Year: 1859

cency than they do now. Would not the
hope thus held out, inspire those who belong
to that race, and who are now free, with an
eager desire to embrace the offer which l
have suppose our Government might make
them? How noble the task of redeeming
their own race from bondage, and how full
of inspiration the thought Many of them
are gifted with high order of intelligence,
and believe them capable of such improve
ment as will enable them to establish and
maintain better and more stable Govern
ment than any now existing in the tropics
-one which would confer benefits upon the
whole world. A -es


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What has been her (Great Britain's) pol
icy in relation to the negroes under her con-
troll in the West Indies, and what the result
of that policy? She has liberated and in
structed them, and has propagated her pow
er and influence through their instrument
tality to such adegree, as to control most of
the comm ercs of those regions, and to sway
the counsels of all the surrounding nations,
whilst we, to whom the people of Spanish
America 6nce looked with confidence, and
who form ed their governments upon the
model of our republic, yielding TO us the
largest share of their trade, and guiding
themselves by our eounseis, are now re-
garded on every hand with suspicion and
detestation, because the policy of our Gov
ernment is to hold in bondage the colored
race, to which they mostly belong, and to
extend THAI system by violence and fraud
until it shall embrace them in its folds. The
public journals have recently given us the
news of a most important acquisition of
territory in Central America, made by the
British Empire through the instrumentality


Of 1arn
as one of our second class States, rich and
valuable in itself, but still more valuable
from its position, commanding the routes
across the Isthmus, and fixing British SUI
premaey in Central America.


allude, of course. to the cession of the
Belize, or British Honduras, by Guatemala
to Great Britain-a cession completed in
the last few months by a solemn treaty,
wrung from the reluctant and pertinacious
resistance of Guatemala by the obstinate
courage and superior vigor of a few thou
sand Jamaica negroes. They were planted
there by Great Britain under the pretense
of cutting logwood, and although they have
never numbered more than twelve or four
teen thousand, they have maintained posses
sion for more than century, often repul-
sing inTasions by the Spaniards during
their domination, and by the whole force of
Guatemala since her independence, and at
last have succeeded in giving Great Britain
a secure foothold for her power in Central
America to which tbs weaker nations
around will gravitate with the same cer-
tainty that brings q falling edifce to the
ground. What would our government give
for such foothold upon that thoroughfare
of nations, across which the gold of Cali
fornia pours itself upon us, exposed, to-
gether with the lives of our citizens, to its
many hazards2 And what has become of
the Monroe doctrine, with which certain
people have been beguiling this credulous
nation, while these Jamaica negroes have
made this sold conquest for the British
CROWN


Set this service of a reYiled and despised
race to their most gracious mistress, Queen
Victoria, against the performances of our
hiIlibuster Presidents, and which will out
weigh I? Consider With what poor success
one of these last went out to the lombard
ment of Greytown, to dispossess these same
Jamaica negroes, who have there made an
other lodgment for the power of England,
in the name of the Musquito King. The
present Chief Executive refused to ratify
the treaty by which the British agreed to
surrender the occupation of the bay Islands
and Mosquito coast, in conformity with the



ton by which this surrender was made,
provided that slavery shall not at any time
hereafter be permitted to exist therein"
Thus it seems that England demanded a
guarantee against the enslaTement of her
negro subjects who had been planted along
the coast and ou the Islands from the Belize |
to Greytown, and Republican America pre-
fers that the coast and Island should remain
in their possession rather than admit such
guarantee.


Can any other reason be imagined for such
conduct, except that the power which con-
trolls this government looks to the acquisition
of these regions for the purpose of subject
ing them to slavery? Gen. Walker was in
vited to Nicaragua, and received there with
open arms? He might have maintained
himself, and established our power and in
fuenee in that country permanently, but he
was induced to issue decree re-establishing
slavery, by assurances of assistance from the |
dominant power in this country. The ma
tive inhabitants of Nicaragua, of whom |
nine-tenths belong to the colored races, took /
the alarm, very justly experimenting that |
they would be re-inslaVed if that system |
again took root, and they united to expel I
Walker, whom they had SO recently invited |
among them. It is by such acts that we
have brought home to these people the
knowledge of our intention to enslave them
The British have studiously and ostenta-
tiously proclaimed and practiced d policy |
exactly the reverse.


The mass of the people being negroes and |
mestizos, and afraid of being made the sub
jects of slavery, have learned to detest this
Government, whilst the few remaining fam
lilies of pure Spanish blood are monarchists,
and naturally turn to Europe rather than
America. 1t is curious enough that the lib
eral or Democratic party of most of the
Spanish American States, is composed of the
mixed bloods and colored races. 1t is what
would be called the free negro party in this
They are not very profound in
their political philosophy, and have not dis
covered that slavery is the foundation of
liberty, and hence they are averse to the
schemes of their fellow Democrats in the
United States, to regenerate them by redu-
cling them to slavery. Let them hold fast
to that faith, and the world is not without
hope for them yet. 1t is the fair star of
which ushers a bright and glorious