The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-30

But Canedo is one of those iudefatigable men
| who are never tired Of furnishing US with mate
| ral for articles No sooner has he been exec
rated on one side than he turns the other to
| the scourger British squadrons may pre-
! vent his satiating his avarice at the expense
| Of the negroes; but their vigilance is no
match for his cupidity; and fair substi-
| tute for the Africans can be found on the
| American coast. Nor does he present any strik-
ing contrast to his friends and proteges in this
| respect. The slave dealers Of Cuba stick at no
| thing Money they must have; and If money
| can be procured by stealing men and women
and selling them into slavery, it matters very
little to the humane and enlightened Cuban
what blood flows in their veins or from what
shore they are taken. Were the dread OF ven
| geance once removed from their minds, we
| should have Cuban pirates landing on the coasts
| of Maine or Massachusetts, kidnapping women
and children and selling them on the plantations,
by and with the consent and approval of his Elk
cellency the Captain General. Nalentin Canedo
Most Of our readers are familiar with the
| peninsula Of Yucatan, which juts out from the
| north Of Belize into the Mexican gulf A classic
discoveries of Stephens; and the heroic valor
and unconquerable independence Of the natives
have added an additional attraction to the Greece
ofAmerica. For upwards of two hundred years,
Mexico has spent her strength in endeayoring
to subdue them but, unlike their brethren of
the north, the Indians Of Yucatan have retained
| so much Of their native mette and perseverance
| l,aH1 h.. nIl ~
conquest. A temporary lull in the never
ending hostilities between Mexico and
| her turbulent province, has always been
| followed by furious burst of warfare; and
| though the peninsula is laid down on the map
as forming part of Mexico. though the Republic
does exercise rights of sovereignty in the ports.
it would be wandering very wide of the truth
to designate the inhabitants of the interior as
her subjects. As race, the Yucatan Indians
have borrowed little from their more civilized
foes They retain nearly all the characteristics
of the savage: are bold. persevering unalter-
ably attached to their native land, and un-
daunted in its defence. Their Christianity is
clumsy compromise between Catholicism and
paganism. In fine, though possessing the usual
cunning of the Indians in war; they ere easily
overreached by the superior tact and skill of
the white men.
Such is the race from which one Of the largest
piavedealers Of Havana proposes to supply the
| deficiency which the stringent measures of
| Great Britain have created in tke annual i'm
| port Of slaves BY means Of an agent at Be-
lize this worthy merchant has been in the habit
ofbuying up small lots of Indians along the
coast, at remarkably moderate rates Twenty
| five dollars was all that his conscience would
allow him to pay for o man: women were worth
seven dollars less +; and boys and girls fetched
rather more than fat hogs. A comparison Of
these rates with the market prices in Cuba,
viii show that this excellent dealer was not
far wrong when he styled the operation
-" I'M especulati0n naagnifco." We can well
conceive his wrath when he heard of the sum-
mary fashion in which his Belize agent had
been arrested by the British authorities. The
| poor fellow had only succeeded in kidnapping
a sorry hundred and thirty of the Yucatanese
and was on the threshold of the fortune which
was to crown his efforts 4 few months
| longer. and bis Golfers would have been full.
Alas! for The frailty of human purposes
The English one day got hold of the
kidnapping agent, and popped him into
Jail As soon as the affair got wind,
Santa Anna was straightway seized with
q violent fit Of affection for his rebel
lious subjects in Yucatan. and Illuminated
furious letter to his representative at Havana,
insisting on the immediate suppression of the
traffic and the restoration of the captives.
Whether Santa Anna would have taken the
| initiative, and forwarded a remonstrance to
Havana as soon as the business came to his
ears, if the British authorities at Belize had not
moved in the matter, is by no means settled
point. He has no reason for feeling any lively
regard for the Indians Of the peninsula on the
contrary, it would be rendering him signal
service to rid him of the annoyance they cause
his government True Canedo and his prote-
| ges could hardly be expected to depopulate Yu-
catan, and carry off the whole population into
slavery but what little they did towards this
consummation can hardly have proved sub
| ject Of poignant regret to the Mexican dictator.
1t is not unreasonable to regard the despatch
recently received at Havana by Don Ramon
| Carbalo, the Mexican Consul as intended at
least as much for outward effect as for any
practical purpose
| Thus the matter stands. Canedo is of course
quite ignorant of the whole transaction-as
blameless as he was in the matter of the Lady
| Suffolk and her companions. II is not difficult
| to foresee how the imbroglio will terminate
| THE MAINE LIQUoR Law IN New BEDFoRD.-
| Several thousands Of the legal voters OF the
city of New Bedford have published petition
to his honor the Mayor and the city Council
respectfully but earnestly requesting that
the police may be instructed to enforce the
law Of the State in regard to the sale
of intoxicating liquors, and that such mea-
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