Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-02-12

RhIueI uOieCufe budL iS pftclplt81eQ upon ne
lofty mountains of the interior and create the
largest rivers OF the globe and make the land
bloom with eternal verdure. For this reason, the
tropics Of America exceed in fertility s ether in
tertropical regions, in which drouth prevails for
onehaIf of the year, and the other half is the sea
son of floods. Instead, therefore, of being an
expense to the nation, the foundation Of such
colony would be the grandest commercial en-
terprise Of the age The richest tropics in the
world lying adjacent to Us, opened up to rs By
people speaking our own language, deeply
imbued with our ideas Of government and ne
iglon, leaning upon us for support and guid-
ance, and to whom the climate is innoxiouE-
How different would our India be from that of
Great Britain, where to make market she is
compelled to coerce hostile people, speaking
different tongue, having different religion
and government, distant from her thousands Of
miles, and with climate destructive to thoso
through whom she maintains her ascendeueY.
Are the young merchants Of Boston and Of
America Indifferent to an enterprise which
would give to our commerce, without a rival,
such an empire as that to which have point.
ed Ian empire not to be won by ernelty and
conquest, but by peaceful and benignant means,
by imparting to others the inestimable blessing
of liberty which we enjoy, and removing from
our midst the only cause which threatens the
prosperity and stability of our Union. Are the
merchants of Boston to whom now address
myself Indifferent to that other grand enterprise
which has so often been pointed out to them
by the ablest statesmen of our country, and BY
means of which we shall contend with Europe
for the commerce of Asia and the Islands ofths
East, and from vantage ground which insures
our success allude, of course, to the highway
of nations through the heart Of our country, y,ccn
Meeting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Letms
say to you that it is this great highway, giving
to our race its seat ct empire within the tenn
perate zones ofthis continent, and commanding
the commerce Of the East, which is to strength
en- them for the civilization and peaceful con-
quest of the American tropics, through the in
strumentality of that race which an inscrutabIs
Providence appears to have eplaced among rs to
be fitted for the task We shall then see the
great Gulf Stream, which gathers its mighty
volume beneath the tropics and washes the
whole Atlantic front of the continent, bearing
upon its bosom to all our cities the tributes Of
richer and vaster commerce than that which
India has enriched and built up mighty nations
to perish with its loss.
Il is this connexion between the two oceans
BY railroad which is TO make for the confederacy
FIVE great Free States beyond the Mississippi
Add to this measure one which shall secure to
every man homestead in the public domain.
inaEenable, except by devise, and you shall see
Free States arise like magic in the great West
-frce-because, where every man Is q land
holder, no man can be q slzveholder-and 20
well is this understood, that you viii find no
supporter of the slave holding oigarchy, who
can be induced TO support measure BY which
the public lands will pass easily and rapidly 70
actual settlers. When BY this process the num-
Der and the power Of the Free States are multi
piled, and the Slave States lose the ability, IN
combination with that interested capital else
where which always sympathizes with the cap
ital invested in negroes, to command the Pre1i-
dency and control the Government, Slavery
will cease to be political question IN the ns-
ton, and will be remitted to the people within
the States, divested of all political motives for
maintaining it to be dealt with as an economi.
csi question. The result viii be emancipation
of the slaves, upon the compensation and By
the consent of the masters, because it viii be for
the interest Of all Tue fact that the slavshoId-
ing interest has, by such combination, control
led the Government and commanded its po9srs
and its immense patronage, is Of itself motive
for sustaining the institution infinitely grsstaE
than the profit it brings to the masters. Taxa
that away By the measures which VII eTeats IN
the least possible time vast prepouderznes of
Free States, and Slavery must stand on its OWn
merits. Stripped of the strength It POSSESSES
by being, in fact, the Government Of this
country, disPozsing patronage q 500, ,ooo. .ooe
per annum, and able to crafty or diSaPPoint the
wishes of every man OF ambition in the nation,
when the divine institution ceases 10 fact to b
the Government of the United States-it viii
receive no more honor than the DIVINE right of
Kings, in the person Of some deposed and fugi-
=
Louis Philippe are now ready 70 take sersios
with the Emperor Napoleon hit Will those
who bow to the black idol of Slavery, beeaEss
it eonfers upon its partisans the honoEs and
emoIumeDts Of the State and National Govern
ments, refuse to worship at the loftier and pu-
rer shrine of Liberty, when the same motives
prompt their devotioDsi believe that when
Slavery no longer wields the political power Of
this great Government, it viii fall Of It's own
weight. Emancipation and tie removal Of the
enfranchised race to the tropics viii follow, and
the Southern States viii 6ll up with the people
of our own race and the pretext now put forth fer
monopolizing the soil by slave labor, that the
white man cannot work in that climate, viii b
| found to be sher falacy. Nowhere do the powers
of the white race, mental aud physical, attain
greater perfection. And are we to be told IN
defiance of the decree that Sin the sweat Of his
brow man should live,' thst the highest sndow-
ments were conferred on him IN q rich and ge-
NAL region that they might be buried in iAdO-
lencel Fact disProves it as well as theory
Throughout .he whole race-horse cline ths
white man is stronger in endurance than the
African. Our whole country is in the tempe
rate, not the torrid zone; and we find that, even
| in the cotton country of Texas, the emigTnnt
Germans produce the best and the highest pric-
ed cotton, and more Of it 10 the. acre, than l.
grown on slave plantations When the cloud
passes off from Virginia, aud its renovation 10
prescribed in the adjoining Carolinas, it viii
pass, too, from their worn out lands, and white
| freeholders will renew them and make more
cotton from their hundred-aere fields than will
| be obtained from plantations Of thousand de-
vastated by slave culture. This wonder is
already opening the eyes Of farmers in Mary
/ land and Virginia, who see wheat fields created
without slave making tenfold to the acre over
their poor crops spread over their African
wastes. The great mountain plateau that runs
through Mexico, and follows the Pacific down
/ into the tropics, makes the only region where
civilization has touched the Indian and soften.
ed his savage nature; and the only stable Gov
eminent existing in these regions Is that wisld-
/ ed by Rafael Carrara, the Indian dictatoE Of
Guatemala The negro alone can reclaim the
vast level plains and pampas, tbs terra cahents
OF the continent. Shall the races conform to
the law of their creation, or shall we attempt to
change the order Of their nature. and bring ret
ribution upon ourselves BY striving to SubVsFt
with our devices the DEGREES Of Omnfpotenee
How grsndly our nation would loom up in
the eyes of the world, if abandoning the policy
which makes it the taskmaster Of slaves, il
should lay its hands to the work not only Of re
storing freedom to the race which has 50 long
and SO faithfully served rs and our fathers, but
to recompense them for their long servitude, by
giving them all homes congenial to their ma
ment oftheir own, in which, without ceasng TO