A summer on the borders of the Caribbean sea.Harris, J. Dennis
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A summer on the borders of the Caribbean sea.
Harris, J. Dennis
Caribbean Area -- Description and travel
How grandly would both these and _those_ States “loom up in the eyes of
the world,” if, abandoning that policy which makes them the
indiscriminate oppressors of the weak, the American people should set
themselves at work through their new administration, to secure by this
means the commerce of those countries; give them peace, and forever wipe
out the stain which Walker has cast upon the very name of all who boast
themselves citizens of this republic. Such a measure would in some
degree recompense the colored race for the services they have rendered
to the government, the fruits of which they have not been permitted to
enjoy; would make this great nation less obnoxious to the weak; lay the
foundation of a future empire; and cause those lovely regions to bloom
with industry and skill as they now bloom with eternal verdure.
END.
APPENDIX.
(FROM THE ANGLO-AFRICAN MAGAZINE.)
The Anglo-African Empire.
“Do these things mean nothing? What the tender and poetic youth
dreams to-day and conjures up with inarticulate speech, is
to-morrow the vociferated result of public opinion, and the day
after is the charter of nations.”--_Phillips._
The stars of the tropics are the guiding stars of the age. The sympathy
of the world is with the South, and the tendencies of things are
southward. The controlling influence of the great commercial staple of
our Southern States, the growing demand for the productions of the
tropics, the discovery of gold toward the torrid zone, and a consequent
want of labor in that direction, indicate firmly the force of these
assertions. Other causes, apparently indirect or yet apparently opposed,
such as the disappearance of slavery from Maine to Maryland, and the
rapidity with which the slaves are hurried further south, might be
cited on the one hand; and on the other the filibustering propensities
of Southern fire-eaters as the unerring and immutable laws of destiny,
guided by an all-wise and overruling Providence. “The coral zoöphite
does not know that while it builds itself a house it also creates an
island for the world;” and the master, as he pays the passage of his
slave from the more Northern slave States to New Mexico, is but the rude
agent of a superior power, urging him to more inviting fields for
enterprise, and for his higher and more responsible duties as a freeman.
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