Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-12-02

cessary for our Pacific relations The
present condition of those unhappy States
is certainly deplorable, but the good God
holds them in the hollow Of his hand, and
will work out their proper destinies.
We might expand the area OF Slavery by
acquiring Cuba, where African Slavery is
already established. Mr.. Calhoun, from
whose matured opinions, whether on con-
siitutlonal principles or Southern policy, it
will rarely be found safe TO depart, said that
Cuba was forbidden fruit" TO us, unless
plucked in an exigency Of war. THERE'S no
reasonable ground 10 suppose that we can
acquire il in anyother wayi and the war that
will open 10 us such an occasion will lie
great and general, and bring about results
that the keenest intellect cannot now antic-
ipate. But if we had Cuba, we could not
make more ihan two or three slave States
there, which would not restore the equilib-
rum 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 her competition, afford in few years a
market for all the slaves in Missouri, Ken
lucky, and Maryland. She is, noiwith-
standing the exorbitant taxes imposed on
| her, capable now of absorbing the annual in
crease Of all the slaves on this continent,
it is said, twenty to thirty thousand year,
by her system of labor. Slaves decrease
there largely. In time, under the system
practiced, every slave in America night be
ex,erminaed in Cuba, as were The Indians
However the idle African may procreate in
the tropics, il remains to be proven, and the
facts are against the conclusion, that he can
in those regions work and thrive. Ii is said
Cuba is to be "Africanized.' rather than
the United States should take her. That
threat, which at one time was somewhat
alarming, is no longer any cause OF disqui-
etude 10 the South, after our experience Of
the Africanizing Of ST. Domingo and jana
cha. What have we lost by that? think
we reaped some benefit; and, if the slaves
of Cuba are turned loose, great sugar cul-
ture would grow up in Louisiana and Tex
as, rivalling that Of cotton, and divertine
from il so much labor that cotton would
rarely be below IFS present price.
! You must not suppose for moment that
! am opposed to the Expansion of the area
Of African Slevery." On the contrary,
believe that God created negroes for no 9th.
er purpose than 10 be "the hewers Of wood
and drawers of wa.er"-that is, 10 be slaves
of the white race-and | wish 10 see them
in that capacity on every spot on the sur
face of the globe where their labor is nee
essary or beneficial. Nor do doubt that
such will be the final result. Much less
would 1 oppose the acquisition Of territory
that would place the slave States on nu-
mcrical equality and more with the free
States in the Union. But this review and
scrutiny Of the resources Of The South shows
I think, pretty conclusively, that we have
not now the surplus population nor sui'a-
Bile territory within in our present reach to
create amy number Of slave States; that io
attempt ii by costly yet impracticable and
abortive enterprises will be 10 waste our
strength 10 no purpose; and that the idea Of
recovering the equality in voting Of The
slave and free States, whether on the floors
of Congress or elsewhere, is Visionary
We had better then. think, a, once make
up our minds according 10 the facts, and,
giving up all bootless efforts, look every
consequence of our position full i'll The face.
Fer one, can do so without dismay-wi,h-
out the slightest !Tepidation. Why, the
South numbering Twelve millions of people,
possesses already On imperial domain that
can well support an hundred millions more.
What does she need to seek GeYond her
borders, or what has she TO fear? With
such seacoast and harbors, such rivers.
mountains, and plains; SO full of the prec-
ious metals, so fertile in soil, SO genial in
climate, producing in such unparalleled a.
bundance the most valuable agricultural
staples of the world; capable Of manufacture
ing 10 any extent, and possessing the best
social and industrial systems that have ev-
er yet been organized; she might have sunk
into sloth from excess Of prosperity, had
she not been kept on the alert by the fierce
assaults Of an envious world, assaults which
at one time alarming, it has been in fact
scarcely more than wholesome exercise 70
repel-an exercise which has made us the
most virtuous and one of the most enlight-
ened and most powerful people who now
flourish on the globe. The South has long
been undertaking and doing great injustice
to herself. She has been lameniing her
weakness, end croaking about the dangers
that beset her, when she might glory in her
strength and hurl defiance 10 her enemies.
But tits said that, with fixed and over
wheIming free-Slate majority against us in
this Union, with all our natural advantages,
we must dissolve the connection to insure
our present safety and accomplish our prop
er destiny. Perhaps so. But permit me
to 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 nsy not challenge Fate a
day too soon. The question still remains,
can the free States be brought to concur
permanently in any line of policy that will
subvert the Constitution and seriously dam
age the South in this Confederacy? lido not
believe that they can. Reckless as is poIit-
icsl ambition, and insane as fanaticism ever
Il o.