The Nevada journal., 1853-05-27
From the Dublin Nation.
The Lone Star.

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The fairest and most fertile of the
West Indian islands has been in the
grasp of Spain since the year 1911.
Like ireland, the Queen of the Antil-
les, has groaned under the oppression
and rapacity of the mother country
since Spanish colonists first settled on
her soil. Used as a maratime garri-
son, to guard the Spanish possessions
in the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba was de-
prlved Of all rights, commercial and
Legislative, and lay upon the sea in
gripping poverty and dependence, with
out a privilege or aspiration, till 1888.
In that year dreadful calamity arous>
ed her population to unusual energy,
and opened to her a narrow pathway
which has slowly opened wider and
wider, till she can now see a clear road
to speedy deliverance. The famine
of that year was so great that the
Spanish Sovereign, Charles the Third,
was compelled to abrogate the mono
poly of Cuban trade, enjoyed by the
lordly merchants Of Cadiz and Seville,
and extend it to thirteen ports of his
Kingdom. He did this rather than
meet the distress of the colony out of
the "imperial resources" Commerce
then gradually grew up, and the white
population, in fourteen years, multi
piled from $4,000 to l, 100000. Some
runaway slaves from San Domingo
took 10 coffee planting in the Northern
districts of the island and the manu-
facture grew rapidly into importance,
despite of the Encouragement and
Jealousy Of the mother country. AL
most every commodity necessary for
life was imported from Spain, under
enormous duties, and Cuba Loyalty
paid these rascally imposts till '93,
when a blockade by the vessels of
France completely cut off all such sup
plies.
This caused another breach in the
jealous restrictions of Spain. The
people insisted that the Colonial Gov
ernment should open the posts to the
ships of neutral States. The HAVANA
became covered with foreign bottoms !;
and the audacious colonists got plenty
to eat and wore much more clothes
from that day forward. Agriculture
was improved and immense tracts of
land, which under the ban of crown
had lain idle. were cultivated with
success. These acts Of Legislative inde-
pendence were visited by imperial an
ger in1SOI.But the insubordiate Span
iards refused to annul their own essays
in self-government. And Spain, the
naughty and vindictive, held her
tongue and spared her blows. The
courage of despair defeated the royal
authority of Madrid.
King Ferdinand the Seventh did a
very wise thing in 1912. He saw
there was no use in bullying any lon
ger; SO he took to petting and con-
ferred on the island the privilege of
representation in the Spanish Cham
Der of Deputies. A sagacious, deter
mined Oubaro-Spaniard, with some of
the hot blood of the HidaIgo under
his diplomatic bearing, Senor Arango
fought the battles of negotiation for
the colony at the Court till 1911,
when all restrictions on Cuban COM
merce were removed. Her traffic be-
came worldwide her coffee, sugar,
and tobacco, brought high prices in
the markets of England, America,
Russia, and Germany, Her mines of
gold, silver and copper were worked
by adventurous capitalists, and her
prosperity became almost fabulous.
What had lately been a wasting is
land dependency blossomed like sea
paradise. The only blot upon her was
the damnable institution of slavery,
which still sullies her name and blurs
her beauty.
The mother country-how much
alike, to be sure, are the acts of all
these maternal guardians began to
thirst for the new and rich blood in
fused into her prosperous subject. She
taxed her for love of her; and coolly
pocketted as her share of the spoil
three millions of dollars out of the ff>
teen millions revenue which Cuba pro-
duced, besides exacting the profuse
pay bestowed on her Executive. She
sent to govern her a semi -political vi
ceroy, with train of repacious officers
and administrators. She usurped all
the patronage of the government, and,
in a word, followed the illustrious and
constitutional precedent of England
in-Ireland." She deprived her of her
representation in the Chamber of Dep
uties in 1883, and delegated her au-
thority in full to an irresponsible and