The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-05

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of the age in Spanish America, our government
alone can deal with and control that chivalric
spirit Oh the part of our citizens which leads
them TO sympathise and unite with any people
seeking to overthrow tyranny of either State or
church, and our government alone can prevent
the ENHANCEMENT of the lines of our develope-
ment which are already running through and
around these regions.
In the performance of this high duty our 60
vernment should enter at once upon the field of
action both in Mexico and Central America. No
European Power can control all the elements in
volved in this whirlpool, and their interference
can only prolong the conflict and increase the
destruction, as is evinced in the course of the
French Minister in Mexico. 1t is useless to sup
pose, either in Washington, London or Paris, that
the course of American development can be ar
rested. 1t can only be guided, and it should
be guided by Power sympathizing with it and
with which it sympathizes. 1t forms part and
a vital part, of the development and progress of
the whole world; and were it possible to check
",
astrousy felt by the material interests Of Europe
as by those of America. The leading govern
ments of the world should, therefore, unite in
their policy, as they are united in interest, and
develope policy ceding to the United States
the lead in controlling the councils of the an
archical States Of this continent. AS member
of the great republic of trade, with interests in
volved as great as any one, she cannot go wrong,
for the day is past when any government can
succeed in a selfish policy for the aggrandize-
ment of prince. The truly greatest good Of
part is the greatest good of ALL
Is THERE CUBAN CONSPIRACY ON F0OT?-
Constant efforts are being made to get up the i'm
preston that there is a tremendous conspiracy
pitch the Spanish officials head and heels into
the Caribbean Sea. For this purpose sensation
stories have been poured into the willing ears of
newspaper correspondents, letters innumerable
have been written to the government at Wash
ington, and the journals have been flooded with
startling hints of something that was to come off
somewhere Nobody needed these denunciations
and seeming revelations; and now the inventive
agitators have taken to sending telegraphic
dispatches Of an alarming character from seve-
raj quarters of the country to the newspapers
and to the government. Somebody evidently
wants little persecution for patriotism's sake,
or short lived notoriety as conspirator.
That there is persistent effort on foot to i'm.
press upon the public mind the conviction that
another Cuban conspiracy is on the tapis is very
evident. Whoever the parties are, they have
agents or dupes in several places. We have re-
ceived anonymous communications on the sub
ject from parties in this city, from Washington,
from Charleston, and from New Orleans, to
none of which have we paid the slightest
regard. Other journals have been led
to give some circulation to these inventions, but
no single fact has been brought out to show that
there is really anything serious in the matter.
In the quarters of thscity which are thecentre Of
all these operations, where the money and arms
are procured and sent off for all such expeditions,
there is no agitation or movement of any kind.
In the South only one name has been mentioned
in connection with the subject, and here none
Who Gen. Releau is, that is to perform these
great feats, nobody knows, for no one ever heard
of him before now.
There are two parties interested in having
Cuban conspiracies talked about in the Ameri-
the other plays into its hands by endeavoring to
keep the ball in motion. These parties are the
Cuban oficials-who acquire great credit, titles
crosses, ribbons and promotion, for preserving
the island to the Spanish Grown amid so many
dangers-and certain weak and disaffected
upon their oppressed brethren in Cuba q convic-
ton of their patriotism and constant exertion in
behalf of their country. 1t is a godsend to both
of these opposing interests whenever the
American journals will talk about q Cuban
conspiracy One party cuts out everything that
is published and sends it to Madrid as a proof
Of their danger and valor; the other as sedulous-
ly sends the paragraphs in letters and papers,
which are struggled into Cuba as indubitable
proofs of their patriotic sacrifices and exertions
We are we'll aware Of the general sentiment of
dissatisfaction with the Spanish government that
pervades the Cuban mind; but we also know that
since the Quitman movement in 1854 no organ
lied attempt at revolution has been conceived in
Cuba, nor entertained by any responsible parties
in this country. AT the present moment there is
no practical design for revolution on foot, either
in that island or here, and the present outcry
can only emanate from persons whose public
character and notoriety are kept up by magnifi-
cent false pretences.