New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-06
no PILIBUsTERs.

tirely consistent with its former polio
and with the injunctions OF Washington
1t has been called radical government
but such has been the term imposed upo
progress ever since the Christian dispens;
ton offended the Levites and rabbis
an orthodox and established Deuteronomy
But while the Republican government ha
protected the republics of Chill and Per
from the preposterous claims of Spair
and has strengthened the hands of til
| republican Juarez against the pretension
} IS the usurping autocrat Macmillan,
aas maintained it's S,bh Of aeutralit
sowasd Spain, eyen wheas chat &eu
ssalite has, in fact, aided, practically, "a
!lreeS Of Spain 10 maintain Q dominion
/ aeae shis continent which, IMPOSES bond
age upon the whites and perpeeuases
! ove9 the colored races. Public seDtimen
among American merchants and the .espe
cial sympathy Of the colored Sace IN th'
United States, has awakened the attention
Of the government 20 the importance o
placing our Cuban relations upon more
pesuanent footing, and we may hope
some positive and definite demand upon
} the Spanish government, Or the assertion
q an Independent policy on Gle part Of
CUP own government Two months
was the entire period ehae the Congress
os ehe United States waited before il
acknowledged the independence Of Texas,
with war still fragrant Oh its hands.
Ter.s recognized the institution q african
s1areiy. More than four yeaSs has the
I6iteA States waited without recognizing
ehe independence Of Cubs. Free Cuba
has maintained itself within certain de-
fined boundaries, and ritjin close bound
aries has proclaimed and praceceS freedom
Of eeligion and freedom from african bond
age. Is our government bound by los own
example to wait until Che Spanish govern
mont shall have settled its OWN domestic
discussions throughout ats whole donia-
ions? Is it estopped from recognizing .
fact Of national independence Of which
every breeze brings eonfrmssion2 Shall
the colored people watch the Eight
OF she aatiosal eagle, holding in
bis beak the scroll Of human
equality, 10 see aim faipe and futter
in his great mission as he hoveys over the
tainted atmosphere OF Cuban bondage?
The cry Of the whole country IS, why
does not the governments act? We are
confident that it will act; that it has taken
q decided stand on this subject and will
justify its position by undoubted proofs
that The recognition of free Cuba is in ex-
act accordance with the early and con-
sistent policy Of ehis government toward
warning peoples, whether or skis continent
or elsewhere.
aut there is . co4eomieans policy 60 be
enounced in regard to Cubs, wholly ire.
spectiye of our political relations. 1t is 10.
POROUS Chat while the words osSpais are Of
pLe most honeyed nature her commercial
legislation is OF the moss exclusive md
selfish character. II might he supposed
that when We build and arm vessels OF
war, and furnish military supplies for the
Spanish government, and hunt out With
vigilance all expeditions fitted OUT FOR her
practically beligerent people in Cuba,
hat Spain would manifest some consider. l
sion for this forbearaAce-fos this favor. /
Not at all. Spain collects duty Of !
Eighty pes cent average upon 81 Cor.
ign agricultural products imported |
nto the ports of Cuba, while she has
ctually had the effronsery 20 add 90 this
"'war hx" or additional duty OF from
Ell to twenty per cent. This special eax
technically makes all foreign nations who
ay it parties to the civil wa of Spain, it
lakes them depart from their neutrality
! the conflict, and actually place arms
nd funds in the hands Of one belIigeyent
sction to be employed il. defeating the /
Their. All this tends to strengthen che
espotisms, and weaken the cause Of free.
ON and emancipation But since our
tie of duties upoa the principal
-oducts Of Spain ore less than
1enty peg cent, and since We have adj
tilted ono Of her chief staples. coffee,
e why should not these sates Of eighty
one hundred per average be abated
to ether natioNss We propose no re-
,ction of our duties on sugar imported
rate of less than twenty per cent ad !
lorenae It is . protection 10 the sugar
lnters of the Union; but are not the
ain growers and stock raiseys likeaise
titled to some consideration Why
oIld bushel of Indian corn be taxed
ty cents Oh admission into Cuba
ay should % hundred weight Of bacon
y 50 "a? 1t will be said that we l
admitted to trade on the same
ms with ''the most favored nations 7
if no other nation exports indiau corn }
Ill or hog products in quantity except Z
rselves then that which is a general 9
III its terms becomes a special tax in VI
operation Let US not be cheated by 8
II tricks. Let our government dee a.
nd of Spain, or whatsoever government 7
hall recognize over Cuba, such modif- IL
ion of those rates az will i9sure an VI
lal and reciprocal trade with our near
and most valuable foreign neighbor. We o.
e recently seen efforts to reinstate re- p
rocity in our commercial relations with h'
lada, why should not our government :"
nitest the same solicitude as to trade p
eefold more valuable, and the annual az
ance of which, against US. requires ny