The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-06

rAs Spanish Dsspsus~ css.
We have already copied from the New York Evening
Post the description Of the frghu oppression Of the for
,yo government OF Cuba appears that hs senior ed
Tor that journal has been upon the spot and he therefore
writes with the exaciness OF eyewitness. His &C.
count is fully confirmed as follows by the editor of the
Detroit Free Press. who enjoyed similar opportunity Of
.oouiring accurate information. He says:
ave met Mr.. Bryant in Cuba, and know how we'll he
oasr.snds the affairs of that country The general facts
\. .,.es arc sufficient aslound any white pop
I.tiou not third lager than Michigan pays an annual
-, of rwEsrYfouR OF dollars This is OF itself
enough 10 put mankind upon inquiry IL is generally sup
posed that Cubans (hs nsyes) not intelligentha
bs old Spanards the producers. This is gross
The Creoes the producers and the payers OF taxes
They are under close suawce, and having amy voice
in government are not permitted 70 80 from one estate
10 another without passport Taxed not ten per cent
only ss Mr. ry ant says, but really than halt their
proIucons taxed in gross and in detail taxed about
three hundred dollars comply with the law at their birth
and BAPTISM and from three hundred to three thousand In
going out Of the wotldis wonder that they should
.ourm They are totally deprived of all semblsnce
of personal rights Ii high crime for three or more
mon to petition the government. All weapons Of de-
fence are prohibited Their colleges have been abolished
their schools discouraged and prevented They taxed in
goss per for keeping the hogs the cattle, and The
poultry Of their farms, and again fly per cent more
whom they send lese things to market Ice Is govern
men monopoly and six per pound The very
fish, which caught in great abundance in the
monopozed, and the thirty pound
The right OF marriage purchased from the government
Flour taxed mine dollars and tightyfpe duties per
barrel One dollar and fifty tonnage duty is levied
upon vessels carrying away produce and this sum is
levied In other port charges all the producer
AT least thirty thousand officers supported not of
whom taken from the people of the country All sent
,hom them and their substance These
rulers with full power aud with hostile feelings
rbar~ ntulra n~t.s
the colony The parties hate each other with erven
tred They intermsrry There not ten men in
Spain having any other Cuba than to retain her
object Of plunderegally. Of course We commend
these facts 70 the editors of the Buffalo Commercial Adver.
User, who have sympathes for the oppressed and no
confidence In their ability sustain a stable govern
ment. Tho intelligence and worth of q people may
be determined by their aggregate predictions and
we say TO tho Advertiser that the old Spansrds in
Cuba are the Chatham street mon of New York-Caa-
ian Jews, who 20 out under the wing of the govern.
ment ~ adventures to make money.
slot now disclose another fact connected with
the government at Havana. The lady of the late cap
taingeneral, for pinmoney had the control for clean
Ing the outhodses OF the city, yearly profit of nearly
hundred thousand dollars. There other equally
dignfed perqustes belonging to the Queen mother
Christina, whose husband was lucky in being we'll
built goodlooking sergeant in the Spanish army now
revealing In the affections of Christina in the property
of dukedom The people OF Cuba support the
Of the present Madrid with the young and hand
some Gen Serena, the prince de acfo, who for
share Of the benefits and pleasures the respon.
abilities of royalty. There is the fama xstre which
has called down such shower Of loyal favor at Havana
and strain Of praise and defence from very small portion
ofhe American press dsgacefu and revolving the
mon sentiments of our people"
No one doubts that the government of the United
States should take proper and legal precautions TO
secure the due execution OF its neutrality laws while
country 10 at peace with Spain. In so far the
late prolonged and repeated absences OF the President
and his cabinet from the seat OF government may have
prevented. or embarrassed, delayed the discharge
Of this duty by the Executive Of the country, they
undoubtedly furnish grave and melancholy Of
complaint, which the people will not fail duly TO
sder Especially will this be the case and the attitude
Of the administration be presented in light at once
most unfortunate and most humiliatng. when it shall
fully appear 10 the country that the ndiscrset violence Of
the Prssidenfs proclamatonafter needessy abandon
Ing beforehand to summary and savage massacre, as
outlaws, numbers Of citizens, guilty against the
United States only Of statutory msdemeanor-has been
followed up by orders and instructions, issued entirely
without warrant OF law. to public naval force TO act
the high seas. and the coast OF Cuba, a part Of
the police OF the Spanish despotsm and seize and
capture any American vessel which may fall under the
suspicion Of carrying aid sympathy to the revolution
lists Of that Island.
Fit and proper is that our neutrality laws should
be faithfully executed, it is nothing less than discredi-
table to the American name that the administration
should thus transcend strain their provisions TO take
sides wh Spcin, places beyond american Jurisdiction
in order to riue the chains of odious bondage on
our Cuban nsighbors of the american continent lie,
the result Of the expedition Of Lopez, and indeed
OF the whole Cuban revolutionary movement. both
now and hereafter, be what, in the Of Prov
idsncs, it may the people OF this country will repu-
diats and denounce any administration which shall thus
exceed ito rghtful powers. and so aid the arm or sym
pahizs in the cause OF the oppessor II will be no JUS
6caton or excuse for President Fillmore and his adj
vsers for now overpassing in this direction the legal
limits OF their authority, that they were not at their post
Of duty at the hour when that duty, within their juris
dic,ion could have been rghuuy and eec,ually per-
formed.
The best evidence (says the Allentown DEMOCRACY that
Gov Johnston is standing a suspicious platform is
the fact that all the whig papers of the South
demnins his course, and will rejoice his defeat
Pennsylvana whggery and North Carolina whiagery
are two different articles. Not with the democratic
platform-,hai 10 national structure. good democrat
here il good democrat everywhere, and Colonel Bisler
would be as zeaously supported in Virginia or Louisiana
a he is in Pennsylvania.