Arkansas democratic banner., 1851-10-21
4 rripple Alliance.


 By late arrival from Europe we learn that treaty has been entered into by France and Eng land with Spain, guaranteeing sc lie iasier the Island of Cubs. The eolorable and oS.eHssale reason for tls alliance is, as we are iafonned io secure to the people of Caba a representative m tue Spanish Ccssez, an artiele 10 whieh efec. be- ing insertcd in the treaty. Bat the real reason and the moving cause iH fhsS giaung snd unPafal- leled piece ef efronteTy IS far different from the oae assigned. We can not tu;n 10 the past end scan the puSilanimoas conaae, of ou: government without emotions o( the most painful and Inorty- ing character It's whole course in regard 10 ihls Cuban affair. from the frs. proclamation Of the President, denouneing thase of our citizens who engaged tn the expeditions to Cuba, as !awiess bands Of robbers and pirates to the time when the gallant Ct;ienden and his unfortunate men, taken eaptives in foreign land, were literally suffered to be done to death without trial, and contrary to treaty stlpaia;ioas. President Fillmore and h.s wandering cabinet, by this aEAmercnn and unprecedented action has nowa brought our government into q shameful and disgraeeial d. emma England and France, relying upon their aid and cOuatenance, uRiies with Spain, and for the miserable form of a local Cuhan legislature which can pass no jaw without he royal assent, and representative to the nominal thing-the Spanish Cortez-stiplates 10 guarantee to Spain the possession of the Island of Cuba. The osten- sible reason for this interference on the Part Of these two governments being far too inadequate, |, IS supposed and reported, that there IS treaty clause pointing io the gradual emancipation of the slaves.
 Cuba by its position commands the entire Gulph of Mexico-andIn the hands of powerful ene- my, an enemy to our laws and institutions, is ca pabie no, only of seriously distressing our south eEn and western commerce, but Of sspping our very laws snd institutions. This has long been she favoGiie policy of the English government, and most anxious!y and mpa;iently has sic abided her time. We know not what may have been the ultenor views and designs of the President and his cabinet The circumstances of the case as- suredly place them in a most suspicious position. IL has long been predicted by ,Le sages of our country, that Cuba like npe pear, would fell into our lap. In point of commercial interest. as well as national defence, the Island has always been this government sn object or the greatest solicitude. Webster and Fillmore suspect, if they do not feel assured that at no distant period 1t must be .n- corporsted into the Union. l; IS So written, and statesmen of their sagaeity, having read, hish to prepare for il.
 This treaty. stipulating for the emancipation of the slaves, IS the first step taken towards the planting another thorn in the side of the south. II Cuba comes into this confederaey. she will then come, like Utah and New Mexico wi,h her Ter ioci. an qasi-slarery State. Tie course of ohr government has invited this step, and Fillmore and Webster being northern men of free SPil feeling. the inference is inevitable. The spGth is to be surrounded and heInmed n and then-who wilE predict her fate!