The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-07-03

INDEMNITY FROM SPAIN. 1t ID, OF
length announced that Mr.. Gushing,
QRr Minister n Spain. lately arrived at
Madt!d hAs, Ahder instructions. from
tie QbveAo m9St Of the United Stat1s,
atd il aoo0rdShce with the protocolifti
fSgard to the yfrginius affair, rnadx2
pbremptory dSmand upon. the Spknfsh
Government for full indemnity, ,to iths
unfortunate victims Of; the Santiago
massacre This will be gratifying news
! to all .Ahefidsns who w:sh &c eco their
Government prompt in rsdressing
wrongs inflicted by foreign nstlo ua
upon it's people. and also to all the
friends OF humanity. While VIC regret
that the United Suites should be be.
, bind the British Government in MAX
ing snch demand. still it is better
late than never. The American posi-
tion IN regard to the Santiago mass a.
Gre ir. to say the least of it, quite as
strong as that Of Gseat Britain. There
was period in tie history of this
country, before wsEhad enoumbered
ourselves with an letiormou. national
debt, and had pursued domestic
policy calculated to estrange and en-
bitter our own people, when our posi-
ton would have been promptly recng-
pized and acted up6n7y
Il would be diffea::tfseo imagine that
under such an administration as that
OF Andrew Jackson, any foreign nation
would have attempted vioience OF
wrong to American citizens. The
summary manner in which he haudled
the Spaniards in Florida when, in
1878, be seized Spanish fort aud a
Spanish town, aud made the power of
hls country felt aud roverenced by the
Spanish Governments, and this when
the United States was comparatively q
weRk power, shows that neither Spain
nor any other county would ever trife
with AmericAn rights or American
oitiEens while such a spirit as that of
Jack a0ay controls the helm of state.
At thRlsame?tim ;ss as rish. &c admit
that SCoantry under JacSson's ad-
ministr1tfon, though ;. less /, populous
than ;h4M wrs freefrom debt and its
peopA Inflated among themselves,
whereaA how the dominant kpsrty. by
pursH3ngR policy which ent43!a greater
wronEhnd injury upon one section
than they have ever suffereds from u
toreikast0e. has induced such govern.
menINs Spain to believe that.we will
be Indifferent to treepasses and Insults,
whioRthoinot interfere with pnr own
uAatfghity towards one another, Even
Spnin will have mote real oonsideru-
ton for the United States if we com.
pei her to GENDER US justice. The
Spanish name has become Synonymous
with ;csuelty and barbarity. to which
will soon have to be added political
impotency. Her factions have been
fighting at home for the control Of
their own Government. until it would
really seem as if it we're an act of hn-
manity in the civilized governments
of Europe to interfere, aud by force Of
arms compel Spain to keep the pence
in hex own. .dominions. AS for Onba,
it exists as q colony of. Spain only by
our s1fferance. With Q breath of our
mouth, We can blow it away from&iies
at any time, but we would prefer that
Spainsr9spond to the.xdemand OF Mr..
Onshaag, and make, the most full !Snd
compisasa indemnityafor the Santiago
massaQSe, and thensreform herself and
her msesfabie Cuban. colony.
SESw y, Bahimore SYn.