St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-02-03
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return consistent with its own views
of international right? If Cuba nat
urally belongs to the United States,
does not Portland by the same process
of reasoning belong to the Canadas {!
"The knowing oncs who pretend to
have the best information on all points,
say that Lord Lyons comes out to
this country with full powers to
make a bargain with Uncle Sam for
the purchase of Portland, Me-, and
that part Of the State which lies be-
tween that city and Canada. His
lordship is to make a liberal offer, but
at the same time to hint that the sale
must be made. In fact, there is a mani
fest irresistible destiny which deter
mines that hat seaport should belong
to Great Britain. 1t is plainly the
natural port of entry to the Canadas,
much the best that exists, therefore
by natures decree il belongs to Queen
Nictoria's %dominions.
As if to confirm the above, q letter
appears in the New York Tribune,
dated Bond street, London, Dec. %,
1853" which processes to give the rca-
sons for the transfer Of Lord Napier
to the Hague. If this letter had been
uaIeu April ISt, we should at once pro-
nounce it a foolish but good naturcd
hoax or if it had appeared in the
New York Herald we should with
equal promptncss throw it aside as
one of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for which
that sheet is so noted but appearing
in so respectable a public medium "
as the Tribune, it should have all the
credit which its statements merit.
The letter states, in grave and con
else language, that the discovery of
gold in New Caledonia has given a
new spring to British ambition of colo
NAL and prcponderating empire on the
North American continent, and caused
a new transatlantic policy to be in
auguratcd. The British possessions
to the North and East of the United
States are TO be united under q com
nor viceregal government, and the
travel and trade to the East arc to be
commanded by a railway across the
continent. But the frozen regions of
the Lower st. Lawrence, New Bruins
wick and Nova Scotia, offer impede
ments to the carrying out of the plan,
which are to be obviatcd by The dcquisi-
ton Of The State Of Maine! This scheme
is said to have received the concur
renee Of all the leading statesmen of
Great Britain, and it is thought will
result in the formation of an empire
on this continent more formidable even
than that Of the mother country itself.
The numerous harbors on the coast of
Maine, u British Railroad across its
territory, the great commercial i'm
portance of the city Of Portland, and
many other reasons, are given why
the acquisition Of the State is so ncccs-
sary to the success of the aforc-mcntion-
ed scheme, and furnishing hints for the
s%upposition hat the transfer will not
prove unwelcome to the people of that
State. At any rate this is the scheme,
and Lord Lyons is sen to Washington
to work out the details, either by di-
plomacy, purchase, or force.
The same veracious correspondent
gives us an insight into another nice
little diplomatic arrangement. The
Emperor Napoleon, it is said, is doing
everything in his power to embarrass
the projects of II government. One
of his schemes is to stir up the Span
ish government to make reclamation
IN the Cabinet at Washington for OK
penses incurred by Spain in keeping
up a large military and naval arma-
mcnt to guard the island Of Cuba from
the constantly threatening invasions
of fllibusters, and it is said that he
has gone so far as to intimate that
Spain has good grounds to claim the
rc-possession of East Florida, on ac-
count of its proximity to the gem of
the Isles, and the control which that
Peninsula must always have from its
geographical position yer the COM
merce of Cuba with Mexico and the
Old World.