Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-01-28
Lord Palnerston on the Island of Gu.
FOREIGN OFFICE, Oct. II. los,


Of adyenturers of any nation, from landne :. Dand
to excite or to join insurrection have re ~ cuba
your lordship to say to the Spanish governmcnt
the best way in which it could make its aoi, mat
edgments for this measure on the part of her Mo;
TVS government, would be punctualy fulfIl;n dJeS
treaty engagements of the Spanish crown 20 The
the slave trade and by rigidy enforcing the s
Spain on that subject. laws Of
During the last fourteen or fifteen vears !,
treaty engagements have been fagrantIy To1 mose
and those laws have been systematically and Oiaed,
ousy broken through in Cuba and Porto R;o mo0rl-
must be manifest and plain, however, to tho
monest understanding, that these violations of eO-
and these branches Of law, would not and conIa'y,
have happened if the government of Madrid not not
been determined to prevent them. mad
That which has happened in regard 10 tbo y.
trade in Brazil is a paaliel case. save
For long course of years the slave trade woso.
rled on In Brazil to an enormous extent Tho DIR
LILLIAN government always met the representatp
of the British Government by assurances and VI
clarations but the slave trade continued T;l Ue-
check. At last. in the summer of 1850 ;.'"Oue
stances induced the Brazilian government tos
work in earnest to fulfil the treaty eneacomon+s 4"
the Brazilian crown, and TO enforce the laws f W
Brazilian empire; and soon as the will r. '"e
existed the way to DO so was found and in the sL
space of few months results were with tho ~"O
est ease, accomplished which, for lone co s,e"'
years, had been represented as utterly mnosStIoo VI
A similar result would take place in Cubo ~,
Porto Rico, IL similar course were pursued hv hu
Spanish Government; and her Maiestys governmn "t
cannot but entertain hope that the cabinet MAJ
rid will at last awaken to due sense of ;ts Az:
and obligations and will put an end to a svst oueS
crime and piracy which is stain on tho So. Tt
character, and the honor of the Spanish p"nlSn
have to desire that your lordship will Give o"
of this despatch to the Spanish Minister. am S@
(>lgneo') PALMERsroy
Viscount PaImerston 10 Lord Ho,yu.
FOREIGN OFFICE Oct % Tor,
My lord have received your lordship's drsnatol
of the lst inst, transmitting copy of note rbi
you had received from M. de Mraforcs in ran h,tn
your Dote of the Goth utimo, recommending d pI q"
half of your Majestys government, that The co.
eminent of Spain should follow the examine soft ~,
New Granada, in declaring the total abolition y
slavery in that republic.
With reference to that passage in NJ. MiroHoro,
note in which he states that the Spanish Gororr
ment cannot understand how her Maestv:s T1oon
ment can seriously recommend measure which
would prove very I'M furious to the natives of Cnba
when they also recommend that the Spanish Cow
eminent should conciliate the affection of those en-
bans have to Instruct your lordship to observe ia
NJ. de Mrahores that the slaves of Cuba form arca
portion, and by no means an unimportant ono IF
the population of Cuba and that any steps taken TO
provide for their emancipation would, therefore. as
far as the black population is concerned be quite in
unison with the recommendation made by her Ms
jesty's Government, that measures should be adop
ted for contenting the people of Cuba, with view
to the connection between that Island and the
Spanish crown and it must be evident that if The
negro population of Cuba were rendered free that
fact would create most powerful element of resS.
lance to any scheme for annexng Cuba to the Uni.
ted States, where slavery still exists
With regard to the bearing which negro emanci.
patton would have on the interest of the white mo.
: prietors, it may safely be affirmed that free labor
costs less than slave labor, and it is ndispuable that
a free and contened peasantry arc safer neighbOrS
for the wealthy classes above them than -treatcl
and resentfu slaves; and that slaves must from the
II nature of things be more or less i'll treated is truth
which belongs to the inherent principles of human
: nature, and is quite inevitable as the resentment
: however suppressed it may be: which is the
: quence of ILL., treatment.
1t does not seem, therefore, that the communica-
e tons which you instructed to make, OF the
II measures which had been adopted by the govern
l. ment and parliament Of New Granada can justly be
deemed at all at variance with the friendly senl-
C. ments felt and expressed by her Majestys govern
y ment towards Spain with relation to the affairs Of
Cuba.
: ] am, &c. (Signed,) PALMERSTON
The New York Express diskes Gen. Cass speech
and his resolutions. This is not strange. These
contain doctrines far too American for the class
u politicians to which the Express belongs Name
single annexation measure that has been proposed
. which this school has not opposed. Louisiana lex
90 and California they have opposed; and one 0t0
school, who happens to be one of the cabinet, even
10 now, after we have got New Mexico, actually adv
~ ses to abandon It, Now, is it possible for the tx
press, and such minds these to like the old Amer
ican revolutionary, democratic ring OF these eSoa
81 tons and the speech Of Gen. CasS Is it strange
" at all that they abuse the gallant and glorious vel
80 eran who has made it :!
- This is the beginning Of the Expresss commons
10 He wishes to introduce new Legislative code III
"a the country, founded upon the Monroe doctrine anu
10 to give notice. in the of the United StateS ~
a. all the world and the rest of mankind, by an ac
On of Congress, that
oo1 No pent-up Utica contracts powers:
w The ,chole boundless continent rs ours.
60 This couplet is not to be found in the Genera
speech but probably the Express thinks 1t dGes "sD
10 enough to hang its diatribe on. Let the hA,'-
1e continue its opposition to the ideas Of this Peec
Us It is Of the same sort with the matter IN Mr. rn
more's message about Cuba. The public opD5rgIn o
ks this nation will take of these great lde%S Im
~ who heretofore have opposed annexation VIII ollL w.,
it still, while the great and noble party "Co o"
an created American institutions and laws WIZ guy"
n, city on in the path of American progress
is THE PLAGUE IN RUssIA-The Boston irae yer tbs
ok indebted to mercantile house in that Guy ~ from
k following extract from letter. just rece.,SLL o
no St Petersburgh, and dated the Dist OF Deceuy,
TT 'There is report that the plague n"' notber
Russia, and is prevalent at Astrachan 4 co.,
al place. The Emperor has ordered mIIl'"! o,sn.
Ire don of sixty or seventy thousand men ~ smn.
TT its advancing further into the nterlo: OF tho
ks try. Some alarm is felt at st. PetcsDus Il
ZEN in former times in the reign OF O"'D"'
is stopped at Moscow"
lar The New York Crystal Palace d.
AN The New York Times states that the Iol !asIr a.
partment of the Crystal Palace is beng a'and ls3
uIV tended to- Letters from agents in Europe Of
~ communicate daily the fact of contrlOu'1; s,
VII moot infornstnr nature heinz rot IN d