The Hillsborough recorder., 1858-11-17

mongrels who now hold those countries
We would not enslave the Indians? Expe-
rience has proven that they are incapable OF
steady labor, and are therefore unfit for slave.
Try. We would not eXterminate them, even
il that inhuman achievement would not cost
ages OF murder and incalcuable sums Of mo-
ney. We could hardly think Of attempting
to plant the black race there, superior Tor
labor, though inferior perhaps in intellect,
and expect to maintain a permanent and
peaceful industry, such as slave labor must
be TO be profitable, amid those idle. restless,
,lemoralized children Of Montezuma, scarce
ly more civilized. perhaps more sunk in su.
perstition than in his age, and now trained
to civil war by half century Of incessant
revolution. What. [ say. could we do with
these people or these countries to add to
Southern strength Nothing. Gould we de.
grade ourselves so far as TO annex them on
equal terms. they would be sure TO come int
this Union free States ali. To touch them
in amy way is to be contaminated. England
and France, | have no doubt. wonld gladly
see Us take this burden upon our back. il we
would secure tor them their debts and neu-
tial route across the lsthmus. Such route
we must have Tor ourselves, and that is all
we have TO do with them. II we cannot get
| il BY negotiation or BY purchase, We must
seize and hold il by force of arms. The law
oi nations would justify it. and it is absolute
ly necessary for our Pacific relations. The
present condition Of those unhappy States is
certainly deporable, but the good God holds
them in the hollow Of his hand and i'll work
out their proper destinies.
We might expand the area Of slavery BY
acquiring Cuba, where African slavery is al
ready established. Mr.. Calhoun, from whose
matured opinions, whether on constitutional
principles or Southern policy. it will rarely
be found safe TO depart. said that Cuba was
:" forbidden truit to US unless plucSed in
an exgency Of war. There is no reasona-
Bile ground to suppose that we can acquire il
10 any other way I; and the war that will open
TO US such an occasion will be great and gen.
eral. and bring about results that the keenest
intellect cannot now anticipate. But il we
had Cuba. We could not make more than two
or three slave States there, which would not
restore the equilibrium Of the North and
south while, with the African slave trade
closed. and her only resort for slaves TO this
continent. she would, besides crushing our
whole sugar culture BY competition, afford
IN few years a market for all the slaves
in Missouri, Kentucky, and MARYLAND. She
is. notwithstanding the exorbitant taxes i'm
posed on her, capable raw nf absorbing the
annual increase of all the slaves on this con.
tlnent. and consumes, IL Is said. twenty or
thirty thousand year hy her system IL u.
bpr. Slaves decrease there largely. In lime.
under the system practised. every slave in
America might be exterminatei in Cuba as
we're the indians. However the idle African
may procreate in the tropics. il yet remains
TO be proven, and the facis are against the
conclusion, that he can IN those regions work
and tarIye. II is said Cuba is 10 be AT.
rlcaniZed rather than that the Unted State,
should take her. That threat, which was al
one time alarming, is no longer any cause of
disquietlie 10 the South. after our expert.
ence of the Africanizing 81 ST. Domingo aud
Jamaica. What have we lost by ihais
think we reaped some benefit; aud. il The
sltSes Of Cuba are turned loose. great So.
gar culture would grow up ln Loui.iaoa AID
Texas, rIsaling that Of cotton. aud dl,eriing
from II - much labor that cotton would rare
~ Oe OelVN us present pIiee.
We had bitter, lhen. think, at onre make
up our minds according 10 the facts, aud.
giving up all bootless efforts, iook every con
sequence of our position iul 10 the face. For
one. can do so without disnay without
the slightest trepdaiion Why the SDuth,
numbering twelve millions Of people. possess.
es already an imperial DOMAIN that can we'll
support az hundred millions more. What
docs she need 10 seek beyoni her borders, ar
what has lie to fear: With such a seacoa,t
anl harbors, such rivers, mountains. aud
PLAIN, 80 full u the precious metals, 20 Ter.
tile IN soil, 50 genial ~ climate. prnduing in
such unparalleled abundance the most yalua
BILE agricultural staples Of the warld capa.
bic oi manui ctnring 10 any extent. and po..
srsstng The best sncial aud industrial systems
that have ever vet been organized she might
have sunk lntp sloth lrpn excess 0f prosper.
~, had she nat been kept On the alert ~ tie
herce assault, ol an en,iOns world assaults,
shirh. AZ nne time alarming. il has been inI
fact scarcely more than whOIrsnme exercise
70 repcl an exercise which has made o. lhr
most yirtnOus aud one of the mpst eulighten.
ell and mp,t powerful people VIM nov Baur.
ish 90 the gobr. The South has long been
undertaking anl doing great injustice To
herself. She has been lamentlng her weak.
mes. anI croaking about the daagers that be.
- Ter, wnsn she might glory ii her strength
aud hurl defiance 10 her enemies.
But it is said that, with fixed and over.
whelmlng Tree State majority against Us IN
this Union, with all our natural advantages,
we must dissolve the connexion TO insure
our present safety and accomplish our pro.
per destiny. Perhaps so. But permit me
% suggest, not yet. The dissolution of The
Union is an alternative that We have always
at command, and for which We should be
ever ready but peaceful. prosperous, and
powerful people may not challenge Fate a
day too soon. The question still remains.
can the free States be brought 10 concur per.
manently in any line ofpolicy that will sub
vert the Constitution aud seriously damage
the South IN this Conlederacy! do notI