The daily union., 1854-07-21

produce Ii entire we are saished that an attentive pc
rusal of Mr. Andrewss report will forciby illustrate the
value of the treaty TO which we have referred.
WILL CUBA ADD TO OUR STRENGTH?
No continental State whose population chiefly follow
could extend supporting hand in the hour of peril to
nsuar dependency when threatened assaed by sear
ing people 1t alone competent maritime power hold
keep such possessions for have seem revolution
ary and imperial France lost the vestges which fell
the loyal military marine and had nothing out of which
to create another its distant isles and colonies
by one dropped off from its rule easy and ready prey
its eager and grasping enemy and we now at the
present the greatest land power Of the world set
ting defiance the hugest force put ahoat by the
combined efforts of skill and money, when approaching its
fast lands and continental territories But when the
movements of the allied maritime powers of western Eu-
rope threaten the Crimeawhich is not however, nsula
ted but that communications be kept up at all times
with it by and-we then that the Gar is compelled
through the apprehension of attack by such feet
rying with it large army in territory peculiarly priced
only from Its intrinsic value but also from its
ion with policy long fostered and cherished by himself
and other of the great Peter hurry up
by forced marches from the nmost of his empire
his best troops of all for the defence of this important
peninsula and the relief of its forcations and the pres
eryaton of its extensive naval stores and 1t is
clearly evident that the peculiar confguraton of this
territory utng out it does into the water and offer
ing all sides points for debarkaon of troops
which renders assaabe by army carried by feet
and difficult of defence by mere land force which has to
watch all these points at once Even England with all her
wealth. her vaunted prowess without her powerful fleets
would prove impregnable to any of the secondary
maritime powers possessing respectable land force who
would boldly throw army on her coast
Cuba held loosely, must be tempting prize to
superior maritime force. If Incorporated into
planting State, its acquisition would not be worth
six months purchase for its possession by such
people would prove but perpetual of rrcmeda-
bic anxiety them without materially adding anything
the intrinsic means of the island itself for defence Fortu
nately we constitute such State for the diversity of
the ayocatons of people is such that deficiency
be found in section of the country that another will
not be ready supply consequently if we get Cuba
it will be held with feeble grasp Whilst it will be
readily admitted that we keep Cuba if get it,
in defiance even of allied England and France the question
we have propoundcd to ourselves" will its acquisition
add to our strength? ?n--remains still unanswered,
empire is practical question: but of infinite difficulty in
its solution 1t like general deciding upon his base of OPP
eraons and fixing his lines for offence defence With
out pretending offer absolute solution to this most
important question we may be able present points
intimately connected with it, whose bearing be clearly
discerned and to exhibit their relations with it in such
light satisfy the generality OF our readers OF the fair
ness and correctness of the conclusions which
Al
sage by sen from the North Atlantic the mouths of the
Mississippi be rendered. the formidable we become
as nation. Cuba strongly occupied and firmly held by
us would the Gulf Of Mexico into American lake.
The passage in and of the Gulf being covered and
ected by occupation of the island would render that
from the North Atlantic to the Mississippi comparatively
secure. The military marine which we might provide in
one direction united to that which already exists to
great extent in the other, 10y concentrating them at
Cuba, would move naval battlefield far in ad-
of its probable position, into the Caribbean
sea- and thereby enable TO hold in check neualize
the force kept Kingston threaten our COM
munications the isthmus of Panama. Nature
with her coral reefs and shoals has done much lessen
task in forying Cuba. From Honda to Cardenas
the NORTH only be found the proper shores and
depth of for the approach vessels and the cbara
ton of troops The southern and eastern end of the
island has o bold shore open sea but enemy
landing there would have long and exposed march TO
make before accomplishing any object Even we should
called upon exhaust the and science of the cngi
in fotfyng the whole of its exposed coast the
expense would be nothing in comparison to the advan
tagc gained and secured by possessing this island Its
acquisition by would speedily be followed by large
emigration thither of weabest and most enterprsng
planters These instng their own bold and free spirit
into the creole population would form and constitute it
into gallant and reliable militia local force, which,
when the time comes would play important part in the
defence of the island Arms taken from the hands of Pc
zueas black eves and the right to bear them given TO
the creole population Havana Itself would afford at least
twenty thousand troops when required for the defence of
It's walls and fortresses