Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-05-19
DIM THOUGHTS.

Hast thou no guess
Like the dim pictures Of a blind mans brain,
Or as although thou touch me in the dark,
know the hand is thine, lSydney Fendys.
UIterior Designs of the SIavehOIding In-
Ierest.
I We published yesterday morning a para
! graph from the Washington Union, declaring
| in very distinct and unmistakable terms, that
the accomplishment of the Nebraska scheme,
the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, and
| the opening of all our territories to the advent
| of Slavery, are necessary to the Interior meas
ures designed for the fertilization and perpet-
uation of the Slaveholding interest The Union
stated that the seizure of Cuba, and its access
sion to the Union as Slave State, was to be
the next step in this organized scheme and
Senator Slidell's Speech Mr.. Soules negotia-
tons, and various other occurrences of the
day, indicate that the Slaveholding interest
that interest, we mean, which controls tho
South, and makes everything else subordinate
to the extension of Slavey-is ready to brave
the extremities of war with Spain, England,
and France, for the accomplishment of its de-
signs. The following article, from the South
| err. Standard a leading South Carolina organ
of the Slaveholding interest, is equally ex-
| plicit in revealing the purposes and projects
| with which the present agitation Of the Slave
ry question has been commemorative York
| Times:
"a general rapture IN Europe oould force
| upon as the madisputed Saoay of the Gulf of
| MEXICO and the Vest hldies, Nth all their rich
| and mighty productions. Guided by our ge-
MUS and enterprise, a new world would rise
there, as it did before under the genius of CO.
lumbus. With Cuba and ST. Domingo, We
could control the productions Of the tropics,
and, with them, the commerce of the world.
AMI, ,oith that, the power of the world. Our
- ~,
great slave power, and the government
that is to direct or license the development of
the country drained by the Amazon. Instead
of counting England, ace should look to Bra-B
and tie Vest indies. The time will come
| when treaty Of commerce and alliance with
| Brazil will give us the control over the Gulf
| of Mexico, and its border countries, together
with the islands, and the consequence of this
will place African Slavery beyond the reach of
fnnatcism, at home or abroad. These two
| great Slave powers now hold more undevel-
oped territory than any other two govern
ments and they ought to guard and strengthen
their mutual interests by acting together in
stict harmony and concert Considering our
vast resources, and the mighty commerce that
is about to expand upon the bosom of the
two countries, if we act by treaty can not
only preSerre domestic serritWde but can defy
| the poaoer of the scorld.
With firmness and Judgment, we can open up
the African Slave emigration again to people
the noble region of the tropics We can bold
ly defend this upon the most enlarged system
Of philanthropy. 1t is far better for the wild
| races of Africa themselves. Look at the
5000, 900 ia the United States who have had
the blessings, not only of civilization but of
Christianity. Can any man pretend to say
that they would have been better off in tho
| barbarian state of their native wilderness;
| and has not the attempt to suppress, by force,
| this emigration, increased the horrors of the
| middle passage tenfolds The good old LAS
| CAsAs, in 1919, was the first to advise Spain
! to import Africans to her colonies, as sub
! stitute Tor the poor Indians who, from their
| peculiar nature, were totally unsuited to bear
| the labors Of Slavery. Experience has shown
| that his scheme was founded in wise and
! Christian philanthropy. Millions of the black
men, yet unborn, viii rise up to bless his be-
| nevolent memory. The time as coming achen
zoe ciH boldly defend this emigration before the
| scorlG. The hypocritieal cant and whining
morality of the latter day saints will die away
before the majesty of commerce, and the pow
err of those vast productions which are to
spring from the cultivation and full develop.
ment of the mighty tropical regions in our
own hemisphere. If it be mercy to give the
gram growing sections of America to the poor
uIu VI AluAOlC, why AAOJ OPCA up lu0
tropics to the poor Africans The one region
is as eminently suited to them as the other is
to the white race. There is as much philan-
thropy in one as in the other. We have been
too long governed by psalms singing school
masters from the North. 1t is time to think
for ourselves. The folly commenced with our
own Government uniting with Great Britain
to declare slave importation piracy. Piracy is
crime on the high seas, arising under the
law Of nations, and it is as well defined by
those laws as murder is at common law. And
for two nations to attempt to make that piracy
which is not SO under the law of nations is
an absurdity. You might as well declare it
burglary, or arson, or anything else. And we
have ever since, by joint feet with Great
Britain on the coast of Africa, been struggling
to enforce this miserable blunder. The time
will come that all the islands and regions suit
ed to African Slavery, between US and Brazil,
will fall under the control of these two slave
powers, in some shape or other, either by trea-
ty or actual possession of the one Government
or the other. And the statesman who closes
his eyes to these results has but very small
view of the great questions and interests that
are looming up in the future. In a few years
there will be no investment for the two humid
red millions, in the annual increase of gold on
large scale, SO profitable and SO necessary, as
the development and cultivation of the troph-
ical regions now slumbering i'll rank and wild
luxuriance. If the Slaueholdinq race in these
States are but true to themselves, they haue a
great destiny before them. sa
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AQuebecmerchant, named G. f. Ham,
el, and Solomon Cohen, passengers by the Brit
ish steam ship Canada, were arrested ON Sat
urday, at Boston. on charge of smuggling
| $4,000 worth of goods Some $1,000 worth
of gold watches were found on the former.
| while Mr.. Cohen also had a large n1,n,ber &c