The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-03-16

course upon this Tuba question, but that these
opinions of Mr.. Brown commenced when the
administration put forth the strong arm Of the
law and snuffed out Walker and his filibusters in
Central America. That is the offence of Mr.
Buchanan which none Of the filibustering advo-
Gates and confederates of Walker can forgive.
The nti6lbusteripg policy Of the adminstra-
ton, thus made manifest in regard to Central
America, will apply to Cuba. But If Spain will
not sell the island, and il the administration will
not seize it, Mr.. Brown says he would repeal the
neutrality laws and let loose the flibusters But
this is sheer nonsense. How are these neu-
trality laws to be repealeds Not by
the democracy in the next Congress, for the
House of Representatives will most probably be
in possession Of the opposition. And how is the
administration to seize the island in the event of
refusal on the part of Spain to sell it? Con-
gress is the war making department of the 60
vernment, and the comparatively trifing military
discretion asked by the President of this late
democratic Congress, in reference to Mexico aud
Central America, having been refused is it likely
that the next, with an opposition House, will
grant him the necessary power to seize the island
of Cuba? Nay, more: the thirty million bill Of
Mr.. Slidell having been suffocated in democra-
tic Senate at the late session, how is the bill to
be passed at the next Congress? Lastly, in the
absence of such bill, how is the first plan of
negotiations for the purchase Of the island to be
attempted?
Assuming, however, that Mr.. Brown ignores
the next Congress, and is looking entirely to the
campaign of 1860, is he not little too fast in
setting aside the administration In regard to
Cuba, as in relation to almost everything else,
inasmuch as this late democratic Congress has
done nothing is it not perfectly clear that every
thing to be done or to be left undone depends
entirely upon the administration, in the absence
of Congress? Does not good faith thus suggest
to every loyal democrat the sound policy of
awaiting the Developments of the admi-
nistrations The critical complications of
European affairs, and Of the affairs of
Mexico, Central America and the West Indies,
and the shiftings and driftings of our political
parties at home, within the next year or two,
may bring about, under the auspices of Mr.. Blu.
chanan's administration, all that we could de-
sire in reference to our naval and commercial
ascendency in the Gulf Of Mexico. Why not,
then, stand fast to the administration? Why, of
all men, should any democratic member of Con-
gress arraign Mr. Buchanan and Gen. Cass for
that "provcrbial timidity of old age" when it
was the "timidity," Or something worse, of this
late democratic Congress, that defeated all the
bold and mastery recommendations of the Presi-
dent touching Mexico, Central America, and
Cuba, too?
In word, Tammany Hall, on account of the
spells of the Custom House, Post Office, &C., is
compelled to stand by the administration.
Otherwise the Sachems may have wandered off
ere this among the flibusters. But as the mat
ter stands, Mr.. Brown, in throwing over the ad-
ministration, spoke neither for Tammany nor
the democratic party, and was as much out of
place with his late speech in the Old Wigwam as
would have been Gen. Walker himself Mr..
Fowler, the next time, should be little more
careful in the selection of his orators Mr. Brown,
of Mississippi, is not the man for Tammany Hail.