New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-28

know OF which dant hesitate to deprecare tue
annexation Of Cuba not only now but hereaf-
ter, and ON grounds that must, in our ja1g-
ment ineUita5iy constrain the action OF the
South on this subject.
Pufnsm's Ner Monthly Magazine fer JAN
nary, 1853, just published, has an article on
Cuba, written by gentleman who has pub
lished work on that country, and who is, of
course, familiar with his subject, Offers the
same stereotyped view of the question that is
in every body's mouth. lie says:
stiI what Of the futurei Cnba will become part Of
the United States The how the when It useless TO
predict Political events have transpired rapidly with
in the last few years that
THAT ofan hour's doh hiss the sp,at-r."
We are borne onward by force which seems fastening
some greet contamination. If all do not agree 70 the
rest which these changes bring no one can sHut
his eyes to the changes themselves They have mul-
piled within the year; they sre multiplying; they viii
continue 10 multiply The conservative and the radical
the ultra Wing and the ultra Democra,-are all
whemed by the resess Of things. If they stop
even bud moment to contemplate it. What is TO be
donel Shall we attempt TO stay this sweeping current
and be carried away By shall we rather Dc what
we may 10 control and direct ~
Here is the same kind of talk that is found
everywhere.
If We ask the reason uhy Cuba is to be an
nexed to this country, we are met by some such
reply as that of Mr. Boanerges Allen, which we
have quoted. We are told that Cuba must be
ouIs because she is close at our doors, because
" She is on the high road 60 our auriferous re-
giOns," because we are bound to annex every
thing in our neighborhood, whether islands or
continents, till we touch the Pole on the north,
and Terra del FuegO Oh the south; and the
Lord knows the limit that the universal an
nexationsts prescribe to us on the west If
we do not mistake, even Senator Seward, in
speech last winter, threw out suggestion
which looked toward China But before we
pluck the Flowery Empire to add to our pro-
posed gigantic nosegay Ct nations, we have no
small job to gather up the nnumerable islands
Of the Pacific, those verdant GASES in the great
wilderness of waters that separates the Asiatic
Continent from ours. For it certainly will be
expected that, in our glorious process of ex-
pansion and accretioH, we shall not fail to en-
brace everything in our way, as we sweep
westward on our Manifest Destiny career
Now, although it may expose us to the I'M
putatiOn Of being very unprogressive and short
sighted, we must beg to suggest our doubts
about there being any good prospect at all Of
the annexation Of Cuba to our confederacy of
States.
The truth is, the whole subject Of Cuban
annexation is treated, by those who advocate
it, without reference to the great element in
the case which will inevitably control the des-
tiny of that island. We allude to the black
population.
If Cuba is to come into the Union, hop is
she to come Is it to be as q Slave or as q
Free State We understand what the long
headed contrivers Of the plot mean well
enough, but the accomplishment of their de-
signs is quite another thing Now, we are of
opinion that Cuba can never come to us as
Slave State. In the first place, we Wilmot
ProvisO men should insist upon the Ordinance
of 1877 as condition precedeat of her admis-
sion as State.
But secondly, and mainly, our reliance is
chiefly upon Spain herself, who, we are quite
sure, will never let Cuba slip from her grasp
except in the last extremity, and then not till
she has decreed emancipation to its slave pop
ulation. She holds the island securely to-day
by virtue Of this very threat. If we take Gu
ba at all, therefore, We must take her as a free
State, containing half million of very black
and very ignorant persons, who would by the
process become our fellow citizens, entitled "a
choose in regard to their goy"-nmen laws, ru-
lers, &c. &c. ]. is quite likely they would
choose black governor, black judges,
black Representatives to Congress, black
everything. Now our impression is ve-
ry decided, that a large majority of the
people of this country consider that an
additional avalanche Of the black race
upon us, is not thing to be coveted. We
believe this is the public sentiment both Of
the North and the South And thus il is that
we, instead of looking upon the Annexation of
Cuba as thing certain, see little or no proba-
bility OF its accomplishment. Cuba free. We
would not take. The South would be against
it, and the North would but slightly favor it,
Cuba as Stare Country, we cannot be per-
mitted to have. This We believe to be fixed
decree of the proud Castians who control il
1t is at least fixed and mmovable purpose of
all Wilmot Proviso men.
Our Manifest Destiny men, the Cuba In.
evitables, don't come to a close hug with the
question. They view it in the dim distant
haze. They say we are to have Cuba somehow
and sometime, Though they don I know lust
how or just when,) simply because we are
destined to have everything conti0ous r. o,r