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The neighboring miscalled republics contain four times as many Ina'ran 
as white citizens. The latter are the least productive variety of the white 
race ; and their Governments are mere military anarchies. The neighbor¬ 
ing distracted colonies contain a majority of negroes, who, when freed, 
will expel the whites; and thenceforward, like their Haytian predecessors, 
they will be productive alone in the propagation of their species. Tropi¬ 
cal Asia and Africa cannot endure white laborers nor free institutions; and 
Europe has not any tropical climate into which her white laborers can 
ektend. But our Southern States contain already a respectable number of 
"white laborers; and in Florida they will probably outnumber the negro 
laborers. The slave States, in their own time and manner, will eventu¬ 
ally emancipate and transport all their colored laborers; and we shall then 
present to the world the only possible example of tropical staples created 
by the most productive species of mankind, under the most favorable form 
of government on earth. 
The additional considerations derived from the climate and position of 
south Florida, embrace the retention within our borders of those fellow- 
citizens who annually leave it to locate themselves or to perish in foreign 
countries. Texas and Cuba are constantly attracting our agriculturists, 
who soon sorrow for the happy institutioDS of their fatherland, and who 
will return when the existence of a superior tropical climate in southern 
Florida shall become generally known. 
The south of France and Italy have hitherto invited our invalids to per¬ 
ish in the great vicissitudes of their changeable climates, but hereafter they 
will seek for health in the unrivaled uniformity of temperature, and ad- 
vailtages of position, presented by the tropical extremity of our peninsula. 
Our moral obligations to improve the condition of our country, are based 
'on the unparalleled combination of advantages with which it has been 
favored by Providence. With the most favorable form of government, 
-and the most productive varieties of the best species of the human race, 
we have all the soils and climates of the earth, and the consequent ability 
to cultivate most profitably all the most valuable varieties of the best spe¬ 
cies of the vegetable race. It hence becomes our duty to combine within 
our territory the creation of the greatest possible amount and variety of 
cultivated vegetable products for the physical enjoyment, not merely of 
our own citizens, but also of the inhabitants of all extra-tropical countries, 
and probably even of the natives of the torrid zone itself. It has been de¬ 
monstrated, that with a natural equality of soil in even our extra-tropical 
climates, our slave labor can create cultivated tropical products much more 
abundantly and cheaply than either the free or slave labor of the colored 
' 'natives of inter-tropical countries; that many articles of tropical culture, 
instead of deteriorating,become more productive beyond their native zone; 
'that we may ultimately apply the still more productive free labor of our 
%hite citizens to the cultivation of tropical staples ; and that such laborers, 
"tinder such institutions, cannot be devoted to tropical agriculture in any 
other part of the world. The great equatorial current of the ocean, after 
nufting off Nbw Holland from Asia, wearing its way round southern Af¬ 
rica, and being reflected by tropical America, brings to our shores, under 
' the name of the Gulf stream, the accumulated heat of the torrid zone, to 
'hhcourage our Cultivation of the valuable vegetables of that unprbducing 
^helt of the globe. ThC white -population on its borders wilbsoon 'be forced 
to ^embark on its bosOm for the UnitOd States. Once entirely abandoned 
