he does il as modestly
as possible. He gives the triumyirs to under
stand that the offer to buy Cuba is not to be made
| with the robbers threat, but b,m tide, like one
| honest man dealing with another, and in the
event of refusal to sell, le modestly thinks,
with sarcastic grin lighting up his broad
homely face, that such refusal would not,
| without a material change in the condition
| Of the island, involve imminent peril to the ex-
istence of our government" That's good; but
he goes further and actually declares to these
libusters his resolution to Try the experiment of
keeping this Union together a few years longer
without the island Of Cuba, for they have botched
il beyond redemption.
Thus fell the Ostend manifesto to the ground
and all hopes of Cuba by honest means Soule
could not stand such cavalier treatment He
| resigned in disgust. How Mr.. Buchanan ma
| naged TO swallow the dose administered by
Marcy We cannot divine. But, like bad
schoolboy, from the birch Of master well laid
| on. Mr. Buchanan seems to have been subse-
| quently under much better state OF discipline
| than before. he returned TO London and be-
came as submissive to Marcy as If he had sin
4 ttftty ttITht'd Va hAc Jufthlit lOAlJ VI orttf
and Aix-la-Chapelie. But we know better. We
know that the flibustering democracy Of the
Southwest at Cincinnati supported Buchanan
because of that Ostend manifesto: we know that
| il was a sugar pim even TO the Tamnany HALL
New York democracy, and we all know that
| Marcy-the man who has stood through all this
Pierce administration as the breekwater between
the flibusters and flbusiering Kitchen Cabinet
| on the one hand, and weak and validating
President on the other-tlid not receive solitary
! vote at Cincinnati for the succession-net one
| lie was not the man for those filibustsrs lie
had kept them down with a strong hand and an
f'on will, and they would not have him.
The head Of tie 0stend Conference.-The
venerable gentleman who did not hesitate to
place his name first ussn the highwaymcns ma
nifesto-has become ibe great light Of the demo.
crafsc party. He wss nominated because his
hands were clean Of ths work Of the Nebraska
bill; but they compelled him to swallow Il while
they rdorsed his praficsl policy for Cuba. IL
Is part Of the democrats platform. and will b.
part Of She policy Of Bu.hanan's administration.
If he be elected. The ssyne influences which con-
trolled him at 0stcnd supported him at Cincin-
natl. manage him now. ana will control him
hereafter: Cor Marcy viii ~ out Of the way
Some genial spirit Of the Fo,ney tribe, who looks
with contempt upon all such old Iogy notions a.
international good faith and fsir dealing with
weaf nations as well as with srong ones. will
take the place o. Marcy and .be coast will he
clear. The nomination Of Buch snsn revcrses the
judgnsnt Of Marcy and proclahus 70 the world
that the Ostend highwaymens bl2ufesto Il the
policy Of the democratic party.
In conclusion. Considering the so.rvy treat
ment Of Macy. the termination Of Hsaei anau, his /
Ostend platform. the Influence Of tlse alibaster-
ing Forney over the mJnd Of the Cincinnati no