Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-17
TUESDAY AUGUST II, 1886.
The Cutting Case.

Field. Marshal HALsTEAD cannot
write about even the GETTING case
without betrsyipg his unreasoning parti'
sapsbip. Hesays:
Through ignorance Of international
Law, or general chumPiness'' or an un-
due desire to give the Cleveland Ad-
mjnisuation an heroic standing oy an
attempt to bluff and bulldoze fourth
rate power, Secretary Bsyard nov 6nds
himself in an embarrassing and undig-
piisd position. tits not likely that his
beloved country will 30 to war to vim
dictate him."
Mr.. BAYARD charged by Mr.. HAL
STEAD with ignorance Of internationsl
law! Mr.. BAYARD has never for one
moment been governed by the unworthy
and unpstriotic motives which our Gin
cinnsti contemporary ascrites to him.
he knows what he 10 doing. He would
not have the country 90 to war to vim
dictate him. He has shown by wise
hardness, instead Of the hot haste with
which blinded partisans have charged
him, that he will never advise war with
Mexico SO long rs without it there shall
be even the least hope of securing JUS
tics to CUTTING.
But MIR. BAYARD might safely as
sumo that the country could 90 to war
IL the President should advise it so to
do. Our last war with Mexico was
considered by almost half the people
of the country to have been an unjust
and unholy one, although the preamble
to the declaration Of var read, "where-
Is war exists by the act Of Mexico"
One of Ohio's most able and most dis
tipguished sons United States Sena-
tor-the Hon. THOMAS C0RwIN, said
in speaking on the subject:
eli I were Q Mexican, as am an
American, | would welcome them the
United States soldiersl with bloody
hands to hospitsble graves"
But all the same the war became
popular. SO popular thst oil persons OF
all parties rejoiced over our vic
tories in Mexico. This then Wing city
was illuminated on the occasion OF one
of the bsttlss-or, perhaps, it was
when the City Of Mexico was captured.
The Wings saved their party from de-
feat by nominating for President OF
the United States the hero OF the war
General TAYLOR.
So even il Mr.. BAYARD we're to lead
this country into . war with Mexico,
the patriotism Of the people would
cause them to rally to his support. liz
can, therefore, have none but the bes
Of motives for being as conciliatory a.
possible in his demeanor towards Mexi
CO. And q conciliatory spirit will, VI
are confident, characterize all his OF
fetal acts in connection with the Cur
TING case.
In arguing, as we have done, tina
there was at least some similarity be
tween the case Of BENNETT and tina
Of CUTTING-the one in Mexico an
the other in England-we have by n
means intended to censure the Secretar
Of State. lie first acted 10 the Our
TING case upon information which ha
led him TO believe that . great wron
had been done to an American either
Whether be still, holds that to be trr
or not, We are not able to say. BIZ
whether he does or not, II seems to
that all the new developments in IL
case point to . peaceful settlement
the difficulty between Mexico and Il
United States.
IfCurrINa were - worthless IS Il
bitterest Of his enemies represent hi
to be, he would be none the less o
titled to the protection Of the Unite
States Government, SO far as he was
the right, and this protection he wi
continue to receive.
Mr.. BAyARp will do justice 10 Me
ico.snd to CurTrSo. There are, no
ever, two sides 10 the case.
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