The Feliciana Democrat. (Clinton, La.) 1855-186?, 1856-06-07


strengthen and stabilitate our government by
their ultimate adhesion to our glorious confed-
eracy. His eye first glances at Canada where
he finds people living under rule which has
ceased to be overstringent or harsh and duly
themselves for the time when they
shall take their place in the family Of independ.
cnt nations Leaving them to develop them.
selves and grow their growth, he looks towards
the South and West and sees Mexico sinking
gradually into disintegration and anarchy since
1920, when her mixed population banished
her Spanish rulers, torn by internal dissensions
--pauperized, demoralized, and degraded
selling portions Of her territory to the United
States that she might subsist on the proceeds
Of the bargain, and he discovers no future
before her but to become waif liable to be
seized by stronger power. In his opinion
there is no safety for her but in the "advane-
ing Hood OF our enterprsing citizens"
In Central America he can find not even the
pretense Of nationality. State arrayed against
State, petty chief opposing petty chief, with
the people pillaged by their factious leaders,
there is no hope for her, save 10 the efforts of
"that patriotic band which has lately trans
planted the principles of Democracy from the
United States to Nicaraguan soil"
And yet she commands our route Of travel,
connecting the most important portions Of this
country, and controlling, to great extent,
the fortunes of our young and growing settle
ments on the Pacific. The caution of our adj
ministration which jeopardizes that route by
compelling Nicaragua to sustain herself against
England and Costa Rica alone, Is the caution
of suicide who carefully examines the prm
ing of his pistol before he blows out his brains.
Cuba then passed under review-beautiful
Cuba, with her perfumed orange groves, her
teeming soil, laughing with luXuriant richness,
her chvalrous and gallant people, true chill
dren of the great Caucasian race--and he
proudly claimed for her the fuGment of her
destiny by her admission to the family of
American States. He proved that her annex
alton is geographical necessity, a CONNER.
cial necessity, political necessity, and q STRAIT.
egic necessity She controls the outcome Of
the river which floats the wealth Of the South
west. and in the hands Of hostile power she
could cripple or crush it at pleasure. But it
is not the Southwestern export trade. alone
which she commands ior as soon as the Amer
lean Isthmus is cut the wealth of the East must
pass before her doors, and the Indian trade, in
consolidating which England expended SO
many millions Of money and so many human
lives; and for the retention Of which she re-
Gently crossed swords with Russia, must be
governed by the guns OF the Moro as complete
ly as any other branch of commerce which
finds its natural transit through the Gulf Of
Mexico. And yet foreign intrigue is permit
ted to remain dominant in her midst. Her
people are crushed down and enslaved by
twenty thousand mercenares, and the African
izing policy of England which had its rise in
Jamaica, and has endcavored even since to
circle this country with negro sovereignties
under the protection of European powers, is
hanging over her like u black cloud which is
certain to descend some day or other unless
it is dispersed by the fierce roar Of American
cannon.
All the great intellects of the United States
have perceived the necessity of the annexation
was the natural complement of our greatness,
and would make up the sum of our political
safety. John Q Adams concurred in this opin-
ion And in later times, Mr.. Everett in his
reply to the British proposition for Tripart-
itc- Alliance, reproduced and vindicated The
ideas predecessors But the Neutrality Laws
remained II stumbling block in our way, md
the American people were unable to assist
their Creole brethren in their efforts to achieve
independence.
In st. Domingo foreign influence is equally
perseptible, supporting agrotesqrc and absurd
government in order to injure the United States,
and carry out the grand Africanizaton pro-
ject of England, in which France since the
accession of Louis Napoleon, is said to SYM
pathizc. American enterprise has been check
ed therc-American ideas have been driven
back, and the efforts OF our citizens 10 advance
the cause of civilization have been counteract.
ed and rendered abortive by the subtle nalig-
nifty of our enemies. But how do all these
facts weigh against the venerable Neutrality
Laws, so ingeniously interpreted by Judge
Campbell and other learned pundits of the
Cour@s? What if Cuba becomes a foreign ar.
senal almost at the mouth Of the Mississippi,
if Central America is Anglicised or Gallicised,
aud our transit routes to the Pacific fall into
the control of our hereditary foes? Can We
not control ourselves with the act of 1918,
and assert that we are the mildest maunercd
people, if not the wsest, on the habitable
globe? Let our entire country be ringed
round by Gordon of negro soyereignties, ra-
ther than the heart of a single old fogy should
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