National Republican., 1875-11-17

killed (Duncan) the Third Term. When
the President declares he is not candi-
date they say che don't mean it." When
he don't say anything about 1t they say che
is plotting, this silent man" When he
speaks of the importance of debarring from
politics all sectarian questions, and placing
popular education beyond the reach Of any
aad all sects whatever, and intrusting all
sects and denominations to the private care
of their sectarian leaders and instructors
outside of the public schools; In short Of
compelling each ''sectarian tub to stand
upon its own bottom" then they say che
"wants to stir up a sectarian issue, and
"win Third Term on that" If he in
Inmates the least sympathy with the strug-
Cling patriot Republicans of Cuba, whose
Representatives have been knocking at
our doors for recognition during the last
four revolutions of the Spanish Government
at Madrid, he is accused with desire to
provoke war with these shorthYed dynas-
ties. He recognized the Prim and Serrano
provisional government, and it was all right
in the eyes of these independents, though
it was only big mob in Spain tyrannizing
over little mob in Cuba. He recognized
Amadeus, the son of Victor Emmanuel,
who was menace to the Vatican, a few
months later, and that was all right; ANA
deus ran away, and CASTELAR,, with Republic
which dared not admit Cuba as an equal
State in the Spanish Confederacy, was
recognized and encouraged through short
lived existence, although it was a Republic
only in name; and that was all right.
When this Republic was betrayed by one
of the generals of its army, and the son of
Isabella, the runaway, was set up on the
throne as another figure, head which should
invoke the blessings of the Vatican, he was
recognized; and that was all right. There
has not been single howl from the Inde-
pendent Press in condemnation of any of
these things, although each of these recog-
nitions of the successive dynasties in Spain,
without protest, might almost be construed
into an approval of the barbarous Cuban
war by the United States. We are glad
that the proper hints were given in each
case of recognition mentioned Of our dis
satisfaction with the condition of affairs in
Cuba. But the Independent Press never
had anything to say upon the subject. 1t
cares no more for the Cubans than it does
for the shooting of negroes down South.
If one of its correspondents happens to get
into the clutches of the Spanish Captain
General of Cuba, why, then, there is
case, but no one else amounts to anything.
If the people become restiye and complain
of the exorbitant prices of Cuban produce;
if they say we have paid Spain's war ex-
penses in Cuba for seven years in the shape
of the additional cost of this produce that
we consume, and we will not
submit to it any longer; if they
say you have recognized the
big mob in Spain four times since this little
Republic was organized, and each time al
lowed il to domineer over the little mob
in Cuba, and now we want some of the
same cognition-sauce for this little
goose, which you have given so literally
to yonder big gander-and the President,
recognizing the will of the people as the
voice of God, raises his hand and proclaims
that in the eyes of the American people
Cuba is an Independent Republic, then this
whole pack of Independent journals cry
out, 'this is war; ''This is war for q
third term" They know that it Is false.
They know that they are constrained to
the course they pursue by the sugar, to-
-bseeo and cigar spectators of New York,
who practically control these markets, and
can continue to do so while the Cuban war
is prolonged. The recognition of the Re-
public of Cuba does not mean war with
Spain any moro than the recognition of the
home governments meant war with Isabel
la. 1t simply means that during seven
years Spain has failed to reduce the patriots
in Cuba to subsection, has show n her utter
inability either to whip or pacify them or
intimidate them by her cruelties and bar
barities, and that we now recognize their
right to be free. Thst is all. There is
no war about ii. There need be no Third
Term about it if it is not provoked. We
recognized the independence of all the
South American Republics long before
Spain. stopped fighting them, and We were
not then paying the expenses either. A
rough estimate of our trade shows that this
Cuban war costs us over thirty millions
per annum. 1t has continued over seven
years at that average. This Is $210, 600, 900
which we have really paid for this war
against the Cuban patriots. War, indeed!
What is Spain but a boiling caldron of
political revolutions which .excrete their
scum over all Europe at the command OF
this and that leader that she should tax us
thirty millions per annum to pay for fuel to
keep the caldron boilingf
If the independent press deprecates
"ThEd Term" it had better be advised
and stop its ISLANDERS of the President on
this Cuban question. 1t is one on which
the people have made up their minds, and
all the organs of all the New York sugar
and cigar spectators in the world cannot
stop them. What they demand and will
have is an immediate, decided step for the
determination of our relations with Cuba.