The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-11

WI ~ ian"uys anu teiegrapn places more
power in the hands Of the republic. An uprising
In iIfty points at theeame day and nearly the
same hour is not improbable, and we can hardly
imagine the final issue of 30 wide spread and
tremendous an outbreak.
The Cuba Question Nos ON the Slate for 1890
How sss Dseisioa WIN be Looked Upon In
Europe.
The politicians in Congress, after trying their
hands on several other issues, such as the tariff
the agricultural college, protection, free trade,
and economy in the public expenditures, without
making any Roadway in either, have at last taken
up the question of the acquisition Of Cuba by
peaceful negotiation.
There are half dozen President making
cliques in Washington that have been busy during
the present session making up the slate" for
1860, and they all want to do it without the
Cuba question being brought in That is vast
national issue, upon which they are all agreed;
for they find that it overshadows their petty sec
ti0nal issues. The fire-eaters of the South and
the colder blooded black republicans of the
North, the free traders of Georgia, and the pro-
lection seekers Of Pennsylvania, the mariners
and manufacturers of New England. and the
great agricultural interest of the West, stand
upon the same platform in regard to the peace
full acquisition of Cuba. 1t is accepted every
where as measure of political, Industrial and
commercial necessity, and has proved itself
to be the great obstacle to the making up of the
states, and SO by common consent they have
agreed to place it far above the strieful arena of
President making, and to record it as part of
our national policy, to be acknowledged by all
parties.
| Before Mr.. Buchanan took hold of the question,
with the bold hand of a statesman confident of
bis power, every politician in the country was
afraid to touch it. They were willing enough to
treat it as something in the distant future but no
one vented it brought up now. They could not
see how it would turn, and, more than ALL how
it would affect their positions with the masses
In plain English, the politicians were afraid of
it, But no sooner did they see how popular the
measure was when Mr.. Buchanan presented it.
how it came home at once to every mans business
| and BOSOM and that it would overwhelm with
political oblivion every one who opposed it-than
| they all wheeled into line as favorers of the
acquisition Of Cuba, and claimed only to differ as
to the time and manner of obtaining it. Mr..
| Seward holds that it gravitates to the Union,
and Tammany Hall resolves that it is destined to
form part of the confederacy. Mr.. Branch
timidly proposes, at first, to give the President
one million, and then boldly amends his
bill to read thirty millions. The fire
eaters denOunce the plan of purchase, and
Mr.. Davis insists upon taking Cuba at once;
when, presto, they change front, and Mr.. Taylor
proposes to give the President one hundred and
thirty millions to enable him to acquire it peace.
| fully. The result of all this will be that Mr..
SlidelPs proposition, that the representative
body of the nation shall give an authoritative
enunciation Of the popular desire to acquire
Cuba by peaceful means, will receive sanction
that will place it foremost among the questions
of our national progress. The country had dis
cussed and decided the question before the
politicians were forced by the President to exa.
mine it.
This fact should and will make a great i'm
preston upon the statesmen and cabinets of
Europe It will increase our moral influence
there, and tend to hasten the peaceful consum-
nation Of that great measure, so much desired
by all. On no question is the popular mind of
this country so unanimous and 80 decided; and
the governments of Europe are learning rightly
to appreciate the desires and aims of the
American people. They recognise, already,
the fact that we have no wish to interfere in
the dynastic arrangements and balance of power
in Europe; and now they will see that we dare
to take any step on this continent that is
called for by our material progress or our
national development, or that is requisite
for our territorial security We desire
to take such steps in peaceful way, and in
manner consonant with the interests of civiliza-
ton all over the world; and wherever it becomes
evident that in doing go we not only infict no
wrong on society, but confer upon il practical
benefit, by increasing the circle of its Industrial
activity, the statesmen of the world will acknow-
ledge that such course is consonant with the
spirit of the age, and they will accord to it. In
the short period Of time that history claims as
the period of enlightenment, the face of Europe
has undergone the most marked changes of ma
tional demarcaton. All of these have been
effected by violence craft, or blood. 1t is ours
to initiate the new policy in political develope-
ment, that territorial changes and the re-crystal-
ization of national forms may take place without
danger to the peace and comfy of the world.
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The LOBBY BUSINESS AT AIBANY.-The Sc
nate at Albany have lobby investigating COM
mittec in full blast 1t appears, however, that
some Of the witnesses in the Albany Bridge case
were little saueamish as to the jurisdiction of
the committee, from which we suspect they
possess great deal more lobby information
than they wish to tell. 1t looks to us as if the
committee had thus struck upon regular
quartz vein, at on angle of forty-fivc degrees.