The invasion of Cuba is finally suppressed. The leader has
been publicly executed ; the Cubans have evinced no sympathy with him or his followers ; the surviving Americans who embarked in the enterprise proclaim that they have been misled, and the friends of Lopez maintain that even be was the victim of deception. Throughout the United States the inclination to engage in a cru- sade against Absolutism in Cuba is manifestly on the decline. The local authorities in that island are abating the extreme rigour with which in their first panic they treated the invaders, and the Spanish Government does not attempt to vindicate the extremities to which ptalz had recourse. The susceptibility of the Americans is thus s , and one eminent source of danger to the peace of the world removed. Reports are circulated of intentions on the part of the Spanish Ministers to adopt more liberal and equitable principles in their administration of aftba. These may without much injustice be inscribed in the list of " vows made in pain." Thus much, how- ever, seems certain, that for the Cubans redress is not to be obtained by invasions of an alien race. The Spanish Americans have learned from the example of Texas, that to invite Anglo-Americans to aid them in estabhs/aing or maintaining independence of Spain, is to enact the part of the horse which allowed the man to mount it in order to hunt down the brutes that had given it offence. Spanish governors have oppressed the Creoles, but American liberators have deprived them of their homes and lands. The Cubans prefer settling accounts with their mother-country, unaided by their neighbours of the -United States.
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