Arkansas intelligencer., 1849-10-06
Tyrannieal Exaetions of The Cubaus.

Tyrannieal EXaetioRS of The Cubans.
BY the following, from La Verdac. the Spanish
paper in New York, it appears that the Cubans
really deserve almost as much sympathy as the
HungarIans. No government scarce ever made
more tyrannical exactons. We copy of them:
Little less than a fourth part more of that
which Is wrung from the number of 60O,0 900 free
inhabitants. sutflces to sustain all the expenses of
the government of these United Suites in which
are counted more than twenty millions of inhab-
ianis, and which. with little than half the
number of soldiers that we support in Cuba, have
more than enough for The protection and garrison
of their boundaries and forts.
Flour and many other articles oc first necessity
for the sustenance of the industrial and poorer
classes, are charged with duty varying from so
10 200 per cent, of the price of the article, such
as rice. salt fish. Indian meal live pigs to be
slaughtered &C., &c. Salt fish. on which we
ind charge of 33 per cent only in the tariff
when imported in foreign vessels pays &c per
cent, and the same thing happens with other ar
tIcles enumer rated, and numerous others of first
necessity.
Our farmers have to pay ?! per cent. on sugar
and 10 per cent. on their other harvess, when
gathered. the same as all engaged in raising live
stock, for all their cattle, exclusive of the charges
arising from expectation.
Every inhabitant is compelled TO ask for a
license and pay for the same, even in case ne wants
to go the distance of single mile from the place
of bis residence.
lie cannot remove his residence from one house
INTO another, without giving notice previously of
MS intention 10 the authorities, under the penalty
OF heavy fine.
He is not permitted to lodge in his house for a
single night any person. either native or foreigner
be The same his friend member of his family,
without giving the same information, also under
the penalty of like punishment.
n,,- f.
or amusement of any sort, if he does no, solicit,
obtain and pay for license iS2, ,50) or he must
submit 10 be mulcted for an intraction of The re-
gulaIions.
He pays 10 G1 per cent. OF the vauc of any
slave, or any property, in town or country, that
he may sell, besides all other charges of notlries
of registration. of stamped paper, &c.
II here Is stamped paper. The use OF which is
enforced by the government, nd sold by it The
price of IS for every sheet, and it is necessary on
a solemn oath 10 prove ones poverty, in order to
be admitted to the use of cheaper paper, sheet
of which costs six cents.
Some months ago an order was received by the
Captain General of the Island prohibiting parents
from sending their children TO the United States
for purposes of education and such parents are
now driven 10 the expedient of proving i'll health
or fegn for the children, ORDER to obtain pass
ports for them.
In The whole island of Cuba most brutal spirit
OF desPotsnI Is srlkinsly prevalent in all officials
of the government, from the Captain General
down TO the most abject of his hireIiugs, without
even excepting municipal and other local authori.
ties.
In Matanzas. Cardenas, Gunes, Madruga, and
other places, the most revolving of torture
gallows, butcheres, and Internal Vaccinations
were eracted in the year 1S45. under preence OF
suPPressing conspiracy among the negroes.
In the year 1915, different Regidoros, and other
member cf the corporation of Matanzas, were
severely chastised for having presumed to present
respectful remonstrance to the Royal Pictorial
AudrencIa at Havana, complaining of the govern
mental officials, &c.
Another article contains the following. The
editor Is recording events which have transpirec
since 1927:
More than a million of African savages have
been imported into the Island of Cuba, and insur.
rectons Of the slaves, tortures, gibbeIs and
slaughter TO subdue them; fetters added those
which oppressed Cuba. arbitrary and cruel i'm.
prisonments, atrocious, unreIenting persecution
banlshments, sentences OF death, and executions
all, all that is most contrary and repugnant to
humanity, has been the result.