Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-11-12
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1858.
THE FINALE Small 5y degrees 2

The Union remarks " II cannot be matter Of serious
doubt With any intelligent mind that there is scheme
hand Arcanze Cuba by resortng to the apprentice
system. The only question whch 6eade 10 the
d1xAcy Of Great Britain carrying out. OF course it will
not be supposed by any that that Government will take
~ open part the scheme To do SO woudb to concede
W her example, the right Of intervention on our part
ch she her determination to resist every cost
Il will surprise no to hear that Great Britain
had discamed any connexion with the scheme But it
does not follow that because her finger is not distinctly
seen the transaction that therefore she is not actually
pulling the wires" s."-7slsgraphed to The Times.
Upon which the New York Commercial Adver
tiser remarks as follows:
"If the Union has brought oil its diaribcs the Afr
canizaton of Cuba by Great Britain this lame and i'm
potent conclusion it has either supplied rich harvest of
merrment to readers reaped of pity To think
that after all it, asseyerations that treaty already
signed or was about be signed, between Spain and
England for the importation of Africans into Cuba, un
der the protection British ships Of war; that negro ap
prentces selling in advance of mporations qua
rantied by England and forth and so FORTH the exc
ed circle of the Unon readers be quietly told that
the only question whether Great Britain will have any
sgency in the Africanzaon; that of course, she will
take open part in the scheme but that it does not fol-
low that she is not pulling the wres We have seen many
A few days previously the able Washington cor
respondent of the Journal of Commerce wrote as
!, bllows:
"The combined British and French fleets represented
~ the Union about be sent to Cuba for the esab
1ehmsrt and enforcement Of the American Slave Trade
% the Apprenticeship System and all that have not yet
hpleared but unless the all false they have
g their sailing orders and will be heard Of This
hsdered bymany be reckless selfish, and wicked The
minstration is responsible for it, for the representa-
tbns Of the Union have received contradiction Who
vsr ma be the writer Of these trades against England
ills fibustersm in form. Those who failed with
the Lopez expedition hope to rise upon the new
peden Nothing could be better calculated to excite the
Cubans revolution than the dread of British nterfer-
and it is the way also to excite the Southern States
of the Union by the representation that Cuba is to be
made free negro State under the protection of Eng
land There is probably good ground for this alarm
no ground ALL except that indicated heretofore, to
w.t. the concluding paragraph of Lord John Russes let
ter to Mr. Everett wherein he sad in substance for the
want of something else to say in to that conclu
sivs rejection of the Trparte Treaty. that England would
take her to Cuba hereafter without con-
suting the United States recognising exclusive in
terest in the future Of the Antilles"
seThe Union continues give long articles upon the
reported designs of Great Britain Cuba, but without
furnishing any official information upon which we can rely,
when we attempt to opinion to the correctness
of its specuations its last editorial upon this subject
il says: I'VE have to make to the suggestions
In some Of the papers that have been ndiscrcet or
sprsmature in giving publicity to the facts from which
we deduced the existence Of British scheme for convert
ing Cuba into colony Of free negroes To the develop
ments of time freely submit these questions; and if
when the crisis comes any poor remarks of ours shall
have prepared the country for the shock we will have
been fully compensated for the criticisms to which our
articles have been subjected .'"-Aerdndria Gazette.