St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-08-11

acre. therefore the Democracy propose
to pay at least Sl20,000,000 for an
island out in the Gulf of Mexico, on
which there is not probably one acre
of land not covered by some Spanish
grant They propose to pay this
enormous sum for nothing but the ma
ked right to govern Cuba-for in its
purchase of Spain You would obtain
al the sovereignty nothing else
But Cuba, when acquired with one
and half millions of people, must
come in like Texas, as one or more
States, and under our form of govern
ment must govern herself and send
Senator'S and Representatives, to Con-
gress to assist in governing the Uni
ted States You will, therefore, have
obtained for this great outlay of pub
lie treasure, two or more Creole Uni
ted States Senators, and ten or fifteen
Creole Members of the House of Rep
rescntatives at an average cost OF ten
or twelve millions of dollars per head,
to aid the Slave States by their votes
in acquiring still more Slave territory,
to be paid for principally by the north
ern people.
Nor is it probable that the people of
Cuba will ever become, as alleged,
large consumers of the great staples
of the Northwest--that they will ever
consume large quantities of -four, and
animal food, except lean beef. 1t is
prccludcd by a physical law which
annexation can never change. Cuba
is a tropical country where fatty ami
NAL food is not needed in large guam
titles even by laborers its Office and
that of starchy matter, is said, by the
learned, to be chiefly to generate heat
for the animal system the rays OF
tropical sun supply its place. The
Esquimaux under the pole, live al
most exclusively on blubber 1T is
consumed by the animal economy at
it's internal fires, to supply the rapid
loss of animal heat. Under the equa-
tor the food of the inhabitants is
chiefly Notwithstanding mostly
of fruits Even the beef of the North
west will never be in great demand in
Cuba-it is too fat and too valuable,
to compete in such a market with the
lean, cheap beef of South America,
suited to the physical wants Of the in
habitants. Our staples must find
their principle markets in the North,
where needed by the masses for daily
food. Small quantities will be sold in
the South and used as a luxury-like
tropical fruits at the North.
The allegation so necessarily made
by all the leading Democratic mem
bcrs of Congress during the closing
days of the last session, that Cuba is
the military key to the gulf, that it
commands the mouth of the Missis-
sippi and it's vast commerce OF the At.
lantic with the Pacific coast--that all
of this immense trade is carried on
under the guns of her castlcs--that
we would not dare to engage in war
with England or any great maritime
power without the control of this
island, is mere defamation. Cuba is
not new creation: it is as old as
the continent we have never owned
it, and yet, when we were in our in
fancy as nation, we dared" to
fight and to .fog, in two successive
wars, the greatest nation on the globe.
If Cuba belonged to the United States,
lying out in the gulf, according to the
map, more than one hundred miles
from the nearest point of main land
on our coast, and six or seven hundred
miles distant from any considerable
port in the United States in the event
of war with maritime power, it
would cost more men and money for
its protection than all our other pos
sessions.
The idea so industriously inculcated
at the North by Southern statesmen,
that the transfer of the Island of Cuba,
of which there is not the slightest
probability, to another European pow
er, would be dangerous to the United
States, and should be resisted at every
hazard, even at the cost of war, is SO
supremely ridiculous as to be amazing
that the Northern Democracy do not
treat its authors with derision wherev-
CT the disgraccful and cowardly propo-
sition is mentioned. They seem to be
| oblivious of the fact, that Cuba is sur
rounded by islands now in possession
of the English, the French, the Danes
the Swedes and the Dutch, * and yet
no American is trembling in his boots
for the safely of the Republic.
And no one can be serious in pre-
tending that its acquisition would Sc
cure the abolition of the African slave
trade, while it is being successfully
prosecuted in the Carolnas and Geor
gia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana ant
| Texas.
These reasons, when candidly ex
amined, all fail. The cat under tn,
meal is badly concealed. The slave
holders of the nation demand the
strengthening of the shackles which
manacle the toiling millions of thei
miserable people by the admission o
comparatively populous countries, no
as public domain for an outlet to on
swelling population, but as states t.
hold the balance of power in the coun
ellis of the nation f: CUBA has dense
populations and Sonora and Chihua
hua, each, has population equal t.
that of Minnesota or Oregon, and
acquired must be admitted as States:
and the Democratic party now com
I pletely under their control, is required
to perform this nnwelcome service
Like the patient OK, they are com
maudei to bend their nccks to til,
yoke--like the stupid ass, who still
knows his masters crib, they are re
qured to submit their backs to this
burthen and their leaders, like ou1
mother Eve beguiled by the Devil il
the garden of Eden, are holding thu
tempting fruit laden with curses, t,
the lips of thepeople. and urging then
to "eat," with the subtle logic that i
is desirable "to the taste and goot
for the eyes"
l am aware that thousands in Iowa
who still propose to vote what will b.
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