Annexation Of Cuba

" This is a great country, and is destined tobe greater." So our exchanges teil uí, and we find confirmal ion ol it in the signs of the times. The annexation of Cuba is now lalked of in high quarters. What for ? To keep it from falüng into the hands of England. The siory is, that Spain owes England, and can't and don't pay : nccording to Mr. Polk, this is suflicient reason for going to war : the first step of England will be to seize on Cuba, nnd hold it in pledge till she getsherpay: and as the sluveholders theie would all dread emancipation under Bntish rule, they propose to make upa purse ofone hundred miliions, vvhich they will give Uncle Sam to take them into his universal confederacy, with a guaranty, of course, to let them hold üs many slaves as they please forever. The Boston Whig remarkson this subject: " We have already intlmated that overtures to a Union were made by the cilizens of Cuba, so long ago as the time of Mr. Monroe." Since that period the interests mpelling such a movement have been increasing from two causes. The first is that many citizens of the United Slates either hold property in the Islam! or are immediately connecled with it in the way of trade. The second apd mosl powerful is, the common bond of African slavery, and the fact that a junction with the United States is the alternative to pmancipalion under the law of Great Britain. In this last cause lies the great secret of the whole movement. If it were once established that Spain was too weak to maintain its hold upon Cuba, the boasted free republic of the United States would be the only country left strotig enough to furnish a stendy support againsi the world, to the instilution of domestic slavery in that Island. " In this connection the suggestions wliich have been made in the New York Sun arenot without their significance. - Whatever may be the judgment formed of the political influence of that paper, the asserlion 'vhich it makes of the fnct, that a strong disposition exisis among the people of the Island to effect a transfer even at the cost of a large voluntary contributiun in money to pay for il, is too likely to be true not to be perfectly credible. We doubt as little that the planters of Cuba would tax themselves largely rather thar. run the risk of emancipation und r British auspices, as we dj that the planters of ihe United States would move lleaven and earlh to uid them to avoid il. It will not lherefore at all surprise us totheentire Executive and Legislative force of this country put in quiel but effective operalion even at the ensuing session of Congrcss, in order to make ready for the contingency. And the politics of the Union already sulïïciently embrolle! n defe-ice of slavery by the Mexiean conquest are to receive another and still more dangerous element of ngitation in llie preparation to quarrel witli England about the possession of Cuba."