Abstract

The Week

This article presents information on several socio-political developments in the U.S. as of 1867. The mania for buying territory seems to be growing stronger. The last report on the subject is, that the Spanish Government proposes to sell Cuba and Porto Rico to the U.S. for one hundred and fifty millions of dollars, and are told by telegraph from Havana that "the public heart is beating with anxiety at the announcement," as the extinction of slavery would be one of the consequences of the sale. The Alabama Convention, which Southern papers have covered with abuse of the kind common in Southern papers, was mainly composed, say trustworthy accounts, of men long resident in Alabama, three-fourths of the whole number, to say nothing of the sprinkling of blacks, having been old Alabamians of good standing in their several communities, and not Northern adventurers, as the Mobile Times was fond of saying in Alabama.