New-York daily tribune., 1859-01-31
TuE spANuARDs on SELLING CUBA,

THE sPANIARDs ON SELLING CUBA.
Mr.. Bayard regards as entirely uocaIled-for aad
merely idle, the sensibility exhibited in the Span
ish Cortes on the subject of Mr. Buchsnsn's impot-
tunity for the purchs,e of Cuba aud n this view OF
the matter SIr. Tooubs comedies. Mr. Bsyard Is
not aware he says of thing in the law OF nations,
which is TO prevent the United States from offering
to buy of any nation any piece OF territory t1e ac
QUESTION of y ahch is desirable 10 us. Neither is
there anything, that We are aware Of 10 tue law oil
the District of CoIumbi,, to prevent aoy dealer in
old clothes from off, ring 10 buy the Zoe coat Oft the
back Of any Member Of Congress, whom the said
dealer might bsppen to think ought in justice to
hls creditors, 10 sell it, and t) apPy the proceeds
thertol to the discharge of his unsettled board bills.
TIE law, 30 far as we under,tand, does not pro-
bibit such protosals to buy; but if .uch proposi-
ton were second time urged upon Mr. Biyard,
after having been once declined, aud If toe Old
clothes dealer, by way Of inducing him to SELL
should JINGLE purse of thirty gold eagles in his
face, We should not be in the least surprised # even
the sober, discreet and lsw.abidiog Dir. Bayard
shoold reply BY giving the iatruder kick.
Southern planters msy BOT understand it; but
there does nevertheless exist rations, as We'll as
individuals, q strong adhesive attachment even
to articles Of iranimate property, and espe-
cay 10 land. Mr. Cobb states 10 his last book
on Slavery that planters have no local attachments
that they are essentially nomatc in their habits,
have no tender associations with the idea of home
or country, AID put no value whatever upon their
p'atiatons except for what they can get out of
tbtm, being real 10 eel out and move off when
ever they can get a good offer, OF toe productive
ness of the lard begins 10 fail L. is not surprising
that such sort of people should look upon an offer
TO buy them ou' as quite friendly act. 1t Is true
that IN tie case OF Cuba il is not merely land that
We offer TO buy. Cubais popuIous island, and,
along with the land, We propose To take over
million and half OF people. This might
seem to some persons to alter the case.
There might appear to be nothing out Of the
wsy in offering aprice to the Queen Of Spain for
a piece Of land, either wild or cultivated; bat to
offer to buy of her million and half Of her sub
jrcts might appear another matter. We caonos
expect, however, that Mr. Bayard or Mr.. ToOmbs
should be able TO any sort Of difference between
the two cases They regard men and women as
berg Just a. much articles Of sals and put
chase as lard ard houses. IL is said that
Southern planters DO not hesitate 10 sell their own
cberen. Why should such ptrsons regard 1t as
an insult TO ssk the Queen Of SPAN TO sell her SUB
jectsl Christophe, King Of Hsyt, used to recruit
his army by purchasing slaves from the coast Of
Africs. He, too, had been brought up on slave
plantation; and there seems TO have been-ss
might naturally be expected under the crcum-
stances-quiie coincidence between his ideas and
tho.e Of our Southern brethreo who propose 10
recruit the population Of this rnioo by buying Of
the Queen of Spain million aud q half Of people Of
al ages, .exes, col dltiOns and colors.
Cobcede however, TO Mr. Bsysrd a-d Mr.
TOombs, that there is 10 insult 10 the Spanish
good round prices grant that, loOkiog st the ques-
ton devoid of all human and natural feeling, or Of
what Mr. Bsysrd and Mr. Toombs would call, We
suppose, sickly sentimentality, it is as much the
interest Of Spain to eel ss il is the interest Of the
Slave Power TO buy; still, even they must admit
tnos ~ 40 PosclDiC W Pus ""S' oP"n Nu"N
grounds a. 10 turn it into an insult. Mr.. Toombs,
though he would receive, he says, proposal
for the purchase Of Massachuse tts or Georgia with
rerft CT squsnmity ja,t, We suppose, sshe would an
offer for the purchase OF his own private domestic
e,tablishment, does yet admit that the proposal
might be made "in an improper manner" so ss
actually TO turn it into an iDigt. And, pray,
bow is it, that it is now proposed to m,ke
this offer to SPAIN Mr.. Slidell, from the
Committee On Foreign Affairs, brings in
report, which is submitted to Congress,
with open doors, and pubhsbed to al the world, in
which Spain is represented a. poor, efete, help
less nation, unable to keep Cuba; aud, if she does
not sell it, to be plundered Of it; ard this is
represented in tho report as the principal argu-
Dent which viii be urged upon Spain BY way OF
inducing her 10 sell. The Spanish Government 10