The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1874-05-30
Audi dlteraas parton.

CUBA.
Audt dtteram parton.
The holders of Cuban bonds here
are making a determined effort to
embroil us with Spain, by inducing
Congress to recognize the independ-
ence of Cuba. These spectators,
Cubans and Americans, chiefly the
latter, have the great advantage over
the Spanish Government that they
can lobby, visit newspaper offices
and tell their own story, call public
meetings and make speeches, distri-
butte bonds, make large promises
and influence public opinion by a
thousand "ways that are dark and
tricks that are vain to which gov
eminent can not resort. The Spanish
minister can not do any of these
things. There are only three Ameri-
can citizens with whom the govern
ment of Spain can hold legitimate
official intercourse on this important
subject of the recognition of Cuba
the President of the United States,
the Secretary of State, and the Ame-
rican Minister at Madrid. Under
these circumstances, it is not strange
that Congress, the press, and the
people at large, whose knowledge of
Cuban affairs is based exclusively on
the one-sided statements of interested
parties, should misunderstood the
duties and the material interests of
the government and people of the
United States, in regard to this pro-
posed recognition of Cuba. We have
never yet had any disinterested evid-
ence that the insurgents in Cuba are
entitled to our respect and our
sympathy, because of their purity of
motive and purpose; or that they are
numerous, and powerful, and have
so fair prospect of success, that ma
tons at peace with Spain would be
justified in recognizing their indepen-
denee.
HOW ABOUT OUR OWN LATE REBEL
II0N7
Only q few years ago, there we're
several millions of people in the
United States who wished to dissolve
their connection with the federal gov
ernmt mt. Among these were some
of the wealthiest men, and many of
the first statemen and best military
and naval officers of high rank in the
country. There were among the in
surgents, also, many scholarly men,
many men of unblemished private
character, some thousands of clergy
men of all denominations, and some
hundreds of thousands of active
members of various Christian church.
es. These millions of insurgents
were backed, heart and soul, by
mothers, wives and daughters had
old, strong, and stable State govern
ments; and organized themselves
into Il powerful confederacy. They
equipped and sent into the field,
against the United States from which
they had seeeeded, immense armies.
They fitted out war vessels that all
but swept our commerce from the
seas. For nearly five years they stood
their ground. To subdue them cost
us half million of lives, and debt
of some $4,000, OO0, 900 which we shall
probably never cancel. Yet, during
all that war, we protested against the
recognition, by foreign powers, of
the confederacy formed by these
rebellious States; and mainly upon
the ground that, without such reeog-
milton, they could not succeed in
achieving their independence, and
that foreign nations he'd no right to
interfere in our domestic quarrels.
And what more right have we to
interfere III Cuba than Spain, and
France, and England had to interfere
n our civil war; The carnage here
VAS ten thousand times more than it
las been in Cuba. The fact of the |
natter is that there never would have
been rebellion in Cuba, if it had not
been melted by mercenary men in
his country, and it would collapse in |
TX months, We're 1t not for expected I
i'd from the United States. Let us /
axe heed. We are in no condition to
interfere in the domestic affairs of
ther patianS 0ur own c;r;I ,rar =. |