Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-09-08

| rPoih ior uc cxistcnce ana mdlntcnanc
Of well-appointed and efficient army
which is absolutely required at all times /,
keep the black population in subsection I,
their masters,and to protect life and proper
lty throughoutthcisland from the periodical
horrors ofnegro rebellion A country ii
which the slave trade has been carried o,
to an enormous extent ill within a very re
cent period, stands in this respect in dit
icrcnt condition, from the Southern State,
OF America where the whole slave popu
laiion is born in scrvitndc and is compare
lively tame. This state of things render
the occurrence of disturbances In Cuba
matter of most critical importance, for, i
STRIFE arises between the Government anc
its white subjects in the island, the black.
can hardly fail to take advantage Of what
ever weakens the dominant race, and ma,
require no extraordinary encouragement
from their liberated countrymen in the ad
jacent Islands to give most formidable
character to such conflict.
Even lift be supposed that the authors o.
the present rising have no definite or i'm.
mediate object but to sever the conncxior
of the island from Spain-which NAV Justly
be charged with many and grave faults ID
the government of such dependency-il
is not the less certain that If ever the Span.
ish dominion in Cuba be terminated, the
social condition of the island will depend
on the condition to which the black popu-
lation may be reduced, and its political in
corporation would become an object of in
tense desire to large portion of the Amer
lean people. The loose and abortive cx-
petition made within the last few years
disavowed, though feebly reprcsscd by the
| Federal Government, are indications of the
directions easily to be given in the United
States to the territorial ambition which has
already absorbed Texas and invaded Mex
leo, and the occurrence of such an event as
a Cuban struggle for independence would
immediately become the war-cry of par
ty in the United States. If we are to wit
ness the return of the democratic party to
power, as is not improbable, at the nc xt
Presidential election, 1t is easy to foresee
to what purposes suchacry may be turned;
for although we acquit the present Cabinet
at Washington ofdesigns inconsistent with
It's public engagements to friendly Powers
it is not the less certain that the annexation
of Cuba has been long favorably entertain
ed and persevcringly watched by large
and aspiring class of American politicians
1t is evident that such change in the
condition of that island would powerfully
| affect the commercial and maritime inter-
ests of several other States, and that il
could only be affected by violation of allthe
rights of Spain 1t would identify the colo
ny in which slavc-labor is carried TO its ut
most extent with the slavc-markets and
slave owners of the southern States of the
Union; and it would assign to the rising ma
val power of the United States the most
important military station in the West In
dian seas. Once in possession of Cuba, as
the principal seat Of its power in that ocean,
the Government ofthe United States would
encounter comparatively few obstacles in
| the acquisition of other islands, such as
Porto Rico, and St. Domingo; until we our
selves might be compelled to defend under
the most adverse circumstances, posses
sions which have belonged for couple of
IL,
which for the first time a negro population
has been raised to the level of free peas
antry. 1t will never, we trust, be in the
power of any conqieror 10 restore in those
islands the oppression and inhumani'y of a
slavc-holding or slave-importing Govern
mcnt, which we have swept, at immense
sacrifice, from the British soil. But it can
not be denied that the extension of the Uni
ted States Government to any portion Of
the West Indies is identified with the main
tcnance of slavery and the extension of
c-holding interests, and that slavery and
freedom can hardly subsist permanently in
adjacent territories side by side.
To this it may be added that, in common
with France and the other allies of SPAIN
we arc interested in preventing any occur
renee which may contract her pecuniary
resources and lessen her available strength.
Cuba and the Philippines are the last re-
mains of her magnificent colonial empire.
They are both of them highly productive
depcndcncies-,hey both deserve an ADLER
and more disintercslcd administration. But
the trasfcr of these islands to any other
maritime power would only augment the
weakness of one State, by rendering the
aggressions of another more successful. A
gainst any such projects the Government
of this country, in conjunction with that Of
France and Of Spain herself is bound to
make ancarly and elfcctual stand; and from
the wisdom whichth Cabinet of Washing
ton has sometime cvinced in avoiding the
blind and perilous impulse Of a popular
feeling for annexation, we hope that it may
not be wholly disinclined to concur with
other Governments in cndcavoring to pre-
serve thepermancnt union Of Cuba unto the
Crown of Spain.
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.
1t has already been mentioned, that a
large number Of the counsils of arrondlse-
ment have declared in favor of the revision
of the constitution. Some of them have,
in these declarations pledged themselves
for the sincerity, Independence, and spon-
tancousncss of the movement The council
of Vendom", and that Of Lyons, have added
to their petitions sentiments like the follow
ing:
considering the services the President
Of the Republic has rendered to France,
saved from anarchy by his prudence and
frmncss, the council expresses the wish
that the constitution be revised as speedily
as possible, so as to remove the causes Of
instability and uneasincss inherent thereto,
and to render possible the reelection of the
present President"
A committee of surveillance, consisting
Of thirty members Of the Assembly mainly
Socialists, sits in Paris, holding its weekly
meetings for discussion on the political
condition of Paris, and the departments,
and the acts ofthe Government. In case
of any serious occurrence, all the repre-
sentatives now in the provinces are to be
summoned TO Paris" IL NAV well be