Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-01-14

ranean, and who still exhibit on the Bos.
phorous the symbols Of expiring sovereign.
ty. Our aspiring imitators, who would
propagate their faith and its peculiar insti.
tuition by the sword, making the Gulf Of
Mexico, as distinguished Southern states
man called IL, their Mare Clausum, and, as
a consequence, its islands and surrounding
States, now free, its vnssas, 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
acquired by the purse, or by the purse and
the sword, would cost more of treasure aud
Of blood than an infant Southern Confed-
eracy could afford. SO the conquest of
| Mexico and Central America, with all the
people to resist impending slavery, to say
nothing of the allies that might be brought
to aid resistance in such cause, presents
difficulties that make ambition pause.
Hence, as long as the Southern combi-
nation can dictate a Northern President
with their Southern principles, the Federal
power will be used to promote the scheme
of foreign conquest in their behalf 1t will
be content to get Mexico by piece-meal,
and to wait on intrigue and the chances Of
fillibustcring for Cuba And now, to bring
In new President to be under the control
of the Combination, we hear it announced
that the election of a Republican Chief
Magistrate by the voice of majority of
the people in defiance of the dictaton thus
proclaimed, dissolves the Union but yield
the President to the combination, and for
the present the Union may stand.
In my opinion, acquiesceuce 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 man
acles, to the slave States, they would then
have capital to set up for themselves, on the
principle Of Constantinople The seceders
from the Sublime Porte-Egypt, Tunis,
Tripoli and Algiers, might afford examples
more suitable than the Grard Seignor's
emporium, to direct the enterprize of our
repudiators of the Union-the fllibusters
along the Gulf Coast-the corsair exper-
ience being particularly instructive IN the
art of providing the slave marts, and the
mode of making Mare Clausum of great
sea, meant to bear the commerce of oil
nations. The arrogance which dares to
avow such designs, and to defeat the law of
this and all other nations to Illustrate them
which would deny to the free States Of
the Republic the rights which the Consti-
tuition calls them to assert by their Suffrages,
lest they obstruct piratical attempts, would
suggest suspicion, that the League assum-
ing to establish long line of Barbary
powers upon our Southern shores, felt pre-
pared to make o formidable head against
the country by sea and land. They should
be sternly rebuked at once, and not suffer-
ed to arrest, for moment, the onward pro-
gress of the civilization of the continent.
The power of the Union should assure an
other destiny for the luXuriant regions to
which they are looking for their slave empire
Next after repressing the invasion of
slavery, and keeping it within its own boun-
daries OH this continent, may well be con-
sidered the question of promoting the vol
untary emigration of the freed of the race,
originating in the tropics Of Africa, to
homesteadS in q congenial climate, provi-
ded for them by the government of the ma
tion charged with their destinieS The ac-
QUESTION of some rich region in Central or
South America, as province for our ma
tive 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.
Oar 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 a |
bulwark to maintain its rights in quarter
where they are most assailable. Such an
outpost between the oceans, we'll chosen and |
well fortified for defense, would not only be
a shield on our southern hank-a stronghold |
for our commerce on the east and west side |
of the continent in southern ATTITUDES, but |
it would enable the United States to guar
anty the liberty and independence of Mexico |
and Central America, give stability to their |
Republican Governments, and assume tie !
high character ON this continent, in very |
deed which the Monroe doctrine announced /
as the duty of the nation.
This wise and, benign policy Of maintaining |
freedom and peace on this continent, aided |
by the establishment in the tropics of a |
convenient and inviting colony to the col
ored race of this country, to be under the |
guardianship of the United States, would
promote the safety of free institutions there
and here, and close the door forever on the |
danger of dissolution of the Union of the
States or our commercial relation with the
free States on this continent, or those of
Europe, and crown in the lapse of years, a
movement now directed to the extension of
slavery aud the destruction of free Govern
ment, with the glory Of furnishing happy
homes to the blacks of the free States and
those who shall be manumitted from slavery,
the former ending their inferior social condi-
ton, and the latter their servtude, in build
ing up new domain, pregnant with political
q commercial advantages to their country.
| have submitted to you, gentlemen, my
general views on several topics of public
intrest, and need not add that have ex-
pressed them with unaffected difrdence re-
pairto that which has been assigned me, con