Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-04-29

governments upon an Executive who had
shown by years of inaction hesitation in
recognizing such governments. This was
the occasion Of the passage of Mr.. Clay's
resolution respecting the provinces of
South America in 1921. That resolution
and this is modelled after twas not
offered in Congress until long after the
revolutions in the Spanish provinces had
become a success and it was intended,
without doubt, as the mildest possible
way of saying to President Monroe that
he had been quite too slow in his recog-
milton of those States. A committee
waited upon the President with it, thus
showing the object of the House in pass
ing it; and the refusal of the House to
amend the resolution by the addition of a
clause approving the Presidents course,
sufficiently indicates the cause of the
action. Indeed. the debate upon that re-
solution shows that its purpose was to
urge the President to take action which
the House believed right and ought to
have been taken years before. Have we
any such cause for putting spurs to a
dilatory Executive
If, then, there is no warrant in the law
OF nations, or in the practice of this gov
erHIueHL IOT tue passage oI tnis TcsOluliOH,
why should / vote for it ,
Is the occasion fortunate one to in
augurate new policy of foreign inter
vention? Are we quite ready to take not
only step in advance of our former prac-
tice, but long step in advance of the
practice Of all other Powers, in giving aid
and comfort 10 instructions against es-
tablished governments Are the Alabama
claims against England resting On such "a
sure basis OF international law that we can
wisely send an official vote Of sympathy
to an insurrection which yet has neither
strength nor organi zed form? If the peo-
pie of Jamaica were in revolt would we
send the same word of cheer to them !?
Shall we act the part of bully and shake
our fists in the face of Spain, when we
would not do the same thing to France or
! England?
/ do not oppose this resolution, Mr.
Speaker, because as an individual | have
no sympathy with people struggling for
their liberty against despotic power. |
may not be so sanguine as some of my
colleagues that out of this instruction
will come stable, free, Republican gov
ernment. Some of the rose-colnred Wis.
ions of free government in Spanish
America have hardly been realized.
Ii the people of Cuba desire to live under
form of government of their own choice,
hope they may establish such govern
ment. Certainly / would, and | should
hope this government would put no OBJ
stacle in their way. When a revolution
throws off despotic authority and brings
IN and establishes a government of the
people, | would have all haste consistent
with well-established principles sof inter
national law made in its recognition. But
as government, or as branch of the
government, we cannot take sides in any
way with an instruction which has not
become success, without putting
selves in an attitude of hostilit~ -
government against which - " .no
ton has been set on foe. .ho
was intendad - anything, gives and
and conn 20 give moran support "iu'
isar 1rt to the insurgents i'll Cuba 1t
:. official declaration of one branch OF
lie government, purposely so phrased as
not to require the assent of any other
branch of the government to give 1t llte,
that we hope the Cubans will succeed IN
their rebellion against Spain. 1t arrays
this House of Representatives on the side
of the insurgents, and is not less hostile
in fact, although it may be III words, to
the provisional government OF SPAN than
it would be ii it proposed armed lnterven-
ton. 1t is not addressed to Spain, but to
the insurgents in Cuba. Its object is not
| by friendly offices to induce the Spanish
government to give the Cubans what the
| Liberals of the Peninsula have JUST as
they hoped, achieved for themselves, the
right of self-government; but Its manifest
purpose is to strengthen the arms and
give bone to the hearts of the iusurroctIOn-
airy "people of Cuba In fact. the 0at
HtltS of the resolution, and the end tt
which it would undoubtedly lead, il many
of the outside promoters of it could a:
easily move the ,sympathies Of the Elk
ecutive and of the State Department as t.
I excite the tillibustering tendencies OF thu
House, are more than limited at III the
i following paragraph from morning
paper:
q The synpathies Of the entire American nation
are with the struggling patriots of Cuba; ans
!. while the government should do nothing hastily
nor forget duty as u neutral Power. there Il
danger that we on the side OF caution, anC
that noble people, whose hearts beat IN sympa
thy with ours may perish Tor the want oil mora
aid it is duty to render them as soon as They
have shown evidence of an ability to MAINTAIN
Il, NJ bsI
/, during the past hve months.
What this "moral aid is expected t,
encourage NAV be inferred from this item
in New York paper:
The story OF a Cuban dillI-roon which W
print tins morning, gives hlut Of "ofk IN l
oeheved to De lir more sehefdl Ihah mas hithete
been supposed. Cuban patriots doing some
thing else IN New oik beside noidins mass met
ings and listening to speeches.
, . 1..a, f,,, NJ. pr,,,-- a.
"a ieoehI iet.ct iioiii 40
furnishes the followlhg information
! An expedition Is now fitting out in this cit
which will he Of the most formidable charaeie
anu i nennarifv and rctain the afrcioms
: the people, had better not interfere with an
further than merely to MAKE snow OF goo
ii.n ITO rue pa ,hn o, h 70
: tasded by official interference but il cannot b
stopped There are men al the mead o. IT an
those ." who are in the secret here look forwar
to certain success and beneficial results
= Cuba must be free; Is th5 Watehword 9
, ny Nv - ~ hncon,nso faCt f ~