The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-31

CUBA.-The Presidents message has caused the
greatest excitement in Havana. After commenting
the statements in the message to the insults,
duties, &C., the Diario de Ia Narino says:
The want of powers in the government OF Cuba
for settling questions of international character
without previous instructions from the sovereign
gives likewise to Mr. Buchanan a large field; and
in truth, in this respect, there is shown forgetu
ness which appears unaccOuntable. Is the Governor
of the State of California able to regulate these sort
of questions? With what right has the regulation
of all difficulties originating in California been
transferred to Washington? But il 1t were not so,
the constitution of the United States would be dis
regarded which constitution accords that power to
the President, the constitution of Spain accords
it to the monarch. In London and Paris, the ques-
tions pending between the United States and Eng
land or France are settled, whether they proceed
from events occurring in the West Indies or in tho
East Indies.
We have to add a few words in regard to the sala
of Cuba. an idea which Mr.. Buchanan brings from
the Conference at Ostend. The reply of her Ma
jesty has been given there is not single Spanard
of either public private character who can lis
ten to such proposition, for it is highly insulting
to our national character To-day yesterday,
tomorrow as to-day, never, on no occasion, can
Spain admit negotiation on such proposition; and
we the inhabitants of Cuba; whose sentiments are
so openly ignored and DETAINED, to-day as yesterday
and as well as tomorrow, are disposed to sacrifice
everything to maintain the banner which covers
us, under whose shadow we enjoy solid prosper
ity, and from which promise ourselves a future
of happiness which we do not conceive without
honor, which we should never find except under the
worthy conditions to which our fathers consecrated
all the abnegation of their souls, and which we,
their sons, consider to be of the most brilliant
blazonings of our national inheritance.
meeting of the Ayuntamento had been called,
at which address to the Queen had been adopted.
The address commences thus
LADY-The Corporation of Havana has not been
able to read, without the utmost surprise, the late
Message of the President of the United States, in
which the insulting and degrading idea is suggested
and proposed of purchasing the Island of Cuba by
the United States This idea we regard as being
doubly insulting-frst, to the dignity of the ma
ton, and next to the natives of the Island Of Cuba,
who are thus regarded as gang of slaves, who, it
is supposed, may be bought and sold like any pri-
vate property. 1t is indeed proposition which,
while it is accompanied with contempt and disre-
gard for all the recognized and acSnOw wedged prin-
ciples of international rights and associations, is
brought forward with the view Of satisfying the
cupidty of spectators and the interested aspira-
tions of neighboring people. 1t is proposition
brought forward for the purpose of insulting and
disgracing a nation eminently sensitive ON the point
of honor, nation which beholds the banners
which wave over it crowned with glory, nation
possessed of an infinite series of great and glorious
historical recoections.