New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-06

S7O,OC0,0 900 of specie sent to Cuba and
Martinique for that purpose might flood
the country with 'the corse of an ire.
deemable currency"
1t assumes that the object of the Presi.
dent is to gain party or personal adj
vantage, and closes by the assertion that
there is 'no occasion for departure
from the established policy of non-inter.
vention, and that war waged for such
selfish or insufficient motives as stated
twill give to the last year of Grants ad
ministration an odium which all its
profigacy and maladministration have
not acquired"
The whole complaint of the Commercial
rests upon the following extraordinary
assertion
That no cause of recognizing the bel
1igerency of Free Cuba exiets now which
has not heretofore existed. Soon after the
insurrection broke out, in 1868, the Cubans
sent deputations TO Washington implorlng
the recognition of their belligerent rights.
tits asserted that it then held the Eastern
and part of the Central departments
had 1opted constitution, and organized
a government; had fought some small
battles, and defeated their enemies and
"asked for belligerent recognition. The
assertion is made that the patriots are not
now in better and more hopeful condi.
ton?
A commercial journal is doubtless stu.
dent of national law. 1t should know that
those whom it pronounces ''insurrection.
lists, are now "waging a civil war;" Six
years of contest without being conquered,
six years of organized government mark
the difference between a rebellion and
civil war. 1t may well and properly hap
pen, therefore, that while Secretary Fish
could not acknowledge belligerency "soon
after" six years ago, he might properly do
so when the domestic conflict has reached
condition which all publicists agree in
Identifying with the title of civil war to be
waged according to the usages of public
war. Since the 'insurrection broke out
in 1861 some events have occurred of
which the ward strikers or their organ
may not have perhaps heard. The
Spanish government has lost one hundred
thousand soldiers more or less and ex-
pended some hundreds of millions of
dollars. Of these millions the extra
"war tax" has compelled Cincinnati to
pay her part in the additional burdens
imposed upon her products exported to
the Spanish-American colonies. Since the
instruction broke out in 1861" a
number of American citizens who went. to
aid these patriots precisely as the brave
sons of Cincinnati went to aid Texas,
have been murdered and paid for. Here
and elsewhere the American heart was
shocked at the repetition of the Critten-
den outrages. The Commercial seems to
consider that the Spanish government
holds our receipt on account for so many
heads of American fillibusters, and that
as we have the money we have no right to
Why representative of Western city
so largely dependent on an increased mar
ket demand-why a people protesting to
prefer republic to monarchy-why
persons who profess to sympathize with
suffering humanity; who know that if free
Cuba is suppressed there will be blood
and bondage, and If successful that
despotism and slavery will have lost their
final foothold this side of the American
equator, should withhold sympathy
or even assistance if necessary, may
occasion surprise to those who do not
reflect on the cause. There is
class of politicians who look upon all
public measures only on their probable
effect on the vote and and patronage.
We can see this class holding off on
the Cuban question. If any advantage
shall result to American honor or inter-
ests, they will DE the first and most per-
tinacious claimants. If disappointment
and disaster occur, such mercenary and
calculating partisans throw all respon-
sibility upon their opponents and wish to
wrest the reins of government from the
hands which have held them unsuccess-
fully. The Spanish policy of the United
States will perhaps come in question dur
ing the next canvass. The Republican
administration will claim that, however it
may result, Spain has been halted in her
American despotism and slavery. There
will be note made of those who side
with Spain. We predict for the CONNER
cial prominent place on this register.