New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-10-10
The EXTRADITION OF TWEED AND THE
CUBAN QUESTION.

THE ExrRAD1T1oH OF TWEED AND III
j CUBAN QUESTION.
! The New York Herald seems by y
means inclined to accept the arrest an
extradition of Tweed as settlement (
the international policy of the Unite
States and Spain. 1t publishes lette
from Madrid correspondent, from whic
we extract the following:
If the Spanish authorities have used tn
delivery OF Tweed as means of quietin
the long existing apprehensions regardin
the Cuban question, without any real basi
upon which to place such an explanation
the discovery of the deception will onl,
tend to make the popular feeling NOR
bitter than before.
We also prefer to limit to the CONT,
Of nations the service of returning t,
prison a public robber who surpasses i,
the extent of his villainy even the tradi
j sslonal captain generals and viceroys o
Spanish America. 1t has not been Ions
since the authorities Of Louisiana were
called on to arrest an absconding Spanish
official and defaulter who had got away
from Cuba with large amount Of public
money. We were not Of opinion that this
reciprocal service of thief-taking affected
questions of diplomacy between the two
nation.
Since the extradition of the centennial
thief, we have seen with pleasure that the
irrepressible determination of the Repuh-
licans of Cuba to be free has not been
extinguished. We have hailed with de-
light this evidence that the banner of free
dom borne by these gallant spirits has
not been abased in the dust, but has
been again advanced against the mercen-
airy soldiery of despotic Spain. We had
hopes that while the form Of republican
government existed in the mother coun-
try, the constitution of African bondage
would have been repealed, and the
guarantees of equal rights in civil and
religious opinion, assured to the revolu-
tionists. The government Of the United
States had received assurances that these
measures so essential to the fraternity of
republican nations, would have been en-
acted. The brutal massacre of American
citizens tended still further to exasperate
and ALLEVIATE republican sympathies; but
the hollow proclamation Of freedom to
the slaves of Porto Rico, and the paltry
of money for blood, have by no
means redeemed the assurances which
Spain extended to republican America.
The REPUBLICAN has repeatedly ex-
posed the Inconsistency of our moral SEN
timent. Why should it have halted at
Key West? The argument of those who
advocated abolition even withouta change
Of constitution was that human bondage
wss blot upon humanity which civiliza.
lion was bound to bleach. So long as
hat evil exists anywhere the same moral
sentiment should continue its agencies.
Not by the sword of invasion, not with
he spirit of military crusades, but by a !
awful and commendable agitation Of tho
question which will unite all intelligent
against the Spanish atrocities in
cuba, as has been done by united Chris
ianity against those practiced by Turkey |
lpon her dependent provinces. We have
'een surprised, moreover, that the philan-
hropists of England are silent upon this
reat struggle.
We would warn both the great moral
gencies to which We refer, that the world
i'll be apt to Judge them severely.
o the one may be assigned the motive
sectional jealousy, or the sentimental
imulant of high strung and exceptional
buses. To the other disposition to
st the stability of our Union with, per-
apps, an unconscious indifference to the
Verthrow Of rival industries and rival in
;itutions. Any way, the world must be
'tonished at philanthropy disbanded,
lst when the greatest act of emancipa-
on is in the course Of vindication. We
q aware that the colored Republicans of
10 Union have manifested their sympa-
lies for their enslaved brethren of Cuba
the best manner that they could while
for the security of their own
eedom. But have any-have all of
ese advocates ard bene6ciaries of free
I'm done their duty in regard to the Re-
lblicans of Cuba? We fear not. They
we accepted results not entirely attrib-
able to their own agencies. They have {
ing up their arms in the temple of VIC
ry prematurely. There is much to be
ne toward the education and in
lstrial employment of our own emanci-
ted people. There is much more to be
ne toward overthrowing slavery in I
lba far more revolving and indefensible {
an any other that exists.
We even fear the philanthropists of
rope and America may consider their {
ty to liberty limited to one race, and &
at they forget that civilized and Chris /
n white men and women in Cuba are q
W striving to save, not alone their lib I
Eles' but their lives and personal honor. s
g fear philanthropy will be accused of
difference to the certain immolation Of t
csc people and their rights in the event t
spotic Spain shall subjugate free Cuba.
'rtainly the war in Cuba involves alike r
slavery OF the negro and the extermin- t
on OF the whites. To-day is the an 4
versary of the Cuban revolution, For t