The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-12

X,
the hour of going to press we had not heard Of her
arrival at the dock She brings the California mails
Of the 10th ult, and 81 600 900 in gold dust
No tidings Of the Pacific, with four days later i'd
vices from Liverpool have yet been received She
has, doubtless, been detained by the intense fogs
which have prevailed during the last few nights.
The British Policy In Cuba-New Negro EN-
pire on Our Coast.
Will the administration at Washington an
swer one question to the Cuban people. at this
perilous moment when England threatens to
extinguish them from amid the white nations
of the earth. and to leave the place of the GEN.
trail gem Of the American circle of States a
blot on the map of American progress? The
question is simple pressing, vital. and must be
answered. 1t must be answered promptly and
definitely by the United States, for even the
sufficient and fatal answer.
Does the democracy Of the Union concede to
England the right to subjugate Cuba to the
negroes?
This is the grand, the inevitable question of
1853; and even the silence Of this government
for year will be an affirmative, destructive to
white nationality in Cuba. The government
owes it to its own declared views on the sane
tity of American interests from European die
tation, to break this silent verdict Of death
If there is in the vista of human foresight
period in which the oracular henceforth re-
sistance to foreign encroachment" shall take
its point of beginning. it would seem to be
called for at moment when England claims
the right to control the destinies of Cuba in its
closest and most eventful domestic relations.
We ask the administration to examine her con-
duct and pretensions. and then make answer to
the question propounded.
England made certain treaties with Spain for
the suppression of the slave trade; and. under
cover Of this treaty, Spain has introduced
nearly half million Of savage Africans into
the island Of Cuba, under the term of enamel
pados. England has aided and abetted. and
still continues to aid and abet, the introduction
of this dangerous foreign element into the very
portals of the Union. VIII it be said that if the
same number of British soldiers were, under
any pretext whatever, introduced into Cuba
the United States would see it with indifference
Yet by treaty with Spain, and by an assump-
ton which our government has been very re-
miss in acquiescing in,England claims the guar
dianship Of these African barbarians and is at
this moment openly and urgently pressing upon
Spain to give over Cuba to their sway, under
the color of that plausible deceit-free instant
and universal equality. The laws of Cuba pro-
vide for the emancipation of these Africans long
before they will be prepared to govern them
selves and, therefore, this haste of England
to come on our side of the Atlantic. and wreck
Cuba by this abrupt and disastrous change is
the more overt and criminal. 1t is without ex-
cuse in its attack on the domestic integrity and
independence of an American people Cuba is
our sister and friend. entwined in the we'll
being of all the American States with adaman-
tine bonds, of geographical, commercial and
political kindred. Cuba may cease tomorrow
to be a vassal of Spain; but no vicsstude of hu-
man policy can tear her from her home in the
bosom Of our double continent where the hand
of the Almighty anchored her, to keep eternal
watch and ward over the approaches to our
Southern seas and isthmus highways. The
statesmen of the past had the wise courage
to declare that this priceless key of the Gulf
should not be seized by Europe, to become
thorn in the side Of the growing Union. Is
it not still more antagonistc to the national in
terest that it should be African? IF the unci-
vilized negro fromEhe SlaveCoast is more alien to
American interest than the European colonist-
if the multiplication of Haytien Empires on our
border is more dstasteful than Cana6e or Texas
the threatened Authorization of Cuba is more
dangerous Infringement Of the American decla-
ration against foreign encroachment than any
which has occurred during this
century.
If this do not justify distinct explanations
with England and Spain, we are forced to con
clude that the much promised henceforth " OF
American protection has receded far into the
distant and Invisible future.
If the systematic creation of an African State,
lnder the broadcast ostentation of an official |
British protectorate, at the most delicate and |
dominating point of our entire coast, be not
ore;0n encroaS hment we would nrav tho ad-