The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-10-29
FISH AND HOAR.
From the N. Y. World.

From the NJ Y. World
careful canvass of the opinions Of the Cabinet
regarding the Cuban question develops the fact that
Secretary Fish and Attorney-General Hoar are the
only members who are opposed to a speedy reCOg-
posed to it on the ground that may compcate our
negotiations with Great Britain relative to the Ala
balna claims.-Washington Cor. Baltimore sun.
We are tired of seeing and reading such
rubbish AS we understand it, neither of
these gentlemen make any reclamation on
England for the Queens proclamation of
May, 1861, giving belligerent status to the
Confederates. They have their own opinion
of the friendly or unfriendly spirit to us
which inspired it. A claim for damages,
based on belligerent recognition of the South
by England, is Stewards pet idea. He wasted,
for a year and a half a great quantity
of State Department ink and paper on the
subject. and sorely vexed the spirit Of Mr..
Adams. 1t is Summers project also, and
underlies much of his speech in the Senate
on the Johnson Clarendon treaty. The W0Hd
repudiated it from the start Messrs. Fish
and Hoar, like sensible men, follow in this
matter the IF0ild Git is a pity they do not do
the same in everything, and base their claim
in behalf of this nation against Great Britain
on the allegation that, i'll respect to the Ala
bama, the Queens ministers did not keep and
maintain the neutrality she voluntarily as
sumed and proclaimed
We do not believe a word of this statement
in the Baltimore Sun, because the sympathies
of both these Cabinet members are said to be
much with the Cubans, and, if they deemed it
due to the people Of the United States that
a declaration of belligerence be made, moth
ing in the Alabama case would prevent. The
suggestion is a cowardy one at best.
The truth is that there is now nothing in
the condition or affairs of our people requir-
ing such a recognition or declaration. What
priU nf off dc
it? What material interest under charge of
the Government is influenced OF inconve-
nienced by the insurgents in the woods and
mountains of Eastern Cuba?
1t would be no more absurd for France to
deliberate whether she would accord bel
ligerent status to our warning Indian tribes
in the West. They have as many and more
men under arms than has Cespedes, fight
quite as we'll, and much in the same style OF
assaulting an army post or village and then
fleeing to the mountains The whole power
of this Government cannot catch, conquer,
or destroy these insurgent Indians, any more
than General De Rodas can altogether subdue
the creoles, negroes, and Cinnamon under
Cespedes.
1t is apparent now to all impartial persons
that the main strength of the Cuban insur-
rection is in this country. Here is its naval,
military, and political base. AS Mr.. Caleb
tuition of the pretended republic of Cuba
was made here and imported hence into the
country over which it was designed to be a
fundamental law The councils of the insur-
rection are in New York city. Who has
heard of any sort of a constitutional conven
tion OF legislative body deliberating in
Cuba? Who has seen a copy of an act or law
of the legislative department of the republic
of Cuba? The really efficient soldiers whom
Cespedes has in the woods of the eastern por
tion of the island were recruited in the
United States in violatio n of it's laws. Every
vessel, from the Perit to the Lillian, which
has reached Cuba in aid of the insurgents
has left our shores under the inspiration o
the Cuban Junta in this city-a great part o
the members of which are indicted malefac
tors and under bonds not to do the very
things they have been doing during the sum,
mer-ftted out in palpable infraction of oul
municipal code of neutrality and of our treaty
stipulations with Spain on the subject.