Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-30

please excuse US from taking stock in such cant.
But our compositors warn US to be brief We
have, in what we have said, been somewhat
warm-but we have endcaYored to ''draw it
mild'-with the intention in reserve, however,
to increase the dose pro re nGta, as the doc
tors say. We have no intention of being
meek submissive, and allowing Jas. B. Bingham
to dog at our heels day by day as he has been
accustomed to do with some people here. We
have the power, we think, and the material with
which to play measure for measure" in any
game that James B. Bingham may introduce
The ACQUISITION OF CUBA-This subject has
had growing interest from certain class of
our politicians for a number of years. The
matter has now become one of popular consid-
Grafton The public has lately been furnished
with disclosures of rather striking character
and which tended to involve the executive in
the popular surmises. There are many reasons
both for and against the annexation of Cuba at
this time.
Looking at it in slavery point of view,
which is about the first view which our
politicians take of anything of the kind now, it
presents several phases worthy of considera-
ton. It would add to the South two Senator's
and perhaps about six members of the lower
house, its population being about million and a
half We do not think this advantage would be
Of great permanancy to the South. AS soon as
Cuba is annexed to the United States, the slave
trade from Africa will be stopped, and she will
have to look for supplies from other quarters
These will have to come from the States, and if
from the extreme Southern quarter, the vacuum
there occasioned will have to be filled up, and
this must be done from the more northern por-
ton of the Slave States The natural tendency
of slavery is southwark. This southern pro-
gression will leave want in the northern Slave
States, which the natural increase will not be
able to supply, ana or consequence tAo institn-
ton will die out in those States This will in
volye the loss to the South of southern Senators
from Maryland, Virginia North Carolina, Ken
lucky and Tennessee, as we'll as members of the
House of Representatives from.the same States,
and the acquisition of two Senators and six
Representatives from Cuba. But suppose it is
divided into three or four States, which may be
the case some years after annexation, it is by
no means certain, nor is it probable that they
would all come into the Union as Slave States
The South has been always too rash in spring.
ing to conclusions, which time proved were not
warranted by circumstances. In the annexa-
ton of Texas she labored to believe She saw
the triumph and permanent ascendancy of the
the southern power Before long Texas will be
divided into six or eight States, which, with
perhaps one or TWO exceptions, will come in as
free soil. Nothing, then, can be gained by the
South in the annexation of Cuba, in slavery
point of view. In an agricultural point ofview,
we think the greatest advantage gained with
Cuba would be to the North. 1t would provide
for her an unrestricted and wealthy r,arkct for
her grain, wood and manufactured products
Whatever she had to dispose of would there
readily find a purchaser-while the South
would be well nigh ruined by the competition
OF this island state in the production of south
ern products. We fancy it is upon this prin-
ciple that the tone of England has likely changed
and is now advocating the claims of the United
States to Cuba. She sees that if it is annexed
and free trade democracy shall rule, it will open
to her a fine opportunity for speculation.
We cannot see in what manner it is particu-
larly adapted as defence to the southern coast.
In case of war with power superior in naval
force, it would certainly be difficult position
to maintain. With such an extent of coast, all
of which is open to the sea, and easy of access.
it would be almost impossible to preserve it
1t seems to US that unless some inevitable cir.
cum stance should make it obligatory upon us to
take Cuba, we should let it alone for the pres.
ent. The hasty extending of the nations lin.
its is very apt to prove an unhealthy enterprise,
We have been acting, as nation, the part of
gormand for some years, and it Will take us
sometime to properly digest and regulate what
we have already taken in. The kind of annex.
alton We believe in is, that which comes in the
natural and gradual course of events, without
any stimulation whatever We have faith in
the ultimate universally of our nation, if it is
only let grow in substantial and healthy man.
ner. The neighboring provinces will be placed
in our hands as tributes to the worth and glory
of our principles.
Wick you see a gentleman, at midnight sit.
ing on the step in front ofhis house, combining
ms hair with the door scraper, you may iudge
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