Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1853-11-05

the part of Great Britain escorted to with no expec-
tation wish that it would succeed, but deemed
necessary to advance her real design of Acanizing
the island. But, conceding for the present that we
are mistaken In this opinion and that the distin-
gushed British noblemen have meant just what they
said in their negotiations with government and
that they really and earnestly desired only to main
tain Cuba in her present condition. it becomes i'm
portant in order determine whether policy is
right wrong to know what is the present actual
condition of Cuba.
like soul of the Escurial is still dominant. Could
Philip the Second rise out of his dismal grave, he
would glory in the Moro. He would not find there
the Spain of to-day, the Spain of 1872 of Pala
fox, of Bonaparte, of that struggle for national
life which even in Spanards is respectable, even
the Spain of people beginning to breathe existence
and using in their asphyxia great British, consti-
tutionaI windpipe. He would find there hideous
anachronism. He would find there the living mem
bers of every abominable and beasty tyranny the
quiverng yet armed limbs of every ferocious and dis
gushing cruelty which the bad passions of man have
for centuries invented and which mankind has warred
for centuries to efface from the earth He would find
there the Spain he fabricated-black, dismal, and
silent as the earuhern sepulchre in which he dwelt;
he would find there dominant and all-possessng
monopoly with the power If not the name OF the In
QUESTION he would find the slave-trade in its hor
rors and in its horrors the vagrant and desoating
garrison, which, in his day and after, it custo
mary to infct on the dependencies of his dominion.
The accumulated inventions of Spanish barbarity he
would find there to clothe his soul in in pail 1t
is only possible for Philip Loyoa to realize in
its fragrant immensely the tyranny practsed in that
island An all dominant and perfectly INSCRIPTIONS
foreign garrison, sent there plumber and recupe-
rate; degraded officials, whose sanctity and whose
crimes go handn-hand; dungeons silent and inscru-
BILE; power without responsibility, place without dig
nity or vaor, or virtue; people without represen-
taton, without government, without protection, with
out belief loyalty, with terror only-could the
ghoule of utra-montanism desire more?
There is no liberty in Cuba; there is property
cafiat of inf t1ho A fIYror
ny, against which even Europe would revolt you can
any clear day from the promontories of Florida
There it is, the death of intolerance, the agony of
military torture the horror of the Inquisiton the
ever-incrcasing and agonisng demonism of the slave
trade, all in One all collected from the barbarities
of ages, brewing and writhing under those couded
TO the east. And that is what Lord
John Russell proposes with entire liberty" to pro-
tectl
There are no laws in Cuba save such as nomad-
ic governor equally remorseess to life money,
chooses to make for himself There is no press
there. rigid and armed wall excludes its people
from the world, and the world from them They
seize mails there, open letters, and seize those
whom they addressed. There is trial there,
by jury or otherwise. secret tribunal decides on
lie and DEATH without calling witness arraign- |
ing the accused except to torture him into confess
sion. No civilized man woman go out of that
island it's governor wills-no civilized man
woman enter with his permission An old |
lowager and her paramour, elevated life guards
The island is kept for her and great Brit
sh bondholders who have pinned themselves to her |
skirts. brave soldier is tried in secret there, or
lot tried at all, but doomed in secret he is pinned
public view in armchair, and his neck twisted
if and the bells of religion sing Sanctified chime.
They shoot men in their back there and order Afri-
an savages to brutalize themselves, and drag the
oble and dead victims naked through the streets.
hey shoot americans in the back there-men who
ever knelt save to their God, and always die with
heir face to the enemy. They kill women there.
he armed and public spy walks masked there
through the streets and points the victims of his
engeance. Night after night hordes of Africans
oured into that society" to threaten with unver-
al assassination the people of the whole community
hould they revolt should disguised world revolt
IL them. Priests sing their hymns to the garrote,
nd pray for the save-shp That island lies in sight
f Florida, in American waters and there and such
the statue quo Lord John Russell would protect E
18th entire liberty" and with British fleets.
This is picture of Cuba to British states
len, and still Lord John Russell would have the
,orld believe that her Majesty's government is de-
,rmined that it shall be perpetuated Plumply, fat
z, we say to him, we do not believe word of it.
We repudiate it a calumny upon the very name
our country s motber-land. This pretence ofmain-
lining the status gao in Cuba is false pretence
he people of Great B ritian know well as we do,
nat reign of terror and of degradation SO fruitful
calamity, so iIlimitabe and so dangerous to civ
lied nations, will not be endured always. That it.
all events must cease come what else may. But
ow cease? There lies the rub We all know the
question, and of the more important w hite Ques-
on along with it. The wild fanaticism of the
tionary convention induced the French republic of
1913 to iberate its negroes, and the result the
t. Domingo massacre, and his Imperial Majesty Soul
lque or Faustin |. But as we do not believe that +
apoleon desires for enemy the Great Republic,
friendly connexion with whose citizens in colonial
ays disastrous to the of st. Louis,
10 the dynasty even of the Capets; do not be-
eve either that any Frenchman could desire, in a
eutral island owned by third party revival of
murderous festivities of Hayt we wish to dismiss
is conjointed power with little bitterness to
self and may be consistent with argument.
18th British " entire liberty" statesmen and noble
,ntlemcn it is quite another affair. We know full
ell that neither Lord John Russell, nor the admin
ration he is serving, desire intend the continu-
ice of the status quo in Cuba. We know well that :
ey are intriguing, and have been for months, and
rhaps years. for the establishment in Cuba of the
maica negro-apprenticeship and emancipation q
heme to the end that that island may be powerless
the hands ofthe Creole population and useless or
tually hostile to the United States. This with the
tentative of the threat uttered by Lord John Rus
H. is the scheme for Cuban degradation proposed !
republic. $
If any man wants to know the effect of this Brit
negro-apprenticeship SYSTEM we refer him to Mr.. I
I'm Bigelow. That gentleman has visited Jamaica
d written book thereon; and though strongly a
orous with negroism, if any man find prospec-
pleasure in house of Representatives semi-negro
negro politicians; in council and magistracy a
mi-negro entirely under the control of few white
d foreign officials; if any find pleasure in
ISOLATE and barren fields in imported Cooley pop
alton from India, wild, and even more useless and