The Placer herald., 1873-11-29
CUBAN TROL BLES.

had been captured and her crew cruelty
massacred by the Spaniards Of Cuba, a ter
rible hurst Of Indignation arose from the
American people, and on the fpur of the
excitement nearly every journal of note seni
torth its appeal for immediate retribution
War, cruel, bloodihirsy. revengeful, unre-
lenling war, With its be~ilderng f,scna tiona,
at once pres nt,d itself TO the minds of n,l
excited American people, but thanks to
calmer minds ard better judgment, the rage
for war-war which ut least brings on a ma
tion so many direful results and terrible,
bitter, unabaling anguish to the homes Of
so many of her citizens, is abating,. and
notwithstanding the excitement is still grea,
in the East, our last advices lead us to hope
that the blehting results, that must inevta-
bly, foll,w war between Spain and America,
will lie ly maturer consideration evaded.
Sumner letter advising coolness was the
first step taken toward turning lie cnrrent
of opinion, and though we are not afraid Of
Spain, or any other nation for that matter,
a little calm thought on The subject will con-
vince the most hot -headed hat for us to de-
clare war against Spain at this time, would
be the height of rashness. True, our COL
ors must be upheld and our rights vindica-
ted, but this can in tlrs instance be done
without war, and the exgencies of tn.
times ard ci cumstnnces demand that il j,
can it slould be done. Though war will,
Spain might lie of short duration, it would
last long enough 10 ruin our commerce,
which hns hardly recovered from the terri
tie shock treceived from our civil strife;
it wo'hd lie long enough to crush oat the
Spanish Republic, a result that every anti
Republican government on the continent
would be pleased to see, and especially at
our hands; it would be long enough to es-
tablish new war debt and set the day for
return to specie Payment back at least a
decade; it would be- long enough TO perma-
nently revive the spirit of corruption
brought on through cotntsissary speculalions
and political rewards to braimess militar,
fortunates; it would lie long enough to
throw the commerce of the world largel,
into English hands and allow hemto grow
rich from what we would lose. These con-
ditions must spring from a war with Spain,
and it belIooves us 10 ask ourselves, can we
afford it? "Yes," we hear; eve can af-
ford anything rather than Disgrace" But
we need not suffer disgrace. The whole
proceeding resulted from the Cuban Planta-
ton Club influence, and not by know ledge
or consent of the Spanish home government.
No one more deeply regrets the affair than
Emilio Cnstilar and other leading heads of
The Spanish home government, and they
have manifested willingness and desire
to make whatever reparaton is in their pow
er. But there are eau es which will with
out great caution on our part, lead to war
All The Monarchies of Enrope will do what
they can to provoke it. They want 10 see
the audacious attempt to establish rcpub-
lie in Spain overruled hy Republicans as a
Strengthening argument 10 the wisdom of
crown, especially just at this time, when
crowns are not 80 much admired by their
SUBJECTS as they might be. But none are
more eager for the war than Great Britain,
for she sees chance to cut off to her
self large slice of our carrying trade
and for this purpose she is rubbing US
behind the ears with cob as hard as slc
can to get us up to fighting pitch But
this is not the worst There is and has been
craving desire by the present Administra-
tion at home to obtain Cuba, and this af-
fords them long-wanted pretext. And
we now assert that if war is declared, Cuba
will he the bone which will lure us into DIFF
icniy. Notwithstanding the advantages
we might derive ON possession of Cuba,
en- we afford TO make the sacrifice and
could we make the sacrifice, can we Justly
declare war when the unconscious offender
offers all the redress within lis power?
Time will develop further light.