Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-07-23
MR.. vENAB1E OPPOSED TO CUBA

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Our Correspondent g w w quotes tfolllseat :
venabIes Cuba speech, but he is careful tosquote
only those portions which be thinks wi ss'gs h's
purpose. nthe speech to, OF January "a
1858, Mr. venable says
q I3u Sir. carry out the doctrine which has oeel
cten asserted with reference Ac sne &c!
~ the same view will annex Canada. This IS no
d.s;rabk. We have already vast fertile unoccu
pied Territory
MFR. Venable then goes on to argue that we have
enough territory, and that the annexation of Cuba
slaveholding country would actually injure the
slaveholding States Why did our Correspondent
keep that back Mr. Venable also alIudes 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-
fi,sino 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. T. Tallmadge and
William c. Rives used when they turned their
backs on Gen. jackson.
The Democracy of New Hampshire are sounder
on this question than Mr.. Venabe-ctizens OF
non-slayeholding States, they more disposed to
ACQUIRE Cuba, slaveholding country, than this
champion of Southern interests and Southern
rights I! In their State Convention of June last
the following resolution unanimously adopted :
ResoEved, That the democracy of New Hamp-
shire have always favored the reasonable expansion
of the of freedom and hence they were in favor
of the annexation of Texas and the recently acquired
provinces of Mexico; and hence, aso they are in ia
vor of the acquisition and annexation of Cuba and
the Sandwich islands as they can be obtained
without violating the honor Of the republic the
rights of other nations"
Mr.. Venable Tugs in Canada-the New Hamp-
shire Democracy are silent about Canada; Mr..
Venable says that Cuba "iS not desirable the
New Hampshire Democracy, speaking the senti-
ments of Gen iierce as we'll as their own declare
that it is desirable. Gen. Pierce declares in his In
aueural, that his administration will not be con-
troIIed by any timid forebodings of evil from ex-
pansion"; Mr.. Venable thinks we have enough
territory, and admits that, at the close of the
Mexican war, he was ''inclined to take just as
small portion of territory, unless entirely divest
ed of population, as consistent with our hon
Or" Mr.. Badger, the federal Senator from this
State, took the same view, for tits we'll known that
he voted in the Senate to cede back California to
the public foe!
We take this occasion to repeat that we are no
"fIlibuster." We are as much opposed as any
one to the violation of treaties, to for the
conquest Of the island but sympathies are with
the down-trodden people of Cuba-we abhor the
despotism which grinds them down, and we should
rejoice to see them throw off the chain and emerge
into the light of liberty. We hope to see the day
when they will do this, though in Mr.. Venabe's
Judgment all this talk about "human liberty is
only fit for sophomores and fourth of July orations
We speak from the record.