Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-11-22

Editor lStats Journal III was surprised
aud sorry when / read the editorial Of
friend O'Byrne In the Advertiser. on the
late massacre Of the crew aud passengers
OF the steamer Yisgiaius at Cuba. A
persons Individual feeling Il one thing,
but an editorial 10 a Democratic news
paper is quite another thing. The Demo-
cratic party went beck on their old record
and split, and split blood in the late
rebellion, and write these few lines for
the purpose Of entering my protest
against its going back again on its old
record to oppose the present 'adminislra-
ton, " IL determines TO ayenge, as 1t
hould, the insults of the Spanl-h-Cnbau
murerers. Longer forhearance with
the Spanish cnt-throats has ceased to be
a virtue.
| Now, what have the Cuban patriots
attempted TO dot Throw or the Spanish
/ cruel yoke, Just as the Iish have at
tempted TO throw OIL the British yoke,
only with better reason, for England
never treated the Irish as hard as Spain
treated the Cubans, for the Cubans have
no voice In the Spanish parliament. The
Americans, just as the Cubans have done,
rebelled against Great Britain for partly
the same cause and Just so true Demo-
crats, for thousands Of years, have re-
heiled against tyrants. Lafayette, who
aided orr people, according to the reason
/ ing Of the jdrertiser, was iike General
| Ryan. all outlaw, aud deserved death.
| Why is IL the Americans love the Irish
people II II because their foreiathers
sympathizsd aud shed their blood side by
side with our foreGlthers in helping TO
establish these free nited States, the
asylum of the down .trodden of the world.
Mr.. AdrTHser, When your brethren in
vaded Canada, aud failed, did we Amerl-
cans say to England, "Kill them like
dogs, as the Spaniards in Cuba have
donei No, we sent protest after protest
and used manly appeals In their behalf
until they all, or nearly all, were released.
But in this case the Pirgiuim was flying
the American flag on the high seas, and
il that Gag was used for an unlawful
purpose let Spain holl the United States
responsible for the abuse, and not assume,
as the Cuban-Spaniard did, exclusive
ownership OUsr he seas aud take vessel
into onc Of their ports and call It's ere
pirates and shoot them. Those men were
no more pirates than the Lafayette
French expedition, nor Ryan was no
more pirate than General Montgomery.
If You have anything to complain Of,
II Is the eowardice Of the United States
Government I'm not acknowledging the
Cuban Independence three or four years
, ago. We acknowledged Mexico and all
the South American States, but to Cuba
said no and the only reason that can be
/ assigned, probably, was that We intended
to take II ourselves whenever these cut
throat Spaniards committed the overt
, act. as Santa Anna did at Almo. That
butchery gave us Texas, and this hatchery
? Of Ryan and the crew and passengers Of
| the Virginii~ will give MS Cuba, aud II is
not worth while for aay Democrat OF
, newspaper to place themselves against
the old policy and Instinct Of true Demo.
/ cracy. The old Democratic party OBJ
! tained louisiana, Florida, Texas, and
lastly, California. These old fossils
, Morton McMichael and others in Phila.
, delphia, that you say got up the latC
meeting to ride on popular current, had
good reason to do so. They were old
. Wings thirty or forty years ago. and
E opposed all progress Of The Democrats
! aud were eternally beaten. Since then they
{ have got up Il new party, and stolen old
r Democratic weapons; and II is not sounC
Democrats policy to set in the cornei
r growing like bears with sore heads hui
. b w VIZ NAN AAAt AAu MAAos huA Qll
\ weapons out of the hands Of the Repuhli
cans. / well remember at the NatiOna
- Democratic Convention at baltimore, II
L ls4S, when Sam Houston and Hanegai
spoke IN said convention and hiuled a
G our taking Cuba for the wrongs Spain ha,
there committed. The convention rose t,
4 their feet aud gave such a dcafenins
e shout as only old Democrats could do.
l. II Is the duty of every true Democra
I to sympathiz} with his down-trOdden tel
Il low white man all over the world. Whel
! first grew 10 manhood / Joined th
r Democratic party and served with mel
n who held 10 that faith, aud when ] saw
a a weakening In the knee, or disposition &
dodge, or pnlayer, because our poltica
g enemies done so and 20 they must op
n pose them, lot il be good or bad. was
a different way Of thinking. Igo for IN
o country, right or wrong, and its flag, II
e the face of an enemy. After ths bG.tl
j, is won we can talk of the policy of Ia
e country aud the abuse of its nag bu
d never let a man call himself deinoora
J.. who stops to discuss these matters ln th
3 face of an enemy, for "united we siani
" and divided we tall"
.e The time is not far distant when tn
,r United States will own the Bermudas an
y all the West India Islands, and they {
ii right ought to belong 10 the aG laeel
s continent, which is where the Unite
i States are situated. The Spanish Wpi
a India Islands, at least, have been owne
t. and controlled by bloody cui-throats au
IS pirates long enough, and say, Geueri
ID Grant, turn ont Of the Cabinet old Fis
aud pitch in, and you shall have IN
sr sympathy and support in itas one Amer
10 can Democratic citizen.
ID SAMUEL TOWNSEND.
"A TOWNSEND, Nov. 18th, 1878.