The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-28
Our Spanish RelattoAs-The Ca6a Qaes-
tioa Turned Aggress0r,

Our Spanish Relatf0As-The Cuba QQes-
tion Turned Aggressor.
We learn from Washington that the Spanish
| army, having returned, covered with mud and
glory, from Morocco, is about to be sent to
Me -ico to set affairs right in that republic, and
that tbe Cabinet of Madrid are about to bring
the United Mates to their senses, and bride our
progressive policy
tits quite time thst our pending questions
and anomalous relations Nth Spain were taken
up and settled; and as Congress has so pertina-
ciously refused to do its duty in this respect, we
are glad that the Spanish government has deter
mined to take them up, and force our govern
ment to face the music There are mutual
claims which should no longer remain unad-
justed. We should pay Spain for the Amistad
negroes stolen by our abolitionists twenty-five
years ago; and if we have made q mistake in
capturing Spanish flibuster expedition lately
in the Mexican waters, we should at once ac-
knowledge it and make the amende honorable
with due PREPARATION TO the injured Dons.
We have some little claims on our part to
have settled and the time is propitious for their
examination. Our citizens have not yet been
paid for the hundreds of thousands of extra
duties they were plundered of by faithless
changes in the Cuban tariff. after the hurricane
Of 1874; our insulted Consuls have not yet
been apologized for-Mr Cross imprisoned at
Matanzas, Mr. Sewall driven from ST. Jago, Mr..
West imprisoned and plundered at Sagua, Mr..
Thompson insulted and compelled to hide the
American arms at the same place; the Geor-
giana and Susan Loud, American ships, cap.
tured at Contoy, in the waters of Mexico, and
condemned fagitiously; our mail steamships
fred into and seized; and long list Of indivi-
dered, and driven from their innocent and
peaceful occupations in Cuba, through the igno-
rance and malice of ignorant officials. And
more than all, the neglect by Spain OF all the
relations of good neighborhood, in keep
ing open the African slave mart in
Cuba, in violation OF her plighted faith,
her public treaties, the spirit of the age, and
ties she governs. Her subjects, after making
their nefarious arrangements with the local
authorities in Cuba, come here, and availing
themselves Of the freedom of our ports, and our
Jealous regard for the immunity Of our flag
upon the sea, combine with the evil disposed,
and prostitute our flag and laws to their slave
trade operations.
1t is quite time that our Spanish accounts
were looked into, and Spain does right in bring
ing them up. We hope she will kick Congress into
sense of national dignity, and have the items
settled We are obliged to keep an expensive
aeet on the coasts of Africa and Cuba solely
through her acts; for if there were no African
slave mart in Cuba there would be no African
slave traders on the ocean. Mr.. Buchanan has
repeatedly called the attention Of Congress to
the disgraceful state Of our relations with Spain;
Mr.. Slidell has endeavored 10 plant the germ Of
Cuba policy in our government with the
Thirty Million bill; our citizens have repre-
scented, our diplomatic representatives have
protested, and our press has Numbered, thus far
in vain. II is time the subject was brought up,
and we hope Senior Tassara, 0e Spanish Minis
- - -------S'-- gill unnunt his high horse
and insist on having satisfnctiOu ------..