The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-29

parchment doing at times compulsory homage 70 JUS
tice been destroyed Have The sbrieks of millions OF
victims ceased TO appeal against the enomes this
habitua volator OF all sancsi,ies Has the blood of
those millions OF victims shed in the prosecution OF her
insaate and still Unsuitable ambition been 20 her a re
generating baptism, that has washed away her
political leprosy that 10 us-to us, who have
than oregone the integrity of rights that we
might indulge the boast of generosity that TO she
should fling the night shade imputaors OF unjust6abe
acts OF spoliaton and gross and hagmnt crime We
the subveers OF rights the oppfesors OF the earth
and England Is the witness and Judge OF guilt She
never robbed pllaged and murdered in every qautsr
OF the globe She carried desolation on beth
sides of the Atlantic and Pacific waters, She never
burnt CaTthagena sacked sc. Jago and pillaged st.
Domingo In time of peace. Her robbers and
land pirates under secret commissions never scatter
ed terror along the coasts. They never in their per
sonality of eebooter, created specific of
des which the ignorant Spaniar's converted into III
btSuos--a name-her own name which she so
generously ooncs upon those of whose greatest wrong
is to have followed her suggestive example The
of Deptod witnessed the ooDgees and bowngs of
the liawknses and brakes touching with their red
hands-red with the blood of despoed thousands-the
dainty fingers of the virgin Queen laying at her feet
the crimson trophies OF arson, murder, and theft Oh,
Americans alone hllbusteros Americans alone
tampers of the rights of nations alone agents of
spoation and perpetrators of crime. Heavens above
England mouthng principles of justice between nation
and nation, scrupnlously Observed and her officials
again na,gurated In the Bay Islands encroachment
ornaments crowding every in search OF spoil and
quest is she obyious mad, both Or, in chaIg
ing with the guilt of spoliaton and fragrant crime
docs she herself claim easement for her virtue in the
example of the harlot of Holy Writ who eateh, wpeh
her mouth, and saith, have done no harm r. Ii Eng
land would rebuke u.s. she must burn up the history Of
the last three hundred years se the cries of the pill
Jagged East and unloose the cncture with which she has
bound the empire of the earth Them when her robes
cleansed from blood her records unsulied 10y usurpa
on and her fame assoilzed from stain, she may rebuke
for guilty ambition and territorial wrong.
But il is not for the mere purpose of expansion that
hand must be laid upon Cuba; il is stepping stone
in the pathway Of progress and il must he
must stumble against it, The of the world
Is bursting old barriers and hunting outlets Great
Britain is binding the world in cinoture of little Gibl
ars cadels of her power and safeguards of her
merce Her hand is laid upon the rock of Perim and
she will raise it into miniature Gibraltar TO command
the possible outlet of the Mediterranean through the Red
sea- she holds the huge Gibraltar TO master the
inlet TO the former waters She is to the
mingng of the blue waters of the Mediterranean with
the red waters of the Erythrean through the canal OF
Suez but her aversions do not extend to the commiDg
ling of the pillows of the Atlantic with those of the Pa
cilc through like canal Joining Juan del Nore with
San Juan del Sur by such appliance she well knows
commercial interests Pacific possessions, and
future ENGAGEMENTS all to be affected. Instinct with
this generous idea, she Immediately modities her system
of geodetic surveys Her geographical scruplcs in
cJntncnty removed and her hydraulic theories rapid
ly changed On the bare suggestion of hungry French
Observation-Disclosures name smtcks eloguently OF his In
stincts Monsieur Bey-Iord Malmesbury finds
difficulty in the construction of Ncaraguan canal
though England strongly objects to the canal of Suez
But such appliance is decidedly to affect Pacific
possessions, general commerce. and consequently
enargng properties his orshp equally found that the
protectoIate of the canal by France, England and Sar
DINA, might not ungrsceiuly come under the stip
uiatons of the Clayton Bulwer treaty-an instrument
which, under the sinceest respect to the memory of til
dead believe be the best syringe to catch wood
cocks contrived by vulpine cunning the one,
and biucd by overweenng confidence the other side
of an International negotiation.