Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-06-15
THE NEBRASKA BILL AND CUBAN ANNEyATIo,

ON The London Chronicle, Nav sl1

Nothing Is curious than the rapidly of the Anne.
rcans in taking the contagion Of excitement from the
mother country. No did il become moral GER
ainy that great disturbance about to couvuse the
older continent than the people Of the United States be-
came wilder than ever to have OF their own Just
a. NJ Mscreadys reputation produced the e1aItation of
NJ Forrest the Exhibition of 1851 drew afcr il ,b
Crystal Palace OF New York, the bombardmcnt of
odessa threatened to entail the of tho Ameri
neutrality laws, with the avenginr during tho
summer, some possible insult from eventual Cover
OF Cuba. Ii is unfortunate for Spain that she stands
to the clenched hand of the republic The chron
cler OF Mr. PIckwicks ventures relates thai WHOM h
hero arrested az Ipswich, Mr. Wrinkles feelings were
so reused by the spectacle OF Sam Welers exploits in
thTashing the posse c0dtus that he doubled his fist aud
knocked down the little boy IL il only Justice
both to Mr.. Wrinkle and to the United States to admit
the perfect readiness of each much more for
miablc antagonist; but the victim at hand and su
fered accordingly Eighteen months ago sueh tonics "a
the detention OF the Black Warrior and the Arcaniz ton
Of Cuba would have been left to be dealt with by the
Washington Union, in its desperate attempts TO call off
huention IRON the Presidents adminisra alive failures
Now, however they are really dangerous; aud cir
cumspecton than her imbecle government is likely Ia
employ will he needed preserve Spain from the loss of
her most precious dependency.
The sagacious politicians the Southern States have
found their account in adding fuel this spreading ex
element The slaveholdng interest the only one which
profit by it; and indeed the only question with re-
pcct 10 the is whether the OF events
i not rendering their triumph rather dangerously
10y comforting on them asupeTabundincc
The House OF Representatives Washington has RECENTLY
dedicated, by significant divisions that s bin, ia
rather favorable than adverse the Nebraska bill and the
passing OF that will once restore TO the South
the same superiority in moral position which the an
neXauon OF Cuba will secure 10 it in fact Ii Nebraska is
constituted Territory of the United States without
All express guarantee against the Introduction Of ne
gro sltvery within its limits the Missouri comma
mise line, which separated the surface Of the Union
into Tree aud slave SOIL will be legsitiyely obcrat.d:
and the precedent OF 1880 under which CaiE,,pi,
was suffered to declare herself freesoil State, will
ne turned TO the discontinue of the adverses who had
supposed 1t pregnant with the ruin Of tho South
The sungation of Cuba would add the prepondcrance of
actual strength to the advantage gained In pont of
principle. The countries included in the vast district
of Nebraska are incapable Of being cultivated by slave
labor and must therefore, whenever they are lle,I by i'm
miSra,on adopt the institutions of the North But Gu
b. with its abundant population Of whites and its hodes
of ncgroes, would be ready IL moment Of CONQUEST
TO contribute one slave States the federation
and the cninscnt Of votes which these members of
to Union must supply to the Washington Congress would
probably enable the South keep ground nranst TIA
antag pnss until Texas should be sufficiently populated 70
cal or the redemption Of the pledge which Mr. Calhoun
used TO be registered in the treaty Of annexation THO
government Of the United States undertook 10 create Mill
mitey three or four substantive States on, OF Texan ter
roy but no one supposed that the SOUTH apart from its
acquisition oil power through the projected seizure of Gu
b. would ever bs strong enough the fuflment
tue stipulation.
Tie citizens Of the Northern States cannot be so blind
u their Interests, deaf their duties as to regar
with apathy either Of these impending events IL ia not
TO be supposed that such nront to its institutions "a
the Nebr aska bill or such blow its settled pro-
10 mn lie
opinion OF the North usen,ble immovable. Unorti-
natey however the extreme urgency of danger Is re.
qufed to unite tho Norhcrncrs aglinst their vigorous RI
vnls; and in the OF Texas or Of the Mexican war
the plans OF the South generally accomplished before
the entire feeling oil the North reused and
resistance. TIE truth Is that the two great factions of
America are really Northern pirtiesthe Southerners
stitutng united interest which alternately coaesces with
the democrats and with the whgs IL Is by steadily act
lag on tie difficulty which local parties experience 10
coming To an understanding, thA the stockholders have
Tho nj, a.
To win losing game No sooncr had the enfrancbisej
Union fairly started it, career than IL BEGAN,
~ evident that the free States wcre in population wealth
ahd energy, rapidly dsancing their syeowning cOmpe-
titOf5. few years more and feeble band of Southern
representatives might have found themselves conteudnv
in the Central Parliament against powerful majority Of
Northern opponents aunited TO tho abolition Of slavery
at by local jealousy and by the prompngs of NH
lnnthropy aud religion But the peril was avcfcd by tho
counsol5 Of series OF polite leaders, the last of whom
shat most remarkable OF American statesmen John O.
| Calhoun. The citizens Of tho North ularrelled among
themselves. always will over domestic nucstions
and naturally carried their local heats and anpAthes into
the Central Legislature. There they found tho votes OF
the Southern delegates open to tho highest bidder The
price respect for Southern instituons-n other wora
tolerance for slavery Both wings aud democratic have
constantly competed for the prize and il IL diCcu IN "A
which Of the two Northern parties has cruelty perse
cuted the feeble tribe OF abOiohss upon principle IT,
at the present moment there IL any chance OF such coa
ton OF Northern representatives as may the projects
OF the slave interest," II proceeds solely from the unprnc.
pied rccklcssnes OF President Pierces immediate adhc
rents in bidding for Sonhern II tho South shoud
he tempted to accept the alliance dcgradngly rendered
tho result will probably DO 20 unite against H. in one COM
pact phaanx, all the sections Of the North which the pre-
sent government has offended and there reason 10 bo
lievo that their name slcglon. STILL then is, on
the whole likely that this compromise between Northern
poiitiins will not be effected I'LL IL IL too Int 10 sto te
Nebraska bill and to prevent the rapo of Cuba All that
can be sey predicted s the consequence Of those events
which, II they occur will be iufHliby ioloEeI by reac
ton against the South which will shake the federation to
is centre.