The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-06-03
From the New York Times.
Cuba and the AfIiCans

Cuba is the closing seal OF the great problem of Afri.
can emancipation in North America LIS solution The
especial mission OF the nineteenth century Ii cannot be
accomplished until Cuba is free. While the island re-
under the dominion OF Spain, the slave trade will
continue, and while it is continued the cheap, sturdy,
gnoant slave from the OF Africa will underbd and
check OH white labor, deaden immigration, and increase
the cumbrous weight oil popalaon only 10 be ruled by
brute force Not the least OF lis evils Is the discIed oil
the coored race VINO, by the afnlies OF kind. will be
ranked with them, and dragged down to share IN the
ca abasemsn awarded 10 the Africans as people This
ncessant infusion of bafbaTous elements Is wrong 10
both races. To illustrate our meaning we will suppose
that, instead Of importing near halt million Of unciv
zsi African slaves, and working half or twolhes
OF them 10 death, under systematic idea that II Is better
economy to usr up negro Lille and replace II by mporia
on" than TO pfolong 1t by gentler usage, and accept
more enduring and more moderate game. bad suited
the policy Spain TO foster white ration and stop
the slave trade altogether. This was the policy OF the
United States, and see that as the Caucasian has
prospered in the slaVeholding and IN The non-ssye.
holding States, the character and condition OF The
! black has gone on amelorahDg IN correspond
ing degree. The increasing ascendency OF the raiio
of white population makes emancipation and the hhal
steps removing and colonzing the expe,vc race yearly
distinctly feasible. The dominant race game 80
rapidly the dependent that loses all fear OF it.
The African perfectly under CONTROL not only
because is far inferior number, but because il is par
TALLY advanced practical education as 10 submit to
the laws and appreciate the Injuries OF civilization. II
Spain had yielded 10 the solicitations OF the most patriotic
and enlightened Cubans and suppressed the slave trade
thirty years ago, they peiiiioned and che might
easily have done at this time the white inhabitants Of
the island would have been TO the coloed two
This whou, allowing for the impetus which the adj
OF wages and the necessity OF leaving all the
Cbanjcal enpoyments TO tree white labores would have
impaired 10 white immigration. The increased value OF
his slaves would compel the sehhnsss of the planter 10
take part with humanity. He must depend upon the
slaves already the island or upon those he might draw
from the mainland, Tor his work; and where they were
deficient, look 10 European labor The restriction OF the
slave supply would rave opened the door The pauper
aboers oil Europe, who would hasten 10 fill the work
shops with better mechanical skill, to cultivate waste
patches in little farms and market gardens-Dow 30
few and miserable that island-and TO FAKE up
respectable class OF carmen and coachinen, IRON
all OF which the island blacks have excluded the
whites, Ia the southern States OF the Union, Euro
pean emigran's are gradually occupying their places,
10 tner own and the country's advantage With such
policy, Cuba would this time possess great pre-
poDderance OF white population, and her colored people
would as whole be so much more familiar with
the comforts and duties OF civilization, that she could
be quite tranquil and prepared keep step with the Uni
ted States IN the progress OF emancipation. But these
savage impo,aiions from Africa are too profitable 10
Spanish cupidy, and too convenient TO Spanish dePo.
ISM to be discontinued while Spain the island and
until escapes iron her yoke there is no prospect Of rs
Cessation.
The blacks crowd the whites GU, OF all those branches
OF industry TO the incacuable encouragement OF inmi-
gauon as must happen IN every community where ihey
have a sufficient numerical prcponderance fill the pres
ent demand. In such communities, productive progress
weakened because industry disbonored by the VICIOUS
ignorance OF the industrial Masses and the cultivated
wblie overlook ing The dignity ct the work in the deHra
da'ion of the worker, associates labor with want and
mental stupidity and unless he is OF intellectual
strength, Gsiains 10 be useful The Cubans have the
right and the will to share the moral advance OF the
age but the Spanish slave trade holds them back and
bears down upon Their country by constant and over
poweriDg Infusion OF barbarous and unmanageable ele
men,s from Africa.
Spain abuses The mutual interests OF civilized nations
and foeits every claim TO the allegiance OF her wronged
colony by this obstinate system OF deterioration Sne
has imported in thirty years more Africans into Cuba
than were brought into the territory now comprised by
the republics OF the United States and MEXICO dnHrR
their entire history going back 10 the brst dates OF se
Element. OF these il il computed by her own omc'ss
tina, one-tbrd del befaely worked TO death ans r
know the presence Of such class OF laboefs, ~" nS
inevitable severity OF their management IS no~l uon
to the entire working class OF which Spain 'nos ~
tues them the representatives Unui 'hs npI...u "
heterogeneous elements shall cease, ana Tue a'u 1:eo
in CUBA snail be brought under the seady anu IN
Huence OF civilized contact and The pressure Oh emSaht
competirion The great work OF tbe eA.osson cannon
nav. , clear 6e5 When the limits are hxed-when We
can see The extent OF the necessty-when we can CON-
ou,e ,he ayact cos and convenience OF the movement.
then and moi before the African exodus will be near at
hand.
and aise il TO equal citizenship with the whites, il not
Inc inst and polite course. While IL decree of in
dnstraI rup and civic decentralization against the native
does not improve in the lghtest the
ua prospects OF the black The laws Of the island
provide TOR their instruction in the OF life, and in
that the execution Of those laws be taken from the slave
trading Spanish officials and left 10 the islanders, who
have every interest in the Just administration of the Law,
and in the creation Of intelligent and productive poPu-
laton The Cubans have repeatedly disclosed their wien
to exclude these savage hordes from Africa, and encou
Bile results OF that system will be schooling of the Al
rlcan to habits OF sesuppo and sefgovernment, ana
his ultimate colonization the bounaess and congenal
domain OF his ancestors