Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-11-16

G. CUSHING.
R. Forthingham. Jr.. Boston Post. Boston.
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7 From the Richmond Enquirer.
British Intrigue in Cuba---Attitude of
/ the Administrations.
1t is no longer mere vague suspicion,
but well-Gefned and well accredited
rumor, that the British Government is
concentrating all it's power in the effort to
accomplish the abolition of slavery in the
island Of Cuba. To this end particular
proposition has been submitted to the
Spanish Government, and certain mea-
sures have been devised for the sure and
speedy execution of the scheme. The
Spanish Court receives the overture with
manifest disposition to promote the de-
signs of Great Britain, and it is the conf
dent opinion of the best informed per-
sons. that some positive and overt step to-
ward the ultimate object will soon be ia
ken, unless the United States interposes
to arrest the scheme.
1t matters not what impulses of fanati-
cism or dictate of policy may drive the
British Government into this hazardous
enterprise, and we shall not indulge in
any protitless speculation as to the secret
springs and hidden motives of British de-
signs in Cuba. 1t is enough for this
country to know that Great Britain is
maturing measures for the abolition of
slavery in Cuba. The bare possibility Of
the success of this scheme-the mere fact
that an effort is making to carry it out
is fact of sufficient consequence to ar
rest the attention of the country. The
vague and chimertcal designs of the
abolitionists in the Northern States, have
excited the extreme apprehensions of the
South, and have driven it to decisive mea-
sures of self-defence. But of infinitely
greater peril to Southern slavery is the
attempt of Great Britain to Africunize
Cuba. We need not develope the con-
sequences, as regards slavery in the Uni
ted States, of the emancipation of the half
million of slaves in the island of Cuba
Every intelligent mind will foresee the
necessary result of the measure. The
consummation of the designs of Great
Britain will not only give that Pc wer a
| foothold within sight of our own frontier
will not only give it complete control
| and command of the Gulf of Mexico, and
! enable it to strike sudden and terrible
blow against this country in the event of
war, but the Africanization of Cuba will
isolate the United States from any other
Government-will detach the last ally
from the support of elavery-will turn
the sympathy of Christendom against it,
and will erect a fortress of abolitionism
on our very border, and expose the do
mestic peace and the social stability of
the Southern States to iucessant assaults
which no force can repel and no pru-
dence evade. No wonder that the mere
apprehension of this contingency should
set Southern men to specializing on mea-
sures of defence.
In view of the designs of Great Britain
and the dangers with which they menace
the South, we may well congratulate our
selves that our interests are under the
protection of an Administration which will
defend the institution of slavery with eve
ry resource of Executive power. In the
absence of any fresh assurance we have
an abundant guarantee in his character
and past career, that President Pierce
will uphold the honor of the coutry and
the rights OF the South. But in addition,
we have positive and satisfactory ASST
RANGES that the Administration have adopt
ed prompt and energetic measures to-
thwart the intrigues of British diplomacy,
and to protect the country from the con-
sequences of blow aimed at its vital in
terests, if not at its very existence. In
his message to Congress, President
Pierce will show the South that in a crisis
of peril to its institutions, he will put forth
the arm of government to defend them,
and will convince even the bigotry of par
ty that he is the reliable champion of
Southern rights.
President Pierce was the ''choice and
creation" of the Southern Democracy
OF all the true and faithful men of the
North, he has been the truest and most
/ faithful in defending the constitutional
rights of the South. In his inaugural ad-
dress. with an emphasis and fervor which
! thrilled the Southern heart, he pledged
his Administration to the faithful mainte-
nance of the guarantees of slavery, and
he now redeems his promise, as well in
REFRESHING the agitation of domestic, as
in resisting the future designs of foreign
abolitionism The South has now Pre-
sident in whom she may con6de-one who
respects her right and admires her cha
racter Let her make the most of him.
Southern men owe it to themselves to
stand by an Administration which will be
true to them in every emergency.
No GREAT Loss WITHOUT SOME SMALL
CAUSE.-THE recent ravages of the yellow
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