Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-01-13

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
a cause, presents difficulties that make ambi-
ton pause.
Hence, as long as the Southern combination
can dictate a Northern President with their
Southhrn 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 flIibustering for Gu
ba. And now, to bring in a new President to
be under the control of the Constitution, we
hear it announced that the election of a Re
publican Chief Magistrate by the voice of a
majority of the people, in defiance of the die
tation thus proclaimed, dissolves the Union
but yield the President to the Combination,
and for the present the Union may stand.
In my opinion, acquiescence 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, i'll manacles, to
the slave States, they would then have capital
to set up for themselves, on the principles of
DOlStdlllilDDHC L Ic SCCGtlCIo ttOill tIO 0up
lime Portc-Egypt, Tunis, Tripoli and AL
giers might afford examples more suitable
than the Grand Seignors emporium, to direct
the enter prise of our repudiators of the Union
the tillibuSters along the Gulf coast, their
corsair experience being particularly instruc-
tive in the art of providing the slave. marls,
and the mode oil making a Mare Clausum of a
great sea, meant to bear the 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-which
would deny to the free States of the Republic
the right which the Constitution calls on them
to assert by their suffrages, lest they obstruct
piratical attempts, would suggest a suspicion
that the League assuming to establish a long
line of Barbary powers upon our Southern
shores, felt prepared to make a formidable
head against the country by sea and land They
sho~ld be sternly rebukcd at once, and not
suffered to arrest for q moment the onward
progress 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 REFRESHING the invasion OF slave
nv, 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 i'll the
tropics of Africa, TO honesteads in a congcnI-
al climate, provided for them by the govern
ment of the nation charged with their destF
MES. The aquisition of some rich region i'll
Centralo r South America as a province for
! our native blacks and to secure a way by a
! short land route between the two great oceans,
to unite by another tie our atlantic and Picif-
ic States, would be an essential feature of the
plan.
Our colorcd race, adapted to the climate,
assisted by the capital and enterprise OF the
whites, whom the richest of the tropics would
invite, aided and protected by our government,
would make Il dependency oil the highest i'm
p~ortancc to the Union. Proud of the protec-
ton and fostering care of their native land, the
American blacks would become q bulwark to
maintain its rights in Il quarter where they are
most assailabie. Such AN outpost between the
oceans, well chosen, and well fortified for de-
tense, would not only be a shield on our south
| ern hank-a stronghold for our on
| the cast and west side of the continent in SOU
thcrn ATTITUDES, but would enable the United
States to guaranty the liberty and independ-
pnce of Mexico, and Central America-givc
stability to their Republican Governments, and
assume the high character on this continent, Ill
very deed, which the Monroe doctrine announ'
! ced as the duty of the nation.
This wise and benign policy of maintaining
freedom and peace Oh this continent, aided by
the establishment in the tropics of u convent
- IL - ool0.- b. t1,, onlAra1 ,,uo IN
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 Il dissolution
of the union of the States, or our commercial
relations with the free States on this continent,
or those of Europe and crown, in The lapse oi
years, a movement now directed to the cXtcn-
sion of slavery, and the destruction Of free gov
crnment, with the glory of furnishing happy
homes to the blacks of the free States, and
those who shall be manunitted from slavery
the former ending their inferior social condi
ton, and the latter their servitude, in building
up u new domain, pregnant with political and
commercial advantages to their country.
L have thus submitted to You, gentlemen, my
general views on several topics OF public inter
EST, ana need not ADD, Una L nave expressed
them with unAfa, ted dihidcnce. / repair to
the post which has been assigned me, con
scious of my i%nexperiencc in matters oi
public concern, and with a sincere dis
trust Of my abilities to perform the du-
ties that will devolve upon me. But, To-
, lying upon an earnest desire to be ms
t%runlental in promoting the happiness OF
my fellow citizens, and III strengthening
the ties of political brotherhood, be-
tween the people of all the States of the
Confederacy, and reverently looking to
the p%aternal guidance of that Almighty
Being, whose power regulates tho desti-
ny OF States, | undertake the duties of
the station to which l nave been called
w. DENNISON.