НАЇТІ.

The distracted state of this interesting island has within the last year afforded new food for the dreams of Southern Annexationists. The unhappy contest between the French and the Spanish parts of the island, which has been falsely represented as a war of colors, has suggested to the ever watchful guardians of Slavery, that at least an argument could be extracted from it against the capacity of the African race for self-government, if it did not furnish an opportunity for the re-establishment of the beneficial influences of Slavery under the auspices of the Anglo-Saxon race. Accordingly, an agent of the name of HOGAN was despatched thither by President TYLER to observe, if not to foment, the intestine distractions of the inhabitants, and to make a report of his espial. It is believed to have been satisfactorily ascertained, on semi-official and uncontradicted authority, that this envoy made a report to President POLK, in favor of the recognition of the independence of the Dominican, or Spanish, portion of the island; —that overtures were made by the authorities of that department, through him, to the Government of the United States, on this subject, which, in the opinion of the observers, had a looking towards future Annexation; and that this project has excited a lively interest in all slaveholding coteries. It has been asserted, moreover, that attempts are making to enlist men in the United States, to carry on the war between the Dominicans and the Haïtians. It was fully expected that Mr. POLK would make some developement of this plan in his Annual Message; and his silence on the subject seems to imply that the pear is not yet ripe, or at least that the people of the United States are not yet thought ready to pluck it.

Whether any speedy attempt to realize these golden dreams will be made, cannot now be predicted. But it may be con

fidently affirmed, that nothing but the absolute impossibility of success will divert the cupidity of the slaveholders from so tempting a prey, when once indicated to their pursuit. But the adventurers in such a game would do well to reflect that they would have a very different foe to encounter than that which opposed their larceny of Texas, in a people nerved by half a century of freedom, who, even in their first sacrifices to Liberty, offered up to her, as a holocaust, the brother-in-law of Napoleon, and the flower of the army of Italy, and who are ever prepared to burn their cities and retire to their mountain fastnesses, at the first approach of an enslaving invader.

But the ardor of slave-holding passion for new territory, over which to extend and confirm the blessings of Slavery, is not to be satisfied by the remote prospect of the possession of the Queen of the Antilles. Already, as soon as the Annexation resolutions had passed the Senate, Mr. LEVY, of Florida, moved that the President be requested to negotiate with Spain for the purchase of Cuba! This motion was subsequently withdrawn, as premature, at the request of those who would be no enemies to the measure; but it did its work, in implanting the idea in the public mind, which its friends believe time will ripen to a new harvest of Annexation. It is asserted, and with good grounds of probability, that Mr. SLIDELL, the new Slaveholding ambassador to Mexico, is empowered to negotiate for the purchase of California, and that it is intended to buy the consent of Great Britain to this acquisition of a territory which may be made the prey of Slavery, by the bribe of her chosen portion of Oregon, a country whose parallels of latitude forever forbid the approach of its desolating footsteps. Already does the prophetic eye of Southern statesmen behold the star-spangled banner waving in mockery over new nations of slaves, scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Potomac to the Isthmus of Darien, and thickly peopling the whole Archipelago of islands which gem the borders of the Western Continent. And such dreams are not

the fantastic creations of a diseased imagination. After the victory they have just achieved, if it be tamely submitted to by the North, they have no reason to anticipate any serious opposition, on this Continent, to their schemes of conquest. But it is to be hoped that the humanity of Christendom, and the Civilization of the Age, will interfere between these beautiful visions and their literal fulfilment.

FLORIDA.

Since we last met together, another jewel has been added to the coronet of Slavery by the erection of Florida into a sovereign State. The young territory of Iowa having attained, in a few short years, to the fulness of strength, presented herself at the Capitol, with a constitution in her hand forbidding the existence of Slavery within her borders, and demanded the freedom of the guild of the General Government. The territory of Florida offered her early decrepitude, as an offset to the vigorous youth of the hardy daughter of the West, and in evidence of her worthiness of such a fellowship, she held forth a Constitution which expressly denied to her Legislature the power ever to abolish slavery, but conferring upon it, in open subversion of the Constitution of the country, the right to prevent the immigration of free citizens of other States, if " the sun had looked upon them and they were black." The policy which has been employed ever since the famous Missouri Compromise, of refusing admission to a Free State, unless it entered hand and hand with a Slave State, was not neglected at, this crisis. All attempts which were made to sever the links that united these two in a common fate, were fruitless. Nor was this all. The modest provision was inserted in the act of admission, that when the Eastern division of Florida attained to a population of thirty thousand souls, it should be erected into a separate State,

while no such grace was extended to the less favored child. This, however, was too much even for the Congress of Annexation to bear, and this provision was struck out by a large majority.

The bill came before the House on the 13th of February, when Mr. MORSE, of Maine, moved as an amendment, that Florida should not be admitted until the article just mentioned had been stricken from her Constitution, and defended his proposition with spirit and ability. It was rejected, however, by a vote of EIGHTY-SEVEN to SEVENTY-SEVEN. Mr. KING, of New York, then moved the admission of Iowa alone. But this was rejected. And the bill was finally passed by a vote of ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE yeas to THIRTY-FOUR nays. All of the Massachusetts delegation, that were present, voted in the negative, with the exception of Mr. PARMENTER.

The bill came before the Senate for concurrence, on March 1st, and Mr. EVANS, of Maine, moved as an amendment, that Florida should not be admitted until she had altered her constitution and her laws, so as to allow the equal rights of colored seamen with other citizens. After a debate of some duration, in which the speakers on either side were divided in opinion according to their residence north or south of Mason's and Dixon's line, the amendment was lost by a vote of TWELVE to THIRTY-FIVE. The bill then passed by a vote of THIRTY-SIX yeas to NINE nays.

If is worthy of remark, that, in consequence of the refusal of Iowa to accept the terms of admission, the weight of the slaveholding votes of Florida in the Senate is not counterpoised by those of her Senators. So that, at the present session, when the Senators of Texas are in their places, Slavery will have a clear majority of four votes, against Liberty.

THE SOUTH.

It is not to be wondered at, in the view of the triumphs of the Slave Power, which we have been recounting, that the South should exult in her successes, and exalt her horn against the humbled North. It is but natural that the Slaveholders should feel disposed to press their advantage to the very limits of the endurance of the inhabitants of the Free States. Such is the condition of human nature, that the tyrant will ever rejoice in the humiliation of his vassals, and tighten their chains at every fresh instance of passive endurance. This cup Slavery is filling to the brim for us, and it will not pass away until we have drained it to the dregs, or have summoned spirit enough to dash it to the earth.

In our last Report, which went fully into the treatment of Mr. HOAR at the hands of South Carolina, we could only state that Mr. HUBBARD, the agent of Massachusetts for New Orleans, had been compelled to return with his mission defeated. That gentleman was driven, or rather retired in well-grounded apprehension of compulsion, from the State, declaring that he found it impossible to execute his mission. The Legislature of Louisiana, with all convenient speed, passed laws making a repetition of this interference with her "internal police," a highly penal offence. Her example, and that of South Carolina, who preceded her in this preventive legislation, was followed by some of the other Southwestern States; so that the dignity of the domestic institution may be considered, now, as amply vindicated from the treasonable assault of Massachusetts upon it. The majesty of Southern law is triumphant. The fears of the chivalry are allayed, and General QUATTLEBUM has rest to his soul.

Through this infamous defiance of the Constitution of the United States, and of the commonest rights of hospitality and of humanity, it is certain that many humble and useful citizens