The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-26
VOL. XIV. NO. a4e.

mated by economists would be a million of barrels
would be enjoyed by US exclusively inuie TO the ben
et of the suen Of my State and yours That Is evident
from the fact that no other country could compete With
us IN that staple for no other country so Cuba
or no prolific in breadstufs 40 ih twgle7 i7dieuf
We exported to Cuba in 1857 only As Ii5 barrels OF
-four, worth s32i ,4lO In 1853 IL sos barrels worth
sl05069 OF other articles pork lard hams and
bacons and including fourwe had in 1857 but 81 $685.
77ss In 1883, but sl22slls, Whereas, had liberal
commercial economy like that of Belgium Holland or
Great Britain obtained should had ut least sl0
100000 of produce exported. This would nearly have
balanced trade Ia sugar and coffee and these
have fixed no prehibitive tariff Thus is
crippled under the blows of this Spanish oppression Why
even the Spanish would be better helped by
liberal policy Such system In this commercial
freedom is shame TO civilization and If International
law We're rightly written il nwould itself be cause of
But have little hope that Spain viii sell Cuba or that
the Cubaas understand the OF the blessings which
attend annexation They will not perceive that they bo
come by annexation roeinal with New York and Ohio In
a crmmon Eague for the common veal They fear for
their church and domestic instittios II Asy any
part Of federal concetnrnent. t, III
was surprised to hect impedinent raised by dis
ngushed senator from South Carolina in his Barnwell
speech trust it is not shared by many southern men,
He objects to taking Cuba first because it may involve
war, whose consequences he states to be fearful He
leaves MS In doubt to these consequences Does he
mean the reduction of Cuba to the condition OF Hayi
terrible consequence. That might follow; but that is
rather English than Spanish threat and hardly ca
pable ut execution in time when Span and France
revVsps the slave trade to cheaper tropical produce His
second objection is more salient quote It entire:
f had Cuba, or three sla vc
States there which would the equilibrium the North
and The South while with the African slave trade closed
only resort TO this continent she would besides crushing
whole culture by her competition afford In few years
notwithstanding the imposed her. capable
absorbing the annual increase all the this continent
q labor slaves decrease .sre rs.y ii mc under The se
e., Sssy Ays IN er % might mig b. os'ermsa u Gaia
tropics yet remains to be and the facts
'Arnned rather than ,ha, The United States should
take her That threat which at time omow aarmng
Of the Acanizg Of st. Domingo and Jamaea What have
by that think we reaped some benefit and the slaves Of Cuba
and Texas rivang cotton dvertng
that cotton would rarely be below its pe lls a
This objection is two fold. The inter State slave trade
with Cuba in case of annexation he thinks would make
several free States by the demand and consumption of
negroes and, If it would not Cuba would not give
the South the prepondeance in the Union and secondly
sugar, he thinks. would be cheap to the whole Union
while few thousand sugar planters, who just thrive
the bounty they get, would be ruined. AS to the
argument about Kentucky, Missouri and Maryland be-
coming free through Cuban annexation leave that to
the members from those States As to the sugar say
that argument of that kind addressed to frce-trade
people by freetrader should go far to weaken the morale
OF his great and frank speech it docs the economy
his politics. 10 the people of my State such argu
ment win quicken their ambition to acquire Cuba not
alone because Of the millions to be gained by increase
OF our exports thher, which taxed prohbitively
but because pay tax Cuban sugar which is harsh
protective and ndefcnsble in any epoch of depressed
exchequer In 1857 there in ALL of sugar and
asses, imported from Cuba into the United Statess $40
093 466 worth The tariff these sugars S12 02S
039 80. Ohio paid onetenth of this, about twelve
hundred thousand dollars which is equal to her immense
school tax and nearly half million than she pays
for her State government and nearly onchaf of the
penses of all her counties BY tariff of 1857
ducci the tax sugar six per cent and the panic
hmm
ending June 80 1883 sugars from Cuba amounted to
only sis $40 022givng of 81 46s sos 49, at
twenty four per cent, ad uqlorem. !.
Since lS47, when Mr. Polk proposed annexation, this
nation must have paid over sixty millions sugar tax Ohio
has paid of that Sc 600 600 My district has paid
twentieth part of So, 1000, 000 $500 900 an
nual tax of $50 000-aIl for whatG That one of the
prime neccssaes of life shond be fostered into premature
growth to aid few sugar planters in the South If Cuba
cannot be annexed to break this servy, by which the
many made tributary to the few then must re-
model democracy and economy My State legislature
in 1854 passed resolution at my solicitation requesting
Congress to abate this tax There for its
istence. .st. ~ FltfYstl.F bsE IS tsI HHfHEft58ifsH
"But," it is said "we must protect Texas and Lou
isiana in their few sugar pantaons If Cuba in.
away goes the tax (" Every man woman and child ia
my State will say Away with it Welcome Cuba aud
free sugar! t. '.But" says the senator if Cuba be
Aficanzed and kept out it will keep up the price
sugar, and great growth win spring up, rvallng cot
ton. What then Ecstasyl Negroes viii be in de-
mand. Cotton, too, will be kept hight What an ar
gunent for senator of all the United States every
of whose interests his own The Union is cotton
pod Laughter Its growth dependent on the growth
of the cane If, by this logic Cuba is to be kept out
let know ii. Already the republican mouth grows
juicy the prospect with Cuba in the Unionl laugh
ter 1t matters not IL sugar be made by slaves That
little decacy of Exeter Hall scntipentay is becoming
obsolete. Even GuaSers are willing TO drink chea,
damnation in their coeecups and cat it on their buck
whcats
My most distinguished constituent the governor of my
State and candidate for the presidency, will out
your southern hospurs in the of annexation IL
thus you dress your laggnrd logic In speech at a
Yankee festival in my city, where the Pilgrims were
praised for many virtue which they had not and their
noeabc intolerance CLOSED by the fervor of
the hour Governor Chase is reported to have advocated
the policy of eaving to every the absolute control
of all matters of domestic concernmept and ndc6-
mite expansion of empire" III this does not include
Cuba will ask his friends opposite TO say what is
cluded by bis concluding remark that the last result
of the enlarging empire both of American government
and American principles, he 'the parliament
of man to sit on the destnics Of the world n l7a
did not dream that should have to welcome the
Ohio aspiant for the White House into the support of
its present occupant did not dream last fail that
should represent him nearly 4 warn gentlcmen OF
the South to observe these gns and prevent this grand
ceny of democratic thunder by considering the propo
son which gentleman last session called national
grand larceny Call it by what name you will, i am
ready the call the President If for nothing
else for the benefit Of $3.50 900 900 OF yearly rade
which must pass under the range of Cuban cannon.
am ready to vote for the bill of the gentleman Of
North Carolina MR. BRAscn looking to the purchase OF
Cuba and not very particular to tile amount of
money with which I'll the blank in his bill. In
would favor its seizure in Of foreign of Eu-
royean intervention 5aH W ff HaFttI4 e ..s FI.e