Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1857-01-03

hundred and ten million pounds. If the T
consumption continues the same, we shall T
buy this ycaf five hundred and ninety mill |
ion pounds. But we will suppose the whole /.
consumption for the year 1897 to be SIX
hundred million pounds and we Buy FIVE
hundred millions of it abroad. Averaging
the price of all qualities, and taking present
selling rates, We may state the actual price
Of each pound 10 the consumer at twelve
cents There IS duty OF thirty per cent.
on sugar This adds three and a halfcen.s
TO the price Of each pound at the aSsan ID
rate. This would amount on all The foreign
sugar bought, as above 6stimat 1, 10 Sii7,-
100000, for the year 1857. Eat il adds
the same TO the price Of the home product
also, and thus makes 81 coo, 000 as the
increased cost OF the article to all the actual
oonsvm6fs. Whother our figures afe pre-
eisely correct or not, they equally wtN il
lustrats the principle.
Now, Cuba, Louisiana and Texas can
produce all the sugar this country will con-
sumo. IfCuba was part Of the u. States,
then the h0ne product would supply The en-
tire deniaad, and there would be no use in
duty for protection at all. The duty
would be taken off, and down woald come
the price at once to the extent above shown,
thus saving to consumers, in all, from fl
teen 70 twenty million dollars per year. II
re would pay Spain soc, O00 coo, then,
for Cuba, the island would pay for itself in
less than fifteen years, IL the single eyticl1
Of sugar alone.
"Now for the slavery branch os the SUI
Jet. The Reporter admits that We ought
to own Cuba, and that we viii have i, some
day. But it says that we must wait till
Spain aoolshes slavery in the island When
the leopard changes his spots, Spain will de
that, and not I'll then Now, purchase
Cuba, and make it State Of the Union ,and
chen would follow at once an entire suppress
sion Of the slave trade to the island. The
iafernal trafiic can never exist under Amer
lean law few fanatic Ounces in the South
to the contrary notwithstanding 70 make
Cuba State of this Union would mitigate
tbs evils Of slavery in the island. IN Cuba.
as it is, slavery is e. n6eo cruel iastitu-
ton than is allowed in any Americas State
Is It OF no account to our neighbor TO modi-
fy, mitigate an evil, if it cannot be immodi-
atsly eradicated As to the people Of the
island who are not slaves. they are oppress-
Cd and plunt.ered by a tyrannieal govern
nent. To buy the island, aud make it a
State Of the Union, would be but to take
those people from the grasp of tyrant and
glpe them 10 themselves. Start the principle
Of self-government there; let orr eatcrpTis-
ing people minsle with them aud develop
the vast resources of the island, and thus
found great aud prosperous island State !"
When the gentleman brought this paper
here, and read the paragraph quoted by me,
l was curious to see what was i'll it; and |
vas arreeably surprised to find sucf, an ar
ticle defending the acquisition of Cuba By
the United States. and to find his positions
so well sustained by argument and illustra-
ton. Is there anything in the article un-
sound-anything which southern Democrats
cannot endure
Then, sir, if tie Democrats Of pennsyl-
rama are for the acquisition of Ccba when
it can be properly, justly and fairly acquir-
&c, Il they are willing . t2ko it With the in
atitation Of slavery, subject to the same con-
tgoi Which exists over that institution in our
southern country, it seems TO me that there
is nothing il that article which can raise a
difference OF opinion between the Democrats
CT that State < the Democrats Of the South
should be gFatiied jfthis exciting sub
iect never could come into this Hall, and /
regret that it has been introduced here this
session. But, sir, our party did not intro
duee It. The discussion commenced by gen
'iemen Of the Republican party in two we'll
considered speeches. Sentiments we're a
vowed il those and other speeches which we
we're not at liberty to pass by in silence
Besides, when it is attempted 10 be demon
strated that the South Is responsible for the
introduction Of this subject into the Halls Of
Copgresa-when we are held up Before the
people Of the United States a: those who
have introduced it, and who are seeking TO
keep up this agitation, it lie as little &c can
aa expected Of us, that we should show
shcre the fault lies.
II correcting the history of this agitation
Twas important for us to 20 still further and
show that the South acted upon the defen-
size entirely, not only in this debate. but in
the late presidential election And when
ne were opposed by party which rallied
under sectional flag, nominated 4 sectional
candidate, and urged 10 secure that caudi-
dates election by the votes of that particular
section of the country in and by which he
was nominated, it was for us to show that
there had been nothing in the past ealculat-
cd to justify this sectional organization or
its fierce war upon us, and cur rights and
institutions that that party was the result
Of principles and views which had been adj
yaneed again and again in this Hall and out
oft, by those recognized as leaders that
they had given the world to understand that
shey were ready at the proper time. when
the public mind was prepared for it, SO as
10 render success in their opinion certain, To
make an assaultupon that institution " here
ever it was located. whether in tiie South
ern States or III the districts of country eel-
ed to the Federal Government for local pur-
poses, or in the Territories.
Having done this, and having SO far as
my own section is concerned, set that por-
ton of history before the country i'll its true
Light. ] express my obligation 10 the House
fer the attention which has been given to
ne. and yield the floor
The Great Northwest.
taanrd,no, g. tIn