The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-06-18
The Fatal Blundcr.

To carry the next House of Representatives
and more especially the next Presidency, the
Republicans need new hold on the peoples
hearts. The tic that has bound together the
incongruous elements of which the party has
been composed since the outbreak of the war
lie dissolved and some other bond of union il
now indispensable to prevent the organiza-
lion falling in pieces
The Cuban question and the still greater
cnd broader propositions on which that
question is based, rose as if provdcn.
TALLY to afford the very materials for this
new bond of union. But the majority of the
Republicans in Congress- instead of eagerly
seizing and sppropriating these materials,
are disposed TO recklessly throw them away
or TO barter them for promises of Office for
themselves.
The Cuban question is not new in its ma
ture. II is essentially the same as the Amer.
lean Revolution of 1870. 1t is the struggle
ropean tyranny. Such n struggle always
receives the sympathy and support of every
American heart. This is particularly true
of Cuba because the expressions and
wrongs to which she has been sub
lected infinitely transcend any ever
Inflicted upon any British colony, In the
worst period of history. There is also
another powerful impulse in this case Ii ::
determination Of the people of the United
States that at no distant period European
domination shall cease in every part of the
North American continent and its Deepen.
denotes
While our people will not prematurely
hasten the solution of this problem, they
nevertheless will insist that the issue shall
never be evaded, hut be manfully met, and
settled on its merits, whenever IL arises in q
ease like that of Cuba. The Administration,
yielding TO the base counsels of SIDNEY
WEBSTER and HAMILTON FISH, skulks
from this issue and 1t 10 this
exhibition of the white feather, ut the de-
mand of bankrupt, thrd.rate European
power, which is arousing the indignation of
Every free spirit in the land, and dividing
and running the Republican party. Honest
hnu DruNo ultl WHO 10 not wear inc collar
Of the Administration are ashamed of its
pusillOnimous course, which they know is
the joint product Of cupidity and cowardicc.
Had the Republican party been guided by
ordinary sagacity, it would have pressed into
Its service the indomitable love of freedom
md the passion for the early exclusion Of
foreign rule from the Western Hemisphere
But the Cabinet and the Republican majority
In Congress have worse than refused to take
advantage of it, because HAMILTON FIsns
Bonin.law gets seventeen thousand dollars
In gold at time from Spain, Congress and
the President have fallen on their knees
md kissed sceptre that is 80 foul
md feeble that even the European adven'
turers to whom it is freely offered spit upon
It with contempt.
The hating Of the Republicans in Con
Cress will not arrest the march Of American
principles on this continent The sons O.
Cuba will achieve their freedom by them
selves amid bloodshed and desolation. TIT
movement for human rights will go on an'
triumph, but the Republican party will b
lief, far in the rear with GRANT and FISH
md mass Of such dead material on its dc
rayiug hands.