The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-02
pprsrnrNT GRANTS NEUTRALITY.

PRESIDENT GRANTS NEUTRALITY
Yro,n the NJ Y. Times. .,,o oonsni-
Some DAYS ago we adVerueu " III which
(uous ttpromptness and energy Will WlDn ". H.
ibe administration has acteu Uo"oiO' .S ell
E,'I,on si;bnsters" as being deserving Oh an
,,raiee because the duty was III some
uuts Ino LIZ nxngraeious, if not actually unpopu-
IeoP i We added, respecting the course OF the
Government:- 49, ..,,.,,. ~. .o,,o,,,sos
tut would connve at nothing, sougISs ~
for delay practsed no shlitS d or eectnay I Kept
the national faith perfectly anu Io-ua5 ' nnt onIt
stands bright and clear before tde Such o sdber
ce 70 strict duty is refreshing lt carries US paCk
to the earlier and better days Oh tne IePuoIiT, & rs
geS IN similar circumstances towards other ma
sions which gave u.s. while yet in the grlste, match-
less honor throughout the "orV"' 4,
rnon bv the World as the text of virulent
s1arfysan attack upon the administration, de-
aaIoyino with the italics as we quote them,
1bat Isin the matter of arresting and detain-
inc the recruits of Ryan R0tttng las 5een
Go1e," and asking the following pointed
question: -,,--.-,-.-. -.
uWill the Times inform us Of single enterprise or
nxnedition i'm favor Of Cespedes and against spain
SUhich thp administration has etiectualy preVented?
The answer was given to our readers in our
news column yesterday. 1t appeared, also,
before the readers OF the W0Fm,
since the news of the pursuit and capture OF
fhe very Cuban expedition on which that
journals diatribe was based is town-talk,
has keen flashed across the whole country,
ard has been also, ere this, transmitted to
C,ba itself. as well as across the ocean to
Europe where, in its light, the London Star
NAV have chance to revise its late editorial
rolHments on the parallel between the escape
of the Alabama and the escape of Ryans
expedition.
But, as matter of fact, this is only the last
link thus far, in q remarkable chain of move
ments showing with all due respect to the
World the 'promptness and energy with
which the administration has acted towards
The Cuban filibusters.
We have, for example, in the first place, the
detention of the Quaker City, which, as even
the World acknowledges, was effected in pur-
Suance of ''orders or instructions from Wash
ington relating to the enforcement of our
neutrality laws" We have next ''the arrest
of the Junta, which, being public and noto-
Sious, and the talk of Havana and London,
rs well as of Washington and New York, even
The World did not deny. This paper asked,
however, why it was that ''the Indictment
ind arrest of the members of the Junta
and their prominent military agents was not
Followed up, and why 'the business went on
lust as before?" Our news columns show
Chat it was followed up, and that ''the
business" did not Ego on just as before" "
With regard to the case of the Perit, its de-
parture was not known till its arrest was i'm
possible. And even the World got the wrong
steamer by name, ascribing to the Arago all
the unlawful performances of the Perit. As
TO the Catharine Whiting, which was brought
TO on Saturday night by howitzer shot from
the revenue cutter, while the tugboats laden
,Tith filibusters who were to board her, dis
persed in confusion-this case seems to have
utterly escaped, the sweep of the WorEdS
telescope, which, examining the horizon on
all sides, only discloses that nothing has
been done. The capture of these tugboats,
and the probable end of Cuban flibustering
from New York, was announced yesterday.