The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-09-04
Cuba.
BY REV. DIR. NADAL.


Many people in this country, particularly
politicians, have been for long time deep
ly interested in Cuba. A number of at
tempts have been made to get possession of
it, both by diplomacy and by violence
Adventures have thus sought fortune and
notorety, and politicians have aimed to
render service to their party. Still, these
attempts of individual men have only ex-
pressed a hunger for territory, which is
shared by large number of our people,
This appetite, like others, grows by what
it feeds on. We are already the owners of
great deal of land; multitudes of our cit
liens are dealers in real estate, and the
scale of romantic magnifcence.
Only few years ago we appropriated
country, which involved us in a war with
neighboring republic, and the war made
it necessary to take still more territory
Recently our land hunger has been further
met by Alaska, peaceful acquisition, and
this was followed by the offer of St. Thorn
as, whereupon the country seemed to wake
up to suspicion that matters had gone
quite far enough in this direction. In
Alaska we have hard bargain, and the
position of St. Thomas above the surface
of the ocean seems little uncertain. The
truth is that this public desire for new ter
ritory is rather sham than a national
wish. 1t looks little like the land appe-
tite of our people in their private relations
but it is not ; it is, from time to time,
only the cheap resort of people without
character, to draw upon themselves public
attention, to satisfy the craving for excite
ment and to win wealth in their own wild
ways. Their schemes are repugnant to the
staid and solid sentiment of the country,
but their plan is to enlist under their BAN
ner the floating rabble, SO abundant among
u.s. and then to rush into the newspapers
and to secure the appreciation of political
party.
This has been the attempt with Cuba
The revolution in Spain has broken one of
the vilest of Jokes; it has freed the people
both politically and religiously, and it seems
to lis that a little waiting on the part of the
so-called patriots of the island might have
brought them the abolition of slavery, and
peaceful separation from the mother
country. But be that as it may, we do not
want Cuba. We have no colonies, no de-
Tendencies, except the territories, which
only await sufficient population in order to
become States.
We must not forget that our country is
Protestant, not by law, but still in fact, the
genius of our people, our national morality,
our Sabbath, most of our schools are Pro-
testant, while Cuba is Romish, and bigoted
at that. We have been dealing very reck-
lessly of late with our inheritance. All
sorts of people have been flocking to our
shores, and fastening on to the body poll
tic. In'some of our cities we hardly know
our Sunday and in some, particularly in
New York, the Roman Catholics aspire to
rule not only the city, but, through the city,
the State, and in certain most important
Respects they succeed only too well. We
have not forgotten the tax levies which
| burden the Taxpayers to support Romish
institutions. To these enormities the
whole country needs to be walked up
They need to be told that they sleep and
dream on the brink of a vortex. Now, let
it not be forgotten the annexation of Cuba
would bring us large additional Romish
of, r,J &c
population is foreign, and in different sense
from that in which the Irish are. They
have different language from our own.-
They are Spaniards, a name associated
Inquisition, and with the bloody history
of the early conquests on this continent
Their traditions are wholly unlike our own,
and they could only mingle with our popu-
lation by losing themselves in it, which
would be work of time.
True, we might easily manage million
or SO of Spanards, if this were all; but our
cities are already as much foreign as Amer
lean. The German no longer misses father
land, the Irishman finds himself among his
kitl and kin as much as at home, besides
feeling a great deal more comfortable
The two taken together can control the
elections in our great cities, and often do.
Is it safe to go on adding to this element
indefinitely, bringing in whole States of
such population? Is it not time that, as
citizens and as Christians, we should recur
To first nrinciDleS , Whv has IL been NOS
sible for us to maintain republic with all
the Accomplishments of prosperity? Is it
not because we have built upon the foun-
! dations of genuine Professionalism, in
which the Holy Scriptures have been re-
garded as a devine cornerstone, and be-
cause on this foundation there has risen a
social structure of intelligence and virtue,
whose very life has been, so far, the Chris
or for moment dream, that Spaniards, or
Irish Catholics, or German Erect thinkers
could have made such a country as this =
And, if not, what will be the result of these
among us? 1t is time to remember that
population may be great without virtue
or freedom, and that it is possible for those
who are received among us to increase our
material resources and political power may
do something else.-MetAodist.
The Coal Regions.
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