Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-01-10

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niles % confront border war on the siays and
free frontiers, and 70 push the scheme Of
southern conquests, and to maintain them and
keep down domestic insurrsetion. would bo
the succedaneum for the security conferred
By common government But the way 10
the success Of the League cannot be opened
without assurance of the conquest and en-
slavement Of Mexico and Central America,
the obstacles TO which seem not to have been
considered.
1t certainly would not FL the measure Of
the ambition Of those who first demanded the
surrender Of California, then Of Kansas, and
all south Of its northern line 10 the Pacific
and the Gulf, TO the Slave States, as the price
Of remaining in the Union, 10 throw off the
northern tier Of Slave statea as oht-posts to
protect them from Northern aggression, and
huddle the four millions Of slaves along the
Gulf coast, making o string Of their confed-
eracy, beginning with North Carolina, and
ending with Texas, on the Rio Grande. Such
Gordon Of Slave States, exposed to invasion
and abduction all along the shore by all the
naVies Of tho powers opposed 10 the institu-
tion, and liable to be broken by the rush Of
the masses from the Western States. resolved
to assert their claim to New Orleans as their
post and the whole region as part of the
Union, is certainly not that grand and secure
empire, to which the slavery extensionists
look, to sxalt them above the Confedersev in
which they now enjoy their full share Of pow
er and glory. 1t is not this sickly shred of
Gulf States, though filed to oVerhoWing with
freshly-impOrted Africans that the agitators
against the Union look for compensation for
its abandonment They look to the eonouests
of those masters in slavery prOpagandism who
superseded the declining Roman on the Eux-
inc and Mediterranean, and who still exhibit
on the Bosphorus the symbols of expiring
sovereignty Our aspiring imitators, who
would propagate their faith and its peculiar
Institution by the sword, making the Gulf Of
Mexico, as distinguished Southern states
man called it, their Mare Clausum, and, as q
consequence, its islands and surrounding
States, now free, its Yassals, have hitherto too
successfully used, in this direction, the power
of the COnfederacy with which they are still
connected, TO abandon it hastily.
The price of Cuba, whether it is to be ac-
quired by the purse, or by the purse and the
sword, would cost more Of treasure and of
blood than an infant Southern Confederacy
could afford. So the conquest Of Mexico and
Central America, with all the people to resist
! impending slavery, TO say nothing Of the al
lies that might be brought to aid resistance
in such a cause, presents difficulties that mal Q
ambition pause.
Hence, as long as the Southern combination
can dictate Northern President with their
Southern principles, the Federal power will be
used to promote the scheme Of foreign con-
quest in their behalf. 1t will be content to
get Mexico by piece-meal, and to wait on in
/ trigue and the chances Of fllibustering for
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to be under the control Of the Combination,
we hear it announced that the election Of
Republican Chief Magistrate by the voice of
majority Of the people, in defiance of the
dictation thus proclaimed, dissOlves the I'm
ion; but yield the President to the Combina-
tion, and for the present the Union may
stand. f..Ha .ts1 e--t.
In my opinion, aequiescenee in demands
thus made, tends to produce the state of things
which can alone tempt any portion of the
South into secession. If Northern wealth
and power can be driven to hand over Cuba,
Central America and Mexico in manaeles, to
/ the slave States, they would then have capital
| to set up for themselves, on the principle Of
| Constantinople. The seceders from the Sub
lime POrte-Egypt, Tunis, Fripoli and Algiers,
might afford examples more suitable than the
/ Grand SeignoF's emporium, to direct the en-
terprize of our regulators Of the Union-the
fllibusters along Ihe Gulf Coast-the corsair
experience being particularly instructive in
the art Of provididing the slave marts, and
the mode Of making Mare Clausum of q
great sea, meant to bear the commerce Of all
nations. The arrogance which dares to avoW
such designs, and TO defeat the law of this
and all other nations to Illustrate them-Whieh
would deny to the free States of the Republic
/ the rights which the Constitution calls on
them to assert by their suffrsges lest they
Obstruct piratieal attempts, would suggest o
suspicion, that the League assuming to estab-
lish long line of Barbary powers upon our
Southern shores, felt prepared to make
formidable head against the country by sea
and land. They should be sternly rebuked
at once, and not suffered to arrest for mo-
ment the onward progress Of the civilization
of the continent. The power Of the Union
should assure another destiny for the luxuri-
ant regions to which they are looking for their
slave empire.
Next after repressing the invasions of slav-
cry, and keeping it within its own boundaries
on this continent, may we'll be considered the
question of promoting the voluntary emigra-
ton of the freed of that race, originating in
the tropics Of Africa, to homesteads in q con-
genial climate, provided for them by the gov
ernment Of the nation charged with their des-
tinies The acquisition Of some rich region
| in Central or South America, as a province
for our native blacks, and to secure q way by
short land route between the two great
oceans, to unite by another tie our Atlantic
and Pacific States, would be an essential fea-
ture Of the plan. H ....t
Our cOlored race, adapted to the climate,
assisted by the capital and enterprise Of the
whites, whom the riches Of the tropics would
invite, aided and protected by our Govern
ment, would make dependency of the high
est Importance to the Union. Proud Of the
protection and fostering care Of their native
land, the American blacks would become bull
Wark TO maintain lis rights in a quarter where
they are most assailable. Such an outpost be-
tween the oceans, well chosen and well fortified
for defense, would not only be shield on our
southern hank-a stronghold for our CON-
merce on the east and west side Of the CONT
nent in southern latitudes, but it would ena-
Bile the United States to guaranty the liberty
| and independence Of Mexico and Central
! America, give stability to their Republican
Governments and assume the high character
on this continent, in very deed, which the
Monroe doctrine announced "a The duty Of
the nation.
This wise and benign policy Of maintain
ing freedom and peace on this continent, aid
ed by the establishment in the tropics Of
convenient and inviting colony to The col
ored race Of this country, 10 be under the
guardianship of the United States, would pro-
mote the safety of free institutions there and
here, and close the door forever on tho danger
of dissolution of the Union Of the States
or our commercial relations with the free
States oA this continent or those of Europe,
and crown, in the lapsO of years, move
ment now directed to tho extension Of slave
ry and the destruction of free Government
with the glory Of furnishing happy homes to
the blacks Of the fFOe States and those who
shall be manumitted from slavery, the former
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