The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1853-11-29

himself 10 the reception of his three doubloons S5 0
head with admirable doey for the public good which
lperalyey requires the continuance OF the mpofts
ZION.
| AT the present period il is well known that mon.
than ordinary pressure OF this annual need exists in ca
ba Tor The continued introduction OF negroes In addition
TO the regular demand growing out OF the annual Der
cenage Of death uncompensaed by au equivalent natural
gowth there is The vacuum IN The aboJing force
which has been caused by the avages Of cholera within
the present aud The several pasI yeatsravsges still pro-
crossing.
tend 10 tell that the government has really deter
mined stop the slave trade. and issued bona fds orders
TO that effect, (as Mr. Smith, OF The BRUSH consulate
now assures us, and as has been inmaled BY ministers
in Parliament unless that accompanied Nv so,
other mode Of rsplsnshiag the deficient aad Isisg supply
The laer is nseparable an inference, from the Tor
mer. Even there other evidence. the would
alone suffice to prove the other. hat other mode can
be. and is nothing else than this very scheme Of free
and legal importation OF "spprsntiess instead OF slaves
! This is a most serious matter; vital one for Cuba
and one OF nomentous importance for our country. II
is criminal folly 10 shut eyes and to IT, some
doing, pretend 10 do 50. as - probably the
with others
| That such system must resul, in Af,ieanisiag Cuba
who prelend to denys Openly encouraged by the
SPANISH government permitted oy me Engsn the black
influx which must pour upon Cuba IN this mode must be
very great II must give decisive prepondeTancs
to The black element in Cuba. These "apprences'
would themselves be- from the outset, element OF mis-
chief and danger Neither the thing The other
neither slaves reemens suffering all the hardshps Of
the former temporary character while restless and aspr
presence in considerable numbers would soon introduce
confusion, agiiaton and turbulence into the whole ex
islng slave population OF the island and that MEANS 10
one word, Saint Domingo Pure slavery 10 practicable
system. Pure freedom is practicable one. But this
nondescSpl mixed middle condition. tmpracicabe
one This was he reason OF the voluntary abandonment
Of the intermediate apprenticeship period which formed
part OF the Of the British emancipation in the
West India Islands II could work, and the planters
themselves glad to get rid OF H. though they did 30
the expense OF giving several years OF TINS quaIned
ownership OF their QttOndam slaves.
There is no escaping from this. The importation Of
apprentices from Africa into Cuba is by necessary and
inevitable consequence, the AcamS aoa Of thai glorious
island Of 0Mrs!
Iacrednlous opposition editors abolonists maligu.
~ exuIing the fatal prospect thus opened up Tor Cuba
and our South, may cry peace peace but mere 10 no
peace-hu.nbng, huUbug, but il is no humbug! " is
most momentous question, and brings win y most mo-
menous crisis and such every sincere lover OF his
couniry and Of his color write Tor my own white Tace)
is bound 10 regard It,
Bu say some Of our northern opponents of the Amn
Of Cuba, England is phiIanhropcay opposed
the slave trade aud since this Importation OF tenyear
apprentices" would be only another form OF the same
thing there be 10 suspect her OF coun,enan
cing H. Why, that sheer is this! Has not the
British government itself Carried Coolie laboIers to s
runed colonies substantially similar footing a.
hveyea apprentices The Term OF service being shorter
does NOT vary the principle, Does il not permit SINH
lar disposition OF the Africans rescued BY its cruisers
from captured saves: And have not ministers very re.
Gently in Parliament responded TO nterr0gaons put 10
them respecting the OF large contract for i'm
porting just such "appreniices" direct from the African
10 British Guiana. tien thousand -, believe The
number) and II not avowed sanctioned, Justified,
being accompanied with the explanation that it was
only 10 very respectable London hrm lHyine
Hodges that The license for so doing allowed.
a firm which would not abuse il by kidnapping
forcing the enigranis from the African coast This
was the fact |, published in own jour.
mails. And yet some OF The editors OF those same
journals treat i, +" hlllbus'erng humbus" even TO
suspect England OF countenancng precisely the sane
sort OF importation OF African emigJan OF apprentices
into Cuba.
Even throwing Of view all the Interior tend .ncies
Of such system, and conserving for the occasion 10 he
simple enough 10 acqu British governmental philanihrc-
possibility TO by process OF Aricanlzng -graa all
this, say, yet who can fail 10 perceive that neither 10
the Exeter Hall the Downing street mode Of viewing
the negro question is there anything at all abhorent in
this idea OF importing to Cuba many blacks, from
the inexhausble myrads OF Africa, as can be got over
there! Exeter Hall does not indeed want them 20
slaves though doub. whether Downing street really
cares much how they go-,hat Downing street. which
has long permitted Spain mock at her slave-trade
treaties, when single bockadng man-of-war of Ha-
sana would have, at any moment for the past twenty
YEAR,, enforced them in But when they 60
'migranis, apprentices to become free alter term OF
years. on what ground is any objection to ss cxpecte
from English quarters On the contrary il IL clear that
Mr.. Chadbaud, in Exeter Hall, (barring only the
Popery" Of Cuban Christianity would roll his eyes
IN eIvor OF philanthropy at their being thus Providen
TALLY brought within the reach OF Christian
while thin little Lord John in Downing street would
rid, which would enable him TO 10 Parliament
aud the British public the brilliant diplomatic stroke by
bch he had headed Oh The United States. and
the lime put ehec'ua stop TO the slavetrade by
snperseding 1t by this free importation OF sngrsn APP
preniices, going voluntarily 10 better their condition In
Cuba, and there TO become in few years class similar
TO the loyal and faithful black subjects Of her Majesty
in Jamaica. Why should not oily Mr.. Chadbaad, and
why should not keen Lord John both unite in viewing
this with entire satisfaction And when II should be
contaminated, then would the latter probably wro an.
other curt note his friend Mr.. Everett. hoping that
Mr. Everett IN particular and the universal Yankee
ton general, pleased with the practical lustra-
ton now afforded OF the meaning OF that oninous lio
paragraph which constituted the fuae OF his last letter
on the subject OF Cuban Xation.
Away, then, with this nonsense OF disbelief, whether
rel affected, in The Likelihood OF Engands sanction
to this apprentice" mode OF opening wide sluice of
| black influx into Cuba On the contrary, nothing could
be more NATURAL nothing probable, nothing d.
recty IN the line OF English ideas, whether phanhropc
or political.
The argument of the London Times is thai no reliance
could be placed upon Spanish abosh all
the slavery the island In fifty years and to berate tho
imported apprentices and that therefore, IS absurd
to suppose England capable of the folly OF entering Tito
them. This is very shallow The introduction OF the
latter system would eectuaiy guaranty tho former OBJ
jeci by placing The blacks alone in full possesson OF the
leland long before the expiration OF fly years. Nor
would England neglect IN a COMPACT with Spain the
subject, adequate OF enforcing its observance
regard TO the apprentices Indeed the only doubt would
be whether the Of The apprentices IN The Britt
ish West Indies it would be practicable to maintain that
ambiguous, nondescrpt condition long ten years
whether il would be found necessary, soon as The
number should become large, TO anticipate the period #
their liberation the British planters compelled 10
do Meanwhile, the great object ioosd be eeuyedthai Of