New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-08

slave property In the south. WIN wise 'ui"''
this Board Of Directors saddle upon the national
Government the risk and expense Of any private
or sectional enterprise they may choose TO under
take. 1t is the industry Of the country as large
they propose to tax for this investment; it Is the
pockets of the northern laborers that they pro
pose 10 deplete,-men Who have no interest," 81
least not their interest. in the scheme who so
far from wishing to make the slavery Of the Cuban
blacks perpetual, would devote heart and voics
and purse to their speedy euan iPation. But
that is neither here nor there. Such is the
mechanism Of the Government that the ruling
powers will DO more consult the interests and
feelings of the ruled, than will the upper or neither
milestone ask the corn in the hopper whether or
not it is willing to be ground.
just now q new development in the plot. to
which our administration has lent itself to eter
nize and extend the system OF Slavery, has come
to light. The people Of the United States have
just learned that they have an agent in the Island
Of st. Domingo sssduously looking after their
interests there, getting naval station for them,
some valuable mines, the pririiege Of citizenship,
ithost naturalization, (thus saving them the NOR
LITIGATION Of taking the oath Of allegiance to q
niger Government, or in any way acknowledging
that nggers could be the Administrators of Gov
ernment' snd taking other preliminary steps to-
ward Annexation. What & fine thing it is have
such vigilsnt and paternal Government as ours,
looking after the interests Of the people before
the people can discover them themselves. The
people didn't know they wanted a naval sta
ton in the Bay of SANTANA; they were satisfied
with the rights of citzenship in the United States,
and had not agitated the utility of appending to it,
an anomalous citizenship in Dominica, or any
where else. They certainly did not know that
they desired the Annexation as State of an
island of Spenish- Catholic Africans But whist
of all that, so long as these projects lie within the
scope of q Slavery-propagstihg diplomacy, to
which our Government is bound hand and foot
The public ru nor of the world. pledged to the
keeping OF no State secrets, has said already, aud
will continue to say, that this Dominican negotia-
ton ia one of the damHable contrivsnces of Slave
~. 1t is the cold snake cautiously creeping into
the bosoms Of an unsuspecting people that it may
inject with more fatal precision it's deadly venom
into their hearts. Who are to work these mines
of sulphur, of silver, and of gold What sinews
are to till these tempting coffee lands, to be had
for three dollars the acre' Are the gentlemen
invited to make investments" there, to go in
the capacity of laborers, or drivers Why 10 this
contrast suggested with the poorer and dearer
lands Of Cuba, unless it is proposed to attempt
there, against feeble and distracted people,
scheme which the pride Of Spain, backed BY the
power Of France and England, has thus far been
able to balk , If gentlemen, according to the
Douglas doctrine Of popular sovereignty, are to
bring their property from Virginia, aud import
ether properly from Africa, with which to stock
their coffee plantations and mines in Dominica
what is to be the condition of the free negroes
now filling the functions of proprietors, citizens
of Soulouque and his subjects How long will it
take to pick quarrel with them, and when will
regiments from the South, trained Il home to the
hunting and doggiug Of fugitive slaves, achieve
what Bonapsrts could not-the reinstatement Of
Hsyti, and wipe out in blood the horrors Of st.
Domingo" the standing bugbear OF emanci-
patton
Is there no way to make these miscreants
in power amenabe to popular indignation Mast
yirtuOus and decent men be made accomplices in
these expeditions of piracy Is America to blast
with the curse that is sinking herself under the
dsmnation Of the civilized world, all the contig-
uous countries and islands of this continent Are
the torrents Of Slavery so intolerable that the
foul spirits who endure them are constantly
breaking out of its hell to carry its lurid woes to
every new paradise in creation Are the very
airs that lap into luxuriant growth tine tropc
vegetation ofthe Antilles from their first discovery
the theater of the cruelty Of one race and the
suffering of another, suggestive of eupidity, viO
lence, and crime, so that whatever people possess
hem, whether Spanish, British, or American,
straightwsy forget their humanity, and are con-
verted into fends7