The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-02-07

TIRE THAT rRIGHTENs SECRETARY FISH
| GAO LAW FAVORED BY CALEB CUSH
ING.
Correspondence Of the New York SUM-
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3l.--lhe arrival at
home ports OF two American vessels, winch
have for over two months been persesuted
by the Spanish authorities, first of all IN
this country, and afterward by blockadlng
them in foreign ports, threatening to blow
them out of the water, and searching them
on the high seas. has been source ofgreat
| ANNOYANCE to our administration. or
all things that president Grant
can think of Just now, in fact until
after the assembling of the rcpub-
| lican convention in June next taking any
| important step in any important matter Is
the one to be most studiously avoided, and
the arrival of the Hornet at
Baltimore, and of the Florida at Newport,
threaten to break the status gUo detcrm-
ined upon. Ii these vessels werein pros
ecution of legitimate voyages-and nobody
with common sense and uninfuenced by
fear of Spanish threats or promises of
Spanish gold thinks the contrary,-ther
has Spain committed acts for which salts.
faction. indemnity, and security against
future aggression must be exacted. Not
termination of our so-called secretary Of
state, who might be more appropriately
called Spanish attdche.' If the
Hornet is to be libelled and
tried for running arms and amuni.
ton into Cuba, then may Spain lay
up her fleet OF blockalers, for she could
not catch her, and our administration
catches her for Spain. What would Eng
land have thought of n vessel carrying her
flag during our war bloGkaded by Uni
ted States vessel in neutral port on sus-
picion of having run the blockade into
confederate port! The possibility of her
being obliged TO send Il man-of-war for the
protection of a vessel So situated is ineon-
ceiyabie.
The case Of the Florida is still more dis
agreeable TO our flag. She was libelled by
the Spanish minister or his lawyers, Web
ster x Craig, while in New York, detained
for eight months, liberated by an order
Of the court after trial, at which the perse-
cutors dared not produce the men of whose
perjury they, Messrs. Webster " Craig, had
been accomplices and suborners; she pro-
ceeds 10 sea- never goes within 500 miles
O. the island OF Cuba, and is twice stop
ped and searched by Spanish men-of-war.
The owner on hearing of the facts presents
a claim for damages, and calls personally
in reference 10 this business upon Hamil-
ton Fish, who positively is afraid to see him.
Why? Because Caleb Cushing his faith
ful mentor, and who is now secretly rumor-
ed to lean curiously to the English accept
alton 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 Sec. Robson an
account Of the outrases on his ship and that
the same account had been published in
the Sun, are too significant of tie high
hand with which the masters of the Ameri- |
can people would rule matters to be al
Owed to 90 unrecorded. "Any telegraph |
company said Caleb Cushing, THAT
would transmit such message should be
prosecuted, and any paper that dared to |
publish it should be suppressed.
However, the cases OF both these vessels |
are di thcult ones to smooth over, aud to |
avoid being obliged to do anything, the
gang will endcavor TO |
humbug congress into the belief that it is |
something terrible. For this |
Banks-who is "a false TO Cuba as he was !
last year, when under Grants promises, |
he voted for Bngham's amendment 10 his |
own resUluuon-purposcly reIrains from /
upon Cox's resolution for beliig- |
erency. lie says he Is preparing another, !
based upon the failure Of Spain to abolish |
slavery, as if We had any international
rightto interfere with slavery in Cuba
He tells the Cuban, that the administration
will take care of their Interests that Spain
shall be brought to account; anything but
the honest, open, and American way Of
acknowledging a fact for the crime Of not
which all the trouble has
come.
Ben. Butler, when asked what objection
there was 20 granting belligerency to the |
Cubans, answers that Spain would ut once
declare war against u, and that we are
not prepared tor it. OF course we were
for war with England, when he
would have driven the country into it, in
preference to resigning the Washington
treaty. But B. b. is sly, devilsh sly. He
know, full well that Spain would do moth
ing OF the sort, but he wants to kill Grant
before the country and he knows that as
long as he does nothing he is dead enough
already.
The denomination Of Grant il HI.
own nightmare, and the furthcring or de-
teatlng it the sole subject of every man
about the white house. The wonder
among politician. Of experience is (and /
include the leading men of the republican
party that in tie already patent impossi-
biitv of forcing Grant upon the party for
another term, 20 many men apparently
link their fortunes and their regulations
before the country with this great Amer.
lean bubble, which Will surely collapse in
June. The secret is, that the time for
''slinging' him has not come. He must
be kept from doing anything which might
reyIvify his chance.
FREE LOVE IN A PUBLIC SCHOOL,