Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-12-03
FROM THE LONDON rrnEs or SovEn.ER 0.

Dne Of the most extraordinary features oil the Amerl
Gan character is that their yaunted and undoubted
xrewdness wholly deserts them when they to est
what they expect from another country The
child that asks Of every thing will it bite?" and the
savage who in the peaceful appliances Of
civilized life, not liable to than the
~-catest" man in the universe when he looks at the
1usns he has left British soil At this moment the
avernment of the United States we are grayely in.
torel by the harrington Union, is possessed with the
idea that We about to Angicanize Cuba by inun
iaiion Of African apprentices the condition that sav
cry shall in that island the end of fifty years.
What acasibe project be fathered on the ongsghted
politicians Of England The hold should have over
tasse apprentices and their masters, the Of
covering them Of the jaws and very abyss Of slavery
at the end Of years. and the security for the total
abolition Of slavery half century hence, when every
Statesman living in England SPAIN and the United
States will be Wondering in his grave these con-
s7derations which hardly to the rapid American
Esnd 1t that in order 70 abolish slavery when
shall not live to it abolished, originate
tremendous aggrayaton Of its horrors. The appren-
Geeshp which could not manage in own colonies
anil which obliged TO foreclose, to try
again in colony not own, under laws Of which
know only that they are bad aud under the conduct Of
e mereess and inscriptions save in the
world. experiment requires that all the condi-
Ysis is hardly experiment for is aproved thing
s1To apprenticeship is impossible ambiguity, which
resolve itself into either slavery freedom
Fet there politicians and statesmen Wash.
5pg0n who think possible that should reproduce
old absurjity under the most desperate conditions and
rnJarrass ourselves with tried and exploded measure
the hope that European State which has long lost
s1e sentiment Of honor will keep its word when we are
MI dead and gone.
III these American statesmen would only just amuse,
mt their sober reason but their Imagination in its very
sSest mood by devsing attempt carry out the
scheme they could hardly fail laugh at their own sim.
yoity in believing IT, The apprentices once landed ana
0stged IN the slave population q Cuba who be able
years hence to distinguish the man whose lease Of
ss letters and stripes is the point Of expiring from
Che fortunate possessor Of inaenabe freehold? There
arc American judges indeed who night be able 70 tell
sy the color Of the skin other reconcile token
ssw deep the bondage had sunk into the SOUL whether
Eope still survived in the bruised and emaciated form
vat to the unpracsed eye Of British consuls and
tains one branded, Scared walled toothes and mutt
Rxtej niger would be much the another and il
would be impossible to resist the Of evidence that
would be sdducsd prove that every brought into
Szestion native Of that happy coil One difference
n is true might be admitted The negro who evidently
Rsd but short lease Of bis life might be presented tc
the remains Of the years apprentice We might
all the hearty and strong st working under the lash
the heirs Of perpetual slavery, while the consump;rc
d crippled we're resigned to charge with lists and
sdentures denong that they had Cuba years
Aefore under the protection Of British cruisers SO would
Esitsh honor and Spanish economy be at satisfied
The effect Of such system the condition Of its sub
Ssots needs hardly second thought. Then comes tn,
glorious prospect OF the emancipation Of Cuba in the yes
IF grace 1903 Where and whose will Cubs itself be al
that time no can tell 1t may be American III may
be black republics it may be nest Of pirates and
scourge Of society in tardy rerbuton Of the blood that
bas 90 long trickled unayenged it's soil Fifty year,
hence who shall say what Spain itself may be Ift
mains what it is now IL win not keep its word for that