The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1853-01-22

pfOllHc tneme OF Speecn-makeTS ana tHe press,
going back to the days when Senator Allen. of
Ohio, used regularly TO whip England in debate
and annex Cuba nOiens r0lens. The Tribune
says his argument for annexation was novel,
but conclusive. II was that the Gulf Of Mexico
was the mouth of the United States that the
Island of Cuba was a tongue lying in that
mouth and that every mouth had a right to its
own tongue.
The Tribune gives its own views Of the mat.
ter, rather peculiar, but worth considering, rs
follows: .-......
"Now, although it may expose us to the inn
putation of being very unprosressiye 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 confederaey of
States.
The truth is. the whole subject of Cuban an
nexation is treated, by those who advocate il,
without reference to the great element in the
case which will inevitably control the destiny
of that Island. We allude to the black pepu
latiOn.
| IfCuba is to come into the Union, hon, is she
to come? Is it to be as Slave or as a Free
State? We understand what the long-headed
cOntrivers of the plot mean well enough, but
the accomplishment of their designs is quite
another thing. Now, we are of opinion that
Cuba can never come to us as a Slave State
In the first place, We Wilmot Proviso men
should insist upon the Ordinance of 1857 a.
a condition precedent of her admission 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. five take Cuba
at all, therefore, we must take her as Free
State, containing half q million of very black
and very ignorant persons, who would by the
process become our fellow citizens entitled Ia
choose in regard to their government, laws, III.
lers, &c. &c. 1t is quite likely they would
choose black Governor, black Judges, black
Representatives to Congress, black everything
Now our impression is very decided, that a
large majority of the people of this country
consider that an additional avalanche of the
black race upon us, is thing not to be cOvct-
ed. 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 annexa-
tiOn of Cuba as a thing certain, see little or no
probability of its accomplishment. Cuba free.
we would not take. The South would be
against it, and the North would but slightly ia.
vOr it. Cuba as stare country, we cannot be
permitted to have. This we believe to be a
fixed decree of the proud Castilians who control
it, 1t is, at least, fixed and immOvabic pur.
pose of all WilmOt PrOviso men.
Our Manifest Destiny men, the Cuba Inevita-
bies, don't come to close hug with the ques-
ton. They view it in the dim distant haze
They say we are to have Cuba somehow and
sometime, Though they don't know just how OF
lust when) simply because we are destined t.
have everything contiguous to our existing
Territory. Now, if this be true of Cuba, it is
true also of the other West India Islands, and
especially of Hayti and jamaica. If we must
have Cuba of cOntiguity, then Hayti and ia
maca, because both arc nearer Cuba than Cuba
is to the United States.
The fact is, the chief foundation of all thi,
modern sentiment that Cuba is to become part
OF the United States, is to be found in the early
views of our statesmen upon the question
views which gained foothold before the more
modern developments have essentially modi
fed and indeed changed the whole aspect oil
the uestion. If Mr.. j. q. Adams were nov
alive. and at the head of the State Department.
we are very sure we should find him stceringi in
quite a different direction from that taken by
our own shallow Manifest Destiny men who are
now qnoting him.
We believe that the finger of destiny points
to an issue entirely different from that so conf
IDENTIFY anticipated by our universal annexation
lists. We think that there is less likelihood Of
Cuba 5 coming to the United States, than there
is of a portion Of the United States going To-
Cuba. In other words. we think that in the
lapse of time, a considerable portion of the
southern country will be abandoned to the
black race. Already that race has obtained a
large predOminance in all the West India Isl
ands. What has been thus begun will go On.-
So far as human vision can discern, that race
will gradually gain upon the whites until il
shall obtain entire and exclusive possession of
all the Islands of the Caribbean Sea. Our
southern country is more likely, we apprehcnd.
to slough off upon those Islands, at some dis
tant day, a portion of their superintendent
black population, or to join hands with them in
forming league of black States, than that we
are hereafter to take that chain of Islands, OF
any one Of them, to our BOSOM