Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-07-05

power.
/ General Quitman says that the power of Spain
in Cuba is maintained "HOt Only by the moral
trfuence, tW By the actice Interference Of England
AND FRANCE, p Of the hated negro domination
in St Domingo, he says, that it is Sustained by
mighty EUROPEAN Influences :" and of the whole
I policy of England, in reference to "He Slorery
question:, he declares that GRANGE, SINCE
THE ADVENT OF LOUIS NAPOLEON, HAS
! HEARTILY CONCEDED" in it. In coniima-
tion OF this view, General Quitman reproduces the
following declaration, made in the British Para-
ment, not long since,b Lord Clarendon, Secretary
of Foreign Affairs
81 VIII further add that the union between the
two Governments has not been confined to the
! Eastern question TLo happy accord and gool un
derstandmg between France and England have
been extended beyond the Eastern policy, to the
policy affecting all parts of tho world and am
heartily reioiced to say that there is NO PORTION
of the TWO HEMISPlIERES, with regard to
which the policy of the two countries however
heretofore antagonistic, is not now in ENTIRE
! HARMONY"
In confirmation Of the same view General Quit
man publishes letter, dated April %, 1856, from
General Cnzncau, in which General Cazneau says:
Il was commissioned by President Pierce, in
June, 1884, to negotiate n treaty with the Domini-
can Republic; aud after encountering many difcul-
ties through the intriguos and false representa-
'OhN VI tuG / MEN IL anu En1llSn 0HentS-NnO
notorlously make common with the negroes
OF llayt against the whites--the terms were fully
agreed upon Il Meantime, an ALLIED
squadron had been sent for by these agents .
/ FRANCE and England always hold the negroes
in readiness, to let slip like bloodhounds on the
whites, at the east end of Hayt if they prove at
any time refractory to European policy. = = |
cannot severely blame the Dominican Government,
with the evidence had before me that it was un-
der stringent European duress"
With The two great maritime Powers of Europe
thus ombncd in immovably hostility to Negro
Slavery, it matters little what may be the views of
the "C0adnentat IOuce,S,' to whom MIR. Calhoun
directed portion of his appeals. They are absO-
lutely powerless in such a controversy. But in
TRUTH with the possible exception Of some sympa.
thy which may be imagined to exist between the
mobiles of Russia and the planters of the South,
both su5Sisting upon the cocrced labor of others,
European opinion is most decided against the in.
stitution Of Slavery. Ii is true that the "Comi.
mental R,re,s" have no such interests MS England
and France have, in the competition Of free labor
with slave labor in tropical productions 1t may
even be true that they receive some advantage,
rather than injury, by tEc cheapcning Of certain
articles of general consumption by slave lalor
These considerations apply with all their force t0
the Germans, and yet it il quite notorious that
they abhor Slavery. An Industrious, intelligent
rehec6i., and emigraing people, they perceive
that tife'Giack slave either supp!ants or degrades
I the Wnlte lLDO"er. 10 no part OF tne clVlllEeu
world, in fine, the stakeholder turn for SYM
pathy or support The interests. the moral sense,
the religious education. the prejuidices of man
kind, are all against him, Even if he may justly
complain that part Of this hostility springs from
envy and malicious fanatcism, or that the cunning
aristocracies Of England and Europe join IN the
camor against distant evil, with no better intent
than to divert attention from their expressions,
the fact remains the same, that upon him and upon
his peculiar institution are concentrated the oppo-
brium and detestHtion Of the world.
The Southern States acting under the press
ure of two motives first, to ward of the perlS
which Immediately menace their existence and,
second, to crafty their lust Of power and assure
to themselves security during Indefinite peri ID
by enlarging the range and limits Of their peculiar
institution. The first is a motive Of forecast and
ambition.
The world will be at no loss to understand What
is meant by Saving Mexico by the advancing food
of our cntcrprising citizen" 1t means simply the
appropriation of Mexico, in successive portions
along the Gulf after the manner Of Texas, to the
uses of slaveholding. The world will be at no loss
to understand the true cause of Southern sympa- |
thy with what is called the ''redeeming" of Cen /
tral America. Nobody is simple enough to believe
gentlemen Of South Carolina and Georgia and
Mississippi, who have no interest in either COM
mercc or navigation, arc at all in earnest when
they take up the question of transit between the
Atlantic and Pacific, al a commercial question.
South has relations with California, not even, at
the present time of emigration. That country
was long since overstocked with politicians, and
the laboring Of the South are too poor to uder-
take 50 distant and expensive journey. South
ern concern with Central America. as question
of transit, is pretense too bald and tlimsey to
impose upon anybody. Doubtless, We have ma
tional interests connected with Central America
but for national interests the South has eyes.
Their politics are all narrow, sectional, provincial
beginning with the negro, and ending with the
negro. They may put forward commercial rea' |
sons, if they will, for siezing Nicaragua. The
South wants Nicaragua nov, as Il point ddPput oy
an attack upon Cuba, and by and by, when tho
African slave trade can be re.estabshed, as new
theatre upon which to compel men who are black, [
to labor without wages for men who are white.
Undoubtedly, it is Of the first moment to the
South, as matter of selEpIeservation, to avert
the Afrtanizaton of Cuba. Undoubtedly, it will
be important to the South, in the progresses OF
time, to secure an outlet along the Gull OF Mexico
for the accumulating numbers of their blacks
Undoubtedly, it would place the institution OF Sla-
very in position not only secure, but command
ing, it, possessed of the whole borders OF the Gull,
and of the magnificent islands which divide the
Gulf from the Ocean, it enabled to control the
products Of the tropics, and dictate to the hopes
and fears of the commerce of the world. Bu' by
whose arms, by whose treasure by whose potential
weight in the dpomacyof nations, is danger to be
averted from, and security and even aggrandize-
ment assured TO, an institution condemned by the .
general Judgment Of mankind, and for the over,
throw of which the whole world has conspired
If it be really necessary to pay enc hundred mil
lions of dollars for Cuba, and if such purchase
was possible, even at such price, is it not plain
that Confederacy of Southern States, with which
we are vainly threatened, could not command one
tenth of that sum for any purpose, and not one
single dollar for such purpose from any money
lenders the face of the globe? Beyond ques-
IN call n G il is. tho
credit of the nation, bottomed upon tho wealth
and numbers of the free States would be found
equal. The gentlemen planters Of the Carolinas
and Of the Gulf States may possibly in some mo-
ments of chivalrous exultation imagine themselves
to be competent to acquire the Queen Of the Antil-
les by force of arms, after dissoving the Union;
but by no extreme OF frenzy can they hope to ac-
quire Csba at the magnificent and even swagger-
ing prices they have offered for it, except by laying
hands upon the proceeds of the free labor OF the