The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-23
PRIVATE.
MEXICO, 10Th July, 1854.
General Darts

MEX1CO, 18th July, 1854.
General Davis:
press leaves for very brief note. The affairs
of this republic are in a status rather retrograd-
ing the treasury is minus. The possible re-
plenishing by the treaty already anticipated in
contracts to build up navy and military pow
er. The latter is an absurdity; the former
necessity, to sustain the power which Santa
Anna weakly aspires to. If he can command
a revenue he may have brief triumph. But
the ignorance Of himself and cabinet is not
yielding to the spirit and progress of the age,
and in vainly hoping that they can sustain the
Anticipated policy of monopolies and restric-
tons, abandoned by every enlightened country,
will prove the downfall of centralty and of ty-
rannical eXactiOns.
Guerro maintains her independence, Micio-
can is following suit, and the recovery of state
sovereignty by those two States, open to the
Pacific and accessible to commerce, will make
them able to sustain separate nationality or TO
force back the federation of the States, which
has been formed under one nationality. If the
leaders in Guerro and Miciocan understand the
trumps of State sovereignty they will achieve
a victory, and either remain as separate sover-
eighties or re-unite with old members under a
new federation. 1t is generally understood
that the States along the Rio Grande, with So
nora, Zacatecas and Durango, are in a feverish
state, and that most of the exiled republicans
uTc Ill WiilI VII IIOullCT, pTcpcTCu W Jake
part on the first explosion. Information to-
day from Vera Cruz reports disaffection in that
quarter.
1t has always been a republican State, and it's
prOnunciamentos endorsed by Puebla, the most
powerful of the old federation. So you may
rest satisfied of one fact, that the political ele
ments are convulscd, and an explosion will up
set Capitalization and restore the federation,
and with success expose Santa Anna to another
successful retreat into exile, unless, profiting
from experience and the indications around he
cOaesces with the republicans and deserts the
mOnarchical influences which have thus far
misled and controlled him. RumOr gives him
the credit of endeavOring to fraterniZe with the
republicans or moderaGoS now i'm Cancellation
with the puros. This Gf they will trust him)
is his only safety.
You will see from the proclamation of the
Captain General of Cuba that my specuations
on the policy of Spain in relation to that island
were not extravagant. If you will compare
this document, which you can see in the Intel
Hgencer of the 18th of June, with the decree of
a previous date on the propagation of African
slaves, that they are in harmony. The states
men OF the world are awakening to the great
truths which the Harpers and the McDuffies of
my little State first fOreShadOwed as to African
slavery-the subserviency and dependence of
the inferior to the superior class; and the con-
vction on the part of the ultra abolitionists
has only increased their rabidness while t e
work will go on and the designs of Providence
be fulfilled.
Cuba, whether annexed or remaining a sep
arate sovereignty from Spain and the United
States, and carrying out that policy of human
ity, which Pozoula has proclaimed, for secur-
ing the maintenance and prosperity and the
increase of slavery" will prove the nucleus of
its restoration in the other islands, which by an
opposite and mistaken policy are rapidly laps
ing into barbarism. Have you ever in your
visions dreamt of great federation of the
West India Islands, stimulated in their pros
perity and advancement by African slavery, as
now existing in the Southern States? History
has never recorded such q commercial and ma
val power as Cuba st. Domingo, Porto Rico
and Jamaica, united under one federation,
could rear up. The movements in Cnba make
it no longer dream of the imagination. And
if the United States, true to their own inter-
ests, would take the initiatory to protect the
white race in st. Domingo and give them the
opportunity of recovering their power in that
Garden of Eden, from whence French incen-
diarism drove its Adams and its Ewes, Hayti
and Domingo would sing anthems to their de-
liverers from barbarism and their regeneration
under the restoration OF African slavery. As
startling as may seem the speculation, it is a
work more easy of accomplishment than the
vain efforts to free the black man and to regen-
crate them under an African empire. It is
worth consideration, however. and becomes
particularly interesting to the Southern States
of our Federation.
Without annexation and free from those con-
ficts at Washington to check the Southern
expansion, there the Southern planter of en-
terprise would find space enough and enduce-
ments enough to seek new homes for himself
and domestics in the most lovely domains of all
Gods creation and all united in harmony un-
der one homogeneous American system. I
must again, therefore, invite your considera-
ton to the suggestions in my Last, and of the
agency would be pleased to exercise in the
examination, if not the promotion Of these hal
lucirations. I should Judge from the move