The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-08-25

CUBA.--It is stated, with an air of confidence,
and with some circumstances to support the
rumor, that England has proposed to the Gov
eminent of Cuba plan for the immediate sup
preston of the slave trade, and the prospective
abolition of Slavery in that island. The pro-
posed agreement is that, ist England will con-
sent to the importation of apprentices into
Cuba, from Africa, for terms Of ten years; I'd.
That new census Of the slaves in Cuba shall
be taken, under q mixed ommission-English
and Spanish. The object is to follow the VIC
Tins of the slave trade to the estates where
they are held, and interpose in their behalf.
The New York Herald says that already
some recently struggled slaves have been liber
ated, and one of the planters placed under
arrest, by the action of the Governor General,
in anticipation Of this arrangement; Sd. That
in fifty years from the acceptance OF this propo-
sition. and treaty based thereon, the slaves in
the island, and their children shall be set free
England has treaty with Spain, for the
suppression Of the slave trade, and her motive
for securing emancipation in Cuba is the very
natural desire to secure free labor in her West
India islands against the competition of slave
labor in Cuba The Washington Union de-
clares that our Government must interfere to
prevent this dangerous measure.
If our memory serves US faithfully in all re-
spects Mr.. Clay, when Secretary Of State I'M
der John Quincy Adams, instructed our Am
bassador to Spain to urge upon that Govern
ment the recognition of Mexican independence,
and the speedy termination of the civil war in
Mexico and Colombia lest the revolutions pro-
ceeding there should extend to Cuba, free her
slaves also, after the example of those two re-
volted Provinces, and endanger the slave sys.
tenn of our Southern States by what medical
people call the sympathy of contiguity. We
have not the leisure 10 examine the record just
now but it would DO curious commentary
upon his eloquent advocacy Of Mexican indie
pendence if this motive were found to be large
ly mixed up with his zeal for republican insti.
tutions in the revolted Spanish possessions.
Mr.. Buchanan and Mr.. Soule may have
some instructions to England and Spain in ref
erence to this rumorcd negotiation in the pres
ent affairs of Cuba Fogyism holds that the
United States are providentially appointed to
free the world by their silent example, avoiding
all entangling alliances with foreign Powers
the Monroe doctrine is convenient authority
for resisting all foreign interference with the
pohty Of the nations of this continent and the
adjacent islands; and, since the annexation oil
Texas it has been the manifest destiny of this
Republic to extend Slavery from Mason and
Dixon TO the South Pole. How all these arti-
Giles of our creed are to apply in resisting the
emancipation of the slaves in the Spanish do
mnions by the action Of their own Govern
! ment in the exercise of its undoubted rights il
the problem for Pierce's Administration to
solve. Kossuth said, intervention for the sake
of non Intervention our politicians said NO, to
the doctrine in Europe; viii they say YES, to
its application in the Western hemisphere
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