The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-07-16

-T-r;,ad States who have come htAer ioS 1n rnrno,s orseeking but formal acknoTie9 g. rt I from our government, as Wal As to orsry lover oflibsrfy to view thS lsrcieal char seter of the sympathy extended to thoso :srug gHng patriots.
 . From tha President down to the lowest gov efomeut official in Washington one sentiment with regard 10 the cause of liberty and iu3 .. pendence is expressed, and only exp,e .ssd. for there seems to be an upj-;e1saI Sis:ncIino ton to permit this senti ant to Q vi,t p,barvi,o than as subject to-. fancy speeches, messages, CT Journai's.ic rGunting. This sentiment ia usually sr.cressed somewhat after the follow lEs s''.5ie: "Whils it is acknowledged that .ne United States lave always extended sym pathy to every people engaged in a struggle for liberty" CT ,ithas always been the pohcy of the United States to aid the cause of liberty and independence wherever the cry of freedom has bssn raised in the face of oppression - or ''tLe United States still bearing in mind her own glorious struggle for liberty and the grati- tuie we owe for foreign aid and sympathy" Now, it is about time that national vanity were gralihed; if indeed, 1t is expected that over strained sentiments are ever to produce satiety. Is it not about time that something were done to satisfy indiYiduals-aDd nations too-that American sympathy and American aid 8 mount ,o something more than that famous tenn rest which agitated the contents of a teapot Yes itis high time that Congress, to give value to American sympathy, wield in the cause of liberty mere dangerous weapon than supsraunuated sentiment Let us have aometbing real, something tangible if only an
 oquivocal pen, and if this cannot be produced then let us have unbroken silence on the sub- iact shs denisa of national vanity will of course fllov, but that is a coneomitant with which lbs govornmen. can well dispense.
 lis not difficult matter to analyze the feeling which exists at tAe seat of government .h regard to the Ever Faithful Isle The fact ig, that our good old Uncle is not &C., ta4}ly afraid Of giving offence to Spain he acts ns shoagA under the iuAusuce of snca Fear, Taere is no one uLo will have the hsrdibood 10 douJ; the desire Of Congress- 10 see the S..rs and Stripes Gattar,ng over the Gem cf the Antilles, but this can be brought about only by ii, e bold, independent policy at hOme this policy caunot he expected to spring from Congressional body which does mot know that g'aie ofwar exists on the Island Of Cuba. Iha recent Congressional debate over the c,a m5 Of Cuba to recognition has failed to change any feature of the struggle, but has rot failed to settle whatever doubts miehs have pre- ioasy existed with regard to the intention of .as Administration Cuba will have 10 fight her o.'a battle for such is the decree bat Sq-h aii, be politely requested to blidls her 'gfi.o for blood-to spare prisoners of VET aGt, lariculary, to spare American citizens in Cuoa who have not committed any offence; she wIibo assured that it is very painful to the Amesjcan people to learn that their fellow. cit;Lsas gre being butchered on the gtreets of U.yaaa when the gravest crime of which they have been convicted is that they are on the Aas' "a SN-+ RS t-i- lAdfb AO ls 10 De. On ha ther hand Cuba will be givsn 10 under stand indirectly hat if she retaliate by butch. ering S.aaish prisoners of war, she will leave herself Ia5le to the censure Of great nation. And ;a.s $ about ths only method which Gen. eress caa agree upon to mark it's interference in enc Of the most bsrbarous struggles shat ever dssyaced Christian people,
 This "a what that perverse man of the | E.So Independent says of those worthy deg e-"4aos of the Pilgrims, who recently miaged the waters of the Pacific with those oi che Atlantic without the aid of D.iren Canal
 The Mack E-al Brigade, representing S5o 0J0O0O Gin the capital stock of sanar9 t''rs,gn missionary associations, emigrant aid freedmen aod Bible societies. armei with n oot,' oi Pacific straight passed Sunday. sp