The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-07

A few days since we LAID before the readers
| of the HERALD an article CO two from the Lon
don Times, pungent, caustic, and terrible
against poor old Spain and her profiigate court
| -inconrection with the Cuban slave trade A
paragraph or so from these structures Of that
paper will be found at this crisis highly sug-
gestive, ris-Q-cis with the late letter Of Lord
Johr Russell, on tie tripartite abortion. The
Times says
We have lavished blood anG our money to
make Spain independent and free; yet she basely
pu0iates her de5t and sinks under tyranny pro
fieaie that Of Godoy and as arbitrary as that Of
Ferdinand VII. It is, in reality, against Spain her
self that our ,ruisers are compelled TO keep an
ncessant watch ard warfare on The coast OF Africa,
| and among the West India isles.
This shor. paragraph embraces world of
| meaning It includes tive insane crusades of
| the Holy alliance against Napoleon Boaaparte.
from the beginning to the end, Though it
specially refers to the wars of the Peninsula
and the British debt incurred by the Spanish
Bourbons on account of British "meserial and
financial aidn Yet this sacred bill of costs
| poor oil bankrupt Spain not only ''basely re-
| pudiases," but fast-ns now upon The govern
mente of England the whole burden of the
|
rons on the coas. OF Africa and among tie
| West India islands.
| Bet the Time. is still more specific uponthe
main question, and brings its indictment directly
hone to the queen mother, Christina, and. her
retainers. in tie following uncourtly and l1at-
| footed Saxon -
Our enemy is the slave dealer and the slave deal
er is not 80 much the wretch who kidnaps negroes
among the mango topes Of Africa, or chains them
hand and foot the hold Of his pestilcnti sol ooner
| as the Capta;n-General, wearing the unifarm of
Spain, who prostitutes his Office and his profession by
the receipt Of three dnubo0ns fur every victim, or
as those male and female spectators In Madrid,
who reap the lary est profit from these crimes and
pursue their diabolica adventures under robes Of
safe aud amid The splendor vi court.
Now, this is to the point, and suite our pur-
pose exactly. Here the claims and provoca-
tions of England against Spain and Cuba are
made manifest. Spain owes to the English the
| debt of her independence, amounting to untold
millions, (ffty-six. or hundred, or more,) of
principal and interest for the payment of which
the prospect is as distant and dubious as for
the liquidation of the national debt Of England
itself In fact Spain "basely repudiates her
debt;' thing which England abhors, though
she must ultimately be driven to the same dis
tressing expedient. Spain cant pay-won't
pay and. in persisting in the piratical slave
traffic with Cuba, is not only throwing upon
England additional expenses on Spanish ac-
count, but is weakening Isabelle's precarious
hold upon the Queen of the Antilles and en-
couraging internal rebellion and external SYM
patty, compromising the transfer of Cuba TO
these United States.
Spain is thus at the mercy of England Her
overwhelming indebtedness and her helpless
impotency to maintain a government at home
or single island abroad. were sufficient for the
absolute vassalage of poor degenerate, de-
bauched and paraly tic Old Spain. Upon Eng
land or France, or both, she is dependent for her
continued independence, such as it is. She has
. cast herself into their hands Hence the over
lures to President Fillmore for the tripart;te
protectorate hence the andacious letter of
Lord John Russell hence the indignant stric-
lures of the London Times
Nor is this all. The energy snd enterprise
recently exhibited by England aud her cruisers
around Cuba, in the suppression of the slave
traffic, have other objects than abolition phi
lanthropy in view. Brazil has put an end to
her part in the African slave trade. Cuba is
now the only remaining market for the King of
Dah0mey. Suspend the traffic with Cuba and
theeost ofthe African and Cuba detective squad
rons will be saved. The business will be wound
up. The most matter-of fact. dollar calculating
Yankee will recognise here justifable excuse
and g satisfactory explanation for the intense
anxiety and immense activity Of England in the
hospit~he and Christian duty Of spppressing
the slave trade between Africa and Cuba.
While fos.ered and shared in by the Queen
mother, Christina, and her mnions, the slave
catching s4uadrons of England inaict upon
Victoras treasury some odd millions of ex-
penses, which to terminate she would be justi
fed in the seizure and occupation of the island
of Cuba Under the same provocations hun
bred years ago this would have been done.
without remorse, without reserve and without |
remonstrance. But now this thing would not |
be permitted, and England is reduced 10 the |
alternative of eSRning intrigues or bullying |
negotiations.
The letter Of Mr. Everett on the tripartite |
question has opened the eyes of ohm Bull to the |
unmistakeable meaning of " manifest destiny" |
The island Of Cuba ID not for him. The time /
dS-ing which he might have possessed it has |
gone by. The last chance was in the European /
peace of 1915. when he might have claimed |
it in .acquittance Of his services to Spain
and the allies against Napoleon Now he
nnst consent to the drift of mani
est destiny unless he can overreach
It by the tp.cks of diplomacy. This he is at
tempting to 40. The indignant exposures of
the Cuban slavs trade in the House OF Com
mons the mercleAs excavations of the Spanish
government and the Spanish court by the Lon
don Times, the active operations of her Bri-
fannie Majcsty's cruisers along the coasts OF
Cuba in catching slave TRADERS, and the equally