A "Big Job"
In the report of
Postmaster General Blair's eech in
Cleveland, Ohio, is the following:
‘
"The speaker did not believe, however, that he mission of the African American citizen to be completed in the home of their bond. Their destiny is to open to mankind the
American tropics.
This had been
Jefferson's view.
They will strike the fetters from
Cuba and make it bloom like the fabled
Hesperides, under the cis-Atlantic influence."
’
Cuba may discover by this official disclosure of Black Republican designs that the instincts wise which have prompted her to sympathize with the
Southern cause.
It is not slavery in the
Confederate States alone that
Mr. Lincoln proposes to abolish.
It is slavery in
West Indies also, and in
Cuba first and remost. The Washington Government has ng fixed a greedy eye on
Cuba, and the gem of the
Western archipelago is to be its next victim.
Happily, the power of the
United States is not equal to its maker.
It is not equal to the task of subjugating the States which it claims as its own, much less of over ning the
American tropics and defying the combined powers of
England,
France, and in
The fanaticism which prates about opening tropics to mankind and making them m like the fabled
Hesperides, by abolish slavery, is blind to the fact that the only of the tropics which are thus open and coming are those in which slavery is re whilst barren and desert places of a fertile region are those in which slavery been abolished.
Cuba, the slave island, ming with prosperity, whilst
St. Domingo Jamille have become little better than a But what cares fanaticism for facts and experience?
It is a madman who applies the torch to his own habitation and chuckles over the glare of the fire and the brilliancy of the illumination.
A lunatic asylum is the only proper abode for Black Republican philosophers.
