The sun., 1872-02-01
THE FLORIDA AND HORNET.
| The Administration In n Quandary-Cnleb
Gushing Wants the sun Suppressed aud n
Telegraph Company Prescribed.

The Administration In Quandary- caleb
Gushing Wants the sun Suppressed aud n
Telegraph COMPANY Prescribed.
Correspondence Of The sun
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.-The arrival Mt
home ports OF two American vessels which have
for over two months been prosecuted by the
Spanish authorities, first of all In this country
and afterward by blockadng them in foreign
ports, threatening to blow them out Of the
water and searching them the high seas, has
been source Of great annoyance TO our Admin
ktration. OF all things that President Grant
ear think Of just now In fact until after the
assembling OF the Republican Convention in
June next taking any important step in any i'm
portant matteG Is the one to he most studioualy
avoided, and the arrival of the Hornet at Balti-
more and Of the Florida at Newport, threaten to
break the status quo determined upon. n these
vessels were in prosecution of legitimate voy-
ages-and nobody with common sense and unn-
Buencsd by fear OF Spanish thpcats or promises
Of Spanish gold believes the contrary-then has
Spain committed acts for which satisfaction,
indemnity, and security against future aggres-
slons must be exacted. Not oven TO demand
such appears to be the determination Of our So
called Secretary of State, who might far more
appropriately be called spanish dttdchS."
THE SPECTRE THAT FRIGHTENED FISH.
II the Hornet Is To bo Hbelled and tried for
running arms and ammunition into Cuba thea
may Spain lay up her feet Of blockadcrs, for she
could not catch her, and our Administration
catches her for Spain. What would England
have thought Of vessel carrying her flag during
our war blockaded by United States vessel in a
neutral port on suspicion Of having ran the
blockade into Confederate port 10 The possl-
bility Of her being obliged to send man -of-war
for the protection OF vessel so situated Is in
conceivable.
The case of the Florida IL stlll more disgrace
full to our flag. She was iibelled by the Spanish
Minister or his lawyers. Webster n Craig while
in New York, detained for eight months, lib
Grated by an order Of the Court after trial, at
which the prosecutors dared not produce the
men Of whose perjury they, Messrs. Webster &
Craig, had been accomplices and suborners; she
proceeds to sea, never goes within 800 miles Of
the Island Of Cuba, and Is twice stopped and
searched by Spanish men of-var. The owner on
hearing Of the facts presents a claim for dam
ages, and calls personally In reference To this
business upon Hamilton Fish, who positively is
afraid to see him.
CALEB cusHTSG's Law.
why7 Because Caleb Cushing, his faith full
mentor, and who Is not secretly rumorcd to lean
curiously to the English acceptation OF the
Washington Treaty, advises him not to listen to
any such claim. The words Of this legal light
ON international law, when told that the owner
Of the Florida had telegraphed to Secretary
Robeson an account Of the outrages on his ship,
and that the same account had been published
In THE Sun, are too slgnlAcatiye Of the high hand
with which the masters OF the American people
would rule matters 10 be allowed to go unre-
corded. Amy telegraph company" said Caleb
Gushing, that would transmit such message
should bo prosecuted, and any paper that dared
TO publBh it should be suppressed" ="
However, the cases of both these vessels arc
difficult ones to smooth over. and TO avoid ~ ing
obliged TO do anything. the Administration gang
will endeavor to humbug Congress into the be-
liel that y Is preparing something terrible. For
last year, when under Grants promises he voted
for Bngham's amend dment 10 his own resolu-
Coxs resolution for belligerency. He says he is
preparing another, based on the failure OF Spain
To abolish slavery II we had any intcrna-
tional right TO interfere with slavery in Cuba.
lie tells the Cubans that the dministration
viii take care Of their interests; that spain shall
be brought TO count-nnything, anythns but
the honest, open, aud American way of gknoNl-
edglng ! fact for the crime of not acknOwled -iug
which all the trouble has come.
Ben Butler, when asked what objection there
was To granting belligerency to the CunHns, an
against IA, and that we are not prepared f.r it.
OF course we were prepared for war with Eng
land, when he would have driven the couuty
Treaty. but u. d. is sly, deVillsh sly. lie knows
fun well that spain would do nothing uf the
try, and he knows that ls long as he does uOth-
ing he H. dead enough already.
The denomination Of Grant Il his own night
mare, and the furthering or defeating IL the sole
object OF every man about the White House.
The wonder among politicians Of experience Is
land include the leading men of the Repuhli-
can party that In the already patent impossible
~ OF forcing Grant upon the party for another
term, 40 many men apparently link their for
tunes and their regulations before the country
with this great American bubble, which win
surely collapse In June.
The secret Il, that the time FOR " singing" him
has not come. Ho must he kept from doing any
thing which might possibly rvVNuy his Cuahce.