Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-08-08

Cuba.

Spain is noted in Europe for the chronic regularity of
her political commissions. There is revolution,
attempt at revolution, in that country, about every
half year. The Inquisiton straddIed like nightmare
on the Castan mind and royalty, with its tarbaric
pomp and brutality, weighing down Spanish energy,
receive from the suppressed struggles of their victim
periodic limitations of the instability Of the basis upon
which they rest 1t would seem that the same charac.
ter of agitation and insecurity is henceorh to pertain to
Span's great American dependency, Cuba.
There two dstiuct and very different causes for
this chronic excitement in Cuba One undoubtedly is,
the tyranny of the Spanish government combined with
me universal corruption and desposm of the govern
ms~t nfticrels IN CuJa.
desire felt and expressed by the pro'savery power in
this country ..reN Cuba, as slave territory, to
l1 Vnited States We it stated by writer in the
Boston Post of Tuesday, 9Th inst. that the sentiment
Of Cuba is anti-slavery, and that revolution in that
island would be the ''immediate precursor of abolition
we were not surprised to see this statement. bt a
knowledge OF the history Of Cuba, for the last twenty
years, independent of the known character of the sum-
Pa1a2s IN this country, would, we think be sufficient
to convince every of its total incorrectness We
admit that, sixteen years ago, the sentiment in Cuba
planters were stepped in debit her commerce was as
ianguld as the motion Of her own Shiny Iagoons; the
slave trade, ostensbIy suppressed was actively pro
secuted and allowed by bribed Governor, and liberal
ISM which the tyranny Of Spain had rendered univer
sal amongst the Creole population, had incentive
discriminate between liberty principle of right
and liberty, prop upon which to rest the lever o
slavery. Since 1885, however, a change has com
over the spirit Of Cubas dream. Reaction has smitte
her, aso with It's aphyxa. and the sentiment of Cuba
on the question of slavery, is now thoroughly Sou
Caroinian. Since that period, Americans have throw
their capital their energy and their enterprise into thi
leland, and they have galvanized it. Commerce ha
become active, real estate has increased in vaue am
"slave property" amongst the rest, has risen in tn
market, until the sentiment Of universal freedom ha
been extnguished by the spirit Of trade. In 1885,
Britain to whom the patriotic Cubans looked for sym
patty, and for whom they entertained a strong attach
ment, had given this people the least
Cuba might have been free island But aristrocrati
England preferred respecting old, eete tyrannic;
monarchy to encouraging the spirit Of liberty in Cub;
and the consequences have been the complete ascende
cy of American (pro-savery) influence in that isan
and the growth Of strong DESIRE in Cuba to becou
annexed to this republic, ulth tie retention Of her sla,er
There is no Disgusting the fact that annexation is ii
object Of every attempt at revolution in Cuba and III
less the friends of freedom vigant to observe III;
our government maintains strict, honest neutrait,
and faithfully observes the national faith, Cuba wit
all its slaves and slavery, viii one day be snuggIe
into this Union.