The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1848-03-15


trade 'so lone as it a depende dSnipoD bloch kady
inn $50 miles 81 Woald 10
what Captain Ei)kiIgto Oh reGoning
strike tho isadt and not ;atS the
shands would not send can army To-
destroy every indty tyidual hornet, but; gosto
ths hoFmef, ,snest at once, and smother that
nest at tho slave trade which now existed
in Cuba; Hear hear.1 He had read in
i The ISnesiM Eau extrRcts from AN United
States pape & inSwhich IL was stated, that
iflfhe United States did not possess herself
Of Cuba Great Britain would, and that
England had a greater claim by one hun
dred fold to- Cuba than the 6 United States
had to Mexico, because a sum of .E45,-
600, 600 was due to British subjects upon
Spanish bonds, and Cuba was hypothaca.i
ted for the payment Of that; debt. And
why did the. Americans think that Grent
Britain would like to have possession Of
sGnba2 Because shey know she could
i1ever put down the slave trade 60, long as
IL was. carried on at Cuba in its present
form. He would therefore say at once,
letthem,tak possession Of Cuba, and set
tlestlie question altogether; let them dis
train uponsi for the just debt due, and TOO
long asked :inSyain, from the Spanish Cow
6ernment. Hear, hear. They would
!. puttan end to the slave trade if they could
yemancipate the slaves Of Cuba. Ifthe
people ofthis country thought it right to
spend f150,000,O 1000 in putting down slav-,
cry, and running our colonies besides,
would it not be; cheap policy to put an end
to the slavery for ever by seizing Cuba.
II The Chancellor Of the fExchequer-
But would you seize the B-azils; as well2
~ Lord G.. Bentick said, the case of Cuba
stood upon its own merits, and upon the
debt Of $4,000 900 due to British cub
jects from the Spanish Government. Then,
depend upon it, when Grent Britain possess
sedthe Havana, as once she did, in 1852,
whenshe held it for about year and then
exchanged it for tho Floridas, and iohen
she could cutthe trade Of 4America in tioo,
no more boasts would be heard of what the
United States could do, such as that which
was not long ago uttered by one of her
military officers, who declared that they
never would be satisfied until Uncle Sam
had set his right foo, upon British Cana
da and his left upon California, embrace
the whole Of the eastern seaboard, and
throw his leg, like freeman, over the
whole continent of South America to Cape
Horn, with Cuba for cabbage garden.
That was the course which should be TAX
en- to put an end to slavery and slave-trad-
ing, and that having been done, there
would be no difficulty the British planter
going to the coast Of Africa and obtain
ing, not by war, but by the inducement Of
freedom and good wages, any number of
Africans he might require for the cultiva-
ton Of the soil. He thanked the house for
having so long listened to him.
~ Any such attempt on the part of Great
Britain would Inevitably involve her in
war with the United States.
~; BENEFIT OF THE TELEGRAPH.-One of
the greenest looking chaps we have seen
flor some ttme went yesterday to the Tele-
graph Office, in this city, to make inquir-
les respecting anegro he had left or paw
ned in Charleston some week or two ago.
He gave his name as William Brown.
The message was sent and an answer soon
received, that from all the circumstances
the negro was supposed to be stolen; and
gave SO correcta description Of the per-
son who pawned him in Charleston, for
ten or fifteen dollars, that those in the
Office were satisfied that he stood before
them. They informed Brown that they
had not received en answer TO his letter,
and that he must wit little while. In
the mean time they had further commu-
.i1ication from Charleston, with request
that the operator would send for an officer
and have Brown arrested. This was
done, and while Brown was quietly seated
waiting tho return answer, Marshal Blod-
get made, his appearance, took him into
custody, and carried him to Jail. Alter
he was arrested, he acknowledged he had
pawned the negro in Charleston for small
sum to MIR. Bryant THAT his name was
John B. Smith, and said that the negro
was given to him by a man in Macon,
named VIM. Pool, to sell, and that he was
to get half the proceeds as his share. He
has since acknowledged that the negro
belonged to Mr.. Thomas Foster, of Butts
county, and although Brown, alias Smith,
says he did not steal the negro, he believes
he ,oas stozen.-Augusta ConstlutionaHst,
March 4. '..S3'@
The New York True Sun Of Monday
has the following notice Of another terri
bic death, said to have been brought about
by the use Of this new agent:
t Fatal EXPERIMENT WITH CHLoRo.
roRM.-A young lady, daughter of Mr..
Macdonald, baker in Catharine- street,
in this city, recently met death in the most
awful manner, from the use Of this now
eashionable but most dangerous prcpara-
ton. About three weeks ago, the either
was employed TO allay toothache. bu,