The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-09-22
ANOTHER CUBAN MOVEMENT.
IMPORTANT STO
TO TIE
PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.


han people, there is none so little understood and
% deserving Of their special consideration, as that
lvofving the Independence OF Cubs-an island
whose chose proximity controlling position, domestic,
snssitutions and commercial wants, bring home to
A. safetv the pesce the welfare and development
az America, all incidents likely TO bear upon her |
s.su,ye destnies 1t is, therefore, meet thai her
claims receive proper attention; that the acts OF
Aey sons and their American coadjutors, being pro-
psrly appreciated Misrepresentation be senced and
public opinion be righted where it has been misled
With this view have undertaken to give synopsis
Of the causes which in Cuba have led to dssatisfae
sion and open rebellion; to advert to the character
Of the Cuban movements in this country and Of the
persons connected with them, as far as the des-
yctism which still weighs upon that island may rem
der it prudent; and to unfold, in sefvndic alton,
the double dealing arts Of our detractors. This
step ! would have taken months ago, but for nego-
tiaGons then pending with Spain, involving the Ii
ksrty Of American citizens Thus, duty TO my
country, and to the integrity Of Cubans and OF dis
tiDguished Americans sssaied by the sycophauts of
power must be my excuse for placing my name De-
lsIe the people.
The thirteen colonies Of North America rcbeed
sgaps. Great Britain for Entertainments upon che
granted rights of their citizens, and mace duty
tea and paper iDpost the occasion for general
yisipg. Owing to their position, upon mighty con-
tment and on the borders OF a wilderness, they ef
ke,ea their emancipation, with the timely aid OF
molarchical European governments. CabR, know
ing DO rights, and grOaning urder expressions
thousand times more CALLING, has sought the indi.
yidGal aid Of neighboring republican people, heirs
10 the liberties by the colonies and to the des
tiny they we're called to fulfil. Her claim TO this
~. & I:4f,
population Of $4,000 whites and 600, 600 blacks
about that Of Virginia-she pays in taxes ami
imposts the sum Of twenty odd millions OF
dollars, or nearly forty dollars per head of her
white population, irrespective Of the innumerable
predatory exactions OF the swarm of officials,
high and low, sent from Spain TO enrich them
selves with the substance OF our people The
50; the French, 81 so; the American people,
81 So In order to support an army of twenty
thousand regulars, four thousand drilled militia,
an armed police, or gendarmerte and a naval force
If four i've frigates six steamers, sloop, two
or three briggs, and ten twelve smaller vessels OF
war, with occasionally the Spanish ship of the lire
all indispensable to enforce such tyranny-and
10 bear the expenses Of the Court OF Spain and she
interest On her En- gish loan, the Cuban people are
made to pay $40 so per barrel on imported Ameri-
san -four, from fifty 10 two hundred per cent duty
the original cost of rice, salt FISH, corn, bogs for
slaughter, and other necessaries of life. Bead is
thus placed entirely beyond the reach OF the poorer
classes. BY yauing some articles double treble
their original price, salt FISH, forInstanee, which has
nominal duty thirty. per cent. really pays
en- importation, sixty.si per cent. So with -four,
rice. corn, &c, sc. Indigenous fruits pay
export duty of from six to per cent Planters
pay an export duty on sugar of p per cent,
and all agricultural productions ten per cent
when gathered. Live stock pays the same
duty, exclusive OF that of expectation. The
peor pays 81 % per busnel OF
salt tabout ons hundred weight, so indispen.
saele in our warm climate. The Cuban pays
hom 70 6s per cent on the value OF any slave, town
or rural property which he may dispose Of besides
the heavy charges OF notaries, reg stration stamp
paper, &c, whereby it vanshes into the government
hands after few sales. Stamp paper, the Of
which is enforced by authority, is sold ~ the gov
eminent at prices ranging from fifty cents so eight
dollars per sheet; and man must swear TO utter
restitution to pay but SIX ana quarter cents per
sheet. If from these, among other unparalleled
actions, which check development and progress
essential 70 nations as to individuals turn eyes
to the expressions which completely destroy the IN
tellectusl, moral, aud physical we'll being Of the
people, what do We sect The government, instead
Of fostering edusation, disturbances it at home
and abroad. La Cuba, with her immense taxation,
emily one child in every eighteen is taught how to
read and write, and for this pitiful result is she
chiefly indebted to individual exertions. About the
year 1876, Spanish war frgate was sent to the
United States by Ferdinand the Seventh, to take
hack to the island such Cubans were then re-
eeiving their education at the North Orders
have been issued from Spain, in lS49 prohi biting
the education of our youths in the United States,
and they have accordingly to plead ill-health in
order to obtain a passport to this country
ton In 1885, her three deputies were refused their
seats in the Spanish Cortes, by the peninsuar
bers, called 10 that congress by the very law which
prescribed the election Of representatives. She
is now held as a conquered province, no. as the
land bequeathed TO by fathers, who toiled in
its settlement, and gave it to usefulness and civil
hzation. The Cuban is, moreover, deprived of all
liberty of conscience, of speech, or of the press.
The life, the property, the honor ITSELF of the in
habitants is at the mercy of the Captain General,
who, by royal decree, dated May IS 1925, and
ftill IN force, is invested with
All the powers which. by royal ordinances are granted
20 the governors Of beseged cities In consequence
thereof adds the royal mandate) his Majesty confers
upon your Excelepcy the most ample and uubounded
power, not only to separate from the island persons
whatever their condition rank class or occupation whose
pernanency therein your Excellency may deem OBJ
poxous whose conduct public private, may alarm
you replacing them with servants faithful TO his Ma
ls,y deserving Of all the confidence OF your Excel
leney but also TO suspend the execution Of any ordi
nance Whatsoever or general provision concerning any
branch Of The administration your Excelsncy may
think ost conducive to the interests of the royal
This authority, superceding the law ITSELF has no
parallel in any country. In Cuba three persons can
not collect together without being instantly dis
persed. Cubans cannot assemble to discuss their
interests, not even to petition for relief The Com
mon Council Of Matanzas was severely dealt with,
in 1915, for having demonstrated with The Supreme
Court IN regard 10 the excuses committed by the
toldery against peaceable citizens OF that place.
conspiracy was forged by General o Donnell, dur
ing his administration Of the island and hundreds
Of innocent eolored people were butchered or tor
that the Governor and his satellites mi ght receive
from Spain their rewards in titles and crosses. The
slave trade is carried on for the special benefit Of
the Queen Mother, the C8ptain-GenerGl and pow
erful Spanish clique at Havana. Count Alsoy made
in less than year 900 in importation fees Of
3 000 slaves, at S5l per head Through this borrid
traffic, declared piracy by existing treaties, and Sc
oretly conniyed at by tho cabinet Of Madrid it is
estimated that over half a million of human
beings have been imported into Cuba since
1926, when Mr.. John Quincy Adams, the
Ihilanhropic President ofthe United States eiiectu
ally broke up, at the Congress Of Panama,
a concerted plan bstEeen Cuba and the re-
Tubhcs Of Colombia and Mexico, for the liberation
Ct the former, then, as now, not. only o mart for