The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-07-30

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The NeilbeEh papen are discussing the hIobs,
billy Of Che United States gs,ung possssson Of
Canada, and in connection with this give their
opinions as to the annexation Of Cuba. They IRE
generally favorable 70 the Canada acquisition but
look colby on the project for Cuba One Of the
Philadelphia journals speaks in this wise:
The Cuban part Of the business, and also the
threatening, have already begun, among the
fo3utherneTss and their eoadjntofs at the North.
lhey talk Of Canada and Cuba as inseparable, oil
thelater as indispensable to the former. To this
the whole. North should reply that, we would not
take Cubs If all its population should desire it, and
oil Spain should assent We are already cursed
with three millions Of slaves and do not wantseven
population would be worse than dead weight.
We have already quite enough gifts ignorance, its
ldleness, its imbecility, its vices"
1t seems to be chief object with the Northern
people, at this time, to prevent the extension Of
slavery. IN fact, the very persons who talk most
loudly about the evils Of slavery and the necessity
for limiting the field of its action, are those who
oppose most strenuously the Introduction Of Cuba
into the Union. The mere mention Of this matter
seems to horEify them, while they look with COM
placency on the prospect Of being affiliated with a
country which has never yet been able to pay the
lately shown the most bigoted attachment to prin-
eiple at war with all our political theories and
institutions. We know not whether TO wonder
most at the inconsistencyof those who, while pro-
Tossing desiBe to diminish the evils Of slavery,
oppose the acquisition Of Cuba by the United
States, OF the facility with which these Northern
republicans faternize with ultra British tories and
red-hot royalists.
We are surprised that the philanthropists who
sincerely wish to see theevils of slavery mtigated
should not perceive that the annexation Of Cuba
viii be great step toward the Accomplishment Of
their desires, Every one is aware that slavery
in the United States is the mildest and least dele
terous form under which the institution has ever
existed whilst it is as well known that the slavery
Of Cuba requires for its support the continuance Of
a trade which has been abjured and prescribed by
the laws Of all Chrislendom. To place Cuba under
the dominion of power capable Of carrying out its
statutes prohbtory of the African save-trade, and
firmly determined to execute the laws which lis
sense of Justice sanctioned and dictated would be
Almost material mitigation Of negro slavery in the
island. We're the United States in possession OF
Cuba not only would the slave-trade be suppressed
but slavery in the island would take the mild and
comparatively inofensiye form in which it exists
in the Southern States They, then, who assume
to look at the institution Of slavery from philan-
thropic point Of view, should be most ardent in
them efforts to attach Cuba to the American Union.
But not satisfied with abusing slavery, the Phila-
delphia ledger, from which we have quoted above,
takes up the cudgels and strikes away at the "mis-
cradle Creole population Of whose ignorance,
idleness, imbecty and vices, it says we have quite
enough. It is apparent that the Ledger attaches
no clear and definite meaning to the word 'Creole;''
hence it would be running tilt at windmill to
attempt toTeue the general charges which it brings
against the Creole population of the United States
We can only inform the Ledger that if it had any
acquaintance with either the Louisiana or the
Cuba Creoles, it might find them fully the equals
Of the Philadelphia folks. We beg pardon of the
Philadelphia people if we offend them by this last
remark-for we are aware that they have an idea
Of their being little better than the people in other
parts Of the world
As 70 the comparative advantages of Cuba and
Canada as acquisitions to the United States, there
Is not much room, for discussion. To be sure there
are mol as many square miles in Cuba as in Canada
bus she land they have in Cuba is infinitely more
fertile than that Of Canada. The Spanish island
has delicious climate, while the British colony is
bleak and diaagreeable for seven or eight months
of every year. The Havana has no rival in the
North; and her harbor nigh itself be worth large
part of the Canadian provinces Far better would
it be to refuse the possession Of Canada than Of
Cuba, if we were offered both and were Obliged to
reject one or the other