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The Grant Administration And Cuba

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
July
Year
1870
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tlm documenta whioh wo punliah this moroing wil] excite the disgust cif citizous who remember the bo!d tone in whieb our government, under Demooratio administrations, waa wont to assort its digñily and maintain the rights of its oitizen8. Tlie administratiun of Genera] Grant oritiges to :i wenk power like Spain. Jt apeaka wiih bated breuth and in a tone of oraven Btipplication in a.-fa ing redres foT wrong-i utid i mirages i;ifiioted on American uitizejis. Wo have a formidable iist of grievaooea againat Spain. Tlicy are of suoh atrocvy tli t no high'epirited government would consent to endura ihem without i istsnt and most peremptory demanda for redreas. By its on document iry Blidwine, ( neral G-raot'a idministratiuu bus permittcd tliose outrageg on our citiüens lo b: perjetrated and continucd for twclve or eighteen months, and bas resisted thom on ly by feeMe aod ÏDoperative remon Btrancea ünder such u l'r' sident is Jackson they would have beeu Bti at once, or prompt vongeance inflicteil on the offending oation. But tin tamo adaiinisíra'ion koeps up a long - versy in vvliioh it can get n aatitfaolion nor even any promis of redress, and at last the Spanish mioUter t Washington excuses hioisolf by eaying tb at ho baa no instructions. Tliereupoc Gentr.il (rant directe his Secrctary of Strito to sond n note to our miuister at Madrid, renewing his wliining üomplaints, In all the corre.spondenco there is no flïh of indignation, no resolute exbibition oi afïronicd dignity, nothing but n Kirt of owardly petition to Spain to do u juitice. And the cliief ground on whioh Mr. Sickhis is instracted to urge onr O aun is the forbearance of our .g vernment in the matter of the Cuban insurrection Ve ar! pleading our merite towards Siain as f we were berging n favor, i ñatead of demanding jnptice. If she bas outraged our citizen.-", she shonld be arrfiigned as a trespasser, not asked to reciprócate a kiüdness. The whole strea? of the instruction to Gei eral Sickies is laid upon our kindnesa to Spin, as if it was Deceasary to brinj Bome sort of purchase money to buy as a favor what a government of any t-jhit or oncsgy would indignaatly dernand as n right too urpent to brook any delaj Tliis imbecile administration is iu a (air way to be as raueh despied ahroid as it 3 contemrsd at

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Old News
Michigan Argus