The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-16
Cuba, Spain, England, Mexico, and the United
States.-Warlilxe Aspect OF Affairs.

States.-W0riike aspect OF Analrs.
The intelligence which we published yester-
day from Havana, in connection with the cor
roborative information from other sources, to
which we shall advert in this present article,
gives to our relations with Cuba, Spain, Eng
land and Mexico the paramount Importance of q
crisis of impending war The extraordinary con-
juncture of circumstances, incidents, accidents,
and State policy, which has brought these parties
together. is but the natural result, of common
cause against our Institutions our commercial
prosperity, our power among the nations. and
the imminent danger of still further alnexations
to our Southern States.
First it appears that Lord Palmerston has
brought the home government of Spain to a sort
Of compromise upon the Cuban slave trade. 1t
is reported from various authorities to the
southwark that Spain has agreed to suspend
this traffic, and to substitute the apprenticeship
system of the British West Indies, ''by the free
introduction of negroes from Africa without
molestation,'' to serve as apprentices for periods
Of eight, ten, or fifteen years, or more or less;
and the ground upon which this ominous move
ment is supposed to rest, is, that as far as it
goes this arrn~esment VIII .ut on clio az
QUESTION of Cuba Try the United States, by
the introduction of the Jamaica policy of Eng
land, as contTadistinguished from the slave
holding system of our Southern States; for
the inference is plausible enough. that with the
gradual establishment in Cuba of the emanci-
patton humbug Of Jamaica, the "Queen Of the
Antilles will cease to be desirable acquisi-
ton by the southern section of this Union
And in this light we are disposed to believe
that there may be substance enough in this
aforesaid report to challenge the immediate
attention Of our government.
The violent, evasive and equivocal assault
upon the New YORK HERALD by the Spanish
government organ at Havana, betrays pecu-
liar sensitiveness among the Galatians upon this
|. subject of the slave trade; but it is apparent
that the DidriO editor does not tell the half
that he might disclose were he in a more indie
pendent position. The correspondence which
we published Of Lord Palmerston concern
ing this African traffic with Cuba, has touched
the authorities of the island in tender place.
They vince under it; but they cannot evade
the question. under cover OF their ridiculous
and inpotent abuse of this journal. We
trust they will still be enabled to digest
the debate in the British House of Lords,
which we published the other day. And
however disagreeable to the Galatians of
Cuba may be the hostility of the HERALD
as the organ Of the popular sentiment Of this
country upon the African slave trade, it is
manifest that the Ha6aaer0s have been
brought to the pinch when they must deter
mine either to risk an English blockade, or a
qualified abolition Of this African traffic, and
Of African slavery as it now exists in the
island. This, we apprehend, is the key to the
peculiar bitterness Of the Diario. and is thus
conoboratiye evidence to the direct issue Of an
impending compact between England and
Spain. involving the introduction into Cuba Of
the British West India system of emancipation
on the one hand and on the other the protec-
ton Of Spain in her sovereignty over the
island.
This is the first branch Of our present sub
ect. And let us, in a word or two consider
the tendencies Of this British West India
policy. We presume that. fully carried out, it
can only result in the final establishment of II
confederated free black republic or empire or
the West India Islands, under the protection Of
European holy alliance. Nor is il necessary
here to suggest the mschievous influence which
such a confederation would exercise against
the slayeboIding States Of this country. Thisin
Guencc would subject the Southtoperpetualcom
mercial annoyances, to constant endorsements,
internal as well as external, with their slaves,
and would inevitably. sooner or later, embreil
us in bloody war in the Gulf and perhaps in
q bloodier determination OF the blacks Of the
South. That they would be exterminatcd if
inhamed to general Instruction by the North
ern abolitionists and their foreign allies, is, at
all events, rational and logical conclusion
And sucl hoinn lib tendencu nf this alleond