Hannibal journal and western union. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1851-1852, 1851-09-11
CASTLE or S. Domingo.
From the New York Evening Post, tsbOntion).


From the New York Evening Post tsbOItIon).
As soon as the war is diverted from its origi-
nal object Of throwing off the yoke of Spain,
and becomes struggle to reduce the blacks to-
bondage, it will Of course draw into the quarrel
all the whites Of the Island on one side, and all
the blacks on the other. The noneteros, who
have no liking for the negroes, will range them
selves on the side of planters. The free color
ed people, Of whom there are more than hun
dred and fifty thousand on the island, some of
whom have all the intelligence of the whites, and
who have their own wrongs to avenge, will nat
urally become the leaders Of emancipated slaves.
IOf the slaves many are natives Of Africa, men
Iof herculean proportions and great strength,
who remember the horrors Of passage across
the ocean in slave ships, and are ready to take
terrible vengeance on the white race, as soon as
the opportunity is given them. The civil wars
of the Spanards are always accompanied by
acts of barbarity, and with this infusion of the
ferocity of the African savage, the strife in Gu
ba will become frightfully bloody and cruel
The plantations will be ravaged, the earth will
be no longer titled, the country will become
waste, the commerce Of the island will cease.
| Suppose, however, that this fearful struggle
should be ended in year or two by the subju-
cation Of the blacks-a fate which we think
would be inevitabe-and by their return to SER
vitude. What shall then be done with Cuba,
which, after so terrible an experience of the
calamities of Spanish rule, the whole civilized
world will agree ought never come under the
yoke of Spain? An application, we suppose,
would be made to annex the Island to the Uni
ted States. This would revive in all its heat
the agitation of the slavery question, and beget
a more violent strife than ever between the
North and South. We stand ready, for our
part to take the ground-thousands of others
are prepared to take the same position-2-that no
new slave State is to be received into the Union.
Then will arise, also, the question whether the
reduction Of the blacks to servitude shall be re-
cognized by our own country; whether their
emancipation by the authority Of Spain, while
she held the Island and exercised the Legislative
authority, was not an act which no revolutionary
government, organized IN the name Of liberty,
had the power TO annul, and whether they are
not therefore, still entitled to freedom. These
questions will be debated with warmth to which
the present state Of the quarrel on the slavery
question is mere apathy.
The GERMANS resident in the city of New
FORK have commenced the formation Of societic.
evidently intended to cooperate efficiently a
no very distant day with the friends of liberty
in their native land. These associations arr
nominally for the enjoyment Of the invigoratinf
and pleasing olympian games, or gymnastics, a
which the members do indeed practice, but the
address made at recent festival occasion by
two of these societies indicated more elevated
object in these organizations, which l presume
, will become numerous throughout the Unitet
States. 1t may be remembered that in the rio
at Hoboken last spring band Of Germans, cla'
uniformly in white, and armed, were observes
, to answer to a call from bugle worn by one O
them. While we may pray ardently for th
overthrow oftyranny in Germany, we should b
careful how we encourage the forme..i;on of Sc
cietes which, though among us, ere not of u,
nor .for Us; and are dangerous as they ar
, strong'--Uorrespond Alex. Gaz.
AT THE Court House in Ulster county, Ne,
York, we are informed that great popular ez
. ,citement took place last week. A negro maj
. who had been arraigned for theft on testmon
J. of a woman, met her in the street, and with
J., ,bludgeon beat her so violently that her jaw wa
. broken, and other injuries inflicted of such a n;
). ture that her life was despaired Of The negI
>. was secured for trial and put in irons, but II
;. people were so enraged that, one of them havir
|, prepared moose, it was thrown over his nee
e while he was in the Court House, and he W;
suddenly dragged down stairs, and would ha,
presence of mind TO cut the rope, when he WI
d taken up insensible.- N. Y. Eve: Post.
n MILITARY MovEMENTs.-The Baton Roul
IS Gazette of the 10th inst. says:
m On Thursday last a telegraphic dispatch w
IS received here from New Orleans, ordering Il
% military stationed at our place to proceed
ID once to New Orleans. In half an hour. aft
l. the dispatch was received, SO efficient was c,
y Webster that his artillery company were on the
,e way to New Orleans in half an hour after 4
IN order was issued in the Crescent City!
er have heard various rumors regarding this une
st pected movement; we think the most plausit
an one is, that the troops required to aid t
y authorities in New Orleans in keeping armed m
from proceeding to Cuba. Whatever may
the sympathies Of our citizens, the President
lie bound by solemn oath to see the laws excC
u ted, and can only sustain himself and be II
he pected by the world by acting conscientious
es and independently in the present crisis.
he ---
to BOsrON, August 20.
OF At the Free Soil meeting last evening, G.