The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1855-05-04


pose, as ~ shown by her acts, OF efecting dis.
solution oil The Union. THIS amount was no less
IMAM Sl2O,OOO, 600 She commenced her opera.
tlons Immediately alter the termination of the war
Win US oil 1912, in The bride which she gave TO
Spain, and has continued them unremtnglv to
the present time. Sir Robert Peel as he fancied
had The glory of living 10 see "slayery upon very
Precarlous footing in the United States" The
Vaccinations of himself and his contemporaries, to
his vision, were steadily accomplishing their work
British statesmen had learned from the lessons
taught them, terminating with the battle OF New
Orleans, that we were not 10 be whipped into
obedience. That, with Gods blessing, we were
able to take care OF ourselves on land or sea. OF
fighting they had experienced enough, and that,
II We were 10 be arrested in mighty progress,
1t would have to be by other agencies than fire
arms. Hence the origin of the notion of obtaining
control over poor, puny Spain, by which they
could command the Gulf OF Mexico, and thus hem
US in, srife our expansion, and endanger Southern
institutions.
They were in constant terror Of the fulfllmen
OF NapOIeon's prediction, when he signed the
Treaty OF Louisiana, that the act would create a
power that would. one day another rival Great
Britain the ocean ''Rule Britannia, rule, -
was he theme OF her national anthem, and the
hope was cherished If they could control the key
Of the Gulf, that again, il in the times Of
other flags would cover. In this endeavor, they
directed their attention TO Texas recognising its in
dependence, and using the utmost energy, steahly
and oPe y, 10 defeat its annexation 10 this country.
They went so far as TO operate upon France, 10
proclaim the balance OF power doctrine on thus
continent. But the resolute patriotism OF our
people was more than match for their willy dplo-
macy. In every instance, where British interests
have been arrayed against American interests,
latter haye DOblV friun Aret tn he
defeated in the instance Of Cuba? Not if our
government is faithful to its trust. Not if our
conntrymen do not turn stark mad Know Nothirgs.
The island ought to be ours, according to the IN
flexible law Of self preservation, from its geograph
cal position; it ought be from its peculiar
location and population upon the principle so ably
laid down by Vattel, that '.every nation has
undoubted right TO provide for its own safety, and
To take due precaution against distant well
impending DANGER We IRE free 10 declare our
belief that it must be ours by purchase or by con-
quest or else the des. gns Of Great Britain will
succeed, and this Union be severed in twain
This, are quie confident, is becoming Southern
opinion and Southern sentiment and the time has
arrived when all concerned should know it. The
ulefance OF the fact may produce terrific shaking
of the dry bones of ocrogenarians and political
moralIzers of three-score and ten. But let them
shake, if they stand in The way OF great national
aim. We cnmmiserae them, and regret that in
The list Of scientific discoveries there is none for
The prevention of afffghts. 1t is natural that men
should grow old, but full as natural that when they
become political do,arGs, they should keep out of
rights way. MIR. Randolph remarked Of Mr..
Madison, after he signed the United States Bank
charter, that he had lived too long for his fame,
although he was not then "a years old. In his
c""brated anli-internal improvement speech OF
1924, Mr.. r., quoting the verse which follows,
said: ''Sir, that act, and one other which | will
not name bring forcibIy home to my mind tram
OF mclnnch"y reflection on the miserable state Of
our mortal being"
s'In life's last scene, what prodi ges surprise!
Fears OF the brave and foes of the wise;
From MarlbOroughs eyes, the streams Of dotage fow
And Swift expires drvelIer and show
The editors of the National Inteigencer bring
their aid Colonel Benton, excIaming at the
top Of his voice most vociEerously against Cuba,
and think cannot mistake the hand that
writes, or the head that inditcs the same
sense III the Detroit Free Press. We venerate
age, and wish we had no cause to deplore its
infirmiries.
Ou7 readers will pardon DEPRESSION. AS to
what Cuba would be-as TO what any slave State
If this republic would be abolitionized, may be
distinctly enough ascerained by the following ex-
tract from the leader OF the London Morning Herald, !
oy organ, of the 2Ist of March:
"The condition and prospects Of Jamaica have
sincere anxiety TO the British Government, and
that large number of people of this country whose
interests are connected with that fertile and beau-
full but strangely mismanaged and unfortunate |
island. Every arrival of the West India mail is
looked for with the gloomy certainty tina, il con-
tain intelligence Of amendment in its internal
affairs and one of the mos: valuable possessions
oC the British crown is thus believed to be fast
settling down INTO utter and irretrievable ruin.
< Nor is the decline Of prosperity .
in our West India colonies, confined to Jamaica .
nlone--it extends, in greater or lesser degree, 7
over the whole Of the Western Archipelago, but it
has reached its extreme point the largest and
most important OF the islands"
The 'IIeraid" then proceeds TO state that the
most prominent of the causes producing this result
may be considered "the effect of~he competition
with the products Of slave labor 10 the home
market" The free negroes will not work. lm
migration from China has been resorted to, bot
with Ill success. 1.-The theving. propensitics of
he Chinese laborers, and laziness as inherent
md inveterate that of The negro, have excited
he indignation and disgust of the employers, and
seem likely TO aggravate the evil 1t was hoped the
would reduce The morality of the
egroes is becoming worse and worse. Mr.. Dillon,
stipendiary magistrate on the island, reports
That the marriage is indferent!y kept and
,ut little respected that the sacred obligation oil
IN oath is but imperfectly understood, and con-
inuaIIy violated-that larcenies are numerous,