The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-03

! I1IA 0IA HNAASA1Ass -
muDlty a taste for better things. We wonder
at the lack Of splrit shown In regard to this mat
ter bv residsus in the nelghborhood OF S@
Johns park WSshlngton parade ground UNION
square, Madison sqa.sre, stuyvesant square anu an,
Gramercy park. A cons..-' u10n o. -. .'r 49,, U
lars fiom the head Of each family - '.s &c
diate vicinity would pay for whole
weekly promenade concerts. Literally and
public spirit can hardly find cheaper or plea
santer outlet
Jsferon Davis on tho Cuba Qusstion-CouId
Cuba be Annexed 20 . Southern Confed-
eracys
In his recent speech to the State Convention Of
Mississippi, Mr. Jefferson Davis took up, among
other questions, that of the annexation Of Cuba
The matter had formed the subject Of ona & he
resolutions Of the Convention, and that n I'D
endorsed the policy Of the President in flacing
the question on the ground Of commercial and
poitica, necessity, which, in the event Of IN at
tempt to transfer the island to any other foreign
Power, would become absolute.
edges, is "as broad as the Union, and as free
from sectional or partisan faint as the spirit
| in which the consultation was ordained and es-
tablished." But he prefers to look OF the ques-
| ton in it's sectional rather than it's national
light and to descant upon "the Importance Of the
| island oil Cuba to the Southern States il formed
into separate confederacy." It's precisely on
this point that the Southern demagogues, of
which Mr. Davis is so versatile leader commit
the grossest error. They are continually con-
templating the importance of Cuba to Southern
confederacy, but it never enters their heads TO con-
slider the greater fact that Southern confederacy
would not be Of the slightest Importance to
Cuba Fit were possible for these men to sever
the union of the States and to attempt the
establishment Of Southern Confederacy Cuba
would cease to gravitate toward the Continent.
She is attracted now by the centripetal force Of
the Union; but the moment that should ever cease
to exist the confederative power would cease to
act upon her, just as it would cease to act
upon all the Southern States; and instead Of
witnessing the annexation Of that island to q
Southern confederacy, we should witness the
utter fmpossibility Of establishing a Southern
union. Free the Southern States from the cen
tripetal force that now holds them In harmo.
NOUS system, and each State would fly Off at a
tangent, impelled by the centrifugal force Of its
own interests.
In such an event Cuba would undoubtedly
lean towards the Northern States Demagogues
may talk about political necessities, but polid-
cal necessities are born Of and nurtured by ma
terial interests. The moment that political
necessities cease to be in harmony with those
interests, from that moment they cease to exist.
The material interests of Cuba attract her to
| this Union, but the moment it shall cease to be
| Union then her interests will draw her nearer
| to the Northern States. Maine sends her lum-
Der, fish, cooperage stock, boxes for her sugar,
ice for her wines, and thousands Of tons Of ship
ping to convey her products to market. Mas
sachusetts sends her few domestic goods-and
might send hundred times more but for hog
tile tariff-soap, candles, chairs, and Yankee no
tiors by ship loads. Rhode Island and Connec-
ticut send her potatoes, onions, cheese, hoops,
and oceans Of garden sarse." New York ex-
ports to Cuba machinery, dairy products fruits,
vegetables, paints oils, drugs, and every article
Of hand fabric. Pennsylvania sends her coal and
iron, with the patent leather aaddlery carriages,
&C., Of New Jersey, and all the knick. knacks of
| Philadelphia skill. Ohio sends her lard and
limited quantity of bacon. An ingenious tariff
excludes the -four of the West and the domestics
Of the East.
But when we come to the South, what do we
find sent from there? A few cargoes Of pitch
pine from Wilmington, Savannah and Pensacola,
and little rice from Charleston. That ia all.
And the return commerce sho VS. the same proper
tons as the outgoing. The sugar, molasses, to-
bacco, honey and segars Of Cuba come to the
North in by far the largest quantities. It is
evident therefore, that Southern c onfederacy
presents no attractions for Cuba, and should
such thing ever be established it could never
induce the people Of that island to unite with
them in the consequent conflict Of interests that
1t would create between the North and the South
We advise Mr. Jefferson Davis to think, before he
says anything more about annexing Cuba to
Southern confederacy, whether such thing
could present any attractions to Cuba We see
very clearly that it cannot and that if the Union
were dissolved Cuba would in all probability
| prefer to be Independent Of both Northern and
Southern demagogues
| SUNDAY Music IN THE CENTRAL PARK-CAIL
FOR PUBLIC MEErNG.-In another column we
publish two documents relating to Sunday laws
and Sunday recrcations. One is an application
to the Commissioners Of the Central Park, from
the Secretary Of the American Society for the
Promotion of Civil and Religious Liberty" ask
ing permission for the musical band which per-