Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-09-28
Annexation orCus,a.


balance OF power question. The slave power,
for these many years, has had its eye on Cuba
Diplomacy, ON the part of our government, has
wearled itself, in seeking to gain Cuba 1t is
said that our former Presidents have offered
SSl00O0OO 900 for Cuba. No effort has been
spared, to purchase this jewel in the crown Of
SPAN. The excitement of the abolition qu3s-
non, mas precipltated their determinations upon
una The Mexican acquisition of California
aAdNew Mexico, which the slave powertal cal
culatcd on for its henclt is likely to turn against
them, so far, at any rate, as the admission of alb
soIute slavery upon them. Therefore they are
driven to madness AMI wiling 70 rlsl npon thoir
object in the blindness OF passion.
But while the slave power in onr govarlnan.
is reckoning on Cuba. for one pu,r pos, tiare /,
another country (whosa national din ilsi5n~ SUI
fer not in comparison with orr OVAL wairh is
also looking at it, for another parp IS B.itaiu
has sought the SANE island as long as We have,
aud with the same ardor. 1t sram-d to b, a set
ted point years ago, that neither Britain or Amer
lea could possess themselves OF Caba without II
war. For many years England and the United
States have been content to lay still, and lai Ca
bqrest as she is, while nh " have cherished the
determination thai she should not BE- Weld ID to
their rival
There are natural anil Obvious reasons why
Cuba, more than any other place on this coa-
nnnt, is desirable to both these great powers
Sac - the gr'at foreign market Of the world
The lesser British islands lay around her. rs
children about parent. The free black popu-
ltion Of the British West Indies. arc only safe
from the oodlnss kiILnaDpors in oh, a,d ~
United Safes, by terror of British power. h
Is scarcely safe for black BritoD tn sill ont in y
boat or skill. on the coast of their islands Fra-
qnnntlv ihcv are CAUGHT I'M bv the Cul,an Cor
sairs, and forced to slavery in Cuba. or Brazil
or the United States. Notunfraaaontly has no
tco OF such cases been BROUGHT To the lno,yi.
edge of the British Government and the snniIer,
been comoelled to surrender their rray IN tho
demand ttIo British Government AGAIN and
again has that government threatened. moi ouiv
10 pluck the spoil from the teeth OF tn spoier
bat 10 break his Jaws
On the other hand. Cuba is the kry to the Flor
iia Gulf and the crutch Of the slave power in the
United States Sla is not only needed 10 en-
hance the political represantatian of slavery in
Congress-. but 10 feed the monster on orr c,nti-
n,nt.
T3ao aro would CuI, '9y, nassod from, fire
trembling hand OF Spain. had not these trcr
powers been croucncd on each side the royal
prize, roofing their anury evc-bails at each other.
over il.
Not only has the abolition question in the T.
States and Britain. rreciptaici the Cuban acou-
siton but another matter also lust al This time il
endangering the slave interest in Cuba. By the
BRUSH treaty with Spain: (in 1916. we belIsycl
every imported African was to be free Cnba
has wholly disracard,d that treaty. and il i said
that scarce slave exists in the whole island vino
should not BIZ free, at this monadt. by the terms
Of that treaty. The question is now arlcntv
raised in England to enforce it, Ii has already
been presented to Parliament. aad tie British pub
Tic are alive with it. Britain has nobly determu-