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musi have foreseen that the same which de-
cned partnership in the tparie treaty would operate
IN any direction that shut out prospective party
TO Cuba and hence that she would not be allowed 10
oresla future ia this any other matter belonging
10 the geography and welfare OF our continent. The
very thing 10 which assent papaby aad point
eddy refused ism to be crammed down throals ;
and, torsooh as II this not enough, TO be
made TO swallow our words to boot The new d.
plomacy is terrible on slomachs.
The whole affair is too transparent to be misunder-
stood England is determined to put Cuba ii il is pos
sibe, beyond all connexion with the United Sales. II
her ingues and false pretrnsions and backneyed
can prevent its purchase or snnexaton this shall
be effected. Rather than this. she will ruin the
island by Africanzing il to the level OF Jamaica and
Hayt. Anything is deemed preferable to union with US
The denominations OF the slave trade may be revived the
horrors OF the middle passage reenac the enormtes
Of The Cooe system stimulated by official patronage ;
and the unfortunate African seducsd by preface OF
years centuries OF degradation But all this nothing
if she only administer severe rebake to American
progress. and keep our hands from Cuba. The coatro
for debate and decision. A point is raised and no
is il raised than England. in the face OF our
country resolves to settle it, once and forever for all
Ignorant meddesome, ho,-headed Americans. 1t is not
Cuba; no. il is monarchy repubIicansm She can
Spain as catspaw in this matter. weak power
like SPAIN decrept and decayed, the grasp her colo
MES gone and her life at home we'll nigh destroyed Eng
land must undertake TO gavanze into sufficient vigor
make treaty for foreign protection against a nation
pledged to peace, and devoled to commercial enter
prise. AID this. too, in matter al our own doors,
vitality connected with our Gulf trade. and amenabIe
to the Monroe doctrine that ha, been again and
again promuged the faith and purpose Of
Try. II this is not supreme arrogance as insutsrabe as
ii is contemplate, we know not how 10 character
ze it, England declares by this act that she is the inter
national law OF this continent that she all competentto
assign our limits and prescribe plans OF advancement
And 10 what respect 10 it different from direct intere
renee with private and internal affairs! The outside
pressure that she endeayor, put is equivalent to
an invasion of national liberties, for she claims the
right 10 say where those liberties shall exercise their pre-
negatives, and where not-where flag shall wave and
where it shall be only tolerated where our citizenship
shall enjoy its fullest mmanes. and where it shall sub
short England plants herself, distinctly and openly right
in the path OF our legitimate prospective movements, and
avows 70 the world that she nsrposes her lion against
US in that direction. Injuries not always wrongs
But in this case are both wronged and injured The
time will doubtless when il will be alimportan, to
American enterprise have larger command OF tropical
products, and to possess extended base line for
commercial and national operations There is disgus-
ing this fact; but at the time, let all these advan
tages. and myriad more. perish unes, secure
them by that dealing and Christian integrity
will sanction. But England does much more than to
put the enlargement OF native productions and commerce
out Of our reach. and. BY well ainel blow, undertakes
snnihate budding foreign policy precisely in that
way in which shall feel her signal obrusiveness
sensbly. II she insists mixing the issue. she
may rely on its being met