The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1856-06-19

to as having the capacity TO furnish large sup
plies of cotton, sugar, and tobacco; and Algeria,
it must be recollected, is word of very elastic
Specification, and means, in truth, just so much
of Northern Africa as France sees fit to occupy.
These new events, giving to France an interest
to uphold free labor against slave labor IN trop-
ical productions, certainly harmonic with, and
have probably confirmed and strengthened, the
personal policy of the present Ruler of France, In
respect to a close connection with England. AT
all events, the fact is undoubted, that France
and England heartily united in the system
of checking, obstructing, and defeating, wherever
they can, the efforts of Slavery in the United
States to extend its limits and power.
General Quitman says that the power OF Spain
in Cuba is maintained, "not only By the moral
influence, J by the actiue interference Of England
AND FRANCE Of the hated negro domination
in st. Domingo, he says that it is SUSTAINED 6y
mighty EUROPEAN influences" and OF the whole
policy Of England, in reference to "he Slavery
question:" he declares that "FRANCE, SINCE
THE ADVENT OF LOUIS NAPOLEON, HAS
tion of this view, General Quitman reproduces
the following declaration, made in the British
Parliament, not long since, by Lord Clarendon,
Secretary OF Foreign Affairs:
81 will further add that the union between the two
Governments has been confined 10 the Eastern ques
France and England have been extended beyond the
Eastern policy to the policy affecting all parts oil me
POTION of the TWO HEMISPHERfsS, with regard TO
which the policy OF the countries however
aniagonistic is not now in ENTIRE HARMONY"
In confirmation of the same view, General
Quitman publishes letter, dated April %, 1856,
from General Cazneau, in which General Cazneau
says:
81 was comm STONED by President Pierce. in June
1854 to negotiate treaty with the Dominican Republic
and encounterng many difficulties through the in.
trigues and false representations of the FRENCH and
English agents-icho notoroUsly make cid
The negroes of Hayh against The ,chis-he terms were
squadron had been sent for by these agents
Under the specious title OF the Mediaiing Powers
FRANCE and England always hold the negroes in read
mess TO be let slip like boodhounds whites the
east end Of Hayt they prove al any time refractory TO
Government with the evidence had b. fore
me that II was under stringent European duress"
With the two great maritime Powers of Eu-
rope thus combined in immovsble hostility to
Negro Slavery, it matters little what may be the
views of the " Continental Porers," to whom Mr..
Calhoun directed portion of his appeals. They
are absolutely powerless in such controversy.
But in truth, with the possible exception of some
sympathy which may be imagined to exist be-
tween the mobiles of Russia and the planters OF
the South, both subsisting upon the cOerced la
Dor of others, European opinion is most decided
against the institution of Slavery. 1t is true that
the Continental Powers" have no such interests
rs England and France have i'm the competition
Of free labor with slave labor in tropical produc-
tons. 1t may even be true that they receive
some advantage, rather than injury, by the cheap
ening of certain articles of general consumption
by slave labor These considerations apply with
all their force to the Germans, and yet it is quite
notorious that they abhor Slavery. An indus
trious, intelligent, rejecting, and emigratine
thay parcatva hat tho hlacl oft bay
suppants or degrades the white laborer. To nc
part of the civilized world, in ne can the slave
holder turn for sympathy support. The in
terests. the moral sense the religious education
the preudices of mankind are all against him
Even if he may justly complain that part OF
this hostility springs from envy and malicious
fanaticism, or that the cunning arstocrscies OF
England and Europe join in the clamor against
distant evil, with no better intent than to divert
attention from their own expressions, the fact
remains the same, that upon him and upon his
peculiar institution are concentrated the oppro-
brium and detestation of the world.
The Southern States are acting under the pres
sure of two motives first, to ward off the perls
which Immediately menace their existence and,
second, to crafty their lust of power, and assure
to themselves security during indefinite pc
Rod, by charging the range and limits of their
peculiar institution. The first is motive of
cast and ambition.
The world will be at no loss to understand
what is meant by sacuag Merico Jy the adpan-
eng food Of our enferprtsing citizens" 1t means
simply the appropriation of Mexico, In success
sive 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 sympathy with what is called the
" redeeming" of Central America. Nobody is
IL Al Al
South Carolina and Georgia and Mississippi who
have no interest in either commerce or naviga-
ton, are at all in earnest when they take up the
question of transit between the Atlantic and Pa
citc, as n commercial question. They have nei-
ther ships, steamers, nor trade. The South has
no relations with California, not even at thepres-
ent time, of emigration. That country was long
since overstocked with politicians, and the Ia
boring men of the South are too poor to under
take so distant and expensive a journey. South
ern concern with Central America as a question
of transit, is pretence too bald and ilimsy to
impose upon anybody. Doubtless, we have ma
tional interests connected with Central America ;
but for national interests the South has no eyes.
Their politics are all narrow, sectional, and pro-
vincial, beginning with the negro, and ending
with the negro. They may put forward CONNER
cial reasons if they will, for seizing Nicaragua
The world knows better. The South wants Mic
aragua now, as point ddPpui of an attack
upon Cuba, and by and by, when the African
slave trade can be re-established as a new thea
tire 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 self-preservation, to avert
the Africanization of Cuba. Undoubtedly, 1t will
be important to the South, in the progress OF
time, to secure an outlet along the Gulf of Mexi-
co for the accommodating numbers of their blacks
ITrI0 ed . a..
Slavery in position not only secure, but CON-
handing, if, possessed of the whole borders OF
the Gulf, and of the magnificent islands which
divide the Gulf from the Ocean, it was enabled
to control the products of the tropics, and die.
tate to the hopes and fears of the commerce OF
the world. But by whose arms, by whose treas.
ure, by whose potential weight in the diplomacy Of
nations is danger to be averted FROM and security
and even ACKNOWLEDGMENT assured to, an institu-
ton condemned by the general judgment of man.
kind, and for the overthrow of which the whole
world has conspired? If it be really necessary
to pay one hundred millions of dollars for Cuba
and il such purchase was possible even at such
a price, is it not plain that Confederacy O,
Southern States, with which we are vainly threat.
ened, could not command one-tenth of that sum
for any purpose, and not one single dollar 70,
such purpose from any money LENDERS on the
face of the globe? Beyond question, to ever
ouo oaii, mohstrous as IL Is, the credit OF the
nation bottOmed upon the 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 moments o.
chivalrous exaltatiOn, imagine themselves to bt
competent TO acquire the Queen of the Antille.
by force of arms, after dissslving the Union bu
by no extreme Of frenzy can they hope to acquire
Cuba at the magnificent and even swaggerins
prices they have offered for it, except by laying
hands upon the proceeds of the free labor of III,
thrifty North. Great Britain and France did no
oppose an armed Intervention against the slave
holding appropriation of Texas. Possibly the,
NAV remain passiye while the incinient stems I,