The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-05-19
nosportcs, Williams & Co., Props
Radical Inconsis tency.

'"'o o"iAoN attcutlou 70 the an.
Surd position the United States Gov.
ernmcnt holds towards the rost of tho
world, but we cannot improve upon
the following from the Richmond
Dispatch
The Cubans are said to bo anxious
for annexation to the United States.
We suppose tho Cubans understand
that in this country we sympathise
with all revolutions, and attempts of
a people to have an independent gov
ernmcnt, except. those in which our
own citizens are personally coneorn-
cd. We Americans believe that Ire-r
land ought to bo Independent Of Eng
land, Hungary of Austria, Poland Of
Russia, and Cuba Of Spain and We
may perhaps annex ireland and Cnhn
to the United States. But we wish It
to be distinctly understood that one
revolution is all that we cap allow 1t
is very we'll to revolt when you have
other Governments to revolt against !;
but as to changing again after you
have once come under our flag, that is
thing not to bo thought Of. Other
Governments may be despotic, tyran-
nical, regardless of popular rights
they may suspend the writ Of habeas
corpus; they may suppress popular
uprisings by fire and the sword thew
may substitute military governors for
civil ones; they may rule their mise
rable subjects by military governors,
military auditors, military Judges,
military mayors, military Justices Of
tho peace, military ovcrscers of tho
poor, military tables, and militia
~ overscers Of clain.gang. Other
Governments may dispcrse legislative
bodies, and for regularly.enaoted laws
substitute general orders. Other
Governments may impose high taxes
upon everything you eat, drink, and
wear-uron your sugar, tea, coffee,
wine, salt; your bonds, your notes,
your deeds, your receipts. But in
this land Of tho free and this homo of
the brave, where tho star-spangled
forever shall wavc over none bvt the
sons of tho free, We are not troubled
with any Of these things. Every man
sits under his own vine and fig tree,
and there is mono to modest him or
make him afraid. Tho people of
every State are free to do whatever
they please, unless, indeed, they
should tako up silly notion that they
want to have q government of their
own choosing, or something of that
sort. The intelligent voters of this
favored land hold that all Govern.
monts derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed, and that
that consent is most easily obtained
at the point of the bayonet. Our
Cuban friends must, therefore, make
the most of their present revolution.
1t is the last they will be permitted
to enjoy if they arc to be fellow-oiti-
zens of ours. The Government of
this country never does wrong. 1t
cannot do wrong; for whateveris done
IS done by majority, (so-oalled,) } and
therefore it is impossible that any
unjust, oppressive, or tortious act
should be committed. Majorities, we
have learned, are always right, and
minorities always wrong. The few
havo no rights which the many are
bound to respect. No other Govern
ment has the right to suppress the
popular will by force, and compel un.
willing SUBJECTS to pay taxes and allie.
gianco to Government not of their
own choosing; but ours has that right :;
and for the simple reason that ours 10
the best Government tho world ever
saw, and if any set of men are auoh
fools as to desire to be free from the
rule of such n Government, and to
institute ono which necessarily could
hot be the best the world ever saw, it
must be the bounden duty of our rul-
ers to put stop to such folly by fire
and the sword. And since tho Cubans
can hardly be better judges as to such
matters than are we who have enioyed
the blessings of this Government 80
long, it follows inevitably that it
would never do to allow them to have
any more revolutions after they have
once tasted the benefits Of our free
institutions, nor to govern themselves
after they have once been governed
by us.