Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-12-10
EXPLOSION OF THE LAST CUBAN PLOT.

EXPLOSION OF THE LAST CUBAN PLOT
Our readers have learnt, from time to time,
through the columns of this paper, with what earn
est zeal certain journalists in country have been
engaged in propagating wondrous story, incredi-
BILE the face of it, and discredited by from the
beginning, of scheme meditated by the British
Government, and Heaven knows whom BESIDES for
converting the valuable Spanish Island of Cuba into
African Colony; and that the repeated assevera-
ton of such scheme by the official paper of this
Government has had the effect to excite surprise in
intelligent minds at the infatuaton under which it
evidently labored, and some curiosity to know un-
der THAT influence and upon what foundation it had
been wrought up to this enthusiasm We have our
Selves from the first ascribed these articles to honest
RIGHTEOUSNESS rather than to i'll intention on the part
of the Editor of the Union. That Journal it is now
obvious, has been imposed upon by false or feigned
representations against which longer experience in
its vocation might perhaps have served to protect it.
The delusion, however, could not last forever The
columns of the New York Times of Monday
last furnish clue to the mystery, if they do not
wholly account for it.
Without further introduction, we present to our
readers sufficient extracts from the number of the
"Times" above designated to dispel all doubts upon
the subject. In an editorial article referring to a
fbustiering document published in its columns the
Times" says:
ave publish in this mornings Times the trans
lation of very interesting Address to the PEOPLE
of CUBA, from the Cuban Junta, or Committee of
Cuban Exles having its headquarters in this city
Ne oh, sc Of he .cl Loc k,ox,
cretly but very widely circulated in Cuba is to show
by the collation. of historical facts that Spans about
to take for surrendering Cuba to the dom-
nation of the enfranchised slaves and that the
'only ,oay IN aohich disastrous a result can be
spreUented IS By revolution aohich shall arrest the
Island from Spanish poioer aud place ats govern
ment IN the hands Of the people The Junta state
that their preparations are complete; that the er-
lies are thoroughly united, and that REVOLUTION
in Cuba is inevitable They count upon the warm
sympathy of the American people, and assert that
the Government will not throw obstacles in their
way The Address is very ably written, and is well
worthy of a perusal"
The Address of the "Cuban Junta," to which
attention is invited in the preceding paragraph fills
more than three columns of the small type of the
"Times" 1t is headed appeal of the Revolu-
tionists" &C., and is signed by five persons, whose
names indicate that they are of foreign birth, and
who profess to be the representatives of the Cuban
Junta in New York 1t is also worthy Of note that
the Address is dated at New York on the 10th of
November last, only few days after the first
broaching of the subject of it by the Washington
Union.
From this Address we copy two or three para.
graphs The one which we place first in order dis
closes what was the direct aim and purpose of the
contrvers of this new scheme of agitation at the
headquarters in New York That purpose is ex-
planned in the following extract from the close of
the Address
I" Let us hazard the revolution as the only plank
to preserve us from shipwreck. Behind the revo-
luton and not before, will certainly march, in
mass, the people, and we even believe the Govern
ment, of the United States, which already, from
the present moment form common cause with
those who are called by geographical necessity to
share the destinies which await them"
Two other paragraphs of the Address show, be-
You'd reasonable doubt, the object for which the
original imposition practised upon the Govern
ment paper in this city, and has been so long per-
severed in. These paragraphs are the following:
The journals of most here, and among them the
organ oi the ADMINISTRATOR agree and repeat each day
that there have been received from time to time state
ments conhrmatory Of the plan Of establishing in the
Island OF Cuba the apprenticeship system Of Jamaica
The washington Union declares itself completely
tsfed Of the truth of that proposition and Of the
ton Of Spain, France, and England to it. that IL adds
we WIN venture TO predict that the whole project will
be openly manifested and made public as soon as the
French and English fleets stationed in the aters a.
Cuba, so as to realize that idea in secure manner
These and other revelations from Washington ema
mating doubtless from worthy of the greatest
credit We must therefore conclude that all the ante
cedens and all the data collected present arc con
vncng that the apprenticeship system of Cuba is on the
point Of being authoravely established in the Island
of Cuba.
That systemthat Internal work of the Machiayel
of the English Government-that sacrifice which Queen
with the title Of Mother makes Of life and
involves our inevitable ruin The free Importation Of
negroes from Africa in the quality of apprentices for the
term Of tan years. at the end of which they win be left at
full liberty in the island, viii be its principal provision