The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-02-08

but In, meantime, II absolutely forbade anv fur
ther extensoS Of European Interests By colonization
or settlement On any Of those parts Of the globe
bounded BY the Atlantic and Pacific, between
Greenland and Cape Horn. This IL really an
unexaggersted statement OF the motion which
the General submitted TO the Senate, and which
amply vindicates, we must needs confess his
title to that "sapaoious swallow for territorvn
which he avowed few weeks ago. Ono CONT.
nent is not enough for him. he prepares to gorge
q couple, and the islands Of the two oceans and the
gulf will OF course add but mperceptibe morsels to
the meal. AS an exempifcation Of his practical
views, he delivered himself of severe invectlve
against the federal government because in treaty
recently concluded between the United States and
Great Britain respecting mutual remuneration there
OF certain districts in Central America there had not
been comprised an unconditional surrender Of the
ancient British possession Of Honduras. In the
spirit he might have depored that the settlement of
the Maine boundary did not include the forfeiture by
this country of New Brunswick and Newfoundland.
II was in vain that Mr. Clayton referred to the noto
rous purport OF the treaty and to the perfect under
standing on the part of the Senate that Honduras
"main object was that all the power, dominion and
control OF Great Britain in Central America should
pe swept away, and on no other condition, as he
declared would ne have voted for the treaty at ALL
Ihat the United States, by this very convention had
themselves solemnly renounced all title to occupy
COLOMBO, or fortify any portion of Central America
was probably forgotten by the General when he filed
ms prospective claim to every square mile between
the two poles.
To appreciate these extraordinary pretensions, the
reader has only to glance at map Of the two Ameri
can continents: He will there see that the partcu
lar State for which General Cass claims the ultimate
disposal Of both Is not absolutely the most extensive
even in the Northern alone The territories of Great
Britain, us far as square miles are concerned, are
still as spacious as those of the Union notwithstand
ing itsenormous acquisitions. There are besides,
theindependent provinces Mexico, the considerable
colony of Russia, and those great central States to
which oil claim on the part Of the Union has been
just formally rcnOunCcd The islands of the gulf
are shared between Great Britain, France and
Spain. The southern continent includes three -four
shing settlements of France, England and Holland,
the immense empire of Brazil, and numerous large
served that the United States, though possessing
boundless res0urceswthn their own territories have
no settlement or footing elsewhere, either to the
north or the south in the centre or the gulf whereas
European powers are established in every direction.
We are well enough acquainted with the political
reputation of General Cass to be aware that his
views require no very serious discussion and that
they to be taken as evidence of true American
feeling; but it is unfortunate for the moderate and
careful manifesto of Mr. Everett that the policy he
assumes for his country should meet at this conunc
ture with so bold an exponent.
Impol tant Relative to the Cuban Slave Tradc.
From the London News, Jan. 20.
The attention of Lord John Russell has not it
would seem, been directed in vain to the re-
vival of the African slave trade from Cuba
The Admiralty, we understand, have, on his
sued orders for the despatch of sicif steamers
to the coasts that island to achether it be not
possible to check IN the commencement the renecal Of
the ,ss,u tGs ~ n ny " osgs aa at az
England es,teytdins of the scandalos,s manner IN
srich the Spanish colonial authorities disregard the
dictates of humanity and the obligations Of treaties
Driven from Brazil, the great slave dealing capital
lists for time sought repose in Europe. De Sa, Car
metro, Nett0, and Fonseca, carried their il-g0tten
wealth TO Portugal, and the persons whom its former
colony had rejected, Portugal has ennobled De Sa
has been created the Baron of Villa Nova do Mimic,
Angelo Carneiro Viscount L0ures; and on Netto
conferred the Cross of the Order of Nossa Sem
bora de Conceieao. Whether these particular indi-
tees know not but certain it is that for some time
past arrangements have been made in Cuba, by per
sons of great experience and capital, to fill up, by
fresh importatlons from unhappy Africa, the void
which cholera had made in the slave population of
that island The first evidence 0fthis movement was
seen in the shipyards Of Baltimore and other Ameri-
can ports. Thence were despatched, not to Havana,
but to the minor and less frequented ports Of Cuba,
clippers such as only can hope to escape the vgi-
lance of cruisers. These met with ready sale in
the island The Spanish authorities closed their eyes
to these significant preparations and rejected as i'm
pertinence all preferred information on the subject.
1t thus became only too evident that the present
Captain General was ready to wink at, perhaps to
profit by the traffic. The fittings for these ships were
tries to the coast of Africa there to be transferred
to the clippers opportunity served. And the hope
is that sailing light and unequpped from Cuba, the
clippers will eude the provisions OF the treaties I'M
der which, when equipped, they may be seized.
1t is to arrest this ubiquitous scheme in it's first out
burst that the Admiralty now orders additional
steamers to the coast OF Cuba. And though we
have never, as our readers know been favorable to
the large expenditure that has for 80 many years
been going on along the western and eastern coasts
of Africa, we are not about to take any Obectionsto
this temporary reinforcemento of the Cuban squadron
For of the coasts of that island check, it is posi-
ble may be given towhat it is quite impossible efiec
tuay to repress the two shores Of the great Air
can peninsula; and it is not consistent either with
the honor or the past exertions OF England for her
government when near, it was anticipated, the
triumph of her antislave trade policy, to regard with
indifference or incidence these monstrous proceed
ings of the planters and government Of Cuba.
should revolutionze Cuba that the authority OF the
Court of Madrid should be expelled from its most
valuable remaining colony, than that it should be al
lowed to renew in all its ancient denominations the
outrages on Africa. And this, it is to be hoped,
Lord John Russell, and his forthcoming successor,
the Earl of Clarendon, will plainly tell the Court of
Madrid. The British nation and government can
take no interest in the retention OF Cuba by Spain,
whilst Spain refuses to dowhich recent experience
has demonstrated she can easily do-suppress and
terminate the slave trade in that island. IT is use
less longer to argue or to demonstrate with such
court as that Of Madrid; for reason and reInon-
STRANGE it is now indispensable to substitute de-
termination that cannot be dsregarded.
Unlike Brazil, Cuba s a compact and well orga-
nized country; unlike the Brazilian, the Cuban govern
ment has always BEEN and still is strong, powerful
and despotc government unlike Brazil, Cuba has
police an army and coast guard, to enforce its pc.
Icy; and yet Brazil far less favoraby situated in all
these respects than Cuba has terminated the slave
trade. 1t is idle tring, therefore, to say that the
court of Madrid cannot fit have the disposition and
the resolution achieve what Brazil has accomplished.
But it has not the disposition. II is by Cuba, and
the of corruption it furnishes, that the court
of Madrid is able to carry on that system Of domestic
misgovernment which is the curse and blight OF
tional system ofEsparero that the African slave trade
was for while suppressed in Cuba; andunt constitu,
tonal be again restored our cruisers may
check but they will not be able to terminate this in
famous traffic, unless the court Of Madrid is brought