The Yazoo Democrat., 1854-05-17
The Cuban Question.

AT the very moment when England is en-
gagged in war which promises to involve
one-half the of the civilized world, she has
placed her sentinels on the outposts to watch
the progress Of American principles upon
this continent. Even while the people Of
London were called upon by Mr.. Gladstone
to pay up in order to sustain the armies and
navies forwarded to the scenes Of European
conflict, the ministerial leader in Parliament
was announcing that the attention Of the
British government was closely directed to
the movements of the present administration
in regard to Cuba. We must observe, too,
that while England, on the one hand, adver-
tises that her mission in the East is dictated
by desire to arrest and rebuke the Russian
| in his threatened advance to complete an al
most barbaric rule, she cannot deny that her
motives in regard to the island Of Cuba are
to establish and defend, as the only way to
rescue despotism from the grasp Of republi-
canisn-as the only plan to deprive the peo-
pie of Cuba of the blessings of a free and
equal government-a system which is well
characterized by Senator SEdell as combin-
ing g tie compiler ideas Of negro ena0ncipa-
ton, confscation, zoillage, murder Devastation,
and bar6aySsm.' These are the advantages
which England is anxious to force upon the
Cubans. These are the delights she would
have them accept in preference to the benign
and Christian influences Of American laws.
Apart from the political aspect of this at
ternpt-apart from its bearing upon our com
merce and our territory, both sensitively af-
fected by the condition and tendency Of this
important key of the Gulf of Mexico-we
should be false to our duty, as humane and
God-fearing people, if we did not persever-
ingly resist the revolving scheme of convert
ing that island into Pandemonium to which
the most savage rites and enormities could
alone furnish the parallel. Our duty in the
premises is plain, and we should not allow
those who sympathize with abolitionism in
this country, and who eagerly await the hour
when the African race shall re-enact the
bloody drama of San Domingo, in Cuba, to
intimidate us in the performance of this du-
ty The National Intelligencer gives the sig
nal-note of alarm. Eager to defend the pol
icy of England in every respect, that journal
is most eager to sustain it in regard to Cuba.
Under the guise of adherence to treaty obi
cations, under the mask of opposition to fill
bustering the Intelligencer is blind to the
Vaccinations of the powers of Europe to
Africanize that fair island, and deaf to the
avowals of the statesmen of England on that
subject. But how prompt it is, whenever
these Vaccinations cause indignant protest in
our own country, to raise the cry of angry
opposition
The obligation which is devolved upon the
American people is forcibly commended to
US by the sleepless vigilance of England her
self. Let us not be deceived any longer
In full view of the designs Of the leading
powers Of Europe, and with the fact estab-
lished that, however they may be occupied
with the war now on their hands, they long
to aid Spain in enforcing an experiment full
of horrors upon State within sight of our
shores, we cannot, even if we desired to do
so, fail in taking the course dictated by hu-
manity and selfpreseryation.- Union.