The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-06-21

considerable portion OF the public press has given
circulation II not some degree of credence strange ru
oors apparently emanalng from Cuba. These rumors
are to the effect that the British government is actively
usixaing that Of Spain to emancpale The slaves
the island that the inducemen, to this step on the part
Of Spain DO the opening Of the ports Of Cuba under
British guaranty, for the importation Of negroes from
Africa 10 serve for term OF years as apprentices and
then to be left free upon the island; and finally. that
the Spanish government is inclined regard the whole
proposition with favor in the view that The adop-
ton of such must at least forever prevent the
annexation OF Cuba 10 the United States.
We have no reason to believe that thsse reports are
su,,anel by any official information. by any other re-
,ble and sufficient cviience Taken as stated. they
s,,uedy present plan for the barbarzatton of Cuba
BY giving that fair islana over in the OF few
years the sway Of horde of savage negroes who,
der the name OF freedom, would be the slaves of hor-
rbe anarchy. This doom-hc fate of Haytl. and so
much the worse, because Cuba would give the larger
field for be all that could be hoped
for the 20 een Of the Antilles if the plan of emancipation
and African immg above stated should take ef
feet IT. on the other hand, the term Of apprenticeship
both for the emancpaed slaves and The imported Ar-
should be extended, as. according TO some saie
ments is be, to about the average of slave life
Cuba then the opening of the ports of Cuba for the i'm
porlalon of such apprentices is of course only another
name for gigantic expansion and legaliEation of the
slave trade Now, while it is undoubtedly true that
the condition OF Cusa and the policy both OF England and
of Spain respect to it such to demand the careful
attention of the government of the United States 10
the whole subject, yet it is not credible, except upon
,he ceares, and fullest cvidence lie fact scarcely con-
cslvable-that those governments should lend them
Selves the to the enforcement and the other 10 the
adoption of scheme manesly involving consequences
10 unspeakabIy deplorable,
Be this may be- no yever there can be no doubt III
the adoption Of policy, either by Great Britain or Spain
designed to in Cuba. upon larger scale and in an
aggravated FORM the horrors and the sui,efngs OF Hay
must and unite against Il as single man the masse.
oil the population of all sections OF the United States In
such cn>s, II 1t shall ever arrive, there is little doub
that our government will fully respond TO the spirit of the
people The plan Of stretching GORDON Of barbarous OF
sembarbarous free negro islands all along our Atlantic
coas,-with Cuba, the largest OF them, eectuay CON.
handing the outlet OF the whole Wes, and Southwest
through The Misssspp-and all of the necessarily The
centres and songholds OF the wors, form OF aboonis
as'tahon-ihis is plan alike at war with every i'm.
pulse OF humanity every dictate OF Christianity and ev.
cry principle OF civilization. When even contemplated
result of British interference in the affairs of the
established governments Of this continent it
the salu'ary wisdom oil that policy which. in the ss
suags OF the Inaugural proclaims all such interference,
10 be utterly nadmissble In view Of b. state Of ,hing
now existing, II is impossible to estimate too highly III,
hnnsss and The forecas, which, at tho outset of ,h
present administration. presented the whole principle
the Monroe Notwithstanding an American polio,
ior The American con,nen,-as cardinal point in ID,
regulation OF our foreign relations.