New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-11-03
THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS ON CUBA FREE.

Ihere was large party OF politicians
who condemned the United States for
recognizing the belligerency of Texas
within six months after the commence
ment of her war OF secession and indie
pendence.
There were other politicians who op-
posed the war with Mexico on the ground
that it was consequence of our improper
recognition of Texan independence. One
of these politicians went SO far as to say
that the Mexicans should welcome our
soldiers with bloody hands to hospitable
graves"
This is the nature of the politician, who
would very gladly celebrate the defeat of
the national arms by land and sea, if the
administration and its party could be
thereby defeated.
Happily for the honor and duration of
the republic, men of patriotism take sides
with their own country, and business men
look to their own interests. The patriot
ism and interests of the country thus uni
fed, the politicians sneak into obscurity
and await more congenial opportunity
to ply their ignomirious trade.
Assuming that the text of recent press
dispatch is an authentic disclosure of the
purpose of our government in regard to
Cuba, we proceed to make few comments
upon the probable position of the Demo-
cratic politicians of Louisiana upon that
subject.
We may infer that people so solicit
GUS for foreign Intervention as were the
Confederates of the South could not look
with indifference upon the gallant strug-
gle which the secessionists of Cuba have
made tor six or seven years past. All
know the penalty of their failure. 1t is
far higher and heavier than that which
befel the Southern Confederates. Spain
extinguishes the crime of aspiring to be
Tree in the blood OF the offender, the seiz-
ure of his property and the exile of his
name. The American people. at the close
of the revolutionary war, and of the civil
war, published universal amnesty to all
who had resisted the successful States in
the one case and the national government
in the other.
The Cuban patriots, then, fight the war
with the escopet leveled at their hearts
and the torch suspended over their dwell
ings. One would suppose that people
lately, like the Southern Democracy, be-
sieging England and France for immedi-
ate Intervention would regard with some
sympathy the desolate patriots of Cuba,
who look alone to their own arms for pro-
lection and to the favor of God for de-
liverance. Six years has their cry for
help risen to earth and heaven Six years
have the grand philanthropists of France
and Germany regarded it with indiffer-
ence. Six years has a bloody despotism
enforced negro bondage. and those grand |
iberators and abolitionists, England and |
the United States, Exeter Hall and Faneuil |
Hall, heard the strife and cries of the |
slave and smoked their slave grown Parta-
gas and sweetened their slave grown coffee |
with the sugar tortured from bondage.
All the family circle of nations has sat |
decorously around and beheld the outrage |
on humanity of Spanish civil war. Not !
a word of remonstrance and not pulse of |
sympathy has disturbed the stolid solemni-
ty with which, to use French phrase, the
nations have sassisted" at this shameful |
barbarity. 1t is true bill was sent in for
the lives of some citizens of England and |
the Union who had followed the absurd
example of De Kalb and Lafayette, but
the bill was paid, or might have been, out
of the ''war tax" of twenty per cent levied
chiefly upon the productions of these
claimants.
The United States is now assuming
position which may result in the acknowl-
edgement of belligerent rights in the
Cuban patriots. Our government now
wishes to bring these painful relations
with an ancient ally to decision. We
assume that it permits the publication of
its purposes. For what? To obtain such
an expression of public opinion as may
be some guide to its action, and to assure
itself that aid and comfort will not be
given to the enemy by those who would
like to overthrow Republican admins
tration even if the republic itself should
be buried beneath the ruins.
It wishes to know whether the rights of
men are to depend upon the price of mo-
lasses; whether the prospect of war in
behalf of human freedom will make men
tremble into neutrality? Whether the
people will authorize their representatives
to vote war supplies? Whether party
will oppose the recognition of Cuban in
as party did oppose the
Of Texan independence?
The Republican party stands commit
ted to the expansion of freedom and the
protection of right, subject to the laws
and the constitution of their own country.
The Republican party stands before the
world as the proud bearer of banner
upon which is inscribed, ''This continent
for human freedom" The Republican
party is all right, and the President may
rely upon it for support. How stands the
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