Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1853-07-27
Mr.. vENABLE OPPOSED TO CUBA.


Our Correspondent w. W." quotes from Mr..
Venables Cuba speech, but he is careful to quote
only those portions which he thinks will serve his
purpose. In the speech referred to, of January 3d.
1853, Mr.. Venable says:
But, Sir, carry out the doctrine which has been
cften asserted with reference to the acquisition Of
Cuba get it fairly, if you can. but get it anyhow,
and the same view will annex Canada. This is not
desirable. We have already vast fertile unoccu.
pied territo:y.'
Mr.. Venable then goes on to argue that we have
enough territory, and that the annexation of Cuba
a slaveholding country, would actually injure the
slaveholding States! Why did our Correspondent
keep that back? Mr.. Venable also alludes in con-
temptuous terms, in the same speech, to the strug:
giles for human liberty in Europe; he says this talk
about human rights - may " do for fourth of July
orations," and the like and he then expresses the
pleasure with which he looks back to his vote re-
fusing congratulations to the French people when
they overthrow Louis Philippe. He says, in the
same speech, that he is "thorough" and utter
conservative" This is the language, some of our
readers will remember, which N. p. Tallmadge and
William G. Rives Used when they turned their
backs on Gen. Jackson.
The Democracy of New Hampshire are sounder
on this question than Mr.. Venable-citizens Of
non-saveholdng States, they more disposed to
acquire Cuba, slaveholding country. than this
champion of Southern interests and Southern
rights In their State Convention of June last
the following resolution was unanimously adopted
sc Resolred, That the democracy Of New Hamp.
shire have always favored the reasonable expansion
of the area of freedom. and hence they were in favo
Of the annexation of Texas and the recently acquired
provinces Of Mexico; and hence also. they in IA
vor Of the acquisition and annexation of Cuba and
the Sandwich islands soon they can be obtained
without violating the honor Of the republic or tn,
. rights of other nations"
Mr. Venable lugs in Canada-the New Hamp
shire Democracy are silent about Canada; Mr.
Venable says that Cuba as not desirable "-th,
New Hampshire Democracy, speaking the senti
ments of Gen. fierce as well as their own, declar
that it is desirable. Gen. Pierce declares in his In
augural, that his administration will not be con
trolled by any timid forebodings of evil from ex
panson -; Mr.. Venable thinks we have enoug
territory, and admits that, at the close of tn
Mexican war, he was "inclined to take just a
small portion Of territory, unlesss entirely dves
ed of population as was consistent with our hor
or" Mr.. Badger, the federal Senator from th
State, took the same view, for tits we'll known tha
he voted in tile Senate to cede back California I
the public foe!
We take this occasion to repeat that we are n
"illibuster." We are as much opposed as an
one to the violation of treaties, to war for til
conquest fthe island but our sympathies are wit
the down-trodden people Of Cuba-we abhor til
dcspotism which grinds them down, and we shoul
rejoice to see them throw off the chain and emerg
; into the light of liberty. ehope to see the da
when they will do this, though in Mr.. Venabe
Judgment all this talk about "human liberty
only fit for sophomores and fourth of July oration
We speak from the record.