The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-06-29
Correspondence of the National Democrat
PUBLIC SENTIMENT IN CUBA.
Havana, June 8, 1853.

Havana, June 8, 1853.
You cannot conceive the distrust and anxiet,
which the mysterious policy Of Europe is inflic
ting on tins ensiaved people. We know no
what to co-what to expect-on whom to de
pend. Our condition of suspense is insufferable
but this dread of the protects of Spain anC
England, and our trust in the mannanimou,
policy of the American Union, have neyerthe-
less produced some excellent fr:its in the way
Of union, and organization. The Cubans o
every rank and calling; even to those children
of luxury who formerly said, "we are rich anC
prosperous and desire no change" have beer
forced to observe the insecurity OF all this wealth
and indulgence. The Uost loyal and distn-
guished adherents of Spain have had heir sons
aud nephews thrown into dungeons, and semi
into miserable exile for the mere suspicion Of
entertaining liberal sentiments, and even their
delicate and stainless daughter have been dra q
ged TO filthy prisons. and cast into those abomi-
nasle houses OF correction, among brutal and
dissolu.e criminals, for no offence, or suspicion
of offence, but the utterance of republican
ideas
The spirit of persecution has been SO re gard
less of Justice and decency that no age, sex, OIL
class has escaped its crueties, and all classes
therefore, are now united in plans Of resistance
Revolution is inevitable. There is not an ntelli-
conscious
terrible crisis is at hand He must be in lamcn
table ignorance of the true state of Cuba who
denies this sombre fact The LANGUAGE and
conduct of the British officials quartered abou,
us add new anxietles to our critical osition -
The determination of Great Britain TO organ;z,
and take under her orders all TIE Africans,
which CONTRARY to her bonds of slaye-trade
suppression) she is always planting here, is
hauehtily declared at the British onsulate -
When we point out the danger to our rural
villages which the sudden license of thirty or
perhaps fifty thousand Idle, unciyilized, and
ferocious negroes, from the savage shores OF
Africa, would produce, the British officials make
answer that this is no! their business; their
duty stops with putting these Africans in civic
equality with US
Many families are selling their property at
enormous sacrifices, and leaving the island
Fine estates are being offered for half their
value, and there is no saying where this depre-
citation OF real estate may stop, probably at no
point short of revolution.
Two years ago-yes, one year aoo-you would
find many native Cubans, and nearly all the
settlers from Old Spain, declaring against the
possibility of an instruction. Now, | affirm
that no Cuban, and few Spaniards believe the
present state OF things can exist another entire
year For my part, believe that all these
cruel,ies are not practised by the Spanish Off
Gals to the hope of preventing the loss of the
island. They are inflicted in brutal vindictive-
ness, because poor, enslaved Cuba is escaping
from their hands.
There is suspicion ahoat-l know not on
what grounds, though rumor attributes it to the
officers of the British squadron-that simultane-
Gus with the approximation of free and equal
citizenship of all the Africans in Cuba,' the
English fleet now collecting in these seas has
orders to size Porto Rico. 1t would tally ex-
acily with what England already avows of her
policy. It's possession would complete her
chain of island colonies from the Bahamas, on
the coast of Florida, to the outlet of the maies
tic Rio Orinoco, and constitute her the absolute
captain of the American isthmus, as we'll as of
the African race in America.
1t will be fine head TO her kingdom of Car
ibbean islands, but it will not be very profitable
to American trade and production.
The republic of Dominica will gain some
thing by our troubles. The planters of Porto
Rico will fly there with their property and fam
lies to escape the domination of England and
her negro colonists and if Spain or England
encroaches on it's rights or independence, the
brave and liberal President of Dominica, the
ilustrious Santana, who has led it forward in
its most honorable victories, will demand the
interposition OF the United States, for the Just
protection of an American nation from the ar
rogance Of European dictation.
The Ideal assignment of land in free dona-
ton to settlers by the republic of Dominica will
be another cause of emigration from Porto REQ,
as il is but few hours sail distant from that
doomed island, and as healthy as it is beautiful
Some Americans in Cuba are also turning their
eyes TO Dominica as the most conyenient refuge
from the lntoerabe annoyances and restrictions
of the Spanish rule, and where, as the same in
Cuba, they may enjoy the delights Of tropical
paradise.
CUBANO