Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-11-25
Cuba and the Incoming Admins
tration.

1t was often suspected during the late Presi-
dental campaign, that the acquisition OF Cuba,
with her slaves, was to be one of the Leading
objects of the National Democratic Administra-
ton, in case of the election of Pierce. What
was then asuspicion, has now become little less
than certainty. 1t is now, indeed, openly
avowed by leading politicians as well as press
ees, of The Democratic party, not only in the
Slave but in the Free States. Walbridge, ono
Of the new members Of Congress in New York,
distinctly places, in letter to his constituents,
the acquisition of Cube and the maintenance OF
the Compromise measures, among the first OBJ
lects of the Pierce Administration, John Van
Buren,, in the Tammery Hall rejoicing, admits
the same; while the Hunker Democratic presses
both North and South are full of open Or covert
MA" laws, tftitions Of the snme portentous
and startling character. The New York Atlas,
a leading Pierce and King paper, says there are
registered in that city 1000 or 1900 men ready
for descent on Cuba, and that if the United
States Authorities attempt to prevent the sailing
of the expedition, they will have therhands full;
and then winds up with The following unblushing
aYowal, which needs 10 comment;
1t is asked, If Spain has done any thing to pro-
woke our ire, or Justify us in wagrg waragainst
her island. We frankly answer, she has mol, and
that ve hpce no other RIGHT than that mhilh
MIGHT gives, 10 seek possession Of Cuba We
I'll .t IeIonI I L. Il NJ
OF great .nonseyuence--and l7gM or tcrong, ICE
tciU hare i. In saying this much, we do but
reflect the popular sentiment Of the day,
The South in the meantime, having worked
upthe blind and infatuated North to 60 IN for a
platform and President, whose triumph is to be
claimed as sanction of the intended conquest,
is now only concerned lest Cuba, as her Gov
aernor has threatened on former occasion, should
-iberate her slaves before she can be seized, and
thus defeat the great object of the enterprise
the enlargement of the Slave Power. On this
head the New Orleans Delta gives voice to
Southern sentiment in the following speclous
and somewhat disgu sed but sufficiently sjgnii
cant article:
% There is one preventive step that the entire
press of this Republic should unite in uraing
upon our Government. Spain has, declared the
savage intention of setting free apd arming the
negroes for a wholesale attack on The families
and property of the whites. This viii involve
the destruction OF the innocent non combatants
of women and children OF the sick, aged and
helpless as well as the soldiers OF the revolution.
With the horrors OF ST. Domingo still fresh in
our traditions. the soul recclls at such threat
and, above all, from a civilized nation in the
nineteenth century. Humanity and oil the in
teresls of our national policy forbid Us to stand
passiVely by and see our brethren. the white
population OF Cuba, eXtermlnated by the blacks,
land The last and most precious OF the Antllas
t'''gy rers' so''ituion. Our Government
shonla sigaliy thus at once and with distlnctness
" Ipa'h ana England, and it they refuse to
pledge their talth not to aid or abet the armin o
OF the blacks IN whatever event, Spain should
be held and treated as common assassin. II
she violates every law of humanity, and persists
in declaring determination to slaughter who It
people, she has no right 10 ask TINS nation to be
come an accomplish to her wholesale bntcherie,
or 10 assist and protect her in their execution By
our neutrality laws. This question should be
decided Immediately, for il we hesitate long
the work may begin and get far beyond our pow
err to control before we are prepared to go to The
rescue. The chivairy Of the Crescent Guy is
never deaf to the call OF an endangered people
and in the name Of the wives and daughters O
Cuba, would implore the first gathering Of the
gallant sons of New Oreals TO make their for.
NAL protest, and ask the President of the Unltet
States to inform Spain that she must engage tC
respect the laws Of humanity, or be held as an
outlaw amoug nations, and in no wise entitled
to the privileges CT International neutrality"
Now what say the freemen of the North t.
all this? Is America indeed to become a nation
Of marluders, and that too to build up and per
petuate an institution more iniqultous than any
other which at this time disgraces the civllze
earth?