Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-08-23
.. So. ;. e,,.,. he Cuban Question"

A SChOli0 10 SoLU0
1870. boad the New Orleans Crescent"
has an ant review of a pamphlet recently puo'
,;shod ~ paris upon Cuban affairs and pros
nsc,s The ~psmphletecr thinks that the Eu-
pse ,orers should adopt a more lofty tone
- ling with the question, and protecting
n..a .rainst the designs Of the United States;
md that, if Spain and Cuba find it impossible
- sustain their relations of mother country and
colony. the latter should be made independent
under the guaranteed protection Of the princi-
paI European and American nations. Inc gis'
Of the question is embraced in the following
propositions:
..For this PURPOSE France, England, Russia,
the United States. Brazil and Spain, should DC
invited to take part in the Convention, when
would likewise solve all the difficulties pending
in America. The national independence OF all
nations. now threatened by tho adventurous
policy of the United States, would be secured
through this first step of European diplomacy,
or might be ti;e subject Of All addition to the
principal treaty.
The refusal of the Cabinet Of Washington
TO Join in this scheme would place the Ameri-
Ctll OIllOl bSN Oilu lilN peiS WI Ni'iiiSAt"', o
trace the path which Europe should follow
Has not the hour come to commence the debate
between the celebrated Monroe doctrine and
Universal law? 1t may be afterwards too late.
England should be explicit as to her views on
the balance of power, and her apparent com
plicity with Spain in the slave trade. Is she
for differentiation in all the Antilles, in order
to become herself the only producer of sugar,
etc or would she aid annexation TO the
United States, for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT oil the
Anglo.SaXon race
The Crescent" justly remarks in answer to
the above that while Americans desire and ex-
pee, the ultimate possession OF the island, they
would nevertheless rejoice to see the Cubans
enrol themselves as u free and independent na-
ton, believing that such a step would but en-
sure and smooth the way to the final, inevita-
ole result-inevitabie. il we relnain a free and
independent nation ourselves. As to European
diplomacy, the people of this country are pretty
much agreed among themselves that the ques-
ton shall not BIZ settled 10y the peremptory
dictum OF foreign powers, unless sucn settle
ment agree with ideas on this side Of the water;
and if they must view that determination as ar
raging the Monroe doctrine against universal
law they will probably conclude that, what
ever may be meant by the expression, it is not
a law broad enough in scope to regulate the
destinies of all the nations upon the two cont
ncnts and their dependencies. The threat OF
placing the American Union beyond the pale
Of civilization would no doubt be j very fear
full one had it not long ago been worn thread
bare by indignant editors and orators in both
France and England. The English Abolition
lists declared us already so years ago, and that
doom has been repeatedly ard emphaticaly
pronounced against Us recently because VIC re-
fused to give Up, at the modest request OF the
Paris Conference, a bad habit we have ofannoy-
ing an enemy with private armed vessels when
we are at war upon the high seas. In fact we
have been so frequently read out OF The family
of decent nations, by reason of our general ana
particular depravity and wickedness, hat the
world no doubt looks upon such a prescription
as our proper inheritance, assigned to US by an
inexorable destiny and our own natural ungoi-
Illness"