The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-04-06
THE ST. We TR A D e.

HAVANA, March 20, 1853
Progress of he SIa,s Trude-TAe Oase OF me Kidnapped
Nayress P,assv La.vrence-Dom Martin Gdliawos Article
in La Cyonoa-Opc and Flagtsous Stare dealing-Vice
President King-7ne Political Secretary Going TO Eng
laxd-Sha,n Activity and Make believe Arrests, dc.
For very many years the slave trade has been quietly
propressng in this island without attracting much no
tce in the public journals that the world in genera,
know very little what thriving state that horrible
traffic arrived at in Cuba Consequently all the Cap
tain Generals &C., with but two exceptions have
been allowed to winkiug at the proaigate slave
traders an pocketing the two three ounces Of gold
for each negro introduced from the of Africa
Since however, have faithfully to report
all of this class Of your widely spread
Journal great is the oamor and fear which has
created among the spectators and officials. well
Dealers that they well nigh been driven desper
ton, and to abandon the trade that by this
eventually succeed in aboshng II, shall certainly
set up claims before the British government the
most phanthropic in this sort Of BUSINESS for hand
reward in compensation for the zeal have dis
played in secondng their efforts to put snd to the
horrible African slave trade which hitherto has been
boldly upheld and carried with the oonnvance of the
Spanish authorities in Cuba.
Upon the arrival here of the Crescent City the 18th
inst, Havana inundated with little petty paper
published in New York. called La Conioa heard
Of it till here, although New Yorker bred and
born. It dated the 18th Of March, and contained
long, rambling, rgmarole story, which, however,
found to be good, by the authorities, that it
produced under the sanction of General Canedo in the
Dario de la Marina, of this CITY, the 22d instant
must beg to call your especial attention to the article
question: which, all here in the opinion writ
ten by the political secretary, Don Martin Galano and
sent by him to be published in La Ctonica at New York
It pretends to enter into the details of the Of the
la whO
to have stated in the newspapers was kidnapped
from the island Of Nevis and cruelty treated for many
years, as slave, at Havana, where she illegally held
by the Spanish authorities until she finally fed for pro-
lection board the British frgate vesta whose gallant
commander caused her to be sent back to her home
whence she had long been stolen. The dplomast
creary then goes to vy the English for hay
ing had something to do in that matter accusing him.
also of being the author of article upon the same
subject which they say appeared time ago. the
London Morning Post. After suddenly DEPRESSING into
rather funny squb, in which they, rather he ga
liano attempts to make out that nothing be more
rhtful than the treatment to which the slaves sub
jected in our Southern States particularly in Illinois
Alabama, where, he says they treated like brute
beasts and scarcely much better in the Carolinas Mis-
souri, Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky &C., he finally
launches out into unbounded praise of himself and his
master whom he calls the immaculate General Canedo
from beginning to end and that part of 1t in which he
endeavors to Willy the characters our Southern slave
learn of these days. to his cost With regard to his
assertion that General Canedo the
so in dispatches Tor a0e s1
but, unfortunately the affair of the Lady Suok-whch
Wa pso pows n bs ss cut
eighty men, towed to sea by steamer from the port
Of Havana at time when such the state Of appre
hension and alarm felt by these authorities about
another filibuseIing expedition which then talked
Of, that no man could purchase half pound Of
powder without leaving his address and giving GER
fcate to why he required -only goes prove that
the ncessant persecution of the traders which Mr.
three ounces Of gold which the Havana WSra accuses
him of having received from the slave traders which
which he ress to Spain or how else could he have
ssasssI
slaves landed on the island Of Cuba. ' 'A'''''''
On the very day. (the 18th of March nsant) that Mr.
Galiano was publishing to the world in La Gronica at
New York. the immaculate conduct Of himself and Cen
Canedo, and their incessant persecution Of the slave
arrived the evening Gays Piedra Of the port
OF Cardenas with twelve hundred slaves, from Africa
a. snts5a 1 Don Manuel the Cover.
convey said slaves to the main land. NV information
Is from parties who were At Cardinals and present
Of Mahon and very notorious slave trader, you will
probably recolect reported to you few months back
as fitting out large bark at Cardenas for the coast Of
Africa-that the venture was got up by company Of
Galatians at Astanzas it was known certainly
that General Pavia who had been dismissed by honest
for his connvance with the traders was to
be as Governor of that place. and that SLAYER
expected to return from the coast with fifteen humid, ed
slaves From what have yet been able to gather it
appears that the SLAYER actually did take board his
sci upwards OF fourteen hundred negroes slaves which
OF another equally notorious slave captain, who went
out in the command Of the Lady Suffolk, but as the
latter was much overdue the other party became the
purchaser-that during the voyage Africa several
attempts were made by the negroes to take the ship the
crew. and very many died from Sickness generated by
the overcrowded state of the vesse-that the captain
the slaves, and having successfully effected the landing
o. about twelve hundred with which they arrived at
Pedra, on about the 18th instant
All the circumstances attending this, well those
of the Decentralization which took place at Gays Verde
de Medano sagua, the 25th ultimo are Of public
notoriety forming the common topic of conversation all
over the city. and giving the lie, it were to Mr.
Galianos assertion in the Conica his and General
Canedos immaculate conduct and their ncessant perse
eation of the slave traders who Land their slaves with
nothing dread but the British cruisers Notwtstand
ing this the infamous author of the article COnica
has the impudence to affirm that it is his intention to
proceed to England by the first direct steamer for the
purpose of endeavorng to hoOdwnk the British govern
ment as to the real state of the Cuban slave trade and
that he will adduce documents to prove the truth Of his
assertions But the capture Of less than four savers
in less than two weeks by the gate vesta and the noto
sands Of negroes which been landed on the island Of
Cuba during the short administration General Canedo
o az WHICH, IN LOU one instance nave any OF the guilty
parties been in any way molested punished win be
facts in themselves too glaring for the gubty John
Bull and Lord Russell will hardly be expected to admit
the specious distortions of the truth which such man
may venture to make.
Galiano has given up the idea of visiting the United
States fearing that in free country like ours where his
virtues have become SO generally known he runs the
risk of being visited by Judge Lynch with his tar and
feathers he therefore proceeds directly to England where
it is to be hoped his deserts will not be overlooked.
The slave traders and the government at their wits
END: mere Is the devil to pay, and mistake and
perfect panic among the slaves who being arrested
this moment by DOZENS here at Cardenas at Matan
zas all OF which they poor DEVILS do not understand
and you even will require little explanation There are
reasons for this sudden change conduct the part
OF the present government The first which we may safely
arrogate to ourselves is that for time past very few
cases Of slave trading Decentralization negroes from
of the correspondent Of the New York ERALD in which
journal they have been too faithfully reported to be
pleasing to Gen Canedo but the contrary filled him
and his subordnates with the greatest alarm because