The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-08
Tho Cubsns are eaid TO be anxious fol-
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annexation 20 INC unatsu CstaSS' 2"SSsF
noas the Cubans understand that IN
this country we sympathize With all revo-
,,,;ons. and all attempts Of people 10
have an independent government, except
those in which our own citizens are person
a,,v concerned. We Americans believe that
Ireland ought to be independent Of England,
u,rearv Of Austria, Poland Of Russia, and
Cuba Of Spain; and We may perhaps annex
ireland and Cuba to the United states.
But no wish 1t to be distinctly understood
that one revolution is sill that we can allow.
II is very we'll to revolt when you have
other Governments to revolt against; but
"a to changing again after you have once
come under our fsg, that is thing
not to be thought Of. Other Governments
may be despo,ic, tyrannical, regardless OF
popular rights; they may suspend the writ
Of hs5eas corpas; they may suppress popu-
lar uprisings by FIRE and the sword; they
may substitute military governors for civil
ones they may rule their miserable subjects
by military governors, military auditors
military judges, military mayors, military
justices of the peace, military overseers OF
the Door, military constables, and military
oyerseers Of chain. gangs. Other Govern
men.s may disperse legislative bodies ana
for regularly enacted laws substitute gene
raj orders. Other Governments may i'm pose
high taxes upon everything you eat, drink
and wear-upon your sugar, tea, coree'
wine, salt; your bonds, your notes, your
deeds, your receipts. But in this land OF
the free and this home Of the brave, where
the star spangled forever shall wave over
none but the cons Of the free, we are
not troubled with any of these things.
Every man sits under his own vine
and ie tree, and there is none to mo-
lest him or make him afraid. The people
Of every State are free to do whatever they
please, unless, indeed, they should take up
a silly notion that they want to have o
government Of their own choosing, or some
thing of that sort. The intelligent voters
of this favored land hold that all Govern
ments derive their just powers from the
consent Of the governed, and that that
consent is most easily obtained ct the
point Of the bayonet. Our Cuban friends
must, therefore, make the most Of their pre-
sent revolution. 1t is the last they will be
permitted to enjoy if they are to be fellow
citizens of ours. The Government Of this
country never does wrong. Il cannot do
wrong; for whatever is done is done by q
majority, leo called,) and therefore it is
impossible that any unjust, oppressive, or
tortious act should be committed. Ma
iorities, we have learned, are always right,
and minorities always wrong. The few
have no rights which the many are bound
to respect. No other Government has the
right to suppress the popular will by force,
and compel unwilling subjects to pay
taxes and allegiance to Government not
Of their own choosing; but ours has that
right; and for the simple reason that ours
is the best Government the world ever saw,
and If any set OF men are such fools as to
desire to be free from the rule of such a
Government, and to institute one which ne
cessarily could not be the best the world
ever saw, 1t must be the bounden duty of
our rulers to put stop to such folly by fire
and the sword. And since the Cubans can
hardly be better judges as to such matters
than are We who have enjoyed the blessings
of this Government SO long, it follows in
evitably that 1t 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 U.s..