The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-05-27
INTERESTING SOUTHERN
CORRESPONDENCE AND SPEECHES

S2~ovgia Pol,tics uUsus South CarolinG-APpctes-
ysosss Of Great Britaiw- Comprehensive Mo Uessera
for a Southrn Comfaieacy-1hs Cuban Conspt-
racy Part of the Patform-7he South AID Caba,
and the Prssideatmi Question.
The politicians Of Georgia immersed in the
preliminary business meetings Of very important
State election. The breaking up of the old wing
and democratic parties, and the re-organzation Of
the fragments into the constitutional Union party
and the Southern rights party will give to the can
vass considerable novelty, rs well as great degree
Of national interest. In each Of the two new par
tses men Of the NEST bitter antagenism year ago,
are now shoulder to shoulder, arm in arm, side by
side Think of Mr.. Speaker Cobb, for example,
democratic Speaker, with Toombs on one side and
Stephens the other, all three Of them duly en-
rolled as members of the constitutional Union
party. The several experiments made at Wash
ingon last winter to get up constitutional national
Union party, and a constitutional round robin
Union party, having failed because Cas-, Douglas,
Dickinson, and Sam Houston wouldn't sign, Messrs
Cobb, Toombs, and Stephens, in Georgia, and Gen.
Foote, and Judge Sharkie, IN Mississippi, have
been left to shift for themselves. The experiment
An Georgia has succeeded 1t is supposed that Mr.
Cobb, if put up tomorrow for Governor, as the
candidate OF the constitutional MON party, and the
election were 20 follow ten days thereafter, tnat ne
would carry the State by at least 10000 majority.
Neither party however, yet fairly org anized, nor
can they be till after they shall have held their
State conventions respectively, ana promulgated
their platform and their candidates
But while the Union party OF georgia can co n
mand apparently overwhelming majority OF the
people-and while Cobb and Foote, OF Mississippi,
are each supposed 10 be playing game for the
Vice Presidency-while openly the Southern Rights
Convention of South Carolina, and its proceedings
scarcely meet with single avowed advocate In
Georgia-there yet exists in this state the nucleus
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fraternizing familiary and conhdentlally with the
seditious OF South Carolina. The basis OF this
Southern Rights organization, extending through
ont the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, and Mississippi, Is a Southern conte-
deracy. Sosth Carolina may secede or not secede;
but this organization in event Is to lose sight OF
the ultimatum Of n Southern confederacy. Its
labors are 10 look steadily in that direction.
We find in Georgia who, Notwithstanding
they repudiate her ultrasms, still have the sagacity
10 see much of danger TO the Union IN the present
attitude Of South Carolina; and that, in the event
Of collision between her and the federal govern
nent, Great Britain would almost risk her exist
enee to widen the breach into war and DISCO
luton between the two sections OF the Union. An
old Georgia planter remarked 70 Us to-day, that
the interest, the principles the policy and the very
safety Of Great Britain, will make her the most
dangerous ally of the disunionists in any move
nent looking TO destruction Of the mon. he
declared his opinion, that if South Carolina, single
handed, were to pronounce herself out OF the
Union, that England would Immediately be on the
ground; and that, at this moment, Lord Paimers-
ton understands much more OF the real plans and
extent of the disunion organization in the South,
ihan Mr. Webster the President Of the United
States. If this Union continues, Great Britain is
suppanted on the high seas; If 1t is dissolved, the
profits will be hers.
1t has been imagined that the lately discovered
Cuba conspiracy was limited TO a few spectators
and various squads of pennile picked
ND here and there wherever they could be obtained,
and that in arresting the threatened invasion,
The Fllibustiers have been suppressed. This
Is very limited view Of the plot. We under
stand that many wealthy planters, southern rights
men, in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Lousi-
ana were implicated, and continue to be implicated
IN -that it does not exclusively rest upon the pros
pests Of the rich plumber to be had in conquering
the island, but upon the re-anne xation OF cuba to
abe United States as a slavehoding State, securing
10 the South two additional members m the Senate,
or, in the event Of domestic rupture, securing to
the South the gateway Of the Gulf Of Mexico.
IL not carried by actual invasion, before the spring
OF 1852 the acquisition Of Cuba will be very apt to
constitute the flooring Of the democratic PLATFORM
ms the e-annexation of Texas did in ls4i In the
interval the organization, for armed occupation,
is to 70 forward as quietly as possible. And mark
the result. We count upon scrub-race for
the Presidency. Upon such contingency, we
may count upon democratic President J, and
in that event we may expect TO see Cuba
invaded and revolutonized, while the fleets Of
the United States are looking after our CONNER
Cial interests in other quarters Of the world. VI
course the administration will do all IL can TO main
prevent armed men and armed companies from pass
ing out of the United States over into Texas in
1850, by placing Gen. Games i've hundred miles
ND Red River. But if ne Northern candidate can
be had favorable to the diplomatic acquisition OF
Cuba, We may expect to see such candidate start
ed in the South.
All these estimates, however, depend upon the
ultimatum Of South Carolina. IL she remains in
the Union, Ii will be TO carry out some comprehcn-
sive and practical plan Of southern confederacy,
the developments of which will give peculiar zes
and pungency to the Presidential election, and, in
in their ultimate results,w probably be as directly
interesting to the government at London as to the
government at Washington. If South Carolina Sc
ce les, we may not only count upon war with her.
but with the whole South and England combined
If the Union remains intact, shall have Cuba and
Southern rights mixed up with the Presidency in
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