Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1870-06-21
Cuba and Spain--Grant's Message,

Holland,
Cuba and Spain--Grant's Message.
Monday, June Is, President Grant
sent message to congress briefly re-
the state Of affairs in Cuba |
in its contest with the Spanish author
tiles in that island, in which he speaks |
for non-interference on the part of our
government with the war that is now
being carried on. He thinks it best
to let the contending parties fight it
out in a style that best suits them and
stop when it pleases them. In these
views we think he will be sustained
by the cool thinkers of whatever par
ty, although there be many Of high
standing who will take issue with the
president. Gen. Banks has already
done so in a spirited speech Of an
hour and ten minutes, delivered in the
house on the 18th inst, wherein he
says some sharp things which will not
have a tendency to make the presi.
dent feel good. He of course espou-
ses the cause of the Cubans and their
llimsey republic, dealing Spain some
heavy blows and condemning her gen.
cral policy towards her dependencies.
To all he says Of Spain We heartily
assent. He can say nothing i'll of that
power which we will not readily en-.
dorsc. Her whole history for a half
dozen centuries has been simply bar
barous and a record of atrocities that
will forever make her name Infamous
But what is said Of Spain in this re.
gard may with equal truth be said Of
all her colonies who course Spanish
blood. Spanish blood has little tc
redeem it, There is little in Spanish
nature that is lovely or loveable.--
Lecherous, treacherous, covetous and
cruel, Spain cxcites the sympathy Of
none. Proud, indolent, vain and false
her people present the poorest posi-
BILE material out of which TO make {
strong and enduring republic. Jeal
Gus, craven, cowardly and base, the!
are despotic themselves and can onl!
be well governed when governed b.
a despot. We are now delineatinl
the character Of the pure Spaniard
and if this be true of the pure Span
lard, what must We think of the mixet
race, the bastardized product of tn
naughty and imperious Castilian ant
the native inhabitants he subdued il
the early period following the discoy
cry of Columbus, which at once open
ed up this continent and adjacen
islands to his avarice and lust? Fo
of such base alloy are all the petit.
nationalities OF South America, Mex
leo and Cuba composed, and who hav
in q remarkable degree inherited al
the vices Of their European stock
shorn of its ancient chivalry and ii
heriting none Of the virtues of the al
original inhabitants. For this cour
try to interfere and assist in the cal
nival of blood now for some month
enacting in Cuba, would be ridiculou
in the extreme. The most that W
can do is to hope that the right ma
prevail, and leave it to God to decid
which is in the right, for certain it
that no merely human mind is capabI
of solving SO knotty problem as d
Gliding between two such foul contes
ants as Cuba and Spain. When Il
war shall be conducted upon primo
pies common to civilized nations an
not in the barbarous mode of bandit
it may become our government to i
terpose its good offices, but when ea'
side executes its prisoners, as Cues
da the Cuban general informs us
butchorcd $50 in one day, we may
in no hurry to assist them. TIL,
again, this agitation of the Cub;
question means more than appears u
on the surface. 1t means annexati,
to the United States, and that is VIII
we do not want. The cholera won
be far preferable. Our country c
tends far enough south already, al
we prefer not to extend our sway
to the Mexican Gulf. We favor
ocean bound republic-nothiug mo-
and nothing less. We esteem Go
Banks highly. There are few pub
men in our country for whom we
terrain a higher regard, but we fl
he is wrong in his Cuban venture a
hope he may drop the verminous p
riots to work out their own salvati
thought be with much "fear and tire
bling"
ACCIDENT. There was a seriC
accident on the Vermont and Mas