The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-05-27

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such IS detail of one years taxes-snce in
creased In many respects-and when it is con-
slderered how small a portion, comparatiyely Of
the sum collected is applied to the legitimate object
OF taxation when it is considered that for variety
ana eStent' ior amount and oppressiveness, they
exceed any taxation imposed by any government in
any country upon the earth when the enormity of
the whole subject is regarded in all its features no
one can repress feeling of abhorrece at such acts
OF tyranny, and of wonder that they have been so
long endured in silence.
So much for taxation in Cuba For grievances
generally, the following is correct and faithful
abstract.
On the death of Ferdinand VII, Cuba was in.
cuded In the constitutional reform published in the
Estatnto Real
In 1887, the democratic constitution of 1872 was
proclaimed, and when Gen. Lorenzo repeated his
PRONUNCIATION at st. Jago, General Tacon sent an
armed expedition to put down the system authorized
by law, which act was rewarded by the court
The Cuban deputies, legally elected, were re-.
FUSED admtance, IN the same year, at the Spanish
Cortes, and resolution was then passed establish
ing that Cuba should be governed by special laws
Inc organs OF government in Spain and Cuba
have since declared that the civil laws, as they are
executed, and the paramount authority of the
agents OF government, are all that is required in
the island; while arbitrary rule and rapacity are
the known results. I-
Besides representatives in Congress, Spain has
deprived Cuba of all means of redress. The press.
unuer tile most INFAMOUS and servlle censorship is
a weapon only welded against their rights. A pc.
tition, signed by more than two, is condemned as
as a sedtiOus act.
All good and enlightened patriots are forced into
obscurlty, or prosecuted, or exirpated.
Martial law, since 1925. The captains-peneral
have increased their encroachments until they now
exercise the legislative, Judicial and executive
power
No trade can be followed, no shop opened. no
goods sold in the street. without a license. Z.
The creoles are excluded from the army the iudi
clary, the treasury, and customs and from all inlu-
entail or lucrative postions private speculations
and monopolies are favored and established with a
view OF taking from the former their means of sup
port.
Services are extorted from the poor in the country
TO serve in the precarOus police sustained therein;
fines are imposed and forced aid for the repairing
of the roads, all according to the will of the officer
in command, or the plianeyofthe individual.
More than twenty millions of regular taxes are
collected by the order of the Spanish government,
the captain general the lieutenant governors, and
of the country district judges.
These taxes are employed in supporting an army
of twenty thousand men to intimidate and oppress
the peaceful inhabitants of Cuba and likewise the
entire navy of Spain unnecessarily stationed in the
ports of the island for the purpose in the pay.
ing of vast number of officers residing either on
the island or in Spain; and in remittances TO the
court.
In spite of the enormous tthe collected, il is only
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