Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-07-06
War or Peace, True Policy of our
Goyernmenf.

war or Eeace. Irue Eol1cy OF our
Goyernmenf.
The policy of our government is peace
with ali the world, never to be broken
except on the highest grounds of national
honor and safety. We are glad, there
fore. to hear from the Union that there is
no reason TO believe that there is any of
fetal information, or other reliable and
sufficient evidence, to sustain recent thick
coming reports that the British govern
ment is actively instigating that of Spain
TO emaneipate the slaves now-on the is
land that the Involvement to this step on
the part OF Spain is to be the opening of
the ports of Cuba under British guaran-
ty. for the Importation of negroes from
Africa TO serve for a tenn of. years as APP
prentices. and then to be left free upon
the Island, and finally, that the Spanish
government is inclined TO regard the
whole proposition with some favor, In the
view that the adoption of such measure
must, at least, forever, prevent the an
nexation OF Cuba to the United States.
The Union, whose sentiments we hear
lily endorse, is right in its declaration that
the reports alluded, to, if true, assuredly
present plan for the 6arbarizdtion of Gu
ba. by giving that fair island over in the
course of few years TO the sway of a
horde of savage negroes, who, under the
name of freedom, would be the slaves of
horrible anarchy. This doom-the fate
of Hayti, and so much the worse, be-
cause Cuba would give the larger field
for its deyelopment-would be all that
could be hoped from the "Queen of the
IL hn nj Of I'D
African immigration as above stated,
should take effect. If, on the other hand,
the term of apprenticeship, both for the
emancipated slaves and the imported AZ
ricans should be extended, us, according
10 some statements, it is to be, to about
the average of slave life in Cuba, then
the opening of the ports of Cuba, for such
apprentices, is of course, only another
name for gigantic expansion and lega-
lization of the Slave trade. Now, while
it is undoubtedly true, that the condition
of Cuba, and the policy both of England
and of Spain in respect toit. are such as to
demand the careful attention of the go
vernment of the United States to the
whole subject, yet it is not creditable, ex-
cept upon the c!earest and fullest evil
dence-it is a fact scarcely conceivable
that those governments should lend them
selves, the one to the enforceme mt, and
the other to the adoption of scheme ma
nifestly involving consequences so un-
speakably deplorable.
Be this as it may be. however, there
can be no doubt that the adoption of
policy, either by Great Britain or Spain,
designated to renew in Cuba. upon larger
scale, and in an aggravated form, the
horrors and the sutferings of Hayti must
rouse and unite against it as single
man, the masses of the population of all
sections of the United States. In such a
crisis, lift shall ever arrive, there is as
little doubt that our government will full
Iy respond to the spirit of the people =
The plan of stretching Gordon of barba-
rous or semi-barbarous free negro islands
all along our Atlantic coast-with Cuba,
the largest of them effectually command
ing the outlet of the whole West and
Southwest through the Mississippi-and
and all of them necessarily the centres
and strongholds of the worst form of alb
olitionist agitation-this is a plan alike
at war with every impulse of humanity,
every dictate of Christianity, and every
principle of civilization. When even con.
templated as result of British interfe-
renee, in the affairs of the established go
vernments of this continent, it demon
strates the sSlutary wisdom of that policy,
which. in the language of the Inaugural,
proclalms such interference to be utterly
inodmissible. In view of the state OF
things now existing. it is impossible to es-
innate too highly the frmness and the
forecast, which, at the outset of the pre-
sent administration, presented the whole
principles of the Monroe doctrine-de-
handing an American policy for the Anne
rlean continents a cardinal point in
the regulation of our foreign relations
ttichmoad Eng.