The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-08-20

! "a, Negro asesadenev IN ~ Vest fndia Islands.
The action or the Inertia Of public sentiment in
The Un,ed States will decide the destiny Of Cuba,
and with the fate Of Cuba is bound up inextricably
the elevation or downfall of white influence in the
Yves, Indies. This inevitable sequence to the
fortunes Of the Queen of those islands has been
hitherto strangely overlooked, and the decision of
her lot. which now trembles in the balance, as well
as the supremacy of the whites in this imperial
circle Of power and domain, may be made soon and
unexpectedly against our race and nation may be
made in a month or two-for the question is well
nigh at their voice and vote-and made without due
scrutiny by either press, people or government into
its future bearing. Yet, it may be seriously ques-
toned whether there is one State in all family
OF thirty sovereignties, that would be willing to
the magnificent cluster of islands that gems our
southern coast, consolidated into negro empire
under the auspices of Europe, or sunk from their
commercial value buyers and sellers into the
unproducing apathy of negro rule.
Even if we were free from all prejudices of caste
and color, and had no objection to amagamating to
the mulatto tint all the inhabitants of those islands
or to mingling and iniermauying with them on
terms of cordial equality, we cannot be Indifferent
to the decrease Of production and trade which must
follow-which has followed in San Domingo and
Jamaica-the ascendency of the negroes. This
ascendency is now advancing with rapid footsteps
anu 0uoa may NC larry ueciareu NOT ony ,he iaS'
hope of white supremacy in those islands, but the
single remaining barrier that interposes between
our coasts and numerous empire of blacks, fos-
| tered, guided and upheld by the strongest powers
of Europe. Add Cuba to the mass of negro pre-
ponderance which has so lately acquired the domi-
Mon Of southern seas, and no home or foothold
is elior the whi'e men IN thus whole array OF noble
Islands. 1hey possess all the elements Of prosper
GUS and powerful empire, rich products, a teeming
soil, fine harbor, central position, ample domain
and Sufficient population They have more trade and
larger immediate resources, than the thirteen colo
MES possessed when they dehed England and cleo
triied the world with their Declaration of Indepen-
dence. 1t is true, the three millions of colonists
were well trained apprentices to the art and mys-
| teries of sef-government which the three millions
of West Indians are very imperfect in, but so
much the filter are they to be used as the good
\ pleasure OF their European masters may dictate
That it will be strongly inclined to serve this Re-
public we can scarcely hope.
This mass of power cannot remain quiescent,
and it is almost entirely in the power of our people
to shape its future tendency either for or against
the whiles--to convert it into profitable friend
and neiahbor. or make of il A vast grave for the
lives, property and power of the white race. who
are involved with it,
IL our government lavors the progress of the
blacks who are making sucb rand strides IN exclu
sive sovereignty; if our people refuse the aid of
their counsel and sympathy to the STRUGGLING
whites the tale is soon told Cuba and the rem
nant OF white Dominicans will be cast-thousb
always in decorous silence-under the feet of the
blacks for to this Spain has consented at the
urgency of England The non-interference of the
| American people is demanded and NAV be strongly
enforced by our Cabinet if they count themselves
more bound TO the sovereigns of Europe than to
the rights of man and the interests of their own
! race
| England France and Denmark have given over
all their islands to the blacks and established by
law the most perfect political and social quality In
Jamaica and other British colonies, whites blacks
and mulattoes sit indscreminately together at the
Governors festive board in the Colonial legislature
or the Magistrates BENCH and everywhere else, for
every where the power of England is sufficient to
enforce her policy. She wishes to increase the
preponderance of the negro family in the West
Indies, and places all those islands in their hands,
for she can reckon on them she cannot reckon
on the docility of the whites
The French islands are in the same way, filling
their local offices with negroes, through the ascen
dancy OF the negro voters-slaves who without any
fitness or preparation were turned loose in wild
freedom and told to take upon themselves the care
OF governing their late masters by dlnt OF superior
numbers and the aid OF the powerful mother land.
Together these two powers have calmly and with
premedltated system based halt million OF whites
to absolute subserwency to about twice as many
negroes by giving and maintaining IN social and
political PrePonderanee the colored majority. Den
mark sweden and Holland are lending their con-
hngencies to this contest OF races and always on
the slde oil the general European policy
vi the Hliillon lnhaoitants oil San Domlngo-al-
ways speaking IN round ana proxlmate numbers
more than t"o.tnifas are included IN the black
empire Oh nayu' "nich Is strongly patronlzed by
England ana france ana most nnaccountably Ia
''e0 " ioiii"i ieoos hi''oh al "dshlhstoh' LESS
Dominica at the east end of the island Er;ard
f - II L.. ~. t;.1. G. .I-..I. :.
anu "''"e' 'ii'' i''''' ''d'e 10 patHii'g lot us
existence against the concentrated luminosity OF the
negro emperor, who is oheered on by Europe and
not dscountenanced by America, in his furious
efTorts IN apnibiIats hi; white rsichhors Oo,,;aa
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iNe anu n0eiy Hoih tue whites ana Will