The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-06
ACQUISITION OF CUBA--FOREIGN
AND DOMESTIC PLOTS.

Looking upon the acquisition of Cuba py
the United States, as an act which, IL II ca"
behonorably accomplished, is highly oes'fa.
BILE for American commerce, which must
enure to the benefit Of both North anu 'ou.n'
and in which, indeed, our common i'u.a',
is interested. we would call the at'ehIoh ei
Tho Sou,bern advocates of Cuban acquisition
IN tho p,ots which are on foot, and tho efforts
which will be made by the enemies OF that
great object to Illustrate the hopes of the
American and of the Southern people.
The first and most direct opposition we
may anticipate is from abroad. 1t is stated
by the Paris correspondent of the Philadei-
phia North american, on what he terms reh
able authority that treaty is in existence
signed and sealed, between France, England
and Spain, guaranteeing to Spain the security
of the Island of Cuba against all claim
ants and all enemies. The Paris Const'tu
lionel, which is regarded as the organ of the
French Government, in an article upon the
Black Warrior case, and the motion of Mr..
Dean for the suppression of the neutrality
laws, as regards Cuba, throws out palpable
lileHacc III the iUiluNtnS piiaSL dpH'
1--WE trust" it says. that the American Govern
ment and Congress will return TO more sober views
We are aware that the New World entertains high
ideas of itself but it might take at the present day
alesson from Europe, when the first powers are
sacrincing all personal considerations to the MAIN
tenance OF the right of EACH and the defence OF the
general interests. This attitude Of Earope may also
serre a aoarRing to americans that there exists on
tbs side the atlantic sentiment of mutual support
'ohich acoald be alike tmPrndent either 10 disturb
or o5eRd'
We shall net stop to comment on the nau-
seating hypocrisy of these allies, sacrificing
all personable considerations, F" &c, and the
unspeakable audacity of their daring to
prescribe boundaries to American progress.
That to which we wish to call attenti on, is
the opposition we may expect from this quar-
ter. 1t is true that, both are now engaged in
a war with Russia, but that is a war which
does not require large naval force, and
could be easily prosecuted on water by one
of the allies alone, leaving the other free to
send its entire navy to the Gulf of Mexico.
There are other considerations, no doubt,
which would render war highly impolitic
for the allies, and especially for England;
but if the treaty of guarantee exists, they
will be bound to resist by arms, if necessary,
the acquisition of Cuba by the United States.
That, after long, bloody and expensive war,
they would be defeated, and then that Cuba
would come atlast into Americanhands there
can be no question.
Having glanced at the difficulties which
will be raised by our enemies abroad, let us
survey the more formidable obstacles inter
posed by enemies at home. The enemies we
allude to, are not the enemies of Cuban an
nexation, but of the South, and they consist
of the same party which, after the South had
engaged in a bloody war with Mexico, and
by her valor and treasure had added to this
country an immense extent of valuable terri
tory succeeded in excluding them from set
Ting with their property upon single acre
of the land which they had purchased with
the best blood of their people. 1t is this par
ty which new stands arrayed as one man
against the Nebraska bill, which has sworn
never to permit another foot of slave terri
tory to be added to the Union, and which has
resolved to coop up the slave population of
the South within its present limits. The n.
Y. Times an organ of this party, in an arti-
Gle on Mr.. Slidelrs late speech, in which it
claims for itself the credit of having suggest
ed the repeal of the neutrality laws as a re-
tribution for Spanish Outrages upon our inte
rests, if redress for them should be refused
thus concludes:
Upon one thing we think Mr. Slidell NAV conf
IDENTIFY count. Whether Cuba shall or shall not be.
come independent whether we acquire it as
territory by purchase by war; it will never be
admitted into the Union Slave State, without
such a struggle this country has never yet seen
on that subject And if the ultra Pro.Savery pro.
paganda shall succeed in forcing this country into
pdr to prevent the ultimate abolition of Slavery
in Cuba, the dissolution of the Union will be much
more likely event than its admission.
We speak the sentiment of every South
ern man, without exception, when we say
that upon one thing the Northern Free
Sellers "may'' also confidently count
Whether Cuba shall or shall not become in
endent,-whether we acquire it as a ter.
ritOry, by purchase or by war-it will never
be admitted into this Union as FREE State
''fhe dissolution of the Union would he
preferred, ten thousand times over by every
Southern man, to the annexation of Cuba
with its domestic institutions abolished-the
incorporation OF st. Domingo into our con.
fdency.
The Free Sellers have no objections to q
repeal OF the neutrality laws-in fact, they re-
commend it, if Northern Commerce suffers.
they would no doubt largely avail themselves
OF therepeai, to send horde of adyenturers
to Cuba to act the part of the People, per-
formed with such success in California and
proclaim 1t a free State. They are only hos
tile to any movement, warlike or otherwise
which may possibly preserve the Southern
States from being grit round by a circle Of
devouring fire.
In this exigency, it becomes the Govern
ment OF the United States to adopt towards
its foreign enemies the most bold and deci-
sive measures, and it becomes the people of
the South, by the most calm and careful fore.
sight, and the most energetic and copcertaa
action, to provide against and defeat tbe m.
chinafions of their Free Soil adyars..: