Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-01-27
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sympathy with the oppressed has ~
all times been n of our marked char
acteristics, and it is to be hoped that
the day will never come when It will
be otherwise. But it Is precisely be-
cause we, as a nation, are 81 ready to
extend our sympathies, that We ought
not to be lightly called upon to do it.
We ought not to find ourselves in the
position Of the generous man, who,
just because he Is generous is impor-
tuned for aid In all sorts of undesery-
ing cases. There is no reason why
this country, DESTROYS as it Is of being
at peace with all the world, and of
religiously fulfilling is moral and
legal obligations towards its neighbors,
should be needlessly jeopardized in its
commercial and other interests by the
schemes of those who have but little
regard for International law, and care
for nothing but their W aggrandize-
ment or the qualification Of their pri-
vate revenge 1t is for this reason that
we ought to be very suspicious of
every movement which has o fllibus-
tering look. Very few Of these fill
clustering expeditions turn out well,
either for their projectors or for those
whom they are designed toad. Theacts
of the sympathizers with the Canadian
Rebellion Of 1898 did more harm than
good to the insurgents, and they added
greatly to the irritation existing be-
tween this country and Great Britain,
thereby retarding the settlement Of the
questions then in dispute between
them. And the same may be said OF
the Fenian raids on Canada. The
expeditions of Walker and Crabb to
Sonora, Lower California and Mica
ragua, and those of Lopez and Crit,
tenden to Cuba, accomplished nothing
but the useless sacrifice of lives, and
the destruction of q large amount Of
property. The people Of those coun-
tries became naturally embittered
against the United States, and filled
with 4 distrust Of u country and our
citizens, which has never yet been
removed. These expeditions, and
others, have also had the same effect
in England, France and Spain; and
inasmuch as they have 4 tendency to
produce the impression that war
may at any time break out in case
of our not checking them in
time, the market value of United
States securities Is affected, and
sometimes seriously deprecated; SO
also is that of the securities Of other
nations. The rumor Of an approach
Ing war between this country and Eng.
land would cause arrangement of the
funds Of every money center in the
world. As the Instruction in Cuba Is
dying out, restless spirits are looking
around for q new excitement, have
voted that the Red River country
ought to belong to the United States,
and consequently an organization Is
being talked about to achieve this OBJ.
ject. 1t Is called the american An
nexation League" and it proposes to
bring the whole North American COLI
tineut under the Stars and Stripes.
The Red River rebellion offers them
the field required for their first oper-
ations, aud the arrangement Is made
that go men have already left some OF
the Western cities for that region. II
they have gone to settle there, well
and good, for the country may be ben
Gifted by their labor-that Is, If sucl>
heroic spirits will condescend to so to
work. II they have gone there armed,
to take forcible possession, they will
have placed our Government under the
necessity of disavowing their acts, oil
else Of recognizing them as lawful in
vaders, which would be an act Of open
hostility and tantamount to q declara'
ton of war. 1t cannot be supposed
that England will quietly submit tc
such an act of aggression. although she
probably cares very little about the
Red River territory, and would be
grudge the cost of Il war to retain it
But In most of these fillibusterins
schemes there are two parties, the
plotters and the duped. The former
do the stump speaking, concoct the
plans, organize the men, and raise the
subscriptions. The latter are sem
away on q fools errand to do the fight
ing. get all the hard knocks, suffer nj
the privations, and hear the disgrace
of failure, but they see very little o
the money. That goes in fine offices
houses and dinners in New York
while things 60 on smoothly, and 4
transferred to Paris, when the bubble
bursts. There the schemers enjoy
while it lasts, and then when it Is gon'
they look about for fresh fields of oper
alton and fresh victims.