Atchison (KS) Freedom's Champion, “Kansas and Cuba,” June 2, 1860

    Source citation
    “Kansas and Cuba,” Atchison (KS) Freedom's Champion, June 2, 1860, p. 2: 5.
    Newspaper: Publication
    Atchison Freedom’s Champion
    Newspaper: Headline
    Kansas and Cuba
    Newspaper: Page(s)
    2
    Newspaper: Column
    5
    Type
    Newspaper
    Date Certainty
    Exact
    Transcriber
    Don Sailer, Dickinson College
    Transcription date
    The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.

    Kansas and Cuba.

    While almost every Democrat in the Senate and House of Representatives, and every pro-slavery Democrat in the country as opposed to the admission of Kansas into the Union, the same men are as earnestly in favor of stealing Cuba and admitting her into the Union as a sovereign State. Yet this territory is one of our own, peopled by enterprising, energetic, loyal citizens of all the States, who love and reverence our land and institutions and would defend them against any attacks, while on the other hand Cuba is a territory of the Spanish Government, peopled by slaves, [illegible] negroes, and a sprinkling of vindictive, revengeful Spaniards not one of whom has any attachment to [our?] institutions or country. The difference between the two countries, and the reason why the Democracy oppose the admission of Kansas and favor that of Cuba, is because the former will add to the number of Free States, while the latter will increase the territory and power of Slavery in the Confederacy.

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