The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1859-02-19

rise, and with material aid" from the
United States throw off the Spanish yoke,
declare the Island " rec sovereign and
independent" State, these Proconsuls aud
savage Captain Generals of Cuba have ever
been authorized to proclaim emancipation.
Every administration of the Federal Gov.
ernment, from james Monroe 10 Franklin
Pierce, have boldly declared that Cuba can
never pass ont Of the hands of Spain and
come under the protection of any foreign
power. John Q. Adams, in bis letter to the
American Minister at Madrid, in 1923, says:
The transfer of Cuba to Great Britain
would be an event unpropitious to the inter-
-cs of the United States" aud in the same
dispatch he said, after describing the geo-
graphical, commercial, m'rd ard politi al
relations formed by nature between Cuba
and the United States, that ain looking
forward t. the probable course tf events for
the short period of half century, it is
scarcely possible to resist the conviction, that
the annexation Of Cuba to cur Federal Re-
public, will be indispensable to the con-
tnuance and integrity of the Union itself"
John Quincy Adams i. high authority on
this subject, when it is known that his polit-
lcal associations were with those who ou-
pose territorial acquisitions, and his views
as to slavery would incline him to oppose
the annexation of Cuba, but in the above
language he breathed the national sentiment
.0f the present age
The question of Cuban annexation has
been a subject Of national interest and dis.
custom for the last thirty years. Every
American statesman of national reputation,
has favored it, not merely to extend the
limits of the republic not merely to extend
the moa of slave territory, but because they
believed the Interests of the whole country
require it, In proof Of this we could here
introduce the dispatches of Mr. Forsyth,
Minister to Madrid, in 1922. Mr. Adams in
1923, Henry Clay, as Secretary of State, in
1873, Mr.. A. II. Everett, as Minister to
| Spain in 1926, Mr.. Van Buren, rs Secretary
Of State in 1929, Mr. Stevenson, as Minister
to England in 1897, Daniel Webster, as
Secretary of State in 1913, Washington
Irving, as Minister to Spain in 1913, \. T.
! UpshUr, as Secretary of Stote in 1874, Mr..
Buchanan, as Secretary Of State in lS47,
.ir Saunders, as Minister to Spain in lS48,
Mr. Marcy, as Secretary Of State in 1858.
After this record are we to be called 6Gbus-
te?s when we declare ourselves in favor of
Cuban annexation? Filibustcrs land-steal.
ers, when the Spanish archives at Madrid
are filled with our complaints made by us
/ ter uuproyoked aegressions upon our rights,
and the grossest insults offered to our
national f1g, which would have justified us
I in taking Cuba, and which we could have
done with impuuity, at any time within the
last thirty years, but we had forbearance
and patience.
The Democratic party IS the party to
bring Cuba into the Union Make annexa-
ton an issue in 1856 Place the Lone Star
on the Democratic Flag and with two good
Democrats as candidates for the Presidency
and ce Presidency, we will gain glorious
victory over Black Hepubicanism, Know
Noihingism, and all other isms. But you
ask, how then will the Democracy effect the
4 object? After majority Of the people of
the United States have express 4 themselves
favorable to annexation it vii give strength
to the arguments of our diplomatic agents,
Il England and France dare not goto war
) with US about it. SPIN, unsustained by
them, must see the destiny Of Cuba, and
she will make the most of her lovely
Island. T. j. II.
November %, 1855,