The Port Gibson reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 185?-1857, 1853-02-23
England and Cuba.
KAINOS.

Read the article below IL is from the
Delta and is to the point:
England has suddenly been taken with
holy hurry to suppress the slave trade on the
coast Of Cuba. Her ministers have talked
about it always but while the Americans we're
quiet about the acquisition Of Cuba, and her
friend Queen Christiana was rolling up her
millions by her partnership in the traffic,
England remained amiably blind, and the
British cruisers occupied themselves else
where. While we were sleeping thousands
upon thousands Of tattood savages from Afri-
ca were yearly launched upon the shores of
oppressed and protesting Cuba. The better
class Of Creoles saw, with horror, these dan
gerous aocessions to an unarmed and discon-
tented population and with such men as the
bold and liberal Domingo de Goieoira at their
head, made efforts TO meet this influx Of a
savage and alien race. by inviting white emi-
grants from Europe The Spanish Govern
ment affected to approve of these efforts, but
managed in reality, TO thwart them in great
measure, and throw ruinous expenses on the
leaders of the movement. England, all the
while, was declaring il to be the most painful
thing in the world. to her moral sensbilities to
see such thriving slave trade carried on in
Cuba but somehow she never prevented, or
even checked it, The slave cruisers came
and went openly and safely,-bringing to
Cuba yearly recruits to an army of able
bodied reckless and blood-thirsty auxiliaries
for the subjugation of the whites. if at any time
they rose upon their Spanish task masters
This system went on for years, contrary to
the treaty between England and Spain for
the suppression of the slave trade; contrary
to the wishes and interests Of the Creoles,
whom it placed between two 6res-Spanish
despotism on one side, and servile war on the
Other--and contrary to the general sentiment
and well being Of the white race in America
BY this train of accident. or connivance the
English and Spanish system of policy has
been strengthened by force Of fifty thousand
negroes, perfectly adapted. in will and power.
TO carry death and desolation to fifty thousand
Cuban homesteads at a nod from Europe
They have the intimation already, that they
may yet be required to arm and act with the
twenty thousand soldiers maintained in the
Island by Spain. for the destruction of the
Creolss, if they venture TO move for freedom.
More than one hundred thousand Africans
have been brought into Cuba, under the eyes
of England, within twenty years. and such a
large proportion of them we're robust youths
that 1t il moderate computation to say that
through her fault. there is at this hour fifty
thousano African born savages In Cuba. at the
disposal If Spain. to fulfil her threat of exter-
mination to the rebeIious Creoles. Add to
these imported negroes the Spanish soldiery,
and Europe has an army Of destroyers count
ing not less than one hundred thousand, at
her command.
That Spain is determined TO blot Cuba
from the map of civilization, rather than
have her come 10 the Uuited States, she
does not conceal. Her ministers have said it
TO ours, aud the official Gaxettcs proclaim to
the world this intention. England will not
venture 10 shock Christendom with the threat
but we have 20 reason to doubt that such will
be ber policy. And it is not impossible this
Government viii aid and sanction the con.
summation Of this iniquity by its inertia
To make an efficient third in the abstraction
Of the whites IL Cuba. the United States have
but TO keep the Neutrality Law of 1918 nm
W kuo tcduAuS ~ 1AA. A. lhA0OTc anu the Brit
ish Minister-7here is no help for the Gu
bans. unarmed nd hemmed in as they arc,
but from the free citizens Of the Union and
if our Government viii but keep them chain
ed up while Spain unlooses her soldiers and
Africans, RepubliHnism and xhito suprema.
cy in Cuba will b quenched in blood, in a
single campaign. Whether tho salvation of
two or three hundred thousand Of women, and
children, and unarned men, together with the
difference. whether he Island u saved or lost
to civilization and white sovereignty. is worth
the trouble Of revising tho imperfect law of
1918, we leave to ths wisdom of Congress
But TO retara 20 the present activity Of
England in the suppression Of the Cuban
slave trade. we do uol believe this newborn
fever Of benevolence BODIES pleasant things TO
Spain, or IN the end acceptable things TO the
United States. Tn British press is alive
With leoturings to tbeAmericans on the WICK
edness Of land-steslig; and overAows, just