Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-07-13
AMBITION IN THE BUD.

The Mexican Empire, just born. and
in swathing clothes, is stretching it's in
FAINT arms and busying it's infant imagi-
nation with grasping in idea at the rich
possessions in it's vicinity.-ln the Mex.
lean Sun, new paper, just arisen q.
bove the heriz or, in the dawn of South
American intelligence. we have we'll
balanced disquisition On the future des-
TIMES of the Island of Cuba. 1t is adj
mitted, that, at present, the situation of
Cuba, her comparative independence
of Spain, but her real reliance on the
mother country, will render revolu-
ton not desirable, while the power of
Spain, firm and undivided as it seems
to be, would perhaps render it inPrac-
ticable.
AS a preliminary to the inquiry,
therefore, it is assumed that the tran
guilty of Old Spain will not continue,
and that anarchy, sooner or later, will
overrun that celebrated country. This,
says the Mexican casuist, would defeat
the hopes and the resources OF Cuba,
and she would be reduced to the neces-
sitv of seeking an incorporation with
some important power. The magma
ton of the writer discovers two nations
likely to he resorted to on such an oc.
casion. The United States and the Mex
lean empire.
Either of these is equally distant
from the Island of Cuba and we give
the writer credit for allowing Cuba to
hesitate in SO puzzliDg selection.
He does not appear long to hesitate
himself. To the United States he ac-
cedes the advantages o! an established,
secure, and well regulated government.
enjoying and imparting strength and
tranquility He admits, too, that the
productions of Cuba, received in the
United States free of duty, would quick
en- and promote the agricultural pros.
perity of that Island; while an equally
free transmission of American produce
and manufactures would afford the peo.
of Cuba singular and great facilities.
He admits also, that Navy Yards, Ar
ssnals, &c. for the occasions of the Ma
w and the security of Commerce,
would actively employ the tradesmen
and artiGcers of the Havana and else
where. That the political and civil in
stitutiOns of the United States would
greatly ameliorate the condition Of So
ciety in the Island of Cuba.
These are great inducements for a
junction with the United States, and, 1T
would appear difficult to be surmount-
ed
But the writer supposes that, mas
much as in character, language, and
customs, the U. States differ from the
Islanders Of Cuba-and inasmuch as in
these they resemble Mexico, they
would decide in favor of the latter. es.
pecially as they are both of Spanish O.
rigin. Now if the origin OF the lam
guage be an inducement to join Mexico,
it certainly is an inducement not to quit
Spain. But a common language is un
1t furnishes no proof what
ever of a common feeling. Language
however, in this case. is of little conse-
ouence. Place an American on Key
West, and Mexican on Cancua leland
and let the former address a Spaniard
at the Havana in our tongue, while the
Mexican addressed Spaniard at Cape
st. Antonio in Spanish, and the voices
of both would be inevitably drowned in
the Mexican Gulpli.
The writer admits that a fundamen.
tai rule of the Mexican Empire would be
a fatal impeachment to the voluntary
subsection of Cuba to its control. But