Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-10-15

country arc subjected to such outrages. :
Not because the volunteers are not an1
ious to seize their property, but they knoto
thea due not. We're French or English
citizens treated as Americans are every
where throughout the Island, the Span
iards hn0r that retaliation would be swift
and sure These Governments always
have a sufficient naval force stationed in
Cuban waters for the protection Of their
citizens. This Government has not, and
never has had, since the commencement
Of the present revolution.
4 letter from Havanah, dated Septem-
Der 30, after giving an account of the con-
dition of American residents on the Island,
caused by the failure Of their Government
to protect them, says:
1.-THE long and disgraceful absence of
American war vessels from Cuban waters
may be, too, that certain proceedings at
tached to the American fleet when here,
many, many days ago, did much in assur-
ing the Spanish volunteers that there was
nothing to fear from the United States. -
The fleet came commanded by Admiral
Hoff, who gave great Satisfaction to the
Spaniards, but little or none to the Amer
lean residents. The feet was small, COM
posed of an insufficient number of vessels
for the service required of it. This was
made known to the Government in Wash
ington, and it was announced officially,
and semi officially that strong reinforce
ments-iron-clad vessels, in fact
would soon be sent out. but only weak,
wooden sailing vessel came. That was
greeted on her entrance into the port with
jeers from thousands of Spaniards.
'Immediately on appearance of the yell
Low +ofo &hn 4
appeared, and has not been seen, in whole
or part, since then. This has caused the
Spaniards to believe that the American
Government feel but little interest in the
fate of it's citizens here, they justly hold
ing that if the Government intended to af-
ford protection they would send fleet of
iron-clads, very different from the wooden
sailing vessel Saratoga, and commanded
and manned by officers and sailors who
are not afraid of yellow fever
The letter from which the above extracts
are taken is from az American merchant
resident of Cuba, in no way connected
with the revolution, and truthfully shows
that the indignities to which our icountry-
men are subjected, and their privations
and sufferings, caused by the systematic
prosecutions of the Spaniards, is due en-
tirely 20 the neglect of the Government
to afford adequate protection to its citi-
zens.
All these things have long been known
to the President and his Cabinet, and yet,
strange to say, no attempt is made to rem
edy them, while the condition Of the Amer
leans is becoming more and more desper-
ate. Something should be done, and done
quickly, to give them the protection which
is their right. Every principle of human
>f
the nation demands it, The people de-
mand it, and it would be we'll for Presi-
dent Grant and his advisers to give heed
to their voice.
\ telegram from an officer of the Ten
nessee House of Representatives, received
here this morning. predicts that EX-Presi-
dent johnson will be elected to succeed
Senator Fowler in the United States SEN
ate on the first ballot.
Radicals here arc looking with much
anxiety for the action of the remaining
States on the Fifteenth Amendment. In
tone and manner they are not so confident
as they are in words as to its ratification.
If the Fifteenth Amen 1ment is ratified,
they say they will carry Maryland by TWEEN
ty thousand majority, and New Jersey by
two thousand.
One would hardly suppose that the jlck-
editorial on Ex-President Pierce could
find approval even among the most de-
based of mankind. Yet they are reechoed
by the Radicals here, one OF whom remark
ed, in relation to the closing of the De
partments to-day, that ''Pierce was more
honored dead than living" AS il the fame
Of Franklin Pierce could be added to by
mark of respect grudgingly bestowed, OF
decreased by such petty malignity as is
evinced in the remark quoted.
Vanderbilt recently made Appointment
Clerk in the Treasury Department, is
nephew OF the notorious Tllllock, who re-
signed the position for Collectorship of
Internal Revenue. Tullock, however, still
runs the Department as before. II Tul-
lock keeps on, and has the opportunity he
will make IL reputation second only to that
Of 3. F. Butler. Y.