Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1853-06-24
RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
r,,TpSn.y MORNING, JUNE 2s, 1883.
WAR OR pEACE7 TRUE POLICY OF OUR GOV
ERNMENT


The policy of our government Is peace with oil inc "'
never TO be broken except upon the highest grouo'
,ioua honor and safety. We clad, therefore, -
from the Union that there is no reason TO beiie'e
l;s ,nv official information or other reliable anu
evidence, 10 sustain recent thick coming ''p0'
British government is actively nsgatlhe ''a' u op''
emaucpate the slaves now on the isana oa' '''o
ment to this step on the part oil 'Pa'h . - ~ -.
of the ports of Cuba, under BHash sua'a"''' ~ W
ation of negroes from Africa 10 serve o' ..'
annrences and then be left Tree upon INC sa"u ""
6naIv that the Spanish government IS
-,..,o.on with some favor In the view that The
adooou of such measure must a. lea'
rho annexation of Cuba TO the Gni'eo o'a'eS
''e 49, rhose sentiments we heartily endorse, is
oh in its declaration that the reports alluded TO- II true
present plan for the barbarization OF Cuba by CIV
n., fair island over in the course of few years TO The
swsv of horde Of savage negroes who under the name OF
freedom would be the slaves Of horrible anarchy ihs
doom-he fate OF Hay,i and so much The worse because
Cuba would give the larger field for lis
be all that could be hoped for the Queen OF me Ahtes
the plan of emancipation and African immigration as aoo'e
stated should take effect IT. on The othsr hano TIE term Oh
tlceshp both for The emancpatea slaves ana he I'M
ported Africans should be extended as according TO some
statements is be- 10 about the average OF save nc 10
Cuba then the opcnng of the ports Of Cuba, for the i'm
for gigantic expansion and legalzal of the slave trade!
Now while il is undoubtedly true that The condition of Cuba
and The policy both OF England and OF Spain in respect TO
such as 10 demand the careful attention Of the govern
msnt of the United States whole subject yet is not
except upon the cearest and fullest evidenceit
IA fact scarcely conceivabe-that those governments
should lend themselves the the enforcement and IN
other the adoption OF scheme manestly Involving con-
SEQUENCES so unspeakably deplorablc.
Be this il may be- however, there can be no doubt that
The adoption Of policy, either by Great Britain Span
designed 10 in Cuba upon larger scale and in an
aggravated form the horrors and the suengs of Hay,
of the population OF all sections OF The United States In
such crisis If il shall arrive, there Is little doubt
that our government will fully respond The spirit Of the
people, The plan of stretching Gordon Of barbarous or
em-barbarous free negro islands all along Atlantic
coast-wh Cuba; the largest Of them, efiecuay command
ing the outlet of the whole West and Southwest through
the Missssippi-and all of them necessarily the centres
and srongholds OF the form Of aboonst agitation
this s plan alike al with every impulse OF human.
~ every dictate of Christianity and every principle OF CT
vilization When contemplated result of British
interference the affairs Of the established governments OF
this continent demonstrates the sauary wisdom OF that
policy which, in The language OF The Inaugural procams all
such interference utterly nadmssble. In view of the
state of things existing, impossible 10 estimate TOO
highly the rmness and the forecast which, the outset OF
the present administration presented the whole principle OF
the Monroe Notwithstanding American policy Tor
the American contnent-as cardinal point in the egaa-
ton of our foreign relations.