The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-04-25

cuRA THE TURNING POINT.

-, ~ Captain-Genera Pezuela inaugurating the
!, African apprenticeship in Cuba, published in the
- sunday has launched that devoted island into a
sarful career and if she be not drawn at once,
-.Ady Of the popular will Of America into the arms
raon her wreck is US certain as il is that 10 hers
soy tbat OF the best interests Of this eonfederacy
LONGER requisite for us to connect the scattered and
M INCAPABLE links of the long-abding, now con-
amsed British project Of emancipation Lord howden
rite 10 Mr. Corbn and deny all that circumsiantial
oee has been proving Spain may speak Of Friendship
A, United States while she VOWS that her possession
frrs African when il lapses from her grasp England
nnbold a cis-Atlantic balance of power she
y. the mask Of Cancellation The eapain-general pra-
q brohery neghborhood, may eonniye at the slave
thus forging the steel that is TO strike us in vital
4, Battalions Of eolored troops may be formed and
anal by him. the forerunners of Others which yet 10
= nom the shop and from the obligated field. All
= por,entons signs may sarte but here is the fact
N that must determieforcible and at last tangible
apurrciabie-6ve hundred slaves Great Brains first
llaent admitted into the island through the willing
bes OF French and British and Spanish cruisers du
Inc month OF March last in the department of Trini
M are now turned for year apprentices there
10 be free though scarcely less savage than in their
lac Of nature that they may produce thirst and
ngng for sef-control in half million slaves, and
sther with them and with the countless hordes which
n rowdng in their wake, furnish to England and her
Undertakes their time and season. the great lever
to upturn from Cuban fucrum all that is dear and
ynsng to the American heart
ae IS a, loss which TO notice most this transac-
l whether the folly the temerity the wckedness Of
|sn--the folly because whatever harm she inhic she
M commits suicde--her temerity because unless the
|necan people be themselves she must en-
inter in her path the sturdy arm Of the repubc-her
kedness because in iii of senseless desperation, she
anxious 10 heap upon her children Of America-nay,
her own at homea the calamtous results Of an afro
oue step But the that TO meet directly in this
Onnexion is not Spain much as England In 1918 she
aned from her weak ally the right Of supervision and
Ipro over the slaves clandesnely introduced since
hon She has waived it. or let ii moulder for time to
L Il when it would be iatathat is, when Cuba becom-
strong and enamored of the Union, ready to throw
h the shackes imposed upon her BY decrepd cruel and
cous mother But if she possesses that have since
VA the immortal declaration OF President Monroe@that
erth no European power shall be allowed TO COLOMBO
|nerca% and if the nntile nation of but ten million
stood FORTH procaiming boldly TO the world this emf
ny American principle shall the great republic of 1854
Ismng with wealth and strong in cumulaed power, at
oe behes,s the longdsputed rights of neutrals have
n been de facto inserted in the book of nationsshall
he consent have under the sway of England, obedent
her whisper sixty miles from her southern border
he path Of her coasting trade the sthman routes
that command her Pacific and her eastern commerce, col
ay-or what are they but cooniss 2-not Of Germans,
.uh as 20 to Ohio and Pennsylvania not Of Frenchmen
q they who nhab Canada occupied louisiana not OF
Sanards as peoped Cuba and Porto Rico but OF wild
ntatored and erocious Afcansthe rayng tribes for
jamaica and ST. Domingo?
This the question: the great question: of this day To
patriotic Congress and patriotic admins raton, to
those who have upheld with wisdom and with spirit the
rights abroad of American citizen his rights al home win
be obcuedhs rights to peace and safety to progress
earring commerce. and natural expansion. When these be
secured by the admission of Cuba into this Union the graf
6g and novel spectacle will be produced Of State
Osed by water yet eminently agricultural in
itself all the interests of diversified conederacy; rich in
mines and with unryaed staples rich in the best harbors
nd the finest timber in the world blessed with genial
climate an envabe position and controlling influence;
he shield alike Of northern and western interests and OF
southern Institutions sending her to the further
recesses OF the Union and drawing back to her the
upa the manufactures of New England; the wheat of
Virginia Ohio, and Genesee the and bacon of the
Vest the rice Of Georgia and South Carolina; the pine
and d her northern sister aud of Florida; the
lumber and the ships of Maine the gold Of California the
ca the COAL and the machinery Of the middle States the
labor the agricultural skill Of the southern ones and the
'r the population, the enlightenment the freedom Of
gon and the pressthe life the happiness the "constit-
ion o. the whole When that suspicious day shall dawn
ii will proclaim this political axiom that Cuba has be-
o he bond Of The Union she made BY Nature The
lisP y Amaco.T
AMBROSIO JOSE GONZALES.
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