Note editorial quotes from the Tuskegee Republican, the Texas Republican, and Senator Albert Gallatin Brown of Mississippi --
http://cubaonmymind.blogspot.com/2007/01/cuba-question-again.html

If I read David Upton's recent post correctly, that Senator Brown favored admission of free states into the Confederacy, his position on acquisition of Cuba and other possible slave states seems peculiar. Perhaps I am mistaken.